Naruto Thread (Spoilers For Sure)

You people are overestimating the third Raikage by a ton. Itachi could do a simple genjutsu with him stabbing himself with his ultimate sword, or seal him with the sword of totsuka. Minato could simply S/T barrier his arm back to him (well I don't know if that works but technically it should). Sasori could surprise him with poison. Battles like these depend on knowledge, matchup and location. And you can't simply use A>B>C logic. Water beats fire, fire beats wind, so water must beat wind, right? NO! The same goes for the various unique fighting styles naruto shinobi utilitze and should thus be considered. Also the general opinion on that one panel is that Itachi simply wanted to protect Konoha/Sasuke and thus lied to Kisame about Jiraiya's strength so they would back off.

That is why I said probably the Edo Tensei has its limitations when it comes to people on their levels. Madara is an exception because Kabuto focused on creating a special body for him to make him stronger, but I believe Hashirama and 3rd Raikage were weaker in zombie mode because of the technique's limitation. The 3rd Raikage was said to have as much chakra as a Jinchiuriky without a Bijuu, he fought the 8 tails (1 tail away from 9 tails) and beat it (even if he hurt himself), he's said to have been the strongest raikage, he held an army of 10.000 back for 3 days on his own, and whenever his name is mentioned everyone goes like "OMG".

Really? Dont think genjustu would work well at all on him considering he has the 2 toads. Guess i just remembered wrong information

You're right. Genjutsu wouldn't work on Jiraiya because the toads just need to apply a chakra shot on him to snap him out of it (Although it wouldn't be weird if Itachi could cast a Genjutsu on the 3 of them at the same time). A battle between Itachi and Jiraiya would be a hard, one relies on strength and the other one on techniques. If they were the same age, I'd say Itachi would win, but I will give credit to Jiraiya's experience from his age and say he would win.