Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20170822151908/@comment-26636534-20170825094240

Killer723 wrote:

PS: Anything that goes against Itachi is either plot or Itachi use to hold back. Nice one. Sums up Itachi fans in general.

Mr. Grave wrote:

Itachi didn't dodge Kirin. He shielded himself from it with Susanoo. He said it himself If I hadn't used this I would have been obliterated. after he conjured Susanoo. How come you guys can sweep under such a conclusive piece of evidence that Itachi survived Kirin because of Susanoo?

And really, most of these Mangekyo feats were exaggerated at this point. I mean, in that same chapter I linked, Zetsu referred to Amaterasu as unavoidable. Cue Raikage several chapters later avoiding Sasuke's Amaterasu. Itachi's Susanoo was supposed to be the shit, and then everyone and their grandma developed Full Body Susanoo. And this wasn't the first time either when a seemingly awesome jutsu was eclipsed by an even more awesome feat that came out later in the series. We call it a power creep. I can only assume it is favoritism. I asked Itachi fans before why they cherry-pick Itachi statements and hype "feats", but never got an answer.

So, Obito has stronger ninjutsu and we have determined that Itachi's genjutsu won't work on him. Would any of Itachi's mid level techniques even faze Obito?