His feats displayed against Kakashi, who is physically superior to pain.
Kakashi showed to be faster than pain and couldn't destroy him with raikiri due only to shared vision.
That is not true. Deva
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and dodged Raikiri all by himself during their brief taijutsu clash. If his speed and reflexes were so superior to Pain's, either Kakashi would not have gotten touched at all, or Deva would not have been fast enough to get a hit in. Then we also have Kakashi
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to ambush Deva with a kunai, which again, should have succeeded if Deva was so inferior to Kakashi's speed.
Would you write it again please?
Lack of knowledge seriously hampers Hidan here as he will more likely try to make Human Path suffer first if he gets any of his blood before going in for the kill. This doesn't mean anything to Human Path seeing that it doesn't feel pain. Thus Human Path could take advantage (of Hidan's surprise at Human Path's lack of reaction to being stabbed in the legs) with a smoke bomb + chakra rod stab, then rip out his soul once he forces Hidan out of the circle.
I still don't see the proof. He could have barely known that Hidan is an immortal ninja that was powerful. They needed an immortal partner so Kakuzu wouldn't kill him, since Kakuzu was killing all his partners.
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and reports everything back to Pain and Obito. Again, it's silly to assume that the leader of the Akatsuki would not know the abilities of his own members.
Even with knowledge displayed, it still doesn't make a lot of difference. Human path fights at short range, meaning he has no way to avoid getting close to Hidan, even with knowledge, this doesn't change.
I was never arguing that Human Path would not engage in close range. In fact, most of my arguments are in favour of Human Path forcing Hidan to engage in close quarters combat.
And yes, after they clashed, it became a CQC fight in which they stalemated. Hidan stalemated Kakashi of the sharingan on speed and striking speed. Just with that feat you can say Hidan > Pain in CQC.
Hidan stalemated an injured, tired Kakashi who he blindsided while he was dodging another attack.
Deva Path tagged a Kakashi in better condition then dodged his second fastest attack without shared vision. That alone contradicts the idea of Hidan being > Pain in CQC. But then we also have Deva dodging Rasenshuriken twice, reacting to 6 Tailed Naruto, and even outspeeding him. We also have Shikamaru of all people dodging Hidan's strikes.
1- Shikamaru's reaction speed is above average. He reacted to a point blank atack from Kakuzu, who even gave Kakashi a lot of trouble on the speed area.
Unless you're willing to argue that Shikamaru is more reflexive than Human Path, then I don't see how he is going to be able to dodge/parry Hidan's strikes but Human Path can't.
2- Being able to react =/= being able to dodge. If pain reacts to Hidan but is not able to dodge/cover his skin from Hidan's atacks he's done.
Luckily Human Path has chakra rods to parry Hidan's scythe.
Hidan only needs 1 drop of blood.
And Human Path only needs to stab Hidan once.
Pain doesn't have enough speed feats and CQC feats to say he can keep up with Hidan and react to all his movements on CQC without losing a drop of blood.
Luckily my argument accounted for that. If Human Path does not stop Hidan from getting blood, then he keeps him so busy that he can't draw his circle. If he can't stop him from drawing his circle, then he forces him out of the circle. Hidan does not have enough feats to say he can react to Human Path's attacks without being stabbed even once.
and he had showed no signs of injury
Hidan attacked him after Kakashi got hit by Kakuzu's Fuuton. That's why his jacket and headband are gone.
or exhaustion what so ever in that fight. So this argument doesn't help here.
Literally right after that clash Kakashi comments on his need to finish the fight quickly
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The fact that Hidan stalemates Kakashi on overall speed and CQC speeds finishes this stupid argument, and as i already mentioned, don't underrate shikamaru's reaction speed.
The fact that Hidan stalemates an injured tired Kakashi after blindsiding him pretty much guarantees that he will be stabbed at least once in this fight, in which case Nagato is free to restrain/slow down Hidan with his chakra, and give Human Path the opening to Soul Rip.
And shikamaru only got him because he outsmarted him, not because he outspeeded him.
"Smarts" does not account for Shikamaru being able to avoid Hidan's scythe. "Smarts" does not account for him being able
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. Shikamaru got Hidan because he had the reflexes to dodge Hidan's attack and fool him.