Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20160221124823/@comment-27660682-20160315223847

Why is this amaterasu thing still a debate? Ninja of War is right that amaterasu has a charge up. Itachi and sasuke' s pupils dilate, capillaries expand, then the blood drops, so basically the opponent has this small window of time to make amaterasu hit another target or dodge. So amaterasu is evadable as so much as itachi can't track you. The frogs are too big of targets to evade amaterasu and that's assuming they see it coming. Smoke bombs and stuff will help but it's not a foolproof strategy. And itachi can also just stream amaterasu.

@Namikaze, two things. For one people just act like stamina is the only determining factor.so because Jiraiya has more stamina he automatically wins. Itachi's intelligence is substantiated constantly throughout the series. He made an anbu's battle experience kakashi extremely moot and then proceeded to down kakashi in what seemed like maybe a 5 to ten minute battle. The argument the battle is always long and drawn out between two powerful opponents is false. Orochimaru is close to Jiraiya's level but he was defeated in like 2 minutes by itachi twice canocically. Orochimaru and itachi didn't have a drawn out battle deapite being high level opponents. You guys severely underestimate the potency of genjustu and always use the" LOL, no worries they will just avoid eye contact 100 percent of the time" cop out. Ive explained multiple times why simply avoiding eye contact is not something easy to do against a sharingan user, especially an intelligent one like itachi. There is a reason why kakashi told kurenai and asuma to close their eyes. Even if jiraiya has intel on tsyukyomi, he still has to contend with finger genjustu and the fact itachi can catch him in sharingan genjustu without eye contact. And even if he can break these genjustu, he needs to do so in time. Itachi almost always opens with genjutsu and without the sharingan countering his genjustu is difficult. Jiraiya's experience will help him recognize genjustu quickly. I'm not saying itach I wins this easily, but just debunking common myths.itachi isn't gonna waste time against jiraiya,  he will use susanoo early on to end things quickly because he knows he has less stamina.