Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26005711-20160126181655/@comment-26773508-20160318033231

MIGshinobi wrote: Confirms my point that everyone in this thread thinks speed is the most important thing in a battle. When you're up against someone like the Raikage, who's so fast the sharingan has difficulty tracking it; has a body that can tank a Sage Art: Rasenshuriken with only a few minor scratches; AND has a lighting spear that can damage that monstrous body, then yes, speed is very very important. It's your fanboyism that is clouding your judgement here.

The Raikage's phenomenal speed will effectively prevent him from being caught in one-shot kills like Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu and the Totsuka Blade. Itachi is smart and skilled enough to eventually catch the Raikage in those jutsus, but that's not happening during the beginning of the battle. The Raikage will keep on avoiding the jutsus while simultaneously forcing Itachi to use his Susanoo. Because without Susanoo, Itachi will be slaughtered in the first few minutes of the battle. And we know what happens when Itachi starts using his Susanoo: incredible pain and rapidly diminishing chakra reserves. By the time Itachi does manage to catch the Raikage in Tsukuyomi, Itachi would most probably fall to the ground out of exhaustion, with the result being that both end up being severely disoriented.

It's highly unlikely that Itachi will catch 3rd Ay in Tsukuyomi before collapsing himself. Because whether you like it or not, his speed and strength will ensure that Itachi will be heavily exhausted before he manages to trick Ay into looking into his eyes.

Also, your smoke-bomb argument doesn't hold either. First of all, it's not going to disorient the Raikage. He'd be moving too fast for the smoke to cloud his eyes effectively. Also no, Itachi isn't going to Amaterasu the Raikage's ass from behind the smoke bomb, because the Raikage's speed is difficult for even the sharingan to track. More often than not, Itachi won't even know what hit him before he notices a gaping hole in his body.

This thing has been stated again and again and again by others so I'm not going to argue this further because clearly, the smoke bomb of Itachi-Wins-No-Matter-What has disoriented you.

Also, it doesn't matter if the Raikage can't pierce Itachi's Armoured Susanoo. He doesn't need to. All he needs to do is to pressurize Itachi to use his Susanoo continuously for, at most, half an hour. We've seen what the Susanoo did to Sasgay, who had Indra's chakra. No way Itachi is going to hold up Armoured Susanoo properly for more than 15 minutes. I'd give him 30 mins of Susanoo max.

After that, Itachi coughs blood from his mouth; bleeds blood from both his eyes; and before he knows it, his chest and abdomen will be dripping with bucket loads of blood and the squashed remains of his entrails. That's the Raikage's Hell Stab for ya.

So I give the victory to the Raikage 8/10. Itachi is no pushover. But I seriously hate the irrational glorification of Itachi.