Incorrect. Zabuza said Haku was the who figured out counter methods in their second fight.
Except this time Itachi isn't a watered down clone and isn't stalling or holding back. He can make his own clones after his katon, as he did against Naruto and Bee.
Nobody said he couldn't. All im saying is that when it comes to clone games kakashi is better. There is a higher chance of kakashi tricking itachi than itachi tricking kakashi. After all he fell for it twice.
Kakashi obviously sent in his initial water clone before arriving himself from underwater. Similarly, Itachi sent in his Kage Bunshin behind Kurenai before the real him arrived behind Kakashi's water clone. The difference is that Itachi's clone was targeted at Kurenai and Kakashi's clone was targeted at Itachi.
Both the anime and the manga disproves this.Please stop.
The fact that Kakashi saw Itachi's clone feint when the feint wasn't targeted at him isn't an amazing feat of perception, especially when he said Itachi was holding back. Besides that, we know Hebi Sasuke was unable to follow sick Itachi's clone feints despite being just as fast as part one Kakashi with an even better mastery of the base Sharingan.
And sick Itachi was said to be significantly slower than normal by Zetsu.
What good is a magician that uses slight of hand to trick half the audience? Your talking out your ass now. Itachi had 3 opponents why go through the trouble of tricking one if the others are going to see it? That's stupid.
Yet when kakashi did his feint it tricked both itachi and kisame, because that's how its supposed to be done. Proving my point even more that kakashi is better than itachi at clone games.
Back on topic.
Crow/exploding/shadow clones are countered by water/lightening/shadow clones.
Fireball and phoenix flower is countered by water/earth wall and water dragon.
Water drill is countered by water wall.
Nothing less than sharingan genjutsu is going to work on kakashi and even then chances are he could break it due to having his own sharingan, even worse if itachi wastes his time and chakra using genjutsu on a clone.
Itachi only uses his crows for his crow clone but for sake of argument it gets countered by dog summons.
Thats all itachi has and yet kakashi still has his raitons to fall back on.
Lightening transmission
Lightening blade
Lightening beast runner
Lightening kunai