Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30530312-20161118192616/@comment-30426414-20161222050632

Kyle Ethan wrote: Gaara wins....lets face it. Itachi altho at full health, he still possesses a Normal Mangekyo...which means he gets all its drawbacks and pains, Gaara is basically immune against Amaterasu and Susanoo attacks cuz of the Sand Shield, Genjutsu wise he can use Sand Sensing or Third Eye like he did to counter Gengetsu's Genjutsus....plus he is a long range fighter and can fly, also possessing more chakra than Itachi. Unless its Tsukuyomi, it will be difficult for Itachi to capture him in that.if Gaara resorts to his large scale sand jutsus, Itachi is done honestly. Gaara knows of the Basic Susanoo's weakpoints....Itachi will already have a hard time maintaining his own Mangekyo techniques, fending off Sand Tsunami's and Sand Prisons and Surviving Giant Sand Burials, mixed in with Gaara's Magnet Release, while his Instantaneous Sand Shield blocks automatically...nah. Itachi may have more finesse as a ninja but Gaara has way more power, plus too many advantages not to point out, in all fairness.

The sand is too slow to keep up with itachi's movements, combined with the sharingans precognition most of gaara's long range abilities are made useless. The only thing he can do is try to cover a wide enough area with sand and try to use sand burial or sand coffin, even then susanoo tanks any technique gaara can throw at itachi.

Even if gaara yanks itachi out of the susanoo, itachi can simply reform the susanoo and there's no way he'll fall for the same trick twice. The sand shield is way too slow to keep up with itachi's speed. Even if gaara resorts to camping out in the sphere of sand, itachi will just impale it with the totsuka blade and its GG. If gaara comes out, then its a genjutsu and its GG, if he somehow breaks out, then its tsukuyomi and its GG.