-Genjutsu us still a factor as shown in the manga. Itachi destroys in this aspect.
-Itachi far more intelligent.
-Itachi is faster than Sasuke by quite a bit
-Itachi is physically stronger
-Itachi's chakra is pretty high if he's healthy. Against Sasuke he spammed Amateratsu, Bunshins, genjutsu, used Tsuikyomi once which affected him massively, summoned his crows, used Susano for an extremely extensive amount of time with all its weapons, and then still had enough chakra to use transcription seal: Amateratsu, which takes more chakra than a normal Amateratsu.
Not seeing why people are suggesting they can fight on par, Itachi destroys.
-Genjutsu us still a factor as shown in the manga. Itachi destroys in this aspect.
-Itachi far more intelligent.
-Itachi is faster than Sasuke by quite a bit
-Itachi is physically stronger
-Itachi's chakra is pretty high if he's healthy. Against Sasuke he spammed Amateratsu, Bunshins, genjutsu, used Tsuikyomi once which affected him massively, summoned his crows, used Susano for an extremely extensive amount of time with all its weapons, and then still had enough chakra to use transcription seal: Amateratsu, which takes more chakra than a normal Amateratsu.
Not seeing why people are suggesting they can fight on par, Itachi destroys.
Itachi and Sasuke demonstrated they were equal in 3T genjutsu. Sasuke went further when he broke tsukiyomi.
Intelligence is subjective in battle. Gaara was smarter than Naruto, but Naruto still beat that ass. Kisame was smarter than Guy and Guy spanked him 3X. Sasuke is the furthest thing from stupid.
In terms of speed, they were about even. Itachi got ahead though by weaving signs for a clone. Not a big deal, as Sasuke dealt with it.
How strong is Itachi I wonder? Does he work out at the gym?
All Uchiha have high chakra levels. It's Itachi's stamina which is poor. The fact that Itachi had to spam MS jutsu to keep Sasuke from killing him, demonstrates that on a level playing field of only 3T sharingan, Sasuke trumps.
Itachi and Sasuke demonstrated they were equal in 3T genjutsu. Sasuke went further when he broke tsukiyomi.
Intelligence is subjective in battle. Gaara was smarter than Naruto, but Naruto still beat that ass. Kisame was smarter than Guy and Guy spanked him 3X. Sasuke is the furthest thing from stupid.
In terms of speed, they were about even. Itachi got ahead though by weaving signs for a clone. Not a big deal, as Sasuke dealt with it.
How strong is Itachi I wonder? Does he work out at the gym?
All Uchiha have high chakra levels. It's Itachi's stamina which is poor. The fact that Itachi had to spam MS jutsu to keep Sasuke from killing him, demonstrates that on a level playing field of only 3T sharingan, Sasuke trumps.
Um no, they didn't. Sasuke was caught early on from what I showed [
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Naruto beat his ass because Gamabunta told him how to, and he had more power with the KN. Gai had 7th Gate which pushed Jin Madara on the defensive, and was overall a horrendous match-up for GSB since Hirudora had no chakra. Sasuke is not stupid but he's not comparable to Itachi in intelligence either. Intelligence is subjective, but that's not an argument to downplay who is superior in it. Itachi>Sasuke any day of the week in knowledge, strategy/tactical awareness and overall intelligence.
Even? When exactly did we see Itachi shunshin? Not to mention Itachi straight up blitzed him in the scan I provided in the first paragraph. Itachi blitzes Bee here, who doesn't notice Itachi until Nagato informs him [
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What the hell. Itachi extinguished his own Amateratsu TWICE because he didn't want Sasuke to die. He didn't even swing his Totsuka blade at an immensely tired Sasuke. It's pretty obvious he didn't want to kill him. Chakra levels and stamina are directly proportional to one another.
that's a tough question.
3 tomoe itachi has - fire release, water release and wind release techniques plus he is a master of genjutsu
hebi sasuke has snake summonings e.g aoda plus lightning release, fire release techniques and genjutsu
i would have to say that sasuke has the slight advantage here with his snake summonings and kirin. 3 tomoe itachi doesn't really have a counter for kirin unless he can dodge it
People exaggerate the difference in stat and intentions during the fight between Hebi Sasuke and Itachi to create a sort of fanfiction around the character. The truth is there is not much difference in stats between "healthy" Itachi and "sick Itachi", at least at the beginning of the battle. It's only with time that his stats started to drop down to the point Zetsu noticed. Itachi isn't that much faster than Sasuke if any. Hebi Sasuke was matching him speedwise blows for blows, weapons by weapons, exception being for Itachi's slightly superior handseal speed. And we're talking about a fight where Itachi wouldn't have won without his MS techniques. It's with Amaterasu that saved Itachi in the katon duel(that he'd have lost). It's tsukuyomi that gave him the edge in genjutsu.
