Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-36528625-20180810001142/@comment-34194151-20180810072927

three of their long-range techniques did the job, they weren't necessarily all "needed". For all we know bee's bijuu dama could have been enough, they were simply being efficient and not taking any chances so they could destroy the core as quickly as possible with only technique needed from each. It's not like they knew what the minimum damage was. We have seen that sword swings from sasuke's susanoo destroyed a more powerful variant, and PS was said to be bijuu level.

Nagato's abilities are the most destructive when looked at as a whole and he had a lot of versatility due to rinnegan, so he probably was the second most powerful in a sense, but he also even says that Nagato wasn't that mobile. But that wasn't really true. He had no trouble blitzing bee and naruto. Even if his legs were really out of shape, we have seen that the ashura path can generate extra limbs, and we have even seen that he can use rocket boosters/use gravity to levitate and move around. Even with all that aside, he didn't have the mental reactions to use shinra-tensei to avoid the totuska blade even when the blade had to travel a large distance to even reach him. Even with the smoke in front of him, it seemed like there was plenty of space to see the blade coming. so if he can be taken out by itachi's most powerful technique that easily, then kabuto may have misspoke. And even then, he went on to say that itachi was his most finest reanimation, so take kabuto's statements with a grain of salt.