Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-37265641-20181022021850/@comment-34194151-20181126065228

1)yes it does. It reflects any attack, lol. That sounds like invincibilty to me. The mirror is literally a truth seeking orb. it has every single nature transformation, it doesn't have a physical form. It doesn't stop  kaguya's dimension switching, but those aren't attacks. It would stop any physical attack, presumably anything with kinetic energy, anything with tactile force for sure. There is no reason why it can't. If kaguya opens a dimensional rift inside his susano'o, the shield can still perceive attacks that come out of it and apply any one of those nature transformations. It changes any of it's properties and doesn't have a physical form to begin with, it's ethereal.. It's clear that shield is a magical shield and has some level of sentience otherwise it can't alter it's attributes in accordance with the attack. Except the weakness is that itachi can seemingly only use the yata mirror with complete body susano'o and up. His rib cage and his skeletal susano'o never appear wielding it. There is no proof that itachi managed to get that far in his susano'o development in time. For all we know itachi only had time to manifest the skeletal susano'o by the time kirin hit the ground, which would explain why his susano'o was destroyed and why he lost his robe.

2) This one is a big yikes honestly. How many times did you see itachi cutting kabuto's horn off? how is it so hard to see that if he can tag him with sasuke's sword, he can tag him with the totsuka blade, it's honestly that simple. the author literally showed you itachi tagging kabuto and you still downplay, smh. If itachi was bloodlusted, the totsuka blade would have been in kabuto's skull. Itachi literally stated he hated kabuto but itachi cared about the alliance, he cared about stopping the edo tensei, and he also apparently wanted to give kabuto a chance at redemption. Itachi wasn't going for the kill, that is enough proof for me. he was setting up izanami which requires him to create a loop, this is all in the manga, for the purpose of eventually trapping kabuto in tsykuyomi so the edo tensei can be undone. ITachi already defeated kabuto on chapter 580 pg 12 as far as I am concerned. he tagged him with sasuke's sword, he can tag him with totsuka period. ITachi was still able to maintain susano'o despite the the light and sound he stopped kabuto from capturing sasuke. Like I said, itachi can break tayuya's genjutsu by himself. Partner method is the strongest method to break genjutsu, and Itachi would be a fool not to use it if it's an option, so that is easily debunked. You don't know that he couldn't break it by himself if push came to shove. Why? because he didn't even TRY to break it himself, because that would be a waste of time when he has an 100 percent break out of jail free card with sasuke's sharingan avialable, and the same goes for sasuke. In order to break a high level genjutsu without partner method, you literally have to build up a huge amount of chakra and play a battle of strength against the genjutsu caster, their obviously wasn't time for that with a giant snake coming to swallow him alive.

3) Like I said, it's an interpretation thing. Black Zetsu could be calling itachi dense there or more logically he is simply saying sasuke is not as smart as itachi, but whatever floats your boat. Databook 3 still makes this irrelevant.

4) Kisame wouldn't have a choice lol. Itachi is smarter than he is, he was portrayed to be the alpha male of the duo. Every akatsuki duo has an alpha male/female. In deidara and sasori, it was sasori; kakazu and hidan, it was kakazu;konan and pain, it was pain. Itachi is above kisame. when they went to konoha, itachi was calling the shots and kisame answered to itachi. Also, yamato said kisame was strong enough to be paired with itachi, not the other way around. That's portrayal. Feats, Itachi takes it handily. ITachi and kisame both have intimate knowledge on each other, but itachi has the perfect answer to kisame's ninjutsu absorption through genjutsu and the totsuka blade. The match starts, and Itachi would immediately start by throwing his shurikens.

Itachi has faster hand seals than kisame, because kakashi could easily track kisame's hand seals while he couldn't see itachi at all. So itachi has better initiative when casting techniques. So he throws his flaming shurikens, kisame blocks with samehada, and in that instant, itachi points at kisame and puts him in the finger genjutsu. Kisame is skilled enough to detect it and try to break it, but he will still be caught off guard because he is focusing on avoiding itachi's eyes, not his fingers. While kisame is breaking the genjutsu, again, itachi's super fast hand seal allows him to make a karasu bunshin, and as kisame breaks it the karasu bunshin is already approaching him. the bunshin turns into crows and disorients kisame, and when kisame regains his bearings the real itachi successfully makes it into kisame's line of sight and nails him with tsykuyomi. Even if kisame immediately opens with the dome, itachi can simply open with his finger genjutsu and do the same thing. Finger genjutsu leads to bunshin feint leads to tsykuyomi. Again, itachi is faster than kisame in pretty much every way, especially hand seal speed, so kisame has no way of stopping itachi from taking control of the pace of the fight. totsuka blade is not even needed.

The proof is easy. Kaguya is the ten tails, and we have seen during the war arc the ten tails is just a mass of power and relies on instinct to fight. it's a feral beast. She may have the experience from fighting hagoromo and hamura, but again, just because they are god tiers doesn't mean they have the skills shinobi have. They are just stat beasts. Itachi hasn't fought ants, he fought people who had less power than gods, which still matters because you gain more experience facing people who are forced to develop actual skill. Kaguya had no challengers when she was alive outside of hagormo and hamura, who again weren't seasoned shinobi. I would agree with you if Kaguya didn't very clearly get stunned by a henge jutsu, and naruto explaining why she got stunned by it. That proves she didn't get any of black zestu's experience. she doesn't know what skilled combatants are capable of. Sure, she has gained lots of experience from fighting Team 7, but that is still only one battle. Naruto, sasuke, and Kaguya all had comparable stats, sasuke being slightly weaker than both of the other two. Itachi has been fighting high level ninjas all his life, people stronger than him too, and I know that because  quickly became an anbu captain at an abnormally young age. We saw how being in the anbu allowed kakashi to become one of the most experienced shinobi konoha has to offer. The same happened for itachi. Itachi is a prodigy and a 1v1 specialist, I don't think Kaguya has caught up after only one high level battle, especially since she isn't particularly a genius and made some clear rookie mistakes in her fight.

Yata mirror should be able to block the light from Infinite tsykyuyomi in my opinion if that constitutes as an "attack". we have a precedent for that from Sasuke's Susano'o doing so.