Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20170822151908/@comment-5085906-20170825091730

Killer723 wrote: And take in mind this is even healthy Itachi, near dead Itachi was able to dodge Kirin with Pure speed and reflexes.

PS: Anything that goes against Itachi is either plot or Itachi use to hold back. We're not gonna have this discussion again, are we? Itachi didn't dodge Kirin. He shielded himself from it with Susanoo. He said it himself If I hadn't used this I would have been obliterated. after he conjured Susanoo. How come you guys can sweep under such a conclusive piece of evidence that Itachi survived Kirin because of Susanoo? What could he have possibly meant by 'If I hadn't used this I would have been obliterated.'?

And really, most of these Mangekyo feats were exaggerated at this point. I mean, in that same chapter I linked, Zetsu referred to Amaterasu as unavoidable. Cue Raikage several chapters later avoiding Sasuke's Amaterasu. Itachi's Susanoo was supposed to be the shit, and then everyone and their grandma developed Full Body Susanoo. And this wasn't the first time either when a seemingly awesome jutsu was eclipsed by an even more awesome feat that came out later in the series. We call it a power creep.