Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26145872-20160224202704/@comment-27660682-20160315220520

Naruto couldn't fuse with the frogs because of Kurama. When Pa tried to fuse with naruto the nine tails kicked him out. So naruto intelligently used shadow clones to compensate. Like I said, naruto surpassed Jiraiya overall at that point, jiraiya only beat him in battle experience. The summoning s aren't that big of an advantage when Pain had his own summons countering them. Naruto had prep and intel but it doesn't matter, naruto is better equipped to fight Pain because of his massive chakra reservess, shadow clones and rasenshuriken +transformation jutsu. Jiraiya can't spam shadow clones like naruto can to help counter the shared vision. Pain miscalculated because he was outsmarted.