Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26998824-20151116235423/@comment-26998824-20151119200623

Curse of Hatred wrote: Neji is obviously the more skilled shinobi, but gentle fist techniques revolve around disabling the chakra network and causing internal damage. As far as I can remember, Hidan only uses taijutsu + his ritual (which I don't think uses chakra) and he's incredibly resistant to anything except beheading, so unless Neji can blow him up or decapitate him, Hidan should be able to win.

On the other hand, Neji is way too skilled to be hit by Hidan. The Byakugan gives him 360 degrees of vision plus the ability to track fast moving objects. Hidan's style is too direct to be a challenge to Neji. By this logic it would be a stalemate in both cases.

My personal opinion for both: Neji realises that gentle fist attacks aren't working, so he crushes Hidan's legs. If he has knowledge of Hidan's abilities, then he decapitates him afterwards.

This is tough because I can see Hidan being nibble enough to dodge Neji air plams and/or gentle fist but he also has Byakugan so it would be hard for Hidan to get a hit however he just needs a drop of blood and gentle fist can be broken out of. I think having thought this over Neji would win because his mid range (Air plams) beats Hidan's mid range (Length of his scythe w/rope).