Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25645405-20150719020101/@comment-26993711-20151127051708

Thekillman wrote: "To be honest i doubt that. The tools are strong, sure. We saw very little of it in action though. For some reason, Itachi does not use Totsuka unless he truly needs to so there may be a hidden cost. The same could be true for Yata. We know almost nothing about these tools."

the reason is simple A) he did not want to kill sasuke, he wanted to deplete sasuke's chakra as much as possible without overkill to force orochimaru out then strike him with totsuka. B) when he faced nagato, he had to save naruto from getting his soul ripped out and KB from getting his head blown off. and by the time he did, nagato already used chibaku tensei, once solved he went straight into totsuka. C) when he faced kabuto, his goal was not to seal or kill him. it was to make him undo the edo tensei. there is no indication that there is a risk to it aside from overusing his MS.

as for the pot, you kinda proved my point when you said "you have it hidden". the pot while IS powerful, it's very situational. it has to be planned/setup perfectly for it to be successful otherwise characters like madara, guy, naruto, sasuke even sakura could just speed blitz them. what if sasuke had the pot in his finale fight against naruto? where's he going to put it? you think naruto will let sasuke prepare and all? of course not. that's why i'm stating totsuka/yata is better because it handle most situations

=my last comment. don't want to start an long argument. also, i have no idea how to seperate the "quotes" from my response. lol