Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3965545-20170621043245/@comment-5085906-20170621175541

Rachin123 wrote: Thekillman wrote: But perhaps fitting to the character, there's a lot of uncertainty about his actual capacities. He seems to be around Sannin level (which is impressive in itself) yet i've never seen him do anything that suggests he transcends that level, not in any noticeable way. So i don't like it when the hype train starts and we get massive overstatements, like the time people claimed Yata could stop meteors. I have to disagree. Clearly Itachi is Sannin-level or above. There is no "seems to be". His genjutsu skills are unsurpassed and was even able to stop the masterful Orochimaru. And it wasn't even a MS genjutsu at that. To be fair, Sasuke stopped Orochimaru with a mere Sharingan genjutsu. I think Orochimaru's just shit at handling genjutsu. Not in any way diminishing Itachi's genjutsu skills; I think he's the best genjutsu user thus far (not like he has any serious competition) but I just wanted to point that out.

For the sake of contributing to this thread though, has anyone mentioned his almost supernatural ability to make successful gambits that span a few years into the future?