Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20180830184727/@comment-34194151-20181203001943

@Ninja of War, Yes I would be interested in a Yata mirror discussion. I have no preference to where it happens, whether on my talk page or in a new thread. If you do have a preference, let me know. But in my opinion the mirror only protects itachi and his Susano'o based on feats. So if a meteorite the size of Texas was launched at him, the mirror would do what it needs to to make sure this susano'o and himself is unaffected, but the mirror could care less about what happens to everything/everyone else. So in theory, the "weakness of yata mirror" could be that if his opponent launches a planet busting attack, itach i would be protected, but there is no longer an earth. The yata mirror wouldn't compensate for the lack of oxygen in outer space because that isn't an "attack", just like it doesn't stop his terminal illness from making him cough up blood, but it can be argued that depending on the opponent (s) itachi could seal them away with the blade, and he would eventually die to oxygen deprivation, rendering the match a draw. But unfortunately, no character in naruto outside of kaguya is a planet buster, not even close, and I have arguments for why itachi would be able to defeat her a fair 1v1 battle. I agree it's speculatory whether the totuska blade can be absorbed. I'm leaning towards no, but we don't know the origins of those ethereal weapons and what exactly grants them their respective properties. But that's the thing, why take the risk of not doing anything at all? There was nothing to be lost from attempting to absorb the blade. Nagato is one of kabuto's top 3 edo tensei, he would preserve that as much as he can. Nagato, despite his mobility issue, was able to dodge the first attack of V2 killer bee, which is impressive.

As for Orochimaru, you have a fair point, but I am combining the two instances now in my counterargument. Orochimaru's personality would also override any desire to comment on the blade's speed, because he is a cocky dude and his focus is on bragging to itachi that itachi has no means of killing him. Then fastforward to Nagato, the blade literally just courses through him based on the movement lines on his head and the exclamation points. Then his field of vision is shown to be fully encompassing both the totsuka blade and susano'o. I have ruled out that he didn't see it coming. I have shown that kabuto was still manipulating him at that point.

Furthermore, as far as I can tell there has not been a stated cool down for the usage of chibaku tensei. I am confident one might exist, because both bansho tenin and shinra tensei were stated to have a 5 second cool down that completey restricts the use of all other Deva path techniques, but what makes chibaku tensei questionable is that nagato implied he could reboot the chibaku tensei in order to seal the nine tails agan when it was breaking out. Furthermrore, rather soon after, he was able to use shinra tensei to battle naruto's rasenshuirkens and clones. So it's in the realm of speculation as to whether or not he could have used shinra tensei there. But the preta path point is still a strong argument.