Ok. let me stop you there, how can you say he is the most impressive, to say, hmm..... Sasori, or Hidan, Sasori only needs to hit him with a poisoness needle then he's as good as dead.
How can you say that aint impressive.
hidan would justneed to taste his blood then he IS toast.
Liturally any of the akatsuki members would absoluotly pillage raikage in a fight.
he is very stupid and on this all akatsuki members would quickly analyse him and exploit his weaknesses.
and yes. sasuke is stronger then raikage, you act like you are suprised at this.
You act as though Raikage would be easy to hit. First of all he has ridiculous speed. He was able to DODGE Amaterasu. On top of that I strongly doubt any of those objects would be able to pierce his lightning cloak. Sasuke's full power chidori was only able to make it through to about mid finger. So no, Sasori's puppets and Hidan's scythe would most likely be unable to cut him.
There are certain Akatsuki members who I think would defeat Raikage. Orochimaru specifically because the type of attacks Raikage uses would be ineffective against a body composed of countless snakes. Not to mention he just knows some incredible jutsu.
Pain, for obvious reasons. Madara, for obvious reasons.
Itachi, still the stronger Uchiha. And thats about it.
Deidara would lose for the same reason he lost to Sasuke, full body lightning nullifies his big attacks. Only problem for Raikage is he would probably die in the suicide blast because he doesn't have tele/manda like Sasuke did.
Kakuzu would lose, not much reasoning behind it, just what I think.
Hidan would lose because hes not quick enough or strong enough to keep up with Raikage. Scythe would most likely not be able to pierce lightning shield.
Sasori would lose for basically same reason as Hidan.
Zetsu......not sure what he can do. For now he would lose just because he was shocked at Raikage's speed and then white zetsu got his neck snapped without any resistance. I'm guessing he's going to end up okay though, he is a plant.
Kisame we haven't seen much of so it would be interesting to see. He was rumored to have the most chakra out of any character we've seen so far, but now Raikage was said to have beast level chakras. Makes it sound like it would be an incredible match up. I'm giving the slight edge to Raikage simply because lightning > water.
You call him stupid, yet Sasuke has acted EXACTLY like him over the last two battles. Hes been rushing in head first all gung-ho without even thinking what type of abilities his opponent may have. At least Raikage had background info on Sasuke before the battle. Sasuke didn't know a thing about Raikage and still went straight at him AND 2 jonin, and got hit with an attack because of it.
No evidence of Sasuke being stronger than Raikage......battles not over. Neither person is seriously injured. Thats most likely your personal bias speaking.....
