Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-27429908-20160102030534/@comment-27660682-20160225230952

Page 392 page 10 yata mirror clearly expanded to counter snakes. And its not just the feat of how it tanked paper bombs its because it completely negated the explosion. It also completely bounced sasukes sword away, susanoo doesnt bounce stuff it normally just tanks. So the 1000 hands would just either be destroyed or completely bounce off the yata mirror. Third databook page 275 clearly says this is true, as well as chapter 393 of the manga. @Ninja of War, jiraiya clearly says that without a partner, breaking genjutsu is a feat of using your chakra to forcibly remove the malicious chakra using his strength Naruto tried focusing his chakra to overpower the genjutsu but he failed even though he has a lot more chakra to itachi That means itachi is extremely skilled at genjustu,  which is consistent with his backstory, Tsyukyomi works sufficient the target makes eye contact. Second nature is irrelevant because catching people in genjustu is also second nature to itachi if you want to use that logic. Im not saying it will be easy, but saying itachi has 0 percent chance to catch hashirama is foolish.

And no hiruzen was the strongest of the 5 kages of his time. Kabuto explained that not alot of people knew hashirama's true power, so they belived it to be a fairy tale. Even tsunade was suprised when she saw madaras power and thought it was impossible that hashirama could fight him and be his superior. Hiruzen being the strongest of konoha kages was retconned by kabuto in part 2 and also when they appeared as edo tensi when hiruzen was afraid of hashirama's chakra. Hiruzen has no chance against hashirama, madara, or even tobirama.