Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31338621-20190129080042/@comment-32685487-20190208163303

Itachi doesn't need to start with Genjutsu. He has instant clone creation and instant clone switching. You hit a crow clone it reforms, you get near or hit a bomb clone and it explodes. Itachi also has unmatched kunai and shuriken speed and unmatched hand seal speed, which he can also do one handed seals. Itachi has mastered sleight of hand too. He can also make the hand seals so fast that while he is throwing Shuriken at unprecedented speeds he can use his hand seals and Sasuke with his Sharingan never had a clue. Sasuke also had to use lightning flash seal to even keep up with Itachi's projectile throwing speed. Minato's Kunai are very important in his most effective FTG tactics and Itachi will easily parry the kunai. Minato might be physically faster by some small degree but he isn't fast enough that Itachi with his reaction speed and Sharingan can't counter. Itachi has SoT, YM, Susanoo, Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Izanami, and his masterful Genjutsu techs and usages and as shown vs B he operates separately from his Genjutsu, as Gyuki woke B up and then B had to parry the big shuriken that were very real. Itachi can also cast genjutsu without his eyes. He has more options over all to end the fight with, while Minato realistically only has 2. Rasengan and FTG. I say 6 times out of 10 battles Itachi wins in the very end at high difficulty, but 4 times out of 10 battles Minato would win with high difficulty.