Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31171723-20170128170340/@comment-26773508-20170207160932

QuakingStar wrote: Edo Itachi basically IS an EMS Itachi, how is everyone forgetting that? He only suffers blindness from Izanami or Izanagi usage, other than that as an Edo he is basically using an EMS. So Itachi wins against EMS Madara. More importantly, how is EMS Madara going to seal Edo Itachi? We have no reason to believe that EMS Madara's knowledge of Edo Tensei's hand seals will somehow undo Itachi's Edo. We also don't know if EMS Madara knew any other sealing jutsus. So Edotachi should take this.

But as I've made it clear multiple times, I'm firmly in the Madara Camp when it comes to EMS Madara vs Live MS Itachi. Judging by the way many characters are hyped in the series, we must take the grandiloquence of the description of their powers with a pinch of salt, especially so in the case of TB and YM.

We've seen some characters state that Hiruzen was the strongest Hokage of all time; some other characters had stated that Minato surpassed all the previous Hokage; yet others state that Hashirama was the strongest. Then we have Kakashi's "1000 jutsus"; Kakashi being the "strongest jonin" in Konoha, even though Guy was already there; Madara "unlocking immortality through EMS"; etc.

Point is, we've all known very well how Kishi uses literary devices to hype up characters and keep the fandom excited. The TB and YM's hype should be viewed the same way, at least for now, because their feats are scant and they haven't justified their hype yet.