someone mentioned sasori maybe being more powerful than itachi?
lulz, i needed that ive had a terrible week.
Same person also said itachi was nothing compared to tobi, despite the fact that itachi was the only one to notice tobi spying on the leaf, and tobi wanted itachi dead, and tobi only began opening his true plans once itachi had died.
Why?
Because itachi is the strongest ninja ever, notice how all the stupidly powerful ninjas die of terminal illnesses, like kimimaro and itachi, its like theyre so powerful they out-use there physical body.
Maybe thats narutos bloodline limit, his body can withstand sheer power (fox chakra etc) whereas anyone else would become ill.
Itachi had yatas mirror, sorry to keep repeating myself, but yatas mirror clearly is a defensive shield where nothing can get through it, it may have a weakness, but the real question is can you find that weakness before itachi pwns your ass??
Sasuke wouldnt stand a chance against pain.
Pains 6 bodies can see pure 360 vision, even better than byakagun, genjutsu is useless against him, and sharingan cant monitor pains moves perfectly, kakashi while only having an implanted sharingan still couldnt map pains movements well, and still wasnt fast enough to get pain....and kakashi is fast, he can just about keep up with itachi (just about, though he'd lose eventually if itachi rolled out a nice combo)
The sharingan isn't that great of a tool against rinnegan, rinnegan is the most powerful eye technique, and is it just me or is pain a pretty pathetic shell of a rinnegan user?
The sage of six paths was meant to be ownage awesome, and pains pretty pathetic in comparison (showing that the next generation doesnt beat the previous lol...considering the sage of six paths made the moon, dont know any other ninjas who can do that)
I dont hate sasuke, really at the beginning of watching the naruto anime i actually kinda preferred sasuke and when he "died" against haku i seriously considered ditching watching more because he was the only "growing" character and he "died"
He's got a little too emo for my liking now, i dont hate the guy, but its funny when he gets owned, mainly because hes such a boaster, its like when wrestlers or boxers have pre fight stuff, sasukes like that, and its very funny when he gets owned each time.
Sasuke wouldnt stand a chance against pain.
Sasukes kirin would kill the bodies because kirin moves at a VERY fast speed, i doubt the fat body pain could move in time to absorb the hit, but sasuke uses quite a bit of chakra making kirin, and its his trump move, and once an attack has been used a few times it becomes very easy to defend against because youve seen it and can formulate defence plans.
I dont feel sasukes attacks would do much against pain, the only true way to kill pain is to kill nagato, as thus pain instantly becomes an annoying enemy even if he sucks at fighting, because he can continuously revive himself.
And knowing where the body is and understanding the method of nagatos attack through chakra recievers is difficult to actually realise in the middle of an intense fight, it took some of konohas smartest to figure this out with jmans info, toads info, a pain body, and a majorly awesome brain-reader guy (inos dad?) and then having shizunes reciever info and shikamarus added strategy etc etc
so imagine sasuke on his own duking it out and having to figure this stuff out.
Damn narutos having trouble against him, and naruto still doesnt know about nagato,
If pain hadnt destroyed the village also hed have a lot more chakra.
Fighting pain fresh is different because naruto caught him once hed done a major move and had a little skirmish with kakashi, im sure kakashi wore him out a bit.
Sasuke has potential, but right now-nah