Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26998824-20160216220701/@comment-27660682-20160229074113

Just gonna mention jiraiya would stand no chance against the 6 paths of pain. He openly admitted that even sage mode, a blinded human path, and a full health preta path were gonna kill him even in sage mode,  which is why he needed to retreat and use genjustu in the first place. If all6 paths of pain were there, the deva path would just use bansho tenin go to prevent his escape and things would go down hill from there, so I think Rachin is correct in that jiraiya would have just target nagato directly, who was in no condition to fight.

For the fight, I dont think decapitation would kill kakazu permanently unless you destroyed all the hearts. His entire body has detachable and reattachable limbs too. So jiraiya needs to kill him 5 times. Kakazu has absolutely massive area of effect techniques, but jiraiya has a very versatile arsenal himself as well as summons. And honestly, I think the summons, particularly gamabunta will put alot of pressure on kakazu. Kakakzus domu can definitely defend though and his jigonu can match needle jizo in close quarters. Kakakzu has more experience, but I think jiriaya is more intelligent. But I don't really have a good baseline to judge kakazu on because base naruto beat him in an akward manner :/. I currently think jiraiya would win very high difficulty