Black Wolf
Jōnin Strategist 🧠
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What people need to understand is that having "good chakra control" or knowing the "Kai" method are ways of breaking out of Genjutsu. They do not act as agents to give the user some sort of passive immunity to Genjutsu.
Unless you have the Sharingan (which not only defends against Genjutsu but also resists / counter-attacks the opponent if the user is strong enough), you will need to first (1) realize you are in a Genjutsu and (2) break out of the Genjutsu. During that time, you are basically a sitting duck in real time, and it is then and there that you will get killed.
Gai was familiar with the Kai method; hell, he broke out of an A-ranked Genjutsu casually with Kai release. Despite this, he still developed an entire fighting style just to compete with Kakashi's Genjutsu. Why? Because even if he could "Kai" out of it, he will still have a second or two of downtime during which Kakashi could capitalize upon. And this is Kakashi we are talking about, not Itachi, who is arguably the best Genjutsu user in the manga.
Kurenai, an alleged Genjutsu master, was nearly decapitated due to being incapacitated by her own Genjutsu reflected on her. Notice she had the benefit of it being her own Genjutsu, not one of Itachi's, which would have probably been more subtle. Despite this, she was nearly killed, even with Genjutsu proficiency as well as distance between herself and Itachi.
Unless you have the Sharingan (which not only defends against Genjutsu but also resists / counter-attacks the opponent if the user is strong enough), you will need to first (1) realize you are in a Genjutsu and (2) break out of the Genjutsu. During that time, you are basically a sitting duck in real time, and it is then and there that you will get killed.
Gai was familiar with the Kai method; hell, he broke out of an A-ranked Genjutsu casually with Kai release. Despite this, he still developed an entire fighting style just to compete with Kakashi's Genjutsu. Why? Because even if he could "Kai" out of it, he will still have a second or two of downtime during which Kakashi could capitalize upon. And this is Kakashi we are talking about, not Itachi, who is arguably the best Genjutsu user in the manga.
Kurenai, an alleged Genjutsu master, was nearly decapitated due to being incapacitated by her own Genjutsu reflected on her. Notice she had the benefit of it being her own Genjutsu, not one of Itachi's, which would have probably been more subtle. Despite this, she was nearly killed, even with Genjutsu proficiency as well as distance between herself and Itachi.