Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-142748-20150410212019/@comment-142748-20150412083023

Trappedinmygenjutsu wrote: Edo's have been shown to hold back a certain amount of their power during combat. The third Raikage could have instantly moved to his 1 finger technique and blitzed most of the ninja alliance, but withheld the technique until he needed it later on. The other kage could have spammed their most powerful jutsu but generally tried to hold back, since Kabuto gave them a certain amount of control (as long as they were doing their job, than he was fine with how they went about it). When put on autopilot, which is what Kabuto does to most of Edo Tensei, they are forced to attack to the very best of their ability. Its why Sandaime Raikage and Nidaime Mizukage weren't sealed initially, their bodies acted on their own. This easily allows Itachi to hold back (since we don't know how much Kabuto really knew about Itachi) as Kabuto would not know if Itachi was fighting as his best potential or not. Itachi could have spammed his other techniques (tsukuyomi, Ameterasu, Susanoo, etc) as well as using shadow clones which would spam these techniques as well. Kabuto knew everything about Itachi except his possession of one of Shisui's eyes and Izanami. Kabuto forced Itachi via the autopilot to fight to the best of his ability, Itachi couldn't hold back if he wanted to.