Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-43403813-20190907005521/@comment-43403813-20190930172937

@Senjutsu Sage Again, if visual genjutsu was possible against a Rinnegan user, Itachi would have used it against Nagato in edo form, even if it could be dispelled, giving him an amount of time to intervene.

I disagree concerning Asura path. It vaulted forwards because it was focused on Tsunade, and Naruto attacked it whilst it was focused on Tsunade. This match up is Itachi by himself, meaning no surprise attacks from extraneous variables.

(Big problem with scaling Pain/Nagato against others is that he always had the odds stacked against him, with multiple people fighting him at once.)

The one other occasion where the Asura path vaulted was against Jiraiya at the end of the fight, and obviously that worked brilliantly, as Jiraiya lost an arm.

Other than that and the vault against Tsunade, the Asura path adopted a long-range stance shooting its missiles, laser beams and explosions, and it would most likely do so against someone like Itachi.

Let's not forget the summon spam that the Animal path can do. Itachi could at best pump out 3-4 amaterasu's on the summons, draining him severely, and Pain would be able to re-summon them again eventually.

I already agreed that the Yata Mirror is OP, but it could have performed better in the hands of someone with more chakra than Itachi. Itachi wouldn't be able to hold it up for too long especially against a chakra-filled powerhouse like Pain.

I agree that Human path would probs be near useless at the beginning of the fight, and would probs just be used as taijutsu bait, or he could rip Itachi's soul out if Itachi is severely drained of chakra.

Preta path is integral against Itachi, he legit nullifies most of Itachi's damage output.

Totsuka blade is Itachi's best bet, but Pain could prolong Itachi's usage of it by using Shinra Tensei, or spamming summons to take the hit. Itachi probably couldn't keep his susanoo active for very long considering his chakra supply in comparison to Pain's. And this is ignoring Chibaku Tensei ending the fight immediately.