Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26636534-20171019193715/@comment-34194151-20180107103837

Ninja Of War wrote: Those jutsu's you speak of are mostly hax, the crow inside of Naruto was one of Shisui's hax eyes, Izanagi and Izanami are hax too. Sure, you need the correct amount of planning to utilize them but, not exactly a feat of pure genius, just overwhelming ability.

Again, it's a bit assumptive to say what Itachi could have done, but to me that is not enough to say he or any other shinobi is smarter than kage. LOL that's the POINT! ALL of itachi's jutsu at the end of the day are hax. and that's what makes him an OP character. Izanagi, IZanami, Kotoamatsukami, Yata mirror, totsuka blade, and genjutsu in general ( there is a reason why genjutsu is barely used outside of uchiha fights, hard to master and even more op when executed by someone like itachi). The point is that itachi was stated to already have hokage level wisdom at age 7 and we can see his intelligence feats as well. Combine those intelligence feats with his hax arsenal and resourcefulness is unparalled. The 5 kage couldn't beat madara at the end of the day because they lacked the proper arsenal and were much lower on chakra reserves. Worst Case scenario, Madara could simply spam almighty push and their best strategies wouldn't mean anything. because unlike Pain, Madara still had perfect susanoo to defend himself.