The first scan doesn't mean much to me for obvious reasons. A guy who's skill we don't even know about is irrelevant. I'll address only the Deidara point. Yes, Deidara got surprised by his movement at first, but he reacted perfectly fine and jumped out of Sasuke's way. [
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] To begin with, Deidara was basically shit-talking him beforehand and was most likely expecting a reply rather than an immediate attack right away, not knowing of Sasuke's calm demeanor. Considering Deidara immediately evaluated his movement speed and then countered by trying to make bombs and valuating which ones can keep up with him directly. [
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] Meaning guess what? Deidara is confident he can keep up with Sasuke's movements. Which he later does in his C2 attacks. [
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] Though, regardless, it's not like Deidara shown to react better himself at the second attempt. The first time, Deidara already had the time to react while Sasuke was still moving, i.e. before he reached him and tried to strike. [
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] The second time? Sasuke was already behind him and Deidara could only react when Tobi warned him [
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], not when he could see him with his own eyes like in the first scenario - because Deidara was focusing on Tobi. Yet, he was perfectly capable of turning around, throwing a bomb and then jumping away from his explosion [
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] all before Sasuke could chop him down with his sword. Worst circumstance than the first time, better reaction than the first time.Deidara isn't particulary a great example since as Sasuke has stated, he runs his mouth too much and is arrogant. And he has shown better reaction to Sasuke after that first time so yeah... Not a great example. Deidara was perfectly capable of reacting to Sasuke. The only thing left for him was to raise the speed of his own attacks. [
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] Nevermind the fact that Deidara was reacting to Sasuke perfectly fine afterwards. [
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] Could even send a C2 Dragon flying his way.Sasori hasn't shown any good reaction or observation skills? Uhuh. Lets not downplay him. First of all, he was capable of smacking down a Shuriken thrown at him without even looking at it's direction and looking Deidara. [
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] The likes of Sakura and Naruto are even baffled by his skill. Also, nevermind the fact that Sasori was sitting in Hiruko with a full black cloth over his head. Sasori has shown more than enough fast movement to be able to almost hit Deidara with Hiruko's tail [
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], surprising Deidara despite the fact that Deidara knew he was making him furious and knew of Sasori's highly aggressive personality. Judging from Sasori's reaction ''tch..'', it proves that he wasn't even surprised by Deidara's movement. He just found it a pity that the tail wasn't fast enough to reach Deidara. Not a problem of Sasori's reaction and movement speed, but his tail's movement. Point? Sasori is at Deidara's level in terms of reactions so if Deidara can react to Sasuke like that. There is no reason Sasori shouldn't be able to do so. And it's not like he didn't easily react to Sakura being controlled by Chiyo's strings [
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] when Chiyo managed to move Sakura so close to him from this distance. [
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] And Chiyo couldn't pull Sakura back in time, even stated that Sasori is fast. [
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] Even after Chiyo halts Sasori's puppet with Hiruko's tail [
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], Sasori activates another technique right after and manages to intercept Chiyo pulling Sakura back again. [
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] This proves that Sasori's movements [
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] are immensely fast.Guess who has faster movement than Chiyo could pull back Sakura the third time [
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] even though she was in the process of moving Sakura back before Sasori. [
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] This is what? Literally the third time in a row he has completely baffled Chiyo - an extremely experienced and hyped up fighter who fought Hanzo all the time - with his movement speed? Kunai can't magically wrap around you when shot out with a rope, which means Sasori wrapped them around Sakura before Chiyo could even pull her back again. Nevermind the fact that Sasori reacted to Chiyo's puppets suddenly flying up to his own while he was deattaching his arm and then countered by fighting against two puppets at once just fine. [
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]I don't really think I need to prove how fast Chiyo can move her puppets/people she controls, but let me do it regardless. Chiyo managed to fly down her puppet from above here [
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] and move out of the Satetsu Drizzle's way [
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] despite the databook describing this drizzle as extremely fast and that anything more than a split-second decision can kill you. Chiyo managed to move her puppet from being next to Sakura [
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] to being in front of Sakura with a shield [
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] before the Satetsu Spear striked them down. And Satetsu Spears broke the sound barrier. Proof? [
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] Not only did they have effect on the atmosphere around them, Kishi highlighted their speed with ''sfx: whooosh'' and the fact that they were elognated before striking the ground. That's how they fast they went. Sakura didn't even have the time to react to anything judging by her ''!'' shocked reactiong. Sasori reacted just fine seeing as how he wasn't surprised by Sakura surviving. The only thing he was shocked by was the fact that Chiyo rigged her own body. [
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]After that Chiyo was one-armed so her control feats weren't as good. [
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] Sakura had a really hard time reacting to Sasori's stuff afterwards seeing as how she fell down while trying to get away. [
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] Only thing that got her out was her evasiveness along with Chiyo's help. Level of evasiveness that Sasuke hasn't showcased. Not like Sasori was uncapable of tagging her when he wanted to. [
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]Lastly, Sasori reacted to Sakura throwing Chiyo's ball at him at full strenght. He only saw it when it transformed, i.e. was near him. [
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] And by then, it was already this close. [
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] He not only reacted to it, but he also was fast enough to pinpoint a new puppet body and transfer to it without Chiyo and Sakura noticing it. Do I need to remind you how fast that ball was considering it was thrown through Sakura's strenght? Not only was Sakura capable of smashing a large ass boulder, but she literally managed to pull out a whole bundle of wire [
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] in a matter of less than a second before Sasori could strike down Chiyo [
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]. That's how strong she is. Nevermind the fact that she punched back a large Iron Sand construct that immediately hit the other side of the cave in the next panel judging by the vibrations in the water. [
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] Sasori moved out of the way there, too. Oh, and Deidara had full confidence in Sasori's ability to strike down the Kumo Ninja who's name escapes me before he could reach Deidara.Yeah, yeah. ''No good reaction or observational feats''.