It's Susanoo that saved him against Kirin(he self admitted that). People often forget this but Hebi Sasuke only had a Sharingan with Itachi's 3MS techniques armada, so Hebi Sasuke was already going into that fight at a disadvantage in occular powers, said occular powers that could have helped Itachi to always gain advantage in battle(especially with Susanoo) if need be. It's not that Itachi predicted everything in that fight(he didn't predicted things like Kirin), it's just that he engaged himself in a battle where he had practically 100% chance of winning with 3godlike weapons and tried to rationalize mid-fight knowing that at any giving points, these weapons would have given him the win regardless of what would have happen
The Itachi-Bee-Sasuke comparison is faulty because for starters, Itachi(just like Sasuke) was being pushed back by Bee. The difference wasn't that great in close combat area, only difference being that one was smart enough to create the distance before it became ugly when the other persisted and got owned. Not to mention that version of Sasuke was clearly said to still be weakened, so who knows how it would have affected the fight in a healthier state
As a further example, Edo Itachi is the very well representation of this supposed "healthy" Itachi with even more advantages than in his life with unlimited stamina and regeneration, yet he couldn't outspeed a Sasuke who he didn't want to be followed by all the way to Kabuto. Someone explain me how one could consider Itachi faster when he can't even accomplish that?
Sasuke will win.
- Genjutsu is non-factor
- There is not much difference in their handspeed(there are times where Sasuke could even outspeed Itachi's handspeed)
- Itachi isn't that much faster than Sasuke if any.
- More powerful ninjutsu and summoning in general(Katons, Snake summons, Chidori, Kirin, etc)
- More durability and defense(with curse seal level2 that could tank Deidara's explosive attacks or snake summons)
yet he couldn't outspeed a Sasuke who he didn't want to be followed by all the way to Kabuto. Someone explain me how one could consider Itachi faster when he can't even accomplish that?
Context. KCM Naruto isn't trying to outspeed Gaara and Onoki there. They were taking advantage of the travelling time(to another location) to share intel with each other and it requires every party to move at similar level of speed
Itachi however clearly said he didn't want Sasuke to follow him and tried his best to leave Sasuke away. Failed however to create the distance
Context. KCM Naruto isn't trying to outspeed Gaara and Onoki there. They were taking advantage of the travelling time(to another location) to share intel with each other and it requires every party to move at similar level of speed
Itachi however clearly said he didn't want Sasuke to follow him and tried his best to leave Sasuke away. Failed however to create the distance
They were obviously moving as fast as they could to reach the potentially disastrous situation. No reason to hold back so you can have a chat. Regardless, you didn't respond to the part where I said 'Shunshin'. Sasuke and BM Naruto ran at equal speeds on many occasions physically. That doesn't mean Sasuke is comparable to Naruto's Shunshin. In the same way, Sasuke following Itachi while jumping from tree to tree doesn't mean Sasuke is as fast as Itachi's Shunshin. Complete false analogy you have going there.
-Genjutsu us still a factor as shown in the manga. Itachi destroys in this aspect.
-Itachi far more intelligent.
-Itachi is faster than Sasuke by quite a bit
-Itachi is physically stronger
-Itachi's chakra is pretty high if he's healthy. Against Sasuke he spammed Amateratsu, Bunshins, genjutsu, used Tsuikyomi once which affected him massively, summoned his crows, used Susano for an extremely extensive amount of time with all its weapons, and then still had enough chakra to use transcription seal: Amateratsu, which takes more chakra than a normal Amateratsu.
Not seeing why people are suggesting they can fight on par, Itachi destroys.
Itachi doesn't have a bad case of Chakra Level his Stamina is Medium.
It was stated countless times in the manga that the Uchiha Clan had Strong chakra most likely do to Indra there Ancestor being Hagoromo son, Some of you may say that you can't generalize all uchiha to having strong chakra that's true but what really caught my attention is Hinata? Hinata used her Byakugan her stated That there's a area surround with a very strong chakra (Amaterasu) Itachi's technique , The Byakugan ability lets you see the quantity of chakra someone has as were neji was able to compare Kisame & Naruto in earlier shipuden.
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1. Used a summoning crow justu
2. Made a crow clone
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I'm not saying Itachi has the best Chakra reserve but it's surely not as bad as people were setting it out to be, the key proof to that is a Byakugan users stating that his technique surround the area had a powerful chakra that's the ability of a Byakugan good insight and details on areas,surround,chakra network, & chakra it self despite the man dieing from a disease.
