Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-27429908-20160102030534/@comment-28869806-20160104024329

AsianReaper wrote: @Uchiahmasters, I feel like you're reading way into what Pain said. As far as I've read, all Pain said is he would have lost if Jiraiya had prior knowledge of Pain. Where can you back up your claims that Jiraiya would lose against Pains regardless of prior knowledge? The only thing we have on such a hypothetical fight is the fact that Pain said he'd lose.

Itachi and Jiraiya are really close in terms of battle prowess, I'd honestly call it a tie.

Either way, neither of them would be in the top 3 most powerful ninja lol Jiraiya wasn't even capable of putting up a decent fight against all six paths of pain when all of them were together.

I agree as much as I love Itachi he's not in the top three strongest characters, but he's much closer than Jiraiya'll ever be IMO.