Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20180830184727/@comment-34194151-20181102015222

1) except konan isn't completely paper 24/7. Obito grabbed her by the throat without any issue You are using headcanon, not me, and simply downplay what the blade has been shown to do. she gets tagged by the blade and is sealed. If it was possible to counter the technique after the fact than orochimaru would have used oral rebirth, but he clearly couldn't.

2) except he has to first move into the bone field first. his chakra can be percieved by the sharingan. he becomes one with the bones because he can freely move through them, that doesn't suddenly mean he is undetectable, nor does it mean itachi won't see him as enters the bone and merges with it.

3) lol no, I have yet to overplay itachi, all I see is downplay and ignoring of feats. You ignored the fact that he is capable of spawning clones behind his opponents at will at the start of his fights. His attention won't be misdirected by orochimaru or konan, because they would be too focused on his clone feint plus the totsuka blade blitz. It's literally impossible for them to distract him. Their techniques can't harm him through susano'o. there is absolutely no reason why he would be distracted by attacks that can't even scratch him. The only technique that is a threat is the bone dance.

With your scenario, itachi, one of the smartest combatants in the series gets reduced to a bumbling idiot who can't avoid an attack he has already seen before. why did kabuto's attack fail to hit him in the manga, despite coming from underground? Kabuto missed just for the lolz? You can clearly see kabuto spawned the bones out of the ground and itachi wasn't even phased by it. part one Rock lee is irrelevant, he isn't anywhere near as fast or reflexive as itachi either. It was made abundantly clear that part one rock lee, without gates, isn't even as fast as the likes of people like Asuma or kakashi. kimimaro's attack is on a grander scale, which simply means itachi jumps the hell out of the way. it's honestly common sense. thousands of bones simultaneously spawning out of the ground and itachi just stands there? ridiculous. this is basically the standing still argument hidden in disguise. Itachi counter attacked the bones after it was clear kabuto's technique had finished, and that was after itachi and sasuke fully analyzed the situation, and chose the appropriate counter. Your inexperience doesn't suddenly apply to itachi. We have even seen itachi reacting to a kakashi shadow clone that came from guess where? underground. Itachi is clearly experienced with doton techniques/techniques that come out of the ground. after he avoids the attack, he sees kimimaro hidden in a bone and penetrates it with the totsuka blade, and that's that.

Itachi doesn't need flight to counter the technique, he has an ultimate defense. All he has to do is jump in the air have his body be parallel to the ground, such that the yata mirror would block any bone spikes that try to impale him. we have seen how high he can jump in the air, such as when he jumped onto nagato's bird. after that, he simply hops from bone to bone using chakra walking, and he can easily keep track of his enemies using the sharingan's perception abilities, and after that, none of them can react to his trump card. And kimimaro's bones would actually screw over orochimaru and konan, because in a dense forest of bones they don't have a sharingan with aiding in seeing his attacks, while he can eventually tag them with the sharingan's ability to see through most surfaces.

You are gonna need a more credible speed feat for that technique, because as far as I can tell it was never hyped for overwhelming speed.