Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-26145872-20160224202704/@comment-26145872-20160227173953

@MlGshinobi,

See, and that's why I don't think it would be a guaranteed win for Jiraiya. At the same time, however, he also didn't know Pain's secret, so he was going in "blind" for the confrontation against the Animal Path, and didn't know how to properly defeat all six of them until it was too late.

@Curse of Hatred

Very good point, and yet, Jiraiya would still have to deal with the pursuit of the Six Paths of Pain before he could really confront Nagato, and no matter who you are, the Six Paths all together aren't exactly pushovers and should not be taken lightly for any shinobi.