Firstly my point didn't go from intelligence to strength to intelligence. It goes as followed, if you know you are handicapped and in no real condition to fight and your apprentice is not sannin caliber then you shouldn't challenge a sannin knowing you do not have the power to win. It was strategically a fail.
what? you move from intelligence to strength to intelligence? none of that made sense..
1) Orochimaru tried to entice tsunade to heal his arms , with a promise to revive her loved ones with edo tensei
2) Tsunade thought it over and decided not to..
3) Orochimaru prepared for a worst case scenario if tsunade was to reject... his name was kabuto? remember? he was watching? he's a medical ninja?
4) tsunade's desalination attempt failed
5) Orochimaru can destroy ..I repeat, destroy, tsunade, any day in a healthy body.. hands or no hands
6) Orochimaru is undoubtedly smarter than tsunade... Tsunade excels in medical ninjutsu.. that's it.. she was a medical genius... Orochimaru was the genius of his time...
i was just thinking of this :/ sigh,
Kabuto was not on Tsunade's level in terms of strength. He managed to capitalize on a phobia she know longer has. If he had not cut his wrist he would have died there, or if she had already overcome hemophobia she would have killed him there. She was obviously still holding back when she fought Kabuto as she hadn't bothered to use Creation Rebirth.
It's a question of whether Orochimaru would win with his hands. His body was healthy when he fought Tsunade, only his arms where ailed. But one of her punches took out his healthy body. .... You know what, I'll just make a thread on Oro vs Tsunade because Oro has nothing to do with this thread as we all know power is not linear in Naruto. Without MS Tsunade wins for reasons I've already stated and if Itachi is so hyped in your minds that Itachi can't lose a battle where he's obviously screwed then fine. But your prowess genjutsu stat says how well you cast genjutsu and of its potency not how well you break out of genjutsu.