Deidara is literally no threat here without his birds. He can't fly, meaning when Darui engages him he gets raped. His bombs are negated via lightning, which Darui can use at all ranges due to Black Panther and his sword. The only issue is Kakuzu's elemental jutsu. His Katon can easily be evaded since Team 10 managed to escape completely unharmed. Fuuton is dangerous if they let it go off at point blank range but otherwise they can manage, not to mention a Water Wall should be strong enough to block the majority of the impact regardless. Getting through Domu isn't an issue due to Darui, and Lava and Acid Mist can melt Susanoo so Domu isn't saving Kakuzu here either.
So Mei and Darui win.
They avoided it when used from 20 or more meters away bro lol, its obviously not the same in close proximity not to mention when used while the opponenets are evading another element- blah blah lol
Much to the delight of other users I'm probably going to have to retire, Kakuzu's really down below Mei and Darui now lol.
-Anytime Mei uses acid mist its blown away, point blank and she can't defend against the fuuton while using the mist so if anything using the mist only means death for her.
-Daruis jutsu have no speed feats and Kakuzu already evaded the black panther in canon lol so he doesn't even need fuuton to counter it.
-Storm release is both lightening and water (both the advantage and disadvantage against doton) so its questionable if it will do anything to Kakuzu should he not evade it
-Mei's suitons are a problem but they're tanked by Kakuzu every time so besides defense they're useless. Not to mention if Kakuzu decides to stop being a bum and actually confront these shinobi IN CQC WITH ELEMENTS THAT HE CAN TANK WITH HIS DOTON SHOULD THEY BACKLASH she's not defending from all of them at once (gian could probably pierce through the water style's she uses) or at least the dragon.
- lol @ Deidara being useless as he can still create birds and send them at Mei as well as utilizing C2 (can black panther go airborne?) and C4 here with ease which neither have a counter too should he simply pop a small C4 as he was going to do against Ohnoki when Edo.
Again I'm not wanking lol these are simply my thoughts on the matchup, perhaps its my fault that everyone hates Kakuzu now and downplays him to the extreme but hell :lol it was fun anyways.