Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-142748-20150410212019/@comment-26127155-20150413070556

In the last battle when he was: Blind and dying of terminal illness, Itachi was able to use all of his mangekyo Sharingan techniques. He used Tsukuyomi early on in the fight and it barely fazed him, he later proceeded to use ameterasu which ended up catching most of mountain area on fire. He later used Susanoo when Sasuke stated that Itachi was out of chakra. Itachi might not have chakra reserves to the scale of Hashirama but he definetely has enough chakra in order to complete the scenarios that I previously mentioned.

There is nothing that Hashirama can realistically do in scenario 1 except by being sealed.

During scenario 2, Utakata is a move in Itachi's arsenal that you are just trying to pretend that it doesn't exist. It does not need to completely stop Hashirama (I wouldn't expect it to do so) but it only needs to take a few seconds of Hashirama's time in order to give Itachi an opening to use his Totsuka blade.

Scenario 3 will leave Itachi very tired, but he only used Ameterasu once in order to burn the mokuton jutsu and then he pretends to summon Susanoo for a second in order to con Hashirama into thinking he has landed a critical blow. Itachi can than use the Totsuka blade in order to finish the fight.

Scenario 4. Hashirama probably doesn't need to know everything about Itachi, but that example was used to demonstrate how knowledge about the opponent's techniques completely turns the tide of battle. In this battle a key factor is that Hashirama isn't like Itachi's other opponents who have a great understanding of Itachi's abilities which allows them to stay in the fight for a relatively long amount of time.