Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26958911-20151010214426/@comment-27606758-20160114012139

Here are the MangaPhax.

The answer to the debate is very simple.

Is Jiraiya stronger than Itachi? Yes.

Would Jiraiya win in a fight against Itachi? No.

Before you even say that Itachi admitted Jiraiya was stronger back in P1 and decided to flee, you are wrong. Itachi as a Shinobi of the Leaf respected Jiraiya and wouldn't kill him as was his pacifist nature. Stating that fighting Jiraiya would result in injury was just his excuse so that Kisame would flee without question.(Otherwise Kisame being Kisame would likely have stayed and attempted to attack Jiraiya).

Now onto the actual battle facts.

Jiraiya has a RIDICULOUSLY large arsenal of Ninjutsu and Senjutsu. Sadly all of them a Nullified by Yata Mirror according to the Data Book "Alters its attributes in accordance to the attributes of the attack, rendering the attack ineffective."

That means that all of Jiraiya's Ninjutsu and Senjutsu is ineffective.

Also that Renders Sound Based Genjutsu ineffective too.

So now we have established that Yata Mirror is capable of reflecting ALL of Jiraiya's attacks, the next question is how would he Kill Jiraiya?

Itachi could use Amatserasu, but with Jiraiya's Senses I doubt that would work. If they make Eye contact Tsukuyomi would definately work.

Before you say that the Toads would break Tsukuyomi... according to P1 in Itachi's fight against Kakashi, the Tsukuyomi when using DreamScape Control, happens only a split second in reality delivering devastating effects that takes weeks to heal. As Killer Bee and the 8 tails displayed it does take a few seconds to realize Chakra Disruption and a few seconds to Regulate his chakra. By the time the toads even realize that he is under Genjutsu it is too late.

Whether or not Jiraiya has enough intel to anticipate Tsukuyomi is debatable, but as you seen in his original encounter with Itachi he was not careful about avoiding his eyes and considering that he was surprised to see the black flames would imply that he isn't familiar with Itachi's Abilities.(Also shows that if Itachi wanted to he could have used Tsukuyomi but didn't further showing that he simply didn't to harm Jiraiya out of respect).

Also not to mention that Totsuka Blade is still a viable option considering that Jiraiya likely hasn't the speed to evade it.

Also consider that the Legendary Sannin Orochimaru was defeated by Itachi twice within a few seconds.