I personally give this to Konan.
Nah my man, ^_^
Deidara, although strong, has one huge weakness; His ego. He always underestimates his opponents and starts off small. I don't really see Konan doing this so I can see Deidara getting overwhelmed by Konan pretty easily. Deidara will assume that his weaker bombs can kill her off easily and slowly work his way up while Konan would instantly turn into paper and make explosive clones to counter his flying.
Deidara may have an ego but this doesn't change the fact that he's an intellectual person,sporting a 4.5 in the DB in intellegence, Why would he assume that C1's can kill her? Because she's a female? Because she uses paper? He knows that she's a part of the same organization as him, and in fact the reason he remains in the akatsuki is because he respect every other member's "Art" Or abilities. So i don't see him underestimating konan anytime soon.
Also Konan's explosive clones i believe were Anime only, its not canon.
One of Deidara's huge advantages is his long-ranged fighting style, which Konan easily counters by being able to fly on her own vs Deidara riding on one of his works of art.
I don't believe her flying has been shown to even be compared to Deidara's. He was able to out Speed Onoki using flight, and out fly Gaara's sand as well
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And it doesn't really matter Konan has no defense against the lower C1's that you were underestimating my man. Clinging to Konan like
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would blow hole in her body regardless of if shes in shinigami dance or not.
Deidara loses in a similar manner to how he lost to Sasuke, and I don't mean a suicide; I mean the fact that he lets his opponents gather too much intel on him before going hard. I 100% believe that if Deidara would swallow his pride and just try his hardest from the beginning, he'd be a much stronger ninja and Sasuke would be dead, but that's a bit off-topic.
Nah his Raiton is still his downfall ... .
Deidara wouldn't know where to aim his bombs and ends up dying without too much trouble.
Why's this? Clones? Unless Konan starts out with clones active then he will still be able to know which one is the original no matter how far he flies due to his left eye U_U
Konan wins, low to mid difficulty
Nah man...Nah