I said without edos they stop at 5 ...?
Even without edo's he passes.... Orochimaru is easily number 3/4 in akatsuki rank. Not because itachi one shotted him when he was in his weakest form means that any of these others guys can remotely take him on. Really, the guys only weakness is tsukuyomi. He's superb at ninjutsu, genjutsu, taijutsu and summoning.
Sasuke escaped deidara with manda. ORochimaru does the exact same thing if he C0's. Deidara will just be killing his teammates and hindering them with half his abilties. C3, C4 and C0 are all death to his team mates while orochimaru hikes a ride on manda.
His snake summons are enough to keep kisame busy for a while. Hidan is fodder, he isn't doing shit to orochimaru with his taijutsu only nonsense. Kakuzu can't kill orochimaru. If he burns, orochimaru, orochimaru uses oral rebirth to get out of that 'dead' body. No large scale attacks hit him through rashoumon. Manda and manda 2 harass half that team so badly. Deidara isn't beating manda without using c3+ and even then, manda just slithers away from the drop zone. Sword of kusanagi solos hidan and slices him into pieces. Orochimaru breaks all of kakuzu's masks with his plethora of jutsu. Kakuzu and his 5 summons aren't getting past 1000 snakes that easily. Once all these 3 are dead, orochimaru goes to finish off kisame.
Kisame can't use water dome while his other team mates are around because then they'd become trapped also or won't be able to fight.
Deidara can't use C4, C0 because he'd more likely kill his team mates before orochimaru
Shark bombs aren't getting past rashoumon
Samehada isn't sucking up chakra from snakes which will blast kisame with taijutsu only.
Sword of kusanagi solos hidan by chopping him to pieces, then kisame extends his neck and the sword to do the same thing he did on the demon fox to any of them. These guys won't even push orochimaru to use manda 2 or 8 branches.
Orochimaru passes 5 mid-high diff without edos. Low diff with edos. No diff with all his team mates and edos.
Oro dies at the bolded part
Can't argue with tsukuyomi GG lol. Really is oro's biggest hindrance on that stafe. If they can take out itachi, they have a chance to move on tbh. Itachi is priority one there XD. Minato would be enough to keep obito busy and tobirama + hiruzen can keep pain a bit busy while Sasuke, orochimaru and kimimaru try to take out itachi :/. That's if orochimaru isn't tsukuyomi GG'd before the match even begins lol.