To the people saying "but he killed Deidara and Itachi", you need to keep in mind Sasuke's lightning style and abilities countered the crap out of Deidara, and Itachi was dying from ninja-aids and sort of let him win.
I can understand why some people think he was though.
Sasuke would shit on Hidan- Agreed
Could put up a good fight against Kakuzu- I think he could him 1 on 1 if we are talking MS Sasuke
Pushed Itachi pretty far-Agreed
and Killed Deidara- Well Deidara killed Deidara. They pretty much tied that fight, but Sasuke's quick thinking allowed him to survive the encounter.
What more do you need?
The only reason he defeated Deidara was his jutsus weakness against raiton (which Gaara didn't had)
Ms Sasuke is strong enough to beat every akatsuki member including obito and nagato.
Saying that Sasuke killed Deidara and Itachi is like saying that Naruto killed Nagato. Lol It just didn't happen.
Yes and no, his birthright and eyes gave him the spot
The only reason hidan was a member was because of his immortality, which kakuzu needed in a partner. Not because he was actually strong, so of course sasuke could shit on hidan. Sasuke and kakuzu would be interesting, but i do predict sasukes win here. As for deidara, deidara got super mad and blew himself up. Itachi was sick, his aids killed him before sasuke ever could
Agreed, plus he wasn't going with an intent to kill from the beginning of the fight.But yeah Sasuke was more or less Akatsuki material. The fight with Bee would have went much better if Sasuke's arrogance didn't cloud his judgment promoting him to fight Bee 1 on 1 in the beginning.
Agreed as well.Sasuke still drove him to the point of blowing himself up, it was going to be Sasuke win either way, Deidara was getting countered left and right by Sasuke.
He still defeated Deidara, and it is also Deidaras fault for losing his cool and doing such a thing.
Sasuke won that fight, get over it