Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26005711-20160126181655/@comment-27660682-20160316010938

See I never said great explosion would hurt him, so first misconception. I said it would disorient him. I don't care how strong his armor he is still hit with an explosion at point blank range right in his face. He will be blinded by the debris and he no longer knows where itachi is and his mind will be off center. Secondly, kakashi ran off with kurenai and got a head start, and it's also important to note the explosion happened in water, meaning most of the energy was used to create the tidal wave and less to actually blow kakashi to bits. Even then, kakashi was visibly hurt by it and had black marks all over his back. So at minimum, it will just disorient the raikage,  which all itachi needs as a distraction to land amatersau or tsyukyomi. Regarding rasenshuriken, the elemental advantage is good and all but raikage is still wearing armor and he also was incapacitated for brief moment before getting up. Im pretty sure that was because of edo tensi

Amaterasu to the face used on gyuki by sasuke. Itachi has never used amaterasu to the face because it was never necessary. Look at his fights. In part one vs kakashi he is a pacifist and a spy for konoha, he used tsyukyomi instead of amaterasu to break kakashi's will without killing him, kakashi admits this. In his fights with deidara and orochimaru, one genjustu, his regukar sharingan one at that, was all that was necessary. In part 2, he held back vs team chiyo, held back versus sasuke, amaterasu was useless on nagato,  and he held back against kabuto too, so there is the reason he didn't use amaterasu to the face.

I don't buy itachi's genjustu being average when he is the second best specialist in the series. The 4th raikage couldn't even break madara's genjustu and his raiton armor shut off irrc, and naruto who has massive chakra reserves couldn't break ephemeral. In addition, I haven't even accounted for susanoo yet. The 4th raikage needed two powerful hits on the lowest stage if he wanted to kill sasuke. Also, that susanoo didn't have arms. So sasuke could have have grabbed him with the sussano arm if he had it at the time when raikage hesitated, just like madara did to the raikage. And yes, the raikage who had bijuu levels of chakra hesitated to a deadly attack. The 1000 shinobi cop out doesn't sit well with me, hebi sasuke did that. And I'm sure people like hashriama tobirama, minato and even madara could do that with ease. What the third raikage did was definitely a feat, but it was more so a feat of stamina since he did it without the pill enhancer. And I'm pretty sure itachi can beat gyuki as it is a rather large target for the totsuka blade. Im sure the third raikage can do massive damage to susanoo but I highly doubt it's enough to tip the battle that much in raikage's favor.

And yea I agree that raikage can evade attacks all day long but if he is doing that itachi has no reason to do anything. Once the third raikage takes initiative inthe fight and take s things to itachi he becomes vulnerable just like anyone else. In short, I dont like the amount of free wins that are handed to the raikage simply because of speed. We all know speed is not the most determing factor in a fight, ask rock lee after his battle with gaara.