Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-5085906-20170423110447/@comment-5085906-20170423150639

Kakashisologod1 wrote: So no susano for sasuke? At the time Pain attacked, Sasuke did not have Susanoo, so I guess he starts off without it, but that is not to say he wouldn't unlock it latter in the battle since I'm willing to bet that in a scenario like the one I set, the battle would be quite long.

Vladosaurus wrote: Honestly, the toads responsibility was to take care of Pain's own summoners, the three headed dog and the others.So i don't see why everybody is making such a fuss about them.All they did was even the match. You're forgetting that it was Fukasaku and Shima along with Bunta's help who spearheaded the effort to take down the Animal Path. The summons were a great help, yet even factoring them I still believe Pain would have been able to kill Naruto if that was his intention from the start.

The way I see this going, the lack of summons means Naruto has to advance forward and take care of them since I think his Sage Mode equips him better for that. Like in the canon, none of them would be aware of Naraka Path's powers, but with Sasuke's intellect I'm sure they would be able to figure it out much faster than Naruto himself did. While the toads did most of the work when it came to severing Animal Path's link with the rest of the Paths, I think Sasuke's snake summon can take care of that, assuming it can shed it's skin and emerge from the ground, like Manda did during the Three Sannin battle.

An advantage they may have in this scenario is that, with Sasuke's assistance, Naruto most likely won't be pinned down and resort to Six Tails mode, so he'll still have two of the clones collecting natural energy over at Mount Myoboku. Their biggest issue is Deva Path as, once his power is recharged, it will be able to repel Naruto's Rasenshuriken and Sasuke's Amaterasu.