Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-35155071-20180330190048/@comment-35250150-20180408132855

Nashikeine wrote: @Hiko

Yes. like Pein, Obito stated same. if their opponent, Jiriaya and Itachi, knew their secrets they would easily defeat them.

Who are they hyping them up to? Themselves? Was Pain hyping up Jiraya to the other dead bodies he was controlling? People have their reputations for a reason. Don't just brush them off because we've only seen it once or they were surpassed later by people who were always meant to do so i.e their students/siblings.

Obito escaped the Amaterasu by most likely using Izanami (the one that reverses death at the sacrifice of an eye). If he's used Kamui the flames would've teleported with him. So to save himself from Itachi he has to sacrifice an eye. He only gets one shot at that, because he isn't going to sacrifice his Kamui eye because then he's really screwed.

Sasuke was being hyped up to surpass Itachi from his very first encounter with Orochimaru. When that happened, Itachi was dead and Madara was back so Madara became the new standard for him to surpass. He did both, does that mean Madara is a waste now too? All his accomplishments and legendary name just goes out the window?

Also to the people claiming Obito's skill because he could control the Nine Tails, technically any MS user could control the Nine Tails. Attaining MS is such a rare feat that the ones who've done it stand out in history. We only know of 6 people in all of Naruto history (up until the new era) who's done it.

Speaking of Obito vs Konan. Fighting Konan and fighting Itachi would be very different prospects with very different threats. Konan's attacks are all physical (afawk). With Itachi you have to worry about his physical attacks, unblockable attacks like Amaterasu, genjutsu like Tsukuyomi and his Susanoo. And are people forgetting that Itachi has two legendary weapons on his side, the Totsuka Sword and Yata Mirror? The sword has already been shown to be able to seal a Rinnegan user.

I don't think we've ever seen Itachi go all out in a fight. He's the type of fighter to never put out more effort than is needed. Even sick and almost blind he guided his fight with Sasuke down to the very last detail. He was working as a double agent in Akatsuki so whatever he did was always with the goal of protecting Konoha and Sasuke. He wasn't some rampaging killing machine who was spamming his MS every chance he got like Sasuke was when he first got his MS.

Itachi is a very calm and deliberate fighter. We never seen him fight with the intent to kill. Like I said before, Obito is very powerful, but Itachi is more than capable of beating him imo.