Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32104334-20171109032930/@comment-734582-20171109103311

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: wasn't that mutual? Afterall they were acting like a battery to nagato too. Pretty much, yea. Nagato got a ton of power from Gyuki, and became notably faster and stronger.

Ahya07 wrote: can he do it alone? Presumably, though it would be a close fight. The databook puts Jiraiya and Itachi as equals (exact same final score, down to the half-point), and it was noted by Nagato that if Jiraiya had known his secret he'd have lost. It depends on how fast Itachi would figure out the Paths, since Jiraiya wasted a lot of his power and time on fruitless efforts which led to his defeat.

Keep in mind that we don't know much about Tsukuyome's weaknesses. We know a basic sharingan is enough to break it, provided the user has the skill. So evidently skill weighs more heavily in this regard than power. The Rinnegan seems to grant some degree of insight into jutsu as well, although it's not clear how and to what extent. But it's fairly safe to say it grants enough that Nagato could conceivably break it.

ALso keep in mind that it was Itachi who said genjutsu doesn't work on people with the same eyes. This isn't that people are literally immune, but as Obito V Kakashi showed, the other can simply decode and deny the genjutsu fast enough that it doesn't matter. It's not that you don't get caught, it's that you don't stay caught.

So no, Nagato wouldn't shrug off Tsukuyome like nobody's business, though it's feasible that he can rapidly break it down and stay largely unaffected.