Re: Is Jiraya> Itachi if they went head to head without retreating from the battle?
Itachi is known world wide for his genjutsu. Jiraiya is from Konoha and the sharingan originated in Konoha. He knows Itachi would be good as genjutsu. He knows that he sucks at genjutsu. To not get caught he would make clones. To activate MS, Itachi closes his eyes and opens them. In that time Jiraiya could make clones.Naruto can make 1000 clones with the Kyuubi's chakra, not with his own base chakra.
What kind of smokescreen? If its one generated by a ninja tool Sharingan will be able to see right through it, if its one generated by Ma and Pa then they'd first have to know Amaterasu is coming (Which they have no way of knowing) then they'd have to spit out enough of the dust to cover Jiraiya completely, those things aren't happening when Amaterasu spawns instead of travels.
The build up time for Amaterasu is useless for Jiraiya if he doesn't know about it. If he doesn't know about it he can't take advantage of it. Not to mention said build up time only occurs once and it isn't even long enough to make a difference.
Itachi builds it up for the first use.
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Then he uses it again.
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And again.
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So if Jiraiya manages to save himself from the first hit, the second one will get him as there will be no build up for him to exploit.
And he'll eventually have to come out from the cloud if he wants to fight Itachi.
Not gonna help if he's going to opt to dodge Amaterasu with speed.
Yeah, cause it's not like it only takes less than a second to activate MS...
Why would Jiraiya even start off with clones in the first place? He doesn't know about Amaterasu so him adopting a strategy to counter it at the beginning of the match isn't happening.