Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26958911-20151010214426/@comment-25093611-20151026155149

Trappedinmygenjutsu wrote: Itachi was able to cover the mountain area with ameterasu and use it several times during the battle against Sasuke. Itachi used Susanoo for enough time to beat Orochimaru and he could of also taken out Sasuke, while Itachi shouldn't have had enough chakra to use any jutsu AT ALL! Techniques like: Tsukuyomi, fire ball jutsu, crow clones, etc were also used in the battle. i know, but even if he can use them 3 times as much i still dont see itachi winning, jiraya could trump every jutsu of itachi except for his MS and genjutsus :I Trappedinmygenjutsu wrote: Jiraiya's sage mode makes him faster and he is able to predict his opponent's moves, but neither of his feats outclass Sasuke's speed and perception (Sasuke couldn't avoid Itachi's Taijutsu and Ameterasu). SM-jiraya should be clearly faster than sasuke (while fighting itachi), he has a far better sage mode instead of a diluted version like sasuke, he also has enough chakra to spam his jutsus which wouldnt allow itachi a single moment of rest, ultimatively leading to him running empthy :)

btw, SM-jiraya can sense chakra, that means he would notice if itachi charges his MS-jutsus, this would give him a big timespan to prepare dodging ^_^ Trappedinmygenjutsu wrote: Jiraiya requires a field which has a lot of terrain between himself and Itachi in order to win this fight. Terrain between himself and Itachi could be used to stall Itachi, while he uses his genjutsu (provided it works) and obstacles in the way could be used take ameterasu. Itachi has a few techniques to combat this strategy however (Yasaka matagama, ameterasu and long range genjutsu), so even that is not a completely solid strategy. i dont think that jiraya would fall behind, he could easily summon parts of a frog and trap itachi for long enough (force him to use amaterasu or susanoo), or he created clones who collect chakra and give it to him :)

PS: jiraya also has a upper hand in taijutsu since he would be able to use frog-kata (plus the frogs on his shoulders could attack with water/oil-jutsus while in close combat) ^_^