Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25374145-20150312083658/@comment-25374145-20150313045223

Your key words here is "If they had intel on what he could do". Look at what Naruto did to Nagato when he had intel on him. Nagato died, same with Shika vs Hidan, Sasuke was prepared for Deidara's C4 explosives. Bottomline is all Akatsuki can be taken down if the opponent had intel before the fight.

having intel does not necessarily mean you can beat them for instance kakashi would have had the same intel on pain that Naruto had and he died, things like jutsu strength, range ect still play a big part. but in hidan’s case intel does make beating him a lot easier for someone who has enough skill in taijutsu to effectively stop him from using his technique

‘Basically with foreknowledge of his ability’s he can be beaten by any jonin that can doge hs scyth’

I do realise that is still only a handful of ninja in the grand scheme of things I certainly wasn’t saying any jonin can beat him but the actual statement still stands Although in my opinion a 3 man squad of jonin (note: this was not the case with asuma) would also be able to beat him maybe not easily but you can’t say that for most of the other akatuski