Based on absolutely nothing. Sasukes 3 tomoe allowed him to control Manda, break Tsukuyomi, and see Kurama in Naruto. When Itachi has feats of that level then we can talk about whose stronger.
You literally have to be kidding me. What are we even arguing here... Sasuke has more proficiently with 3T then Itachi? Or Sasuke's 3T genjutsu is superior to Itachi's? Or both? Either way, that's a joke. Itachi mastered the sharingan by age 8, he was the only one in the entire leaf village to notice Obito sneaking in and out of the village, stated to be the only shinobi capable of utilizing genjutsu that would go undetected by an entire sensory unit, as well as the only one among the entire Uchiha to have true ocular prowess. The very fact that he effortlessly destroyed Orochimaru with 3T genjutsu alone, while Hebi Sasuke had to literally wait until Orochimaru was severely weakened to take him down already puts his 3T prowess far above Hebi Sasuke's.
Controlling Manda is nothing beyond Itachi's capabilities, especially when DSM Kabuto had to take extreme measures in order to eliminate any possibility of being controlled by Itachi... but somehow Sasuke controlling Manda is a miraculous feat. Laughable. He only broke Tsukiyomi because he possessed all of the requirements to do so. Danzo already made it perfectly clear that Tsukiyomi is tiers above Sasuke's MS genjutsu [
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Itachi outlasted a Sasuke who used Oral Rebirth, which drains an immense amount of chakra and Sasuke only needed it to survive Amaterasu. With no MS, Sasuke will keep all that extra chakra so he'll be the one doing the K'O'ing. Healthy Itachi is semi fanfiction by the way, stick to facts.
Sad. Outlasted a Sasuke who used Oral Rebirth? Want to try a sick Itachi who was only temporarily prolonging his life due to a bunch of meds outlasted Sasuke despite splitting his chakra with a Karasu Bunshin, Tsukiyomi, Amaterasu twice on an extensive large scale, then extinguished some of it, then maintained his highest version of Susano'o for a solid couple of minutes while combating Orochimaru, then sealed another Amaterasu within Sasuke. But Oral Rebirth somehow exceeds all that, right? Yeah, let's stick to facts please. How ironic coming from you.
Lol, Sasuke already countered Itachis clones with Raiton Shuriken. Chidori Senbon also destroys them. Clone Explosion? Why even bring up that fodder move. Sasukes White Snake Power protected him from two of Deidaras bombs that are far more powerful than Clone Explosion:
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and was left without a scratch. This alone can tank any attack 3T Itachi has. He doesn't even need CS1 or CS2 power.
Nothing Itachi couldn't avoid. And if he was serious in that scenario, while Sasuke was focusing on adding raiton stream into that shuriken, the real Itachi could of blitzed him that very moment. Not that the fight would of even gotten that far if Itachi was actually serious about taking him out. Chidori Senbon is easily countered with Katon or Itachi's shurikenjutsu. I'm waisting my time entertaining this entire silly post, but I will absolutely not entertain the laughable notion of base Hebi Sasuke taking out an unrestricted 3T Itachi. Your Itachi hate went way out of proportion there.
Indeed he does but how is it helping? Sure he has a faster shunshin but what does it do except help him run away because he isn't blitzing Sasuke by a long shot. Faster hand speed? That goes to Itachi too but again, how will it help in CQC against Chidori Nagashi/Katana, lol? It doesn't.
Except increased durability, speed, and more chakra. Itachi literally can't harm Sasuke in CS2 whatsoever. Sasuke can tank any Sution, Katon, or Clone Bomb he has. This will be a drawn out fight but it wont push Sasuke past medium difficulties.
(sick, near blind, impaired by Tsukiyomi's side effects, and leg injury) Sasuke still completely fails to tag Itachi
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while he is caught in a mid-air motion, and unable to freely move. Everything else, Zetsu made it clear Itachi wasn't himself and should of easily been able to evade. Base Hebi Sasuke has absolutely nothing that'll touch Itachi in this scenario, and he can't tank his attacks, which demands him to rely on CM2. And the only thing CM2 Sasuke accomplishes is draining his chakra. I understand you absolutely hate Itachi for whatever reason, but at least try to be consistent with the manga while posting; as the bolded is laughable, per usual with you.
Are you saying Edo itachi could Solo SM kabuto at full intent to kill and no restrictions? Are you saying Bee and naruto went all out let alone didnt have nagato to worry about as well? Come on bro...
