Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-5936871-20160126112547/@comment-734582-20160126134923

Legendary Super Saiya-Jin 4 wrote: There is more evidence pointing towards the Rinnegan being unaffected by visual genjutsu as opposed to it being affected. The whole immunity thing comes from a faulty translation. Given what we know of Sharingan, it would be pretty strong against Genjutsu, but strong is not the same as immune.

The Sharingan counteracting Tsukuyomi resulted in not one "sharingan = immune to genjutsu" clain, why would the Rinnegan counteracting IT lead to a similar argument?

There's not a single time that a living Genjutsu specialist went up against a living Rinnegan user. Edo Tensei has a bunch of exceptions to a bunch of rules, so it doesn't count.

It also changes nothing. Itachi doesn't really have the necessary techniques to hurt Nagato, especially when using Six Paths of Pain. Genjutsu affects the Paths but not Nagato directly, allowing Nagato to fight Itachi without risk of Tsukuyome. He can then use the bird to keep his own body safe, and should Itachi try to kill the bird, there are always other paths to save it, e.g. Preta countering Amaterasu.