oro couldnt beat itachi even without trying to take his body .. itachi had sharingan .. doesnt matter if oro was trying to take his body or not if he was stronger he could of beat itachi dwn until he was weak an dragged him bak to his hideout but he couldnt why??? because itachi was stronger.
it doesn't say itachi was stronger in the manga but common dude .. the 4th is fighting madara EMS user .. itachi only had MS .. the 4th wouldve beat itachi in my opinion .. even tho i love itachi lol.
sasuke beat oro because he sucked..... yea oro was weak but thats because he was switching bodies on his own will!! sasuke didnt tell him to try an take his body .. um tired of everybody putin sasuke dwn because he beat oro when oro was weak... its not like sasuke said oro get weak so i can kill you!! lol oro knew he would b weak trying to take sasuke's body an that's oro fault not sasuke.. a loss is a loss even if your weak due to your own illness.
Example : kimmimaroo nobody says anything when garra beats kimmimaro an he was weak !!! but ooo sasuke sucks because he beat oro while he was weak lol. they were all weak because of their own self so dont use bein weak as an excuse to lose lol.
an like i said about the sannin if hanzo could take ALL 3 on by hiself ... then why cant the 4th??? you hold the sannin too high in the ninja world .. they aren't the best 3 shinobi in the manga lol.
I'll say it again: Orochimaru was trying to take Itachi's body - and just like Sasuke did, Itachi used his Sharingan to destroy the transfer process, thus thwarting Orochimaru's plans. And Itachi would not be able to defeat Orochimaru just because he had the Sharingan; Itachi might have been more stronger than Orochimaru, but it's not all because of the Sharingan.
And even if Itachi had his Sharingan, what difference would it make? Hashirama Senju beat Madara Uchiha at the Valley of the End, who had an Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and the Nine-Tailed Fox by his side. Madara had the Sharingan; how did he lose? He was overpowered.
Also, Minato fought a weakened Madara (the one that is a "mere shell of [his] former self"), so Minato's victory against Madara is not exactly complete if you ask me. Madara never used his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan against Minato when they fought; however, if Madara were to fight Minato again with his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and the ability to summon the Nine-Tailed Fox, Minato would be killed. Why so? Because unlike Hashirama, Minato has no way to suppress the Nine-Tailed Fox (except the Contract Seal, which only takes away the summoner's control of the creature), and even his speed would prove futile against such overwhelming power.
Now, although Minato did win, which I give him credit for (whether Madara was weakened or not), if he were to fight someone like Itachi, who can actually utilize their eye powers, then you might say the results would be drastically different.
Hanzo managed to defeat the Sannin because they were not at their prime yet; they were young, and were deployed on the battlefield to kill as many enemy ninja as possible. They were not expecting to fight someone like Hanzo, but as chance would have it, they crossed paths. If the Sannin were given the oppurtunity to fight Hanzo in their primes, I think we might see a reversal of victor and loser.
Minato was in his prime by the time he died, but you cannot say that of the Sannin, especially when one is still alive. If Minato were the same age as the Sannin, and they all fought, there would be a difference. His speed would not be the same as it was when he was younger, thus putting him at a disadvantage. If the Sannin and Minato fought at the peak of their power, how do you think things would go then?
You tell me I hold the Sannin too high in the ninja world; I can say the same to you about Minato. Why do you regard him as so powerful a ninja, especially if he were to be fighting three ninja that are on equal or greater footing than him?