I say this because of not only his high intellectual ability during battle to fool the enemy, as he is always one step ahead, but especially his plans. One of these was when he triggered the amaterasu to go off as soon as Sasuke saw Obito's sharingan, to prevent Sasuke from knowing the truth (keep in mind he did this literally in the seconds prior to his death). His other plan was when he implanted the crow with Shisui's eye inside Naruto to trigger as soon as Naruto saw Sasuke with Itachi's eyes because Itachi knew Sasuke would take his eyes for the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan, and this would brainwash Sasuke into protecting Konoha. Although both these plans failed, they were extremely well-thought out and very unlucky to fail.
imbalanced by his many many mistakes, underestimation and idiocy.
also wrong. itachi didnt KNOW sauske would get EMS, because he also said the KA plan was a last resort and hoped itd never be used. that or itachi was straight up lying to naruto.
he has no real high intellect, just a penchant for trying to manipulate things to his way. but hes way dumber than he thinks he is.
Itachi is clearly the most brilliant in battle and out of battle. Everything he does is analyze
other way around. hes one od the dumbest out of batlte, and is partly responsible for the war starting in the first place.
one of the things he NEVER does is analyse.
1. Itachi - There are no other descriptors for Itachi besides the genius among geniuses
i can think of a few. stupid overconfident uchiha. uchiha who thinks hes way more manipulative than he is. arrogant torturing asswipe
I say manga facts such as many shinobi praising itachi for his brilliance. Itachi came up with a way on his own to counter nagato's jutsu, can shikamru do that nope because his ass was doing nothing when the pains attacked the village. Itachi came up with a counter to beat dsm kabuto both times while facing high level shinobi he came up with ways to beat them while in battle, the best shinobi shikamau came up with an in battle strategy against was tayuya...lmao tayuya
no one praised itachi for his brilliance because he was actually being brilliant lol.
itachi didnt come up with a way to defeat CT, for all he knew, their attacks were gonna bounce right off CT. all he said was "derp attack it cos its sucking us in". thats not intelligence.
itachi didnt come up with any counters for DSM kabuto. all he thought was "damn my hax doesnt work. ok let me try more hax". thats not "coming up with a strategy". thats brutally overpowering someone