Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-142748-20150410212019/@comment-26127155-20150413070556

In the last battle when he was: Blind and dying of terminal illness, Itachi was able to use all of his mangekyo Sharingan techniques. He used Tsukuyomi early on in the fight and it barely fazed him, he later proceeded to use ameterasu which ended up catching most of mountain area on fire. He later used Susanoo when Sasuke stated that Itachi was out of chakra. Itachi might not have chakra reserves to the scale of Hashirama but he definetely has enough chakra in order to complete the scenarios that I previously mentioned.

There is nothing that Hashirama can realistically do in scenario 1 except by being sealed. (You can't expect someone to go into a fight with out knowing their enemy and NOT look at their opponent's face). The 30M is not really relevant as most ninja would engage in Taijutsu at the start of a fight (especially from that range) which would bring Hashirama close enough to see Itachi's eyes.

During scenario 2, Utakata is a move in Itachi's arsenal that you are just trying to pretend that it doesn't exist. It does not need to completely stop Hashirama (I wouldn't expect it to do so) but it only needs to take a few seconds of Hashirama's time in order to give Itachi an opening to use his Totsuka blade.

Scenario 3 will leave Itachi tired, but he only used Ameterasu once in order to burn the mokuton jutsu and then his clone (only 1 clone, which could have also just been a crow clone) pretends to summon Susanoo for a second in order to con Hashirama into thinking he has landed a critical blow. Itachi can than use the Totsuka blade in order to finish the fight.

Scenario 4. Hashirama probably doesn't need to know everything about Itachi, but that example was used to demonstrate how knowledge about the opponent's techniques completely turns the tide of battle. In this battle a key factor is that Hashirama isn't like Itachi's other opponents who have a great understanding of Itachi's abilities which allows them to stay in the fight for a relatively long amount of time.

Itachi offsets his relatively low chakra reserves with his ridiculous chakra control. In my example he only used 1 shadow clone (where he has used a lot more than 1 at a time during the manga). During his final battle he has been shown to use a lot of chakra taxing moves in a short period of time and none of his abilities were exaggerated in the slightest. The examples with the Yata mirror don't require it to be invincible in order for Itachi to win, but I had it there just to display how Hashirama would try and counter the technique. Yasaka Matagama has been shown to do massive damage and I don't see the problem with it being used to try and hold back mokuton techniques.