You need to give that shit a break already. Edo Itachi was casually outclassing him in that entire fight without much effort either. Manga fact! And Naruto and Bee both have Itachi to thank, because their battle intelligence is piss poor.
I also suppose Kakashi and Naruto aren't any faster then Shino either, considering they're all supposed to be
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i dont remember kcm naruto being some taijutsu specialist and even then sasuke mostly uses kenjutsu and his kenjutsu skills shits all over kcm narutos taijutsu. so no sasuke doesnt get punked as he has nagashi, chidori sword, snake guards to call on in case he is getting overwhelmed
Speed
Itachi has both faster reaction and movement Speed.
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he needed to distract sasuke with crow clones to do that. he didnt outright bliz him. with full intel sasuke dispatches the clones by electrocuting them or he takes defence with snake guards to tank any of itachis attacks when he utilizes those clones.
Itachi could physically react to KCM Naruto and was able to react to natural lightning. KCM Naruto was as fast as Ay and remember MS Sasuke couldn't keep up with Ay so that means Itachi is much faster than Sasuke and he sees him coming from a mile away.
what poor logic. kcm naruto didnt use his max shunshin against itachi, they were casually talking while sparring. he is only around v2 ay level when he uses his max shunshin, not when he is only casually using his movement speed in which he is slightly below v1 as he got smacked several times wereas sasuke went in, matched and tagged that same ay. it was v2 ay that sasuke couldnt keep up with. yes itachi is faster but to the point were he blizes him and ends the match? yeah not happening
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Sasuke was able to overpower Itachi's Katon but remember Itachi was sick and massively holding back but in this match up those handicaps are non existent.
nonsense, sickness doiesnt reduce the strength of his katon. he wasnt holding back shit in that katon brawl otherwise he would have put out more katon while getting overpoowered rather than resort to amaterasu. so no that katon was his limit and it got overpowered. sure while healthy he can put in more flames but so can sasuke.
Itachi has Suiton to counter Katon or he can easily match his Jutsu.
if he uses it to counter fine, but if he uses it to attack, sasuke easily dodges it.
Kirin is never happening because since it's Full intel Itachi would never let Sasuke prep it and it wouldn't even be as powerful as it did before due to the fact there's no Amaterasu.
it would still be powerful enough to kill itachi as he has no soosano here. but yeah dont see sasuke setting it up as he would be getting pressured by itachi.
You literally have to be kidding me. What are we even arguing here... Sasuke has more proficiently with 3T then Itachi? Or Sasuke's 3T genjutsu is superior to Itachi's? Or both? Either way, that's a joke. Itachi mastered the sharingan by age 8, he was the only one in the entire leaf village to notice Obito sneaking in and out of the village, stated to be the only shinobi capable of utilizing genjutsu that would go undetected by an entire sensory unit, as well as the only one among the entire Uchiha to have true ocular prowess. The very fact that he effortlessly destroyed Orochimaru with 3T genjutsu alone, while Hebi Sasuke had to literally wait until Orochimaru was severely weakened to take him down already puts his 3T prowess far above Hebi Sasuke's.
Controlling Manda is nothing beyond Itachi's capabilities, especially when DSM Kabuto had to take extreme measures in order to eliminate any possibility of being controlled by Itachi... but somehow Sasuke controlling Manda is a miraculous feat. Laughable. He only broke Tsukiyomi because he possessed all of the requirements to do so. Danzo already made it perfectly clear that Tsukiyomi is tiers above Sasuke's MS genjutsu [
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Sad. Outlasted a Sasuke who used Oral Rebirth? Want to try a sick Itachi who was only temporarily prolonging his life due to a bunch of meds outlasted Sasuke despite splitting his chakra with a Karasu Bunshin, Tsukiyomi, Amaterasu twice on an extensive large scale, then extinguished some of it, then maintained his highest version of Susano'o for a solid couple of minutes while combating Orochimaru, then sealed another Amaterasu within Sasuke. But Oral Rebirth somehow exceeds all that, right? Yeah, let's stick to facts please. How ironic coming from you.
Nothing Itachi couldn't avoid. And if he was serious in that scenario, while Sasuke was focusing on adding raiton stream into that shuriken, the real Itachi could of blitzed him that very moment. Not that the fight would of even gotten that far if Itachi was actually serious about taking him out. Chidori Senbon is easily countered with Katon or Itachi's shurikenjutsu. I'm waisting my time entertaining this entire silly post, but I will absolutely not entertain the laughable notion of base Hebi Sasuke taking out an unrestricted 3T Itachi. Your Itachi hate went way out of proportion there.
Based on what? I'm actually curious.
