Zex, i'm only going to reply once.
Arrogance.
Close range Raiton. Sasuke has superior footspeed, reactions, shunshin, precog, taijutsu etc closing the distance will not be hard.
You mean like Kakashi had? When did he ever get close to Kakuzu? EVER. Sasuke couldn't blitz Deidara who was blitzed by a weaker Naruto without any clone feints.
Any threads in the way get sliced through with Raiton katana. Besides Raiton Spear has a range of five meters, getting that close to Kakuzu is not difficult at all. Keeping him at bay with elemental ninjutsu is not working since Sasuke will counter them, and take out the masks one at a time.
Lets not forget Kakuzu was keeping up with Kakashi in CQC
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So his abilities although weren't shown are easily judged to be considerable.
How exactly does Sasuke counter Kakuzu's jutsu...if sprinting directly towards him? If the masks fire from the side/behind while he's busy going for Kakuzu he'll be put at a huge disadvantage, and Pre-Cog may not even be active as he wouldn't be looking. Directly Blitzing Kakuzu is an idiotic move. He can avoid the jutsu sure, but each time he avoids his focus gets less and lesson Kakuzu himself until he ends up just like a faster Kakashi did
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So Sasuke is going to get 5 Meters away and then use Chidori Spear? Before Kakuzu can use his threads which blitzed three people form a similar distance without them being able to react
AT ALL
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Nah, he'd never get that close anyways though.
Also Why you think he can pick out each heart one by one when they can fly/glide and move with adequate mobility to avoid Sasuke enough to fire off jutsu which puts him on the defensive.
Kakashi was at point blank range and evaded, Sasuke can just evade with his footspeed or tank with CM2. Katon can be blocked with snakes or tanked by CM2 by putting his wing on the ground? Fire doesn't erupt from the ground so it doesn't matter.
Yes at point blank range. Let me quickly sum up how this jutsu works for all who read because people don't seem to understand
-Its originally a B rank jutsu, so it firstly fires off a blast of wind, (just a basic blast really not meant to be deadly) that Kakashi gets hit with
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(it blew off his shirt and shit) however Kakuzu having mastery over the element is able to then mold the blast of wind into a S rank hurricane like jutsu
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Kakashi even with pre-cog couldn't avoid the base blast, however he could avoid the explosion Kakuzu initiates afterwards (it explodes means that the transition is near instant) So being point blank range was an advantage as he could quickly hop BEHIND the mask since he was at such a close range, plus it helps that they were BOTH in the air. However should the jutsu be cast downwards at Sasuke or at a greater distance it would be harder for him to escape that second explosion, as it instantly explodes into something this large. (Look how far back it cleared the tree's
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) And there were trees behind him at first btw
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Sasuke can use Chidori Nagashi and Chidori at the same time much like the Third Raikage can use Raiton shroud and Nukite at the same time. No reason why he can't. Kakashi already used four Raikiri in one battle against Kakuzu.
Four at the same time? And besides, how would one more chidori protect against something that is equal to TWO Raikiri
3 Chidori << 2 Raikiri and it was completely negated so they are exactly equal (Raikiri and Gian)
Except Sasuke has Raiton jutsu to counter on top of that, and there's CM2 which offers even more resistance.
He cant slice when he's caught in threads though? Nagashi is a paralyzing jutsu so its useless as the threads aren't alive :lol
Don't know why people assume elemental advantage automatically means a combatant wins. Sasuke is basically the same as Kakashi at that time but with 5 meters of extra range but that won't be enough.