Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20180830184727/@comment-34194151-20181130014502

@Duvlee

I took in orochimaru's new abilities into account, but his enhancements don't change the outcome. Because of Sage Mode Kabuto, itachi has seen everything new orochimaru has to offer and because he isn't restricted in this fight from going for the kill from the get go, there is nothing orochimaru can do. Anything else orochimaru has up his sleeve is something itachi can defend against with his superior defenses in susano'o.

Furthermore, Orochimaru was completely fresh when he emerged from his 8 headed snake head, and itachi was literally on his last legs, sick, and dying, and exhausted from fighting sasuke and stuff, and Itachi defeated him with ease.

Sage mode kabuto was literally stunned by itachi's baby matagama (not the bijuu dama sized ones if I might add) to the point kabuto couldn't react to sasuke's arrow, the same arrow kabuto showed' he can dodge without any issue beforehand.

Furthermore, even in sage mode kabuto cannot track itachi's clone formations/substitutions or whatever it is itachi does, so I have no reason to believe that when itachi steals iniative, orochimaru will be able to sense it. Itachi literally did the same thing to kakashi and kakashi didn't notice a thing.

It's a one sided argument to claim that orochimaru knows what itachi can do when the vice versa is also true. The totsuka blade downplay doesn't change that neither orochimaru or nagato could react to it despite looking right at it.

Itachi's fighting style is to end the fight before it begins, and to take initiative and keep it while utilizing diversions. Orochimaru casts his seal and summons his edo tensei. Itachi knows what orochimaru is up to and he then has initiative to take an action. Itachi has superior handseal speed, plus susano'o forms practically instantly as far as these opponents are concerned. So Itachi throws his bijuu dama size yakasa matagama at them. Regardless of how they react to it, it will create a sizeable smokescreen and one of them is dying to totsuka blade, It's extraordinarily fast plus now it's harder to see. I think orochimaru would be the first to go down because he is clearly the most dangerous of the three. Itachi prepares his bunshin feint/substitution whatever it is he does. I think kimimaro would try using the bones as the smoke is clearing but Itachi would simply jump and move from bone to bone. konan also chains an attack with her paper bombs but she gets walled to hell and back by susano'o. I think itachi would deactivate his susano'o after that because of the strain/coughing up blood and after the smoke screens dissipate kimimaro tries to stab him from behind by sneaking into the bones. He stabs "itachi", only for it to turn into crows just like what happened with kabuto. Instead of stabbing kimimaro with a sword from behind he gets nailed by amaterasu. Kimimaro doesn't have shinra tensei so he is down for the count. Itachi can come back to seal him later. It's now one versus one against konan. her papers are dodged and countered by katon, creating a smokescreen, then totsuka blitz. That's more or less how this fight is gonna go down because again, Itachi is much faster than both kimimaro and konan in every way and he is smarter and has a better and wider arsenal.