It's only feat is failing to catch people with below average speed so good luck arguing that somehow Mei and Darui are unable to react and get hit unless it's from a very close range, which they wouldn't let happen regardless. That steam argument is also an argument not worth bringing up unless you can show that Mei will be in mid air unable to properly react like Kakashi was. Then we have the fact that she'll have Darui right near her at all times so if Kakuzu tries this he gets intercepted.
Except Kakashi was caught straight up the ground as well, with enough chakra to still keep the Sharingan active and perform Raikiri so shunshin should have been an option. He also somehow avoided his fuuton in the air while battling Hidan so being airborne doesn't mean completely useless. Mei will be recovering from the same exact action as Kakashi and has less reaction so on ground or in the air doesn't matter when the threads come bursting through the steam and catch her before her or darui can realize (also you have darui defusing explosives here? So will he always have the attention to notice thing threads appearing through Mei's giant water wall along with steam.
Why can't they go close range here? Also since WHEN is 3T Kakashi << Mei and Darui in speed? Darui is maybe equal but I would't say he's faster by any-means. Not when he was fighting on par with Suigetsu lol.
His Water Wall is enough to block Katon. Raiton is evaded. Fuuton is blocked by Mei. Katon+Fuuton is blocked by them both.
Can raiton be evaded when he's using a waterwall to block a katon? Mei can't see the Raiton coming due to its smaller nature than the other jutsu. How can possibly have Mei and Darui keeping their eyes ON EVERY FACET IN THIS FIGHT when they're using massive jutsu that require focus? If it takes both of them to deal with ONE of Kakuzu's moves who's canceling Deidara's explosive? The water wall and Katon + Fuuton would be clashing for a while.
Lmao no, he doesn't.
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That clearly isn't a charge time that is the regular hand sign --> jutsu usage that has always taken place in this Manga.
I suppose I remembered wrong yeah.
Smacked by what? Lmao. Mei's jutsu all require one hand sign. Kakuzu's jutsu either have no or have poor speed feats so I'm not sure how you are going to be able to logically argue that she gets taken out while in the process of using a jutsu. Kakashi is an example you love to bring up no matter how many times someone debunks or refutes it. Kakashi was in mid air and had to deal with a diversion from Hidan yet still evaded it. Without someone replicating those exact conditions you don't need to be anywhere near as fast as Kakashi to dodge it. Please stop saying you need precog or top tier speed to evade Fuuton because that couldn't be further from the truth.
The diversion from Hidan did nothing but mask the movement of the Fuuton Heart lol he stopped attacking when it was used so stop acting like it hindered his speed in anyways. He was near giant tree's so all he had to do was shunshin off of one to escape (which precog let him get to obviously) you have and never will debunk anything I'm not saying its god-tier speed and I don't know why this has been so hard for you to believe lol but Mei who has not a SINGLE speed feat in the entire manga besides knocking black zetsu should NOT be able to stop casting acid mist (which is dangerous for her teammates as she can't control Ph) and avoid a jutsu that large without pre-cog (which also gives you the dimensions of the jutsu so Kakashi knew where to go) and I will continue to say this. Even without the acid-mist as a precursor when used directly near her she's not avoiding it. With explosives two other hearts and Kakuzu to worry about here that is most certainly a possibility. Especially when nothing she has is taking down the heart lol her water dragon showed zero damage to Madara didn't it? The hearts have tanked direct hits from Chouji mind you. It should logically be able to deflect the lava with miniwind styles if not flat out avoid its slowness. Acid mist is reflected from the start and anything Darui uses is countered by the wind style lol.
He was stationary because he couldn't evade. He was stationary beforehand because that's how all targets are unless you are saying Kakuzu and Deidara will be running around the entire time. And lmao He was the one holding her hostage. She was holding his arm but I really hope you aren't going to argue that the light grip she had on his arm was holding his entire body in place when he was clearly the one holding her in place. Him being left open is also a no due to Mei, then we have the fact that none of them have the speed to prepare and launch any kind of deadly jutsu in the short time frame it takes to use laser circus.
Lmfao
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Its literally as fast as Kankuro summoning and using a puppet, temari's fuuton AT LEAST in prep time. Kakuzu doesn't need a handsign, shown when he uses the combination and when he uses the smaller variant of the wind style
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was probably the large fuuton (very large katon+fuuton) and seeing as how the DB states explicitly the jutsu is quick to cast I'm sure he can deflect any and all laser circus attempts lol as well as striking the stationary (guiding) Darui in the process.
-Sure, Fuuton can stop it, but no one said it had to be used on Kakuzu himself. There is still Deidara who is stuck on the ground and there are still Kakuzu's masks since you are using the strategy of Kakuzu using multiple jutsu to try and box his foes in. Only the Wind heart is equipped to deal with Laser Circus, the rest aren't meaning if he releases them to try and box them in like that he gets his masks picked off one by one.
You have no counter to Darui being stationary when using laser circus and Mei isn't blocking it if the other masks and Kakuzu himself are battling her directly lol so sure have him sit there and try and guide it towards multiple hearts (could Gian not intercept it?) that can also spam jutsu that would force him to retreat and evade (drop the jutsu) since you're having him and Mei hold hands.
-Akatsuchi was a surprise attack, and where is it stated that he doesn't have good speed? Nowhere.
-Where are these others? They don't exist.
He was hit by Chouza and caught by Shikamaru and Ino was he not? lol
You're clearly purposely exaggerating the time it takes Darui to use his techniques to make it seem like he's as useless as Deidara here when in reality that is clearly not the case. C1 and all it's variants are things Mei can block with her own Water Wall or Water Dragon. C2 is the only thing they need to actually defuse, and they are guided towards them so throwing a Raiton infused Ninja tool (1 Raiton huh? :lol) or using Black Lightning to defus isn't going to be so hard. C2 Dragon can only fire as many bombs as it has clay on it's tail, so once that runs out the dragon is useless. Deidara can never lay a hand on them.
Again what stops him from just raining the mines over their heads? Sure they do LESS when not burried but they still can deal some damage and cause mayhem for Darui and Mei when rained above them.
Still have no way of killing Kakuzu though, Mei and Darui have been on the defensive the whole time here. Unless you're saying laser circus is going to blitz him to death.
Also this whole battle changes with the fact that Deidara can go underground with speed and ease lol and neither of them have the ability to see where (Mei's water wall brings him up) if it does start from underground her stopping and casting that with Kakuzu there is risky and it won't do any damage to him lol.