Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20160221130323/@comment-27660682-20160226021444

That's not what my main point is, thats the simplest scenario. The fact that itachi can make at least one exploding shadow clone as well as crow clones gives him a huge advantage against someone who can't make clones, isnt a sensor type, doesnt have a sharingan, and is limited to close range taijutsu unless he immediately goes into gates. And like I said, he canoically fights sharingan users by always looking at their feet/ ground. He has no intel on the fact itachi can just cast genjustu with a finger, and not just his sharingan. So at any given point in the match, a smoke screen can be created through various means like paperbombs and smoke bombs. In the smoke, itachi can make one or two clones, one of them being the exploding type. Those clones come out of the smoke and can charge at guy and cast a ninjutsu, throw kunais or whatever and at this point guy already lost track of where the real itachi is because he is not a sensor type. Guy uses his impressive skills and kills the first clone but when the second comes in into taijutsu range, it detonates on guy, causing him to take the blunt of the explosiom, and lets say it doesn't kill him, he is now actually blinded, can't see, is disoriented,  and when he comes out of the debris he knows its risky to look around at head level. Meanwhile the real itachi created distance and because shadow clone experience goes back to the user, he knows guy will be looking at the ground and his sharingan as the debris clears already gives him insight on where a disoriented guy will be looking is looking. In that frame of time, itachi can easily catch him by squatting mid distance from where he tracked guy to be looking. I dont see how you see this as an asburd possbility, when I myself said it isnt guaranteed to work, its just one of many ways things can go down. But even then, if guy is disoriented he doesnt need to even try to catch him in genjutsu at that point. He can just use the totuska blade right then and guy cant possibly seeing it coming.