Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-5936871-20160126112547/@comment-10048743-20160208004938

actualy nagato used the first used Shinra Tensei there were five pannles before his eye chaged color so it could be infured that each pannle lasts 1 second, there were five panles before bee conected with the lariat in the sixth one after nagato used the Shinra Tensei a second time. so there is a cool down period of five seconds is still in effect. also nigato cought up blood after he destroys konoha if memory serves so this jutsu takes a lot out of him when he uses it at high power. so itachi would have five seconds to attack. (i went back and counted the pannles)

also itachi in the proposed situation is much stronger then he would be in the manga so he would stand a better chance agents nagato because he would have access more chakra and be in much better health.

in battle nagato does do stupid things in battle becouse of his god complex. like harming hinata in front of naruto and attempting to take over naruto in a clash of wills, and naruto is very strong willed and nagato was unable to take him over. were as itachi manipulated his battle with sasuke so he would be taken over by oroichimaru so he could remove the cursed seal form sasuke.

i feel that thsi fight would be freza vs ss goku with goku beening itachi, freza had about 1 million more power then goku but goku still beat freza. its not about who has better jutsu its about who has better strategy or who can take more punishment and itachi has the better strategy then nagato and more willpower then nagato. and before you say nagato has more will then itachi let me point out that mandara went blind pritty quickly after gaining the mangeko and sasuke went blind a few days to weeks after he gained his (after really two fights well using its power.) it took itachi about 7 years before he went blind showing that he had a great deal of willpower to only use the power of the mangeko when he absolutely needed to.

now if it was not the situation that Legendary Super Saiya-Jin 4 set out for this fight nagato would win as itachi was weakened by dissese, medication, near blindness, and less having less experience nagato would have won. however in this particular situation itachi would win as he is older, stronger, in purfict health and has about 14 more years of experince under his belt.

itachi without his declined heath would have all fives in his base stats so he would be a match for nagato especially as nigato is not useing the paths therefore only has one view point so he woudl not be able to effectivly use the shared vision of the paths to see that itachi was hideing.