Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26958911-20151010214426/@comment-26998824-20151217205245

I think Jiraiya could have wreck a prime nagato too, but 6 paths at the same time? Even Naruto almost got bagged and tagged by the Deva Path and would have lost and in my opinion Itachi would have lost too. Itachi had plenty of time to understand Pain's abilities being in the same group and all. But still Itachi killed one target and not 6 and a half.

This is why I always find it hard to believe 1 Prime Nagato is stronger than the 6 paths who individually still have amazing abilities. For example if the Naraka path is kept alive then what do you do. To beat the 6 paths you have to fight on the right battleground or have Intel on the paths abilities(and have the intelligence as well as be quite strong to defeat them all)Strength in numbers has taken too many strong shinobi, Jiraiya was another example.