Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-5936871-20160126112547/@comment-5936871-20160126231848

Thekillman wrote: Legendary Super Saiya-Jin 4 wrote: There is more evidence pointing towards the Rinnegan being unaffected by visual genjutsu as opposed to it being affected. The whole immunity thing comes from a faulty translation. Given what we know of Sharingan, it would be pretty strong against Genjutsu, but strong is not the same as immune.

The Sharingan counteracting Tsukuyomi resulted in not one "sharingan = immune to genjutsu" clain, why would the Rinnegan counteracting IT lead to a similar argument?

There's not a single time that a living Genjutsu specialist went up against a living Rinnegan user. Edo Tensei has a bunch of exceptions to a bunch of rules, so it doesn't count.

It also changes nothing. Itachi doesn't really have the necessary techniques to hurt Nagato, especially when using Six Paths of Pain. Genjutsu affects the Paths but not Nagato directly, allowing Nagato to fight Itachi without risk of Tsukuyome. He can then use the bird to keep his own body safe, and should Itachi try to kill the bird, there are always other paths to save it, e.g. Preta countering Amaterasu. Because the Infinite Tsukuyomi is the most powerful genjutsu in the entire series and it's only known counter is the Rinnegan. Kakashi may not be a genjutsu specialist, but he can cast some pretty crippling and debilitating genjutsu with his Sharingan that would have been very useful against Pain during their battle in Konoha. Same thing when Itachi briefly fought Nagato alongside Naruto and Killer B. Itachi can cast genjutsu with a point of his finger, why didn't he bother on Nagato? It just doesn't make any sense that they didn't use such useful techniques when they could've when they were in a dire situation. Also, your point doesn't make much sense because the Tsukuyomi is still a Sharingan genjutsu so obviously the Sharingan has the ability to counter or resist it's own techniques depending on the circumstance. Nothing except for the Rinnegan could counter the Infinite Tsukuyomi, which is a Rinne Sharingan genjutsu that can ensnare the entire world. So the Rinnegan can counter that, but it can't counter any genjutsu of a tremendously lower caliber from a much weaker dojutsu? What? It really doesn't make any sense at all.