Beast runner is pretty fast and doesn't require hand seals, while hidden mist jutsus does and every other ninjutsu of Zabuza, too.
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I don't see Zabuza dodging this in time.
40 meters should give Zabuza enough time to at least jump to the side/out of the way. The issue with that scan is Deva wasn't even going to try and dodge, he just stood still and ST'd it, so it's hard to compare a reaction feat for it.
Kakashi may handle the mist due to pakkun staying on his shoulder
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The blood was needed to finish Zabuza fast, but the nose of a ninjadog is very accurate, imo pakkun would smell Zabuza if he comes closer to Kakashi.
Potentially, though Kakashi decided against this strategy two different times against Zabuza, so I'm not sure how effective it would be. The nindogs seem to need some kind of scent to go off of first.
Another way would be hiding underground + spreading Kage bunshins who would search for zabuza, when one of them finds him he can vanish and the original gets the informations of the clone and would know Zabuzas spot.
It would be a battle of clone feints.
Even though Zabuza outsmarted Kakashi back in chapter 13, Kakashi improved in clone feints fooling opponents with dojutsus.
Kakashi has to be careful with that though, in case Zabuza is using a clone or multiple clones. Not to mention even if a clone did find the real Zabuza, he doesn't have to stay stationary. He can move around silently and Kakashi's intel and chakra will have gone to waste. Kakashi fooled people like Nagato by hiding in rubble. There's no rubble to hide in here, and again, Zabuza has shown he can track Kakashi's use of bunshins. Maybe in a scenario where he knocks Kakashi in to the water and Kakashi switches out then, he could pull something off, but it would be hard to do just standing in the mist.
you could be right, but when Kakashi goes for the head after a clone feint it would be over.
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Now that he won't see the counter due to lacking the sharingan, Kakashi wont go with raikiri to the heart.
His clones can use raikiri without worrying about the counter due to being just clones, so hidan would hit a clone after getting heart stabbed and this would reveal his immortality.
With no intel, it's hard to say if Kakashi would or wouldn't attack with just clones here. Just like vs Kakuzu, he might think he has the fight won so long as he can get the stab in. Pretty similar situation here.
And it's important to note that while Kakashi's chakra reserves are significantly better in the war-arc than the past, and the sharingan not draining him makes it even better, he can't make unlimited amounts of clones. They still split his chakra, especially the raiton clones. He's not extremely limited like he used to be, but he's not Naruto in terms of chakra. He still needs to be a little careful.
Do you agree that he wins against Darui and Asuma due to the ability of making clones which either of them lacks ?
Possibly so. It's a bigger issue for Asuma than it is Darui though.
Its a bit cowardly, but Kakashi actually is able to dodge all of hiruzens elemental attacks via hiding like a mole.
Hiruzen won't track him when Kakashi is underground, a raiton clone would attack enma from beneath and another one Hiruzen.
Enma should fall for the trap and is killed after paralyzation.
Hiruzen may avoid it with his clones, but his chakra levels are lower than Kakashis, so he gets eventually outlasted.
Hiruzen has knowledge of and can use every single technique in Konoha, and he's actually shown the ability to be able to sniff out multiple opponents at the same time when he was in the Bringer of Darkness technique, so he would likely be able to tell there's multiple Kakashis due to that.
In regards to Kakashi sneaking up on him with hiding like a mole, that doesn't work on high level opponents, as Itachi and Nagato both noted by being able to react each time. I know those were both "set up" techniques, but Kakashi's never shown the ability to actually defeat someone using that, except for Sasuke as a genin.
It's also important to remember that they're fighting right next to water. The second Kakashi goes underground(if Hiruzen sees it), he can move to water. Or if he does it once and Hiruzen wants to avoid it happening again, he moves to the water.
Another added asset to Hiruzen is he can tell what attack his opponent is going to use by just reading the handsigns, similar to a sharingan user. So anything Kakashi uses is getting countered or thrown back at him.
I question how badly the electricity would effect Enma's diamond-hard skin, but who knows.
Hiruzen has also shown to have the CQC ability to not only fight off Orochimaru with Kusanagi, but also maneuver and land explosive tags fighting both Hashirama and Tobirama at the same time, without them or Orochimaru ever actually noticing.
Actually zabuza says he keeps his eyes close, since he can't see through the mist anyways. He was fighting kakashi solely off of sound, kakashi was reacting off of sound, smell and air waves. So no.
Zabuza quite clearly states in your scan that the sharingan genjutsu can still be effective in the mist:
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And I've already shown Kakashi using his sharingan to react in the mist, so I have no clue why you're saying "no". It's already proven the sharingan still works in extremely close ranges in the mist.
Kakashi being able to find him dosen't mean he can tag him with raikiri, especially since his sharingan is useless, and he'd suffer from tunnel vision.
That's not where the issue of Kakashi's nose comes in. If Kakashi could track Zabuza in the mist by scent, he never would have been in any danger, as he already showed superiority in CQC with the sharingan. But he couldn't. I wasn't just referring to him finishing him off with raikiri.
Kakashi isn't covering for team 7 and a civilian this time around.
Nope, but that doesn't get rid of the fact that Zabuza kept track of Kakashi's bunshin feints in the mist, something no other character in this manga has accomplished.