Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-31477926-20170702121758/@comment-27924662-20170821163106

Thekillman wrote: They casually walked in on Kabuto and talked before starting the fight. Again, if Yata is so invincible, why doesn't Itachi have it up from the start, protecting Sasuke from any potential harm that can conceivably be done? It can change size and shape apparently, so he could always size it right, and it can stop anything, so there's no risk it's weakness is figured out since it has apparently none. I have already busted this argument if you had taken care and read. Whether Itachi had kept the mirror or not the outcome would have been the same. Even if I agree with you and say that mobility while the user of Susanoo is the same(despite him exerting his chakra to keep it on does seems long shot) Even than He will reach at same pace and protect Sasuke. IT is Afterall a Ultimate-shield and not an ultimate human fighting machine, it cannot do the fighting for you but it would protect you any sort of attack. Even for argument sake we were to consider the fact that Itachi starts fight with the mirror. IT won't be much of help simply because even if he ends up killing Kabuto his primary objective isn't achieved which is to stop Edo tensei and thereby stop the WAR. And to stop Kabuto he needs to convince him as its clear Kabuto isn't going to stop even at the face of death and on top of that it's clear Kabuto has well augumented skills particularly the Will-power as seen from his transformation in just few months. He is much stronger than even Orochimaru and was even able to defy and Force the other madara something which you are overlooking. The best way out of this situation was convince Kabuto that his ideals were wrong and make him remember his ground reality something which was achieved during the course of fight. Thekillman wrote: But that's not what we see. Even in Edo Tensei Itachi didn't use it, not against Nagato nor against Kabuto. Yet, Chibaku Tensei was practically a death sentence to Naruto last time, and Itachi didn't bother with the Yata Mirror there. He didn't bother with Yata to protect Bee and Naruto. He didn't bother with Yata against Kabuto's flashbang, nor against ANY of his other techniques, even though the flashbang left them dazed and vulnerable, and so did the Chibaku tensei. First of all Nagato caught all the other with surprise since he attacked them invisible(courtesy-Chamelon) So I don't see how could Itachi have protected the first time around either After that again I don't see the point in using against Nagato. Situation against Nagato was pretty dire, He was gonna kill both Naruto and Bee, Had Itachi gone for all Guns without taking out his eyes Nagato would have just probabaly re-summoned some more paths while he finished killing both Jinchuriki. Using Yata Mirror against Chibaku tensei was probably a stalemate since Nagato was Edo tensei he wouldn't tire out and YM would probably block the attack.. And I have covered Kabuto's flash-bang several times... Thekillman wrote: It simply cannot be what the Databook describes, because else Itachi would've used it all the time against everything with no downsides. Well downsides are pretty apparent to me, Itachi using Shield at best gave him stalemates something which could probably be used for stalling and not winning Fights. Also the shield though protects user from harms but not from secondary effects like immobilization, View blocking etc. Such tactics could still be used to get the user. On top of it Itachi needs the Susanoo something which is known to take enormous amount of his stamina. A person could probably kill him before he activates Susanoo...