Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30323490-20171113213649/@comment-34194151-20180106000015

It is enough. And Since I'm likely to get this rebuttal, I have two instances of direct proof of Itachi's intellectual ability to use genjutsu as a distraction. Versus Orochimaru back when they were in the Akatsuki. Orochimaru tries to steal his body, Itachi counters with a paralysis genjutsu. Orochimaru tries to break out but Itachi had already sliced his arm off. If itachi so wished, he could have chopped orochimaru's head off instead and then seal the remains with totsuka blade just like he ended up doing in the Sasuke fight.

Exhibit 2 Is Itachi versus Kurenai. Kurenai uses genjutsu on Itachi. ITachi counters her genjutsu and places her in her own genjutsu. Kurenai manages to break out just barely before she ends up getting kicked into the water. If itachi was serious, that kick would have been a totsuka blade. While I acknowledge that oro and Kurenai aren't anywhere on naruto's level, the parallel remains the same because naruto has trouble with itachi's genjutsu. The point is,is that even if you can break out of a genjutsu itachi places on you, he doesn't give you time to defend against his follow up attacks. He always moves quickly to take advantage of openings. Chain link one: Itachi casts genjutsu, naruto casts shadow clones/rasenshuriken as he is immersed in the genjutsu Kurama warns him and they both work to break him free. meanwhile Itachi was already preparing the super fast totuska blade to strike while naruto and kurama were distracted by the genjutsu. Naruto breaks out just in time to see himself getting sealed into a jar for all eternity. Hell, I could even use Sasuke vs Killer Bee. After Sasuke placed Killer Bee in his mangeyko genjutsu, If sasuke used his head, he would strike killer bee with a blow after killer bee fell on the ground. Sasuke just assumed his genjutsu did the trick and forgot that Killer Bee is a jinchurki. That is proof the opening is significant. Killer Bee explicitly said he couldn't move his body either for those good few seconds. Drawing the parallel to naruto, who is facing itachi, the second best non Jubbi genjutsu caster in the series, itachi can take advantage of that opening because he knows that the opening will be avialable. So yeah, why is this still a debate? If naruto was completely immune to genjutsu it would be a different story. In fact, I would give naruto the win in that case.