Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25374145-20150312083658

When you think about it Hidan is the weakest Akatsuki any of the other menmbers could beat him easily and quite a few of the other main characters could beat him too with varying degrees of difficulty if they had intel on what he could do.

Basically with foreknowledge of his ability’s he can be beaten by any jonin that can doge his scythe and incapacitate him the reason he is regarded a as a powerful ninja is because by the time you know what he can do u are already dead or severely injured furthermore once he became part of the Akatsuki anyone fighting him would also have to deal with Kakuzu. I don’t think he is as hard to kill as you think at first glance either. There must be at least 50 different ways to die from starvation excluding disease, given that nutrient deprivation in and of itself is not the actual cause of death. So theoretically if you could mimic any kind of cell process degradation, cell death or organ failure that is the result of starvation/nutrient deprivation you could kill him. One example might be a specialised poison as most poisons work by disrupting some cell or organ process. 