Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-24037840-20151128103915/@comment-26773508-20151205072839

Nagato wins. Why are people even debating about this? Nagato with all the six paths of pain in one body is wayyy stronger than the six paths themselves, because:

1) The six paths are reanimated corpses, not the true body of the Rinnegan user.

2) Nagato has to transmit his chakra through some distance to manipulate the 6 Pains. This means that there is some loss of power along the distance. It's analogous to the inverse square law in physics, where the gravitational force/electrostatic force/intensity of light is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between two bodies. In other words, the more the distance between Nagato and the Pains, the less chakra they receive. This was shown in Naruto vs. Pain, when the Deva Path moved away from Konoha towards the true location of Nagato in order to receive enough chakra to perform Chibaku Tensei.

Given the fact that Jiraiya had enough trouble with just 3 Pains, it is unreasonable to expect Jiraiya to defeat Prime Nagato. Lest people forget, the version of Nagato Jiraiya and Naruto fought was an emaciated, crippled version. Prime Nagato has full health and vitality, along with full mobility. No way Jiraiya is gonna beat that.