While Itachi is all around
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(sick, near blind, impaired by Tsukiyomi's side effects, and leg injury) Sasuke still completely fails to tag Itachi
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while he is caught in a mid-air motion, and unable to freely move. Everything else, Zetsu made it clear Itachi wasn't himself and should of easily been able to evade. Base Hebi Sasuke has absolutely nothing that'll touch Itachi in this scenario, and he can't tank his attacks, which demands him to rely on CM2. And the only thing CM2 Sasuke accomplishes is draining his chakra. I understand you absolutely hate Itachi for whatever reason, but at least try to be consistent with the manga while posting; as the bolded is laughable, per usual with you.
You need to give that shit a break already. Edo Itachi was casually outclassing him in that entire fight without much effort either. Manga fact! And Naruto and Bee both have Itachi to thank, because their battle intelligence is piss poor.
I also suppose Kakashi and Naruto aren't any faster then Shino either, considering they're all supposed to be
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Itachi doesn't have a bad case of Chakra Level his Stamina is Medium.
It was stated countless times in the manga that the Uchiha Clan had Strong chakra most likely do to Indra there Ancestor being Hagoromo son, Some of you may say that you can't generalize all uchiha to having strong chakra that's true but what really caught my attention is Hinata? Hinata used her Byakugan her stated That there's a area surround with a very strong chakra (Amaterasu) Itachi's technique , The Byakugan ability lets you see the quantity of chakra someone has as were neji was able to compare Kisame & Naruto in earlier shipuden.
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People will say things like Itachi only used Amaterasu & Tsukuyomi and was already out of chakra but that's false Itachi used Many technique's and tactics that was over looked.
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I'm not saying Itachi has the best Chakra reserve but it's surely not as bad as people were setting it out to be, the key proof to that is a Byakugan users stating that his technique surround the area had a powerful chakra that's the ability of a Byakugan good insight and details on areas,surround,chakra network, & chakra it self despite the man dieing from a disease.
Sasuke got hit by Bee because he was arrogant and believed he could actually handle Bee's dexterous style; Itachi didn't "casually" evade Bee, he made him retreat within a few panels [
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→The body of the person touched by the "Chidori" will misinterpret the Lightning nature as "electrical signals from the nerves," making its muscles contract. This causes the body to involuntarily go stiff, while at the same time receiving damage.
The one who approaches this body will be attacked all over!!
This ninjutsu makes practical use of the "Chidori" by extending its attack range, in order to make use of the Lightning nature's special characteristic of "temporarily making the muscles of the touched person go stiff," and attempt to enfold multiple enemies. By releasing the "Chidori" in every direction, an electrical discharge flows from one's entire body. This allows one to attack everyone within a specific range. Also, when using this attack on a great number of enemies at once, it also effectively doubles as an instant defence.
*Chidori (千鳥) means "a thousand birds". It's from a story about a sixteenth-century military commander named Tachibana Dousetsu, who owned a sword named the Chidori. One day, he was struck by lightning while sitting under a tree. Acting quickly, he drew his sword and cut the Thunder God riding the lightning. This saved his life and after this incident, he changed the name of his sword from Chidori to Raikiri (雷切, "Lightning Cutter").
Itachi doesn't have knowledge on this technique, correct? The databook makes clear what happens to those with no intel on it. He'd most likely get stiffed.
That's the thing though. Kabuto only noticed Itachi coming at the last second because of the crows impairing him, which gave Itachi an opening to execute his Shunshin. Another thing thing you're failing to see is that Kabuto was in an upside down freefalling position, which would of course negate his mobility and limit his capabilities which he would be able to demonstate were he in a casual, standing position. The fact that Kabuto reacted at all is impressive, to be honest. Clone feints have a recessive theme in the manga where nobody sees anyone using it, despite being right in front of each other. Naruto, Itachi, Kakashi and even guys like Yamato used it without anyone noticing, it isn't really anything to hold against Sasuke. Anyways, you're correct in stating that he can bunshin feint Sasuke, which I admitted to. However I don't see him capitalising on it, not with full knowledge seeing as beforehand, Sasuke reacted to Itachi's blindsided presence before [
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], albeit Itachi never attempted a blitz. However as soon as Itachi leaves Sasuke's LoS, he can call forth some snakes.
Raiton variants such as senbon can dispatch clones from mid range and if Sasuke puts enough chakra into it, he can expand it's range making it impossible for them to dodge (
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Yeah, oral rebirth isn't something he can use a lot, if at all. I speak mainly of his ability to spawn snakes around him near instantly as he did with Deidara and even Itachi after using Bunshin surprise attack [
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