Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34277398-20190213044806/@comment-34656247-20190215212936

AsianReaper wrote: Yeah but since they never fought, the statements stand because there's no feat to contradict. Exactly they never fought but still Itachi made that statement. He knows not of what Jiraiya is capable of but still made that statement, it's just because of his title of sanin that he said so or it could be that he didn't want to get Kisame's hopes up in taking down a potential hokage for the village Itachi so wanted to protect.

Itachi was willing to have Kisame take Kakashi prisoner for knowing too much about their goals. He was willing to do that while Kurenai and Asuma were still there for back up. Yet with Jiraiya, he immediately wanted to flee despite Jiraiya being their only opponent (Naruto doesn't count lol). The name of the chapter itself is called Itachi's chakra, it was obvious that he was drained, and it's not like he was shit scared of Jiraiya either, he even turned his back to deal with Sasuke, ignoring Jiraiya. And look in that chapter, Jiraiya was staring directly into Itachi's eyes....even Gai knew better.

If Itachi could, he'd take Jiraiya in like he wanted to with Kakashi. If he wanted to make an excuse, he could say the destruction from the battle with a Sannin would cause so much destruction that too many people would start to dig into Akatsuki's goals. But no, he said he couldn't beat Jiraiya. No chakra. Sharingan self deactivated after amaterasu use.

Jiraiya can enter Sage Mode without Ma and Pa, he just can't do it in combat scenarios Proof?