Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26636534-20171019193715/@comment-34194151-20180107101236

Ninja Of War wrote: I think it's a bit assumptive to say Itachi is by default smarter than kage. I get what you are saying but Kakashi saw through all of that, but that doesn't make him or Itachi immediately smarter than someone like Ohnoki. That's not quite right. Kakashi saw through the first feint but not the others until it was too late. The only reason kakashi wasn't done in by the surprise shadow clone was because kakashi always makes a clone himself. But itachi already knew that. Kakashi made that clone to try and suprise attack itachi from under water. But instead itachi was counting on that and rigged his shadow clone to explode which nearly killed kakashi mind you. Sure, he had to save kurenai as well, but that didn't make much of a difference. That itachi still had shuriken in his hand that he didn't throw and because I guess he was a secretly a good guy, he didn't chase kakashi as he was escaping with kurenai. If itachi meant for the serious kill, he could have chased kakashi down before exploding so he gets a direct hit. And that was again, as kakashi stated, itachi's WARMUP. Think carefully about saying kakashi saw through it. If kakashi saw through it, why was HE the one on the defensive the whole time. He barely had time to defend himself much less get an attack off against itachi.

And this was just one fight as I said. We have seen itachi's planning skills go into the postmortem. the dude put a crow inside naruto that could be used to either undo a potential edo tensi or serve the primary purpose of stopping a sasuke that had his EMS from attacking the village. The dude used a jutsu designed to take down izanagi to take out kabuto and executed it perfectly. And more... there is a reason why many characters, allies and foes alike speak so highly of him. Like I Said the 5 kage are smart too, they made a pretty good plan to beat Madara's Preta Path and also managed to corner him a few times, not that it mattered since he wasn't fighting too seriously.