Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-33308438-20180614101055/@comment-34194151-20180702234618

@ Ninja of War no problem. I'll lop in my explanation with my rebuttal to @ Lone Ninja

So @LoneNinja, So I'm just gonna offer to agree to disagree. IT has nothing to do with ITachi using "his strongest power" its about the fact that he chooses the most efficient method to deal with the situation. IF he takes initiative, he typically does so with genjutsu, but he isn't afraid to use ninjutsu as an opening move if that is more optimal. IF his opponent makes the first move, he has been shown, as a combination of his intellect in tandem with the information granted by the sharingan, analyze the opponent's technique, counter-attack efficiently, and then proceed to combo his attacks off as necessary. All of your examples ignored context. And as I said, Ay dodged Amaterasu because of three combined reasons : one he knew about the technique, two he saw sasuke focusing on him and therefore knew it was coming, and three he was physically balanced. He was standing upright, and was not committed to any other physical action. So once Amaterasu was released, he was able to shift his body weight freely to his right as he activated his V2 Lignthning Style Body Flicker technique and evaded sasuke's focus. Again, I'll try to keep repeating this so maybe you won't just gloss over the point again.

So given that, back to Minato. There are two scenarios. One where Minato takes initiative, and the other when itachi takes initiave. But a clarification point first: Minato is more than fast enough to evade amaterasu if A: has knowledge of the technique, which I doubt Base Alive Minato did. B: he is standing still and can see itachi focusing on him( which is risky as even though he can likely sense itachi's killing intent, you still need to see the amaterasu coming before he can dodge, and he runs the risk of watching itachi's eyes in order to confirm that the technique is coming, and we all know what happens if minato looks at itachi's eyes. C: he is physically and mentally centered, i.e able to focus and evade the incoming attack IF you read my post carefully, you would have read that I simply said the only way itachi can tag him with amaterasu is if Minato BLITZES him first. Again, you have yet to bring a counterpoint to this specific scenario. If minato is blitzing itachi in  a straight line, there is no way he is reacting to amaterasu in that context, he is moving too fast in A STRAIGHT Line and his tunnel visioned on his blitz, and as I said he likely doesn't have knowledge on the technique like Raikage and Gaara did. And of the 4 major fights We have seen Minato fight in, whenever MINATO MAKES THE FIRST MOVE, he is always blitzing his opponent in a straight line. He blitzes one MS obito in a straight line. HE Blitzed JUUBIOBITO in a straight line. And when he doesn't Blitz using his shunshin he throws a kunai near his opponent first, like he did to JubbiMadara, and teleports to the kunai and tries to blitz them with a rasengan. Itachi is aware of these tricks. If minato throws a kunai near itachi's feet, itachi will respond with the totsuka blade by holding it above the kunai, so when minato teleports in he teleports himself into the blade. This is why I said this is a bad matchup. Minato's first move is always a blitz and itachi is one of the few characters with techniques fast enough to avoid a taijutsu skirmish with Minato, and both of his COUNTER-attacks are immediately lethal one shot KO techniques.

On the other side, If minato lets Itachi makes the first move, its just as bad. Itachi will go for a genjutsu first. As far as I can tell, Minato might be very well aware of itachi's eye genjutsu, but people sleep on the fact that itachi is like kurenai too and cast genjutsu with hand seals. In fact, all he needs is a finger, and he has hand seal speed that can't be tracked by the sharingan. I have no reason to believe Minato is skilled enough to immediately be aware when he is caught in this genjutsu, especially since he lacks a sharingan, and itachi is like the second best Genjutsu user in the series behind Shisui. Since he lacks kurama in this fight, I doubt that he would be able to break it period. Itachi has been shown to be good at feints and misdirection as well, so even if minato could break it it wouldn't be before he got stabbed by the totsuka blade after being distracted by the genjutsu.