Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20170619154549/@comment-30323490-20170625170059

Shah-rinnegan wrote: With respect to Itachi, I would prefer Minato over itachi. Here are the comparison of itachi's power & minato's power-

1. Minato has his modified flying raijin djutsu (i wrote modified because tobirama was the creator of this djutsu but minato took it into higher level) Although Itachi has His crow clone & gaindjutsu to dodge that but minato is far more creative & he is a hokage level shinobi. Battle against obito was the prove that how fast could he think & make moves. so casting gendjutsu will be very difficult against minato.

2. He has sage mode & power of kurama. Itachi has the power of izunagi & izunami (although that can cause his one eye). So I think He will use his half body susano.

3. Rasengan vs amataratsu.. well itachi had a clear advantage in this as fire is superior to wind

4. I think the main cause of itachi's defeat will be the lack of chakra he posses comparing to minato. Minato also has various sealing djutsu under his sleeves.

This is alive Minato, so he doesn't have Kurama, and by his own admission, he sucks at SM and can only hold it for a very short time. Also,the original rasengan has nothing to do wind release.Minato however doesn't have to worry about amaterasu since he can just counter it with speed, just like the raikage did. Regardless, i would give this battle to Minato. I don't see him falling for one of Itachi's genjutsus, or at least this probbaly won't be a decisive factor. Also, i think Itachi would be forced to use his MS abilities quite soon in the battle, since Minato would just be too much for him with his speed and stamina, so rather sooner, itachi would be forced to use Susanoo and amaterasu. Also, we need to take in consideration the fact that, even if Itachi is "healthy", he would still get weakened by using MS.It's not like can use it without drawbacks.If he goes for instance in Susanoo, it's not like he could keep it forever. Totsuka blade would most likely not hit, and even if Minato won't probably be able to break the Susanoo, Itachi would get weakened every second, until he won't be able to keep the Susanoo anymore.I can only see Itachi winning if he land Tsukuyomi.