Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26388300-20160506202426/@comment-25122992-20160509094050

Look, I think Kakashi has a chance, yet still Kisame's kind of opponent would put him at seriour disadvantage. Kisame's battlestyle relies on dominating the battlefield with large-scale water techniques and exhausting the opponent during the match, especially with Samehada's chakra-sucking ability.

Kakashi can't go toe-on-toe with Kisame in close-range combat, with all the physical prowess of Kisame and Samehada absorbing chakra upon contact, it'd be the same as suicide. Genjutsu isn't going to succeed on Kisame either, he's too familiar with it after working with genjutsu-specialised shinobi like Itachi, thus he must know how to counter it. Just firing ninjutsu on Kisame is useless as well, at least until he has Samehada on his side and rules the flooded battlefield. So only weapons left for Kakashi are stealth, tricks, deceivements and right techniques in the right place and in the right time.

Bunshin feints? Ok, they proved to be valuable, but Kisame isn't completely dumb either. He has the water clones of his own and it's hard to believe he wouln't use it for deceivement as well, especially aganst such a renowned shinobi as Kakashi. Regarding stealth, on the field full of water Kakashi surely isn't going to hide anywhere. I don't have any doubts about Kakashi's analytical skills, yet it'd be very tought for him to find any weakness of Kisame possible for utilising against him. Probably, with the Lightning Release advantage, Kakashi could find some tricks to cause damage to Kisame, but again, on the battlefielf consisting mostly of water, you must be very careful, well-aimed and have a perfect timing to electrify the water (and the opponent) without electrifying youself either.

Kamui? Proved to be very usefull during various battle situations, and still if it had equalled a guaranteed oneshot-kill to the head, Kakashi would've already become a killing mashine in the series. Moreover, for delivering a hit with it, Kakashi has to focus, which leaves him vunerable for the rest of treats - for example, while aiming for Kisame himself, he'd become an easy target for Kisame's sharks, water clones or Samehada. That's why in this battle he's the one who would struggle, he has to look fot an appropriate chance to defeat Kisame and avoid most of his attacks at the same time, while for Kisame, it's enough to attack Kakashi with all the powefull moves he has and keep prolonging the battle as far as possible.

To sum up the odds are still on Kisame's side. The latter is an undesirable opponent for Kakashi, not vise versa. Actually, I don't think there's a lot of shinobi who desire Kisame as their opponent anyway.