Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32713358-20170729061734/@comment-5085906-20170803205601

@bipedmango

Where did you get that? At no point was it stated that Sasori was not being serious during their fight. He didn't dodge Sakura's last attack, yes, but he was serious for the rest of the battle.

And yeah, Deidara can dodge Amaterasu. If Sasuke could, so can he. But Itachi is faster than Deidara. Not by a lot, mind you, but still faster. He's also a lot more unpredictable and just as capable of setting booby traps, his explosive clone's evidence of that.

@Rachin123

I know that this won't matter in this discussion, but Deidara was genjutsu'd at one point in that fight. He only became impervious to it after flexing his eye.

No. Sasuke's plot armor only kicked in at the end when he dodged C0 at a close proximity. Yeah, that was bullshit - I agree with it 100%. But, since Deidara cannot use C0, then there's no use discussing the 'what ifs' of that. The rest of that fight however kept plot at the bare minimum. And, if I recall correctly, it was Deidara who was helped by Tobi in setting up the land mines (which was the first time Deidara momentarily got the upper hand on Sasuke) so it was actually him who got help.

As for Deidara's long range bombing, Itachi has superb sleight of hand skills as demonstrated against his fight with Sasuke. He can use his shuriken to keep them away from him and even maybe throw them back at Deidara. I guess Deidara's C3 may be a problem, but so long as he doesn't stand directly below it, I think Itachi's fine. His Susanoo took a direct hit from Kirin and he still lived. Plus, he has to stand still in order to drop that thing and his C2, so that's when Itachi fries him with Amaterasu. After all, it's implied his Amaterasu goes as far as he can see so range won't be a problem.

As for Kisame, again, his Water Dome essentially makes all of Sasori's puppets useless and probably even Sasori himself, though for the sake of argument, we'll say Sasori can swim underwater. Even that won't be much of a help, though, since when Kisame fuses with Samehada, he gains chakra sensing abilities and is incredibly fast, making it hard for Sasori to transport his heart/battery thing into another body. Plus, while in Killer Bee's possession, Samehada sliced through fire. I don't see why it can't do that with sand or gas. Not to mention that most types of physical injuries inflicted by Sasori can be healed by it whenever Kisame touches one of his puppets.

As I said, you're pitting two of the weakest Akatsuki members, both defeated by two 16 year old Team 7 members and an old lady against a top-tier shinobi who took on and won over two jinchuriki and fought Gai in his 7th gate state and still managed to muster enough force to deliver intel to his organization before killing himself AND his partner, an annoyingly OP shinobi with a Steven Seagal-like penchant of never being shown injured on-screen unless those injuries are self-inflicted. And you're surprised when I vouch for the latter.