Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-33308438-20180614101055/@comment-34194151-20180702052359

@ Lone Ninja. Itachi is always aggressive. In his first fight against kakashi in part 1 he casted two techniques ( a water style and a shadow clone ) and then revealed shurikens in his hand, and kakashi backed away desperately weaving hand signs to form his defense. Kakashi of the sharingan remarked that he couldn't track itachi's hand seal movements, thats pretty aggressive to start off a fight don't you think? He even rigged one of his clones to explode as well. He didn't use susanoo against kakashi because he didn't need to go that far. kakashi never even came close to landing an attack on him in that fight. Against Sage Kabuto, itachi used susanoo right off the bat to counter the snake attack. Against Nagato who was manhandling killer bee and naruto he also used susanoo right after that. Itachi isn't stupid he knows minato is the fastest shinobi to ever live, and almost everyone knows Minato's opening move. The problem is itachi has shown the ability to react with susanoo in accordance to lightning! he can react to minato with that same susanoo, or just amaterasu. While Minato blitzes he can't dodge an attack like amaterasu. His own speed prevents him from doing so. All his mental and physical energy is being used for running at his opponent as fast as possible in a straight line, so in that instant itachi has initiative to counter attack with a nearly equally fast attack - Amaterasu. Itachi can perceive when minato starts his blitz thanks to the sharingan and since minato is moving so fast there is no way for him to see itachi's focus on him and he will be ignited by the black flames as he reaches melee range and will be burned to ashes. The only way minato is avoiding amaterasu is if he his body isn't already committed to a phyiscal action (i.e, if he is standing still and sees amaterasu coming, obviously he can dodge easily without even using FTG, but itachi isn't dumb enough to open with amaterasu as a first move against someone like Minato, he would go for genjutsu instead).