excellent with a sword, with throwing weapons, melee, magic, and illusions. if the comic wasn't so much about busting out the next planet or star system nuke, there would be a lot more cool fights. but kishi likes to tease. as you have mentioned, kakashi made a remark, without even knowing about m. sharingan, saying there's more to him. well besides the other characters wanking to him, there's just too much itachi skillz to show.
besides itachi, haku, hanzo, and a bunch of other characters can do so much more than just make explosions. kishi hints of their skill and grace, but of course doesn't like to show that. even gai was thrown into the dbz market and purchased a nice nuke move. could have been a lot cooler if he was just skillful in melee but whatever. the hyuugas too seem to have been toned down in melee, in favor of cool looking precision missile attacks (which i don't mind...but i do miss the hand to hand stuff). but enough of my rantings