Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20151020155316/@comment-27074627-20151020173043

Ninja Of War wrote: I do agree that the battle was 1 on 1, but as Danzo stated several times he was conserving his strength to take on 'Madara', so how would that have impact on this fight if Danzo didn't have to conserve his strength initially? It's too controversial issue, I think. Danzo used Izanagi so reckless, that it's hard to say he really was conserving his strength (and, as we know, Izanagi use takes a lot of chakra). Rather he tried to end this battle as quickly as possible and with minimum damage received to engage Tobi afterwards. Also he heavily underrestimated Sasuke's intelligence (but not his strengh), which eventually resulted in getting exhausted and with severe injuries left.