Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34436445-20180904181029/@comment-34194151-20180904214218

Madara typically starts out in taijutsu, based on all showings he has had, it was also the first thing he did when he saw a massive army in front of him when he was revived. he elevates to susano'o usage when his hand is forced. he likes to get a sense of what his opponent is capable of. while he looks down on his enemies at first he actually does fight semi-carefully and takes calculated risks, even if he doesn't go all out immediately, which is standard actually. We didn't see itachi busting out susano'o as soon as he started battling most of his opponents, he relied on his regular tactics and saved his trump card for last, and itachi never wanted to kill most of his opponents at all. Madara expands his hand as necessary, and is decently analytical. He is highly experienced and skilled. Based on how he fought naruto and sasuke, he did a low risk but lethal ninjutsu to test their abilities first. so I don't think when he sees momoshiki's rinnegan he will be dumb enough to use his strongest ninjutsu on him and then try to call it a day, because that would be wasteful if the goal is simply to feel him out. But even if I'm horribly wrong, he has own preta path to fall back on, and madara doesn't make the same mistake twice. I see him starting out with taijutsu because he knows that taijutsu is the only weakness of the rinnegan, he said this himself. If he doesn't outright kill momoshiki here, which honestly is highly likely, he would probably try to blindside momoshiki with limbo.

Edit: well I used anime headcanon. he used fireball first in the manga, so it's possible he starts with this. momoshiki would absorb it but then it would tip madara off. madara would immeidately switch to taijutsu then counter accordingly.