Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-5936871-20160126112547/@comment-27660682-20160126221806

Itachi takes this. Like Zetsu Said ( who specializes in information and has existed during all shinobi history), with Itachi's high wisdom, access to the tsyukyomi, and the Yata mirror and Totuska blade, he is invincible in 1v1. Nagato cant scratch itachi through the yata mirror. The Yata mirror isn't exaggerated at all.It clearly changed size versus orochumaru. Databook confirms it negates ANY spiritual attack, ninjustu, astral body(meteors included), and physical attack by changing ANY of its properties and is Endowed with ALL nature transformations to adapt to and negate any attack. Keep in mind that the 7 BASIC ones are lightning earth wind water fire ying and yang. The Yata mirror also includes the more advanced ones as well that fuse 2 or more elements together. The Yata mirror is a perfect defense essentially. Now lets look at how Nagato and Itachi matchup.

Intelligence? ITachi wins by a long shot. Nagato was outsmarted by jiraiya, kakashi and naruto in his fights even though he won. Nagato is mostly all brawns. He wins because his techniques are insanely strong, not because of intelligence.

Stamina, Nagato takes this one by a lot, but the battle wont be a battle of stamina thanks to the totsuka blade.

Genjustu? Itachi wins by far and nagato has no defense against genjutsu other than standard tactics, and he has 0 chance if caught in tsyukyomi since he is no uchiha, not like it matters because tsyukyomi does 72 hours worth of damage in one second, no one can break a genjustu in a single second. Absolutely 0 evidence that the rinnegan is immune to visual genjutsu btw.

Ninjutsu? all of nagato's strongest attacks are handled by yata mirror. Nagato can handle all of itachi's ninjutsu thanks to shinra tensi and preta Path, so itachi's ninjutsu will only be useful as distractions. The totsuka sword is ITachi's win condition.

Speed? itachi wins

Taijutsu? Id say itachi.

Itachi takes this battle high difficulty, he wins by catching nagato in preferably tsyukyomi then follows up with totsuka sword while yata mirror defends against nagato. Itachi can defeat chibaku tensi with yasaka matagama spam. Itachi's main issue that makes it high difficulty is stamina and the powers of the rinnegan stopping his ninjutsu.