Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-34194151-20180107091407/@comment-26636534-20180107095600

I disagree. In the instance you speak of, Kakashi tried to blitz tendo pain, by first confining him. This was to eliminate shared vision and to make it impossible for pain to evade. Kakashi didn't know that was tendo pain, with the deva path hax. Not a bad strategy, just didn't work.

In your exhibit two, Kakashi attacked again to deduce the gap between the uses of the deva path, which was found to be five seconds if I recall correctly. That is pretty useful all things considered. Shared vision is a pain (lol) to deal with but I suppose he was looking for a limit to exploit there. Kakashi made a lightning clone at that point as well, so he was going to use deception to take out one pain. So, what was not to your liking then?

In your exhibit 3, Kakashi doesn't know at that point how many pains are in the village, all he knows for sure is that there are two in front of him. According to the sage toad, he knows that each pain has only a single ability so he isn't concerned about them regenerating at that point.

Kakashi acted as we expected he would, so what were you expecting then?

Shikamaru may be smarter but he is not perfect in his consideration or execution of his strategy. Both fights with Hidan and Kakuza are perfect examples of this.