Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36019309-20190114073523/@comment-35409024-20190118235448

BrainBrand wrote:

In the viz translation of 142 Itachi said only someone with a kekkai genkai and a sharingan can break Tsukuyomi. However, nowhere in that translation does it say how skilled you have to be to break it. According to your logic, since he didn't specify how skilled a sharingan user with the kekkai genkai has to be to beat Tsukuyomi, that means he was saying any Uchiha with an sharingan can beat it.

That contradicts what the databook said about about breaking Tsukuyomi requires an elite shinobi with particularly high degrees of skillfulness.

That's not how it works. Itachi said what he said. Then the Databook came out and further explained. The Databooks come out to explain techniques after the techniques are already introduced. So the Databook takes precedent over former statements that were released before it. However, latter feats and some statements can take precedent over the Databook. Kishimoto's word also definitely triumphs Itachi's. Him saying an elite Uchiha with Sharingan can break it does not conflict with Itachi saying an Uchiha with Sharingan can break it. It's just explaining more. It's literally the same statement just with one more detail. I don't see a contradiction in that.