Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26104757-20170303072554/@comment-30426414-20170304063308

Slug Princess00 wrote: Can still see chakra? Yes. An entire mist of chakra. The Hiding in Mist Technique is one of few exceptions that counter the Sharingan.

Completely forgot about that fact. But if we're considering the novels, itachi's mastery of chakra control allowed him to spread his chakra a radius away from his body to sense what was going on in his immediate environment like how neji did against kidomaru. By using this he can counter the kirigakure no jutsu, if we're considering the novels. Otherwise, he could use susanoo to move a large mass of air by forcefully swinging the totsuka blade, dissipating the mist in the process.

In this battle, no. Sorry I should have been more specific.

OP EDIT: Itachi is as he is before his fight with Sasuke.

Then he probably losses if he doesn't land amaterasu on one of them first.

Not completely, but enough for Tsunade to break right through it. Even without Mei's assistance, Tsunade could crack and shatter his Susanoo.

The vapor style was melting through sasuke's ribcage susanoo slowly, it will take a much longer time for it to do any significant damage to a full armored susanoo especially since the concentration is lower. And itachi wouldn't just stand there and let it happen, he could easily dissipate the fog with one slash of his blade. Moreover, Tsunade has only been shown cracking through ribcage susanoo. The armored version is much thicker. When she punched through madara's version 1 susanoo clone, she didn't shatter it. However, she overpowered it though, so she should be able to do the same thing to itachi's but the yata mirror would counter her strength.

Is Amaterasu fire, though? I was under the impression Amaterasu is separate to Itachi's Fire Release.

Yes Amaterasu is fire, the 3rd databook called it the highest level of fire release.

He is ill in this fight.

So about five minutes, you'd say?

About 5-10 minutes, remember, itachi didn't die because he ran out of chakra, he died because he succumbed to his disease. Im not saying he still had a lot of chakra left, i'm just saying he still had some left when he died. Also, theres no reason itachi would use susanoo in this fight for an extended period of time. He would only use it when needed like in the kabuto fight.

I'm not convinced Itachi, being sick, is well enough to fight anyone above Kage level. This is two Kage level people he's going up against, mind you. He'd give them a rough time, but he'll be easily and quickly overwhelmed. His weakness are too exploited, and what strengths he does have has a very short time limit.

Ehh, thats debatable. He could end a lot of kage level opponents with amaterasu or tsukuyomi even though thats not much of a fight. Thats why I hate these types of one hit kill moves in naruto