Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-142748-20150410212019/@comment-26127155-20150413012640

Ameterasu and Yasaka Magatama don't need to directly hit Hashirama, only clear a path from his mokuton technique and distract Hashirama for a split second.

The argument isn't this is Itachi and he can do what ever. It is Itachi's fighting style in the manga and all the other different Naruto mediums.

-During the first fight he was shown in, Kurenai used her genjutsu on Itachi and he turned the tide of battle by reflecting it.

-Orochimaru, went for a sneaky kill on Itachi and yet Itachi turned the tide of the battle yet again with his genjutsu (wasn't even facing Orochimaru at the time).

- Deidara thought he was going to land a killing blow against Itachi and nearly killed himself due to Itachi using his genjutsu in order to have Deidara use his own explosive style onto himself.

- Kabuto though he had Itachi on the ropes, just for Itachi to trap him inside Izanami.

The scenarios I have previously posted are accurate of how both characters have fought during the series, as well as taking into account their though process while being in a fight move by move.

Previous posts display that Itachi does have amazing feats of reaction speeds. Zetsu even went as far as to state that Itachi is invincible while he has his Susanoo, Yata Mirror and Totsuka blade (Zetsu has existed since the time of Kaguya and has witnessed countless others such as Hagoromo, Hamura, Indra, Asura, Hashirama, Madara, Obito, etc).