With the trapdoor of unleashing Susanno and totsuka straight away. Getting in to a battle with Danzo using nin, gen and taijutsu is risky and could become a protracted fight. Itachi's specialty is genjutsu, which is nulled by izanagi. Danzo has the Hashirama's cells, 11 sharingan, wind and wood style and curse marks. If Danzo avoids talk no jutsu he has a shot at victory. Itachi's best hope is to end the fight before it starts.
Only because Danzo ran out of sharingan to cast izanagi with. Itachi begins all of his fights with genjutsu. He did so against Orochimaru, Kakashi, Naruto, Deidara, and Sasuke. It's his default move. With a technique like Izanagi Danzo can turn his body in to genjutsu for a full 60 seconds and still counterattack. If Itachi doesn't know Danzo has those sharingan or that he intends to use them for; he could be caught off guard and injured without casting Susanno to protect himself like Sasuke did.
karin didnt do anything except heal him later but the fight was already by then, danzo was already fatally hit so he couldnt have done anything. sasuke figured out izanagi before she did. obito only told him to move away but sasuke is not an idiot, he can clearly see something was up so he will have moved away non the less. danzo ended up using all his chakra in the end so thats pointless. ms sasuke >= danzo without ka.
1. Danzo KA's Itachi. Itachi's crow KA's Itachi to make him normal again.
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