Sasuke Vs Pain Is Not Close!

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If a sage mode Naruto, with all the info in the world on Pains abilities, 2 sage frogs who are also incredibly strong supporting him, prepped with some shadow clones with sage mode to be able to enter sage mode multiple times and even fighting in Ninetails form (4+ Tails) barely beats Pain, who wasn’t even trying to kill him and had used up some power fighting and destroying the leaf prior to that, how would Sasuke at that point in the story compete? If anyone actually thinks that Sasuke at that point in the story could beat Pain, they are just simply delusional.

I have always had this take that Pain is the strongest character up until White Mask Obito shows up. I think everyone else, including Itachi and OM Obito, are below him in power/strength, but I regularly find I'm alone in that thought.

Pain scales to War Arc so easily. Naruto fought Pain with so many clear advantages (capture objective, fatigued, knowledge, Nine Tails). It’s clear Nagato is stronger than Pain but Pain is much more versatile for the objectives he was sent out to achieve. I think we get carried away with amps that characters get later in the series and discount earlier characters (Pain, Orochimaru, etc.) too harshly. We have to remember that amps aren’t multipliers, they’re enhancers. Pain/Nagato are a notch below Obito and would still contend with Obito to some degree.

I think the only version of sasuke thats up for debate is the sasuke that fought juubito every version before that gets easily beat and rinnegan sasuke obviously stomps pain neg diff

Pain: "Don't move, don't move, you already lost"

Sasuke (vs the 5 Kage) was helped by Zetsu (because he recharged Sasuke's chakