I agree but its the same for Itachi which is why all Sharingan users are great taijutsu users as with Hyuuga's but if you cripple Itachi's eyes you have to do the same with Neji and see who is better. IMO without their amazing eyes Itachi wins because Neji can for the most part can only use gentle fist to hurt others Itachi can still hurt people without his Sharingan.
Sasuke was great in taijutsu in part one before he got his Sharingan, he bested Naruto, those 2 ninjas who attacked them on their first real mission, and on Haku who he bested before Haku used his ice jutsu. Uchiha's taijutsu is not based on the sharingan since most of them don't even awake it and it they do then it's when they're older. Itachi graduated from the academy at 7, got his Sharingan at 8.
Neji has konoha's strongest taijutsu
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Illness is already accounted in stats. Neji fought rock lee? At training? With only taijutsu?
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Go in Chunin exam arc to when Lee is fighting Gaara, he flashback to him fighting Neji and losing. They fought many times with Lee losing, Neji was Lee's rival remember?
Any chakra release and control is regarded as ninjutsu, what neji has is nintaijutsu. I guess chidori nagashi isnt ninjutsu if sasuke spins, or any other chakra release.
Lee has speed of 5 and w/o gates he hasnt displayed anything above itachi, so stop your BS.
But do you even realize your speculations? A neji beaten lee w/o gates while some training is a proof of him beating itachi? LOL?
Lee called the Hyuuga's fighting style Konoha's strongest taijutsu style
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. Not really, you release and control chakra for genjutsu as well and for taijutsu as the Hyuuga's have proven. Lee, a Taijutsu specialist called the Gentle Fist taijutsu. Sasuke uses nature transformation and shape manipulation for chidori and it's variations. Neji was the only one to get promoted to Jounin while Lee, with his gates was still chunin even though Lee shown to be knowledgeable and strong.
The databook (and the Wiki page) proves Itachi is much better than Neji at Taijutsu. Not only that, but the manga has proven it numerous times, while Neji hasn't really done anything (except get owned by an amateur Naruto who didn't have any jutsus and didn't know Taijutsu at all).
Manga states Neji has konoha's strongest taijutsu
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and are the databooks taken of their overall stats at their best? Cause if it is then you have to lower Itachi's stats since he wouldn't have the Sharingan's predictive abilities to read, counter and evade moves. Also the Byakugan has better insight than the Sharingan as Kakashi stated
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, part 1 Neji was able to read all of Hinata to the point of knowing what she was thinking
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