Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34656247-20180525214931/@comment-33959444-20180527192836

BlazeRelease wrote: The fact is, Jiraya won't enter Sage mode until he finds it necessary. And it still takes time for that. So, Sage mode against Deidera seems unlikely.

Jiraya needs to keep his distance againt Deidera's bombs, considering he can't dodge them as fast as Hebi Sasuke could.

I guess Deidera doesn't have Obito to place the land mines this time.

I guess the jutsu that wins this battle is C4(That cell sized Mini bombs), Jiraya can't sense it until he's in Sage Mode, and he needs some aireal support to get out of it, if he senses it in Sage mode. Well, I don't know what others are gonna say, but Deidera takes this. If Jiraiya thinks it's necessary to use SM against an Akatsuki member, I'm pretty sure he'll use it.

Jiraiya can use Boss Summons to escort him around Deidara's bombs like he did with Animal Path Pain. Jiraiya's also a master with Shadow Clones which can decrease the time needed to enter SM. And it actually didn't take Jiraiya too long to enter SM in the Manga. If he could hold his own to Pain, I don't see why he couldn't do the same to Deidara.

He doesn't necessarily need aireal support to get out of C4. The way C4 works is by having those mini bombs enter a person's body after they breathe it in. I'm assuming that you're talking about these guys in character considering you said that Jiraiya won't enter SM in character unless if he really needs it. So, if we're talking about IC, then Deidara won't use C4 until pretty late in the fight and may not use it at all considering he devised it as a counter for Itachi. In the Manga, it just took a chapter for Jiraiya to enter SM. And he decided to enter SM pretty much as soon as the fight began. If he can enter SM before C4 goes off, he can counter it.