Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34938099-20180718121304/@comment-34194151-20180718190839

Imma keep it 100, I honestly did not see sasuke do anything particularly smart in the fight with deidara. 1.He apparently had the ability to defuse deidara's bombs, not really a feat of intelligence but just a bad matchup for deidara. 2.Sharingan allows him to SEE the bombs, both the bombs in the ground and the microscopic ones. That was a feat of eyesight not genius- intellect. 3. Deidara was flying much lower than he normally does, he is a long range fighter, nothing was stopping him from dropping the C3 nuke from way above sasuke's range, it had the capacity to nuke the sand village, sasuke won't be tanking that. 4. Deidara was also fighting less intelligently than he normally does too, probably because he was irritated by the sharingan, but still. Even so, he still managed to trick sasuke a few times.

Also, Idk why itachi was even brought up, even sasuke knew after talking to Tobi that itachi would have fodderized him if he was actually trying in that fight and wasn't like uber sick.

But I do agree that Hebi Sasuke was smarter than his cocky, arrogant, and overly brash MS Sasuke counterpart.

As for the fight, kakashi wins. Still more experienced, still smarter than sasuke, and more skilled. Sasuke also doesn't have the mangyeko sharingan yet so all his techniques can be copied and countered. Verdict: lighting style Clone feint into Raikiri.