Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26145872-20160224202704/@comment-734582-20160302224157

MlGshinobi wrote: Yea he wasted alot of time because he himself admitted his ninjutsu and taijutsu were INEFFECTIVE against 3 pains. The pains that most effectively blocked his taijutsu and ninjutsu.

MlGshinobi wrote: With all 6 full force, he is gonna be highly pressured and will be lucky to even get the time to go into sage mode. Naruto went into the Pain fight well-prepped. If we're talking about a situation where Jiraiya is fully aware of the Pain jutsu, he would most definitely ensure his Sage Mode is ready to start. A big part of that Mode was summoning the two sage frogs. If he was allowed to go into battle prepared, he'd have those with him and he would enter Sage Mode from the start.

MlGshinobi wrote: If he knew the secret he would just find the real nagato who wasn't in any fighting condition. Well, yea i imagine that's what Jiraiya would do.

One more thing: Naruto had 3 giant frog summons, the two Toad Sage summons, Sage Mode prepped and ready and intel on all Pains. That's quite an advantage. Jiraiya went into battle with much less and yet managed himself quite well. Having shown himself as much more clever, analytical and capable Ninja, i'm sure that given the same advantages, he too would defeat Pain, even if Deva Pain was there from the start. Dealing with the Animal Path delayed his engaging of Sage Mode significantly (if not reset the process entirely). Naruto didn't really have to deal with it because of the Toad Summons.