The underline and bold basically contradict each other if you claim that you understood what I said. First of all, they were uncapable of dodging Satetsu Spears. Second of all, the whole point of raising the magnetic repellant property is to increase speed and make such dodging impossible. Which means that mentioning how some of his stuff was dodged before doesn't mean anything anymore if he increases the speed of his Satetsu. Third of all, it's highlighted that Sakura and Chiyo were dependant on their evasive skill rather than pure speed. Sasuke uses pure speed rather than complex evasive movements like Sakura and Chiyo. About precognition... I don't know if you purposely stepped around what I said previously, but I don't remember a single scenario in which the Sharingan predicted wood or iron's movement. Sasori has no muscle.
No. The ''overwhelming'' damage was done through a simple Triangle and Block. [
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] That's how much destruction Sasori's casual attacks cause. Implying Hebi Sasuke can best Sasori in destructive capability without something like Kirin is non-sensical. Didn't land on Chiyo? I remember Chiyo getting her arm smashed [
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] due to the result of Sasori's effect on the enviroment. I remember the Satetsu World being wide enough to smash into yet new surface [
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] despite his previous attacks doing already that much damage to the enviroment. [
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] As for the CM2 point. I don't remember Sasuke's CM tanking cutting or piercing attacks which is the whole point of Sasori's attacks. Tanking blunt or impactive damage doesn't translate to tanking piercing or cutting damage. You do realize that most of the times in this manga, some durable things such as the Hachibi couldn't tank piercing or cutting damage despite being capable of tanking the highest caliber of explosive damage, right?Why would he? You claim that Sasuke's speed would pose a big problem for Sasori, who is very cautious and doesn't like dangerous situations. Taking away the speed problem by flying would be a smart idea. Sasuke's flying speed has no feats. Sasori's Satetsu's speed does. At best, he'll get striked down like he couldn't fly away from Deidara's bomb blowing up his wing. Cutting him down? Comparing Satetsu to Clay durability? Iron conducts metal. Said Chidori Blade can lose it's shape when in contact with Raiton since it would stream through it. Not like Sasori couldn't jump on another block or not like Sasori's Satetsu actually falls down if you cut a part of it. Satetsu doesn't stay in the air through wings. It won't lose balance. If he tries to strike Sasori himself, Sasori can replicate what Orochimaru did here. [
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]That's a bad feat for Deidara? Nahh. The fact that he could react before Sasuke striked him down and escape the range of his bomb is a good feat for Deidara, slow one for Sasuke. Sasori has a) a puppet body, b) blades stuck to his back that can suddenly start rottating which would force Sasuke back, c) firethrowers. Sasori replicates this same feat [
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], but instead of throwing a bomb, literally burns him with firethrowers.Does it have to be? No. However, it will help him greatly againt Sasuke. The latter may have better speed and reaction, but not combat skill.
I'll throw back the same question at you. You think Sasori is stupid? He can stream chakra through his body, he knows what the Sharingan is, he is very cautious. Result? Chakra is streaming through Sasori's whole body so he doesn't give away the fact that only his heart contains Chakra. Also, you're assuming the cloak will go down. Sasori takes the cloak down only after Kazekage gets destroyed. The moment Sasuke tries to pull a blitz or take down Sasori's cloak, he gets flamethrowers and rottating blades on his throat forcing him to pull back from Sasori in order to counter. Sasori's already got Satetsu attacks going at him by then. The Sharingan will highlight the heart? Since when does it do that? Last time I checked, Kakashi's Sharingan didn't highlight Kakuzu's hearts and Kakashi got rocked back because of that.
