And what I'm saying is that that's untrue. Shikamaru solved no problems with the war, nor with Pain.
He never noticed Tobi, nor did he invent any jutsu. Shikamaru excels at neither genjutsu, ninjutsu, taijutus, or anything.
Itachi excels at literally everything to a superhuman degree, including having impressive medical/sealing jutsu inventions.
Shikamaru literally has NOTHING under his belt. Figuring out Hidan's jutsu is something Itachi would easily do.
Itachi figured out Kamui, Rinnegan shared vision, Rinnegan jutsu, Edo Tensei, etc. in moments, after all.
So he wasn't made an effective proxy commander of the fourth division and didn't help to combat two of the biggest problems on their battlefront, kinkaku and ginkaku, and Asuma nor figured out that obito was goin to use the nine tails chakra from kinkaku and gingaku for the Gedos statue. That must also mean that he didn't create an effective way to keep everyone safe from any zetsu clones by drawing circles around everyone and staying in them til naruto came to help.
Now when the tentails came along, he wasn't the one to figure out that using bug jamming and hidden mist jutsu would keep the alliance hidden until they arrived of left to be the master strategist when his father was killed was he?
Without his sharp mind on the battlefield, the alliance would have been crushed many times.
Now about the battle with pain, considering it was a sneak attack, shikamaru was able to ascertain from jiraiyas code that the real pain was not among the 6 paths of pain and helped to figure out that the real body was probably very close by. He couldn't do much else because he had broken his leg.
Now you try to change the point by bringing up all of itachis other skills when this discussion is strictly about intelligence only? Now I can tell you're desperate, pulling at straws to make sure that you're precious Itachi doesn't lose any face. (And since when does Itachi have any medical jutsu or sealing expertise? We don't know if he made the medicine that kept him alive, which is by the way HIGHLY unlikely considering how much time it takes to be a medic nin, nor has it ever been stated that he could use any medical jutsu. Outside of totsuka blade, Itachi has NO sealing feats or abilities ever mentioned, so he isn't a sealing expert just because his susanoo possesses the ability to do it.)
You can also prove that Itachi could easily figure out this jutsu? How so? Hidan's Immortality and his ritual jutsu isn't exactly something that can be seen with the sharingan.(Another fine point on how Itachi relies on his sharingan while shikamaru only uses his brain.)
Okay, seriously? KAKASHI figured out Kamui, not Itachi. Stop giving him feats he doesn't have. Kakashi also figured out rinnegan shared vision and rinnegan jutsu and if he could do it, then shikamaru, who was also considered to be on and higher kakashis intelligence level could do it too. Itachi had to extract the infromation on how to stop Edo tensei from kabuto himself with a hypnosis jutsu. You're just making stuff up to help Itachi keep his so-called "legendary" status.
Let me just stop you right there for a moment.
IQ doesn't mean SHIT to ANY Sharingan user. They have eidetic memory and super human pattern decoding.
They would score 200+ (immeasurable) on any IQ test simply because the Sharingan is such a huge mental boost.
This is why Sasuke told Orochimaru that Uchiha geniuses make other geniuses look average.
Itachi just happens to have a level of intellect, which Kabuto mentioned, makes him perceive more than the Sharingan
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This just further proves that Itachi without his advantages given to him through his sharingan would not be able to match up with someone like shikamaru who only uses his brain to figure out over hundreds of scenarios and choose the best course of action. Also, a sharingan on an IQ test is useless. It's only good for combat purposes and does NOT increase a persons mental capacity(where did you get that idea???) :sy:
I don't agree with this at all.
Itachi's feats with shuriken embarrass Tenten, Itachi's feats with genjutsu embarrass Kurenai, etc.
Lets see now, without his sharingan, how would fare in a shurikenjutsu battle with tenten or a genjutsu battle with Kurenai? He would FAIL miserably. His sharingan is what grants him these abilities not his regular skills. Shikamaru has an IQ over 200. If Itachi had anything even
remotely close to that, then it would have been mentioned in the manga somewhere, which it hasn't. Shikamarus level of intelligence is unmatched by anyone except for his father.
