Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-43403813-20190907005521/@comment-31338621-20191002234158

Halcyonite wrote: Deva path can maintain Shinra Tensei for quite a bit. An example is when he used Shinra Tensei and prolonged it against Naruto's shadow clones during their final skirmish.

He'd prolong Shinra Tensei until the explosion dissipated. Pain doesn't know they would explode, so he wouldn't have any reason to prolong shinra tensei, until it's too late. Besides if we look at Nagato's past battle with Hanzo, he couldn't shinra tensei that explosion, so it's unlikely he can.