Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31171723-20170128170340/@comment-9782468-20170207050744

QuakingStar wrote: Itachi reacted to Kirin and was taijutu battling evenly with Kurama Chakra Naruto, as en Edo which is weaker altogether than the living version of said Ninja as Hashirama and Madara made clear. Itachi is faster than Sasuke who is faster than Madara, as Madara with Sage Mode couldn't get away from Sasuke, he even got stabbed in the arm by Sasuke. How is this hard to comprehend?? Itachi also has better reaction time considering he was blind and still reacted to Kirin which is as fast as real lightning because it IS real lightning. Itachi is also the only person who can cast and control with genjutsu outside of the sensor divisions range, the only person who ever did something close was Shisui when he one-shotted the Kiri nin with that long distance Genjutsu. Madara only has CB Susanoo and larger chakra reserves over Itachi, and the only reason he did so well against Hashirama was because they were best friends who knew each other the best. Madara as a TTJ is called the strongest Uchiha in Databook 4, not EMS Madara and not simple Rinnegan Madara, so don't try and use that again.. also the context of Madara having no weaknesses was Wood Release, Rinnegan, Edo Madara. Itachi on the other hand said that if he was to attain the EMS(no blindness) he would be the only living Uchiha to surpass Madara Uchiha. If we use Novel feats, then Itachi most definitely takes this, without the novel feats, he wins with very hard difficulty. Keeping up with KCM Naruto is not a feat when Naruto wasn't even trying to beat Itachi at that point. He was trying to hear what Itachi had to say.

Nothing you've stated convinces me that Sasuke is faster than Madara, who at no point was bothered by Sasuke attacking him. Sure he got stabbed in the arm, but that was an easy way to immobilize Sasuke, and he did say he loses grace in fighting when he he knows he'll heal from it easy because of Hashi. If Sasuke were so much faster than Madara, then a quick Chidori to the chest while Madara was occupied with his sword would've been appropriate. But that didn't happen.

Itachi knew Sasuke had a huge attack coming. He knew Sasuke was summoning Lightning clouds and shooting lightning, since Sasuke explained it neatly. And he had his Sharingan, so all he needed to do was predict Sasuke's hand coming down and bringing Susanoo up accordingly. Not exactly a feat of reacting to lightning, just to Sasuke himself.