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, amaterasu, tsukuyomi 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 his 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. The only thing itachi is missing is naruto's stamina. With that he truly would deserve to be killed off by a random illness.

But again, its not just the arsenal, you take away those hax jutsus and we still can see evidence of itachi's raw intelligence. In the anime, we see him as a kid take out an experienced Root women by secretly sabotaging her thread technique.Against Kabuto, he completely read kabuto's next move was to capture sasuke while they were stunned by the loud sound, which kabuto was amazed at. ITachi is insightful to the point he could almost read minds. There is still more to it too! it doesn't end with itachi.

He nearly killed obito from the postmortem by sealing amaterasu into sasuke's eyes. Obito survived that likely due to plot or izanagi, but also just to the fact that amaterasu has been continousnly nerfed. When itachi used it in part one, it completely vaporized a HEAT RESISTANT toad mouth in seconds. Obito is mere flesh and he also didn't have enough time to use kamui, so he should have died.