Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20160221130323/@comment-25410745-20160223053306

I'm gonna go in for Itachi. Key thing I think people are missing is that Itachi isn't a retard. He's not going to Susano'o unless he has to, and he's sure as hell not going to try to use it in an all-out brawl with the Eight Gates. All he really has to do it survive longer than Guy can keep the gates up, and misdirection is something Itachi is crazy good at. All he needs is to push Guy as far as he can through his considerable own martial prowess, summon a clone, swap with it in some way and disappear, and Guy's stuck in a painful, taxing gate until he closes it or runs out of stamina to keep it up, and in the former case I get the impression that activating the gates is a little harder than simply flipping a light switch on and off and on.

Guy outside of a gate is no match, and even if Guy used the 8th gate, Itachi almost guaranteed knows how to use Izanagi given his knowledge of both it and and Izanami, whose purpose is to counter it. He could even just use Izanagi to eat a direct hit and give Guy a big ol' wet, sloppy point blank Amaterasu kiss which Guy won't see coming since he's not a sensor that I know of and won't be looking at Itachi's eyes.