- You seem to love using the Needle Jizo argument so much that I forgot you know little to nothing about it! Silly me. Since you weren't already aware, let me dumb it down for you even more. When Jiraiya activates Needle Jizo it automatically both hardens and sharpens his hair into a blade-like fashion in order to serve as both an offense and defense. Believe it or not, there's a reason Jiraiya named the technique
NEEDLE Jizo. As for Amaterasu, according to you,
NOT being able to burn through Jiraiya's
HAIR? Holy lord, save me now. Sasuke's Amaterasu not burning through Ay's arm, not burning through Nagato quickly, and not burning through the samurai's armor is contributed to one thing: they didn't focus their Amaterasu. Here, since it's a 1v1, Itachi will focus it instead of having to worry about fighting other shinobi. It'll easily render his hair to ash.
- Summons are useless at this point. Itachi'll slaughter them all easily with either Ama or Sakegari.
- Itachi used it the
second he broke out of Edo Tensei.
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Quite literally, it was his first attack. I don't see why he wouldn't do it here. Besides, the difference is that Jiraiya hasn't actually used Kage Bunshins
AT ALL in a major fight. You are, again, taking things that
OTHER people have used and automatically contributing it to Jiraiya. Not that it matters. A single exploding clone takes care of the rest of Jiraiya's clones. They're useless. Even if an exploding clone doesn't work, Itachi can trace Amaterasu to get rid of them like this, nailing the real one hiding in the midst of the fakes.
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Itachi used it during a fight even while he was purposely throwing the fight, and when he used it it was against a mere Katon. Him using it against Jiraiya, knowing his reputation as a Sannin, is not far-fetched at all; rather, it is most likely.
- Itachi's crow flies (obviously), and Jiraiya isn't going to be in the dust. Even if he does, again, Itachi can simply jump out of it via Shunshin. Yeah, he can sense it coming and when he does he'll respond with his own Katon
like you said he would. When he does this he'll only end up helping clear the dust.
- Jiraiya only uses his barrier against people who are invisible. That's why he used it against Pain. Besides, how the hell does sensing where a person is mean that he can out run Itachi? Df?
- Yeah, they won't, unless they're full of chakra to the point of where it confuses Itachi's eyesight. Otherwise, Itachi sees right through it and sees Jiraiya's chakra and attacks from there.
As well as possessing slow reaction time, no speed feats, and inferior agility in combination with the fact that he has no
real, feasable counter to Amaterasu, Jiraiya has nothing that can put Itachi down for good. Saying Jiraiya is going to counter this with Bunshins is utterly retarded because absolutely ANYONE can counter ANYTHING using shadow clones. To make this situation worse, Jiraiya never even uses shadow clones! This is grasping at straws. Jiraiya using a barrier intended for invisible opponents against a clearly visible Itachi because he predicted before the fight that Itachi's going to be too fast for him? That's likely Lol.