Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26005711-20150518115443/@comment-25349026-20150518195851

Minato 87, you open a shitcan of worms every time you make one of these celebrity death match posts. If you go back through the forums, you'll see Jiraiya vs. Orochimaru etc topics already made, and you can see how they devolved and the same questions were asked again and again. And before Sajuuk says something like I'm trying to back seat moderate the forums, that is NOT the point of my post. My point is that these types of topics usually very quickly into people flinging all sorts of crap back and forth. This is a "I'm imploring people to be peaceful type of post".

That said I'll give you the basic synopsis of how this one ends up every time.

Person A - Itachi beat Orochimaru but was afraid of engaging Jiraiya with Kisame with him Person B - Orochimaru was weaker then, different body, etc Person C - Orochimaru beat Jiraiya with no arms in the three way fight

What we do know is that they had a Naruto/Sasuke type of relationship and similarities in their power progressions. That being said, Orochimaru and Jiraiya are fairly evenly matched and the fight could go either way for a variety of possible reasons.

Ultimately though you can look at this, Jiraiya is dead Orochimaru is not. One has a stronger "survival" instinct than the other, while the other has a stronger "honor/duty" instinct.

Orochimaru is more tenacious at wanting to stay alive, so in the end he might lose the fight, but would probably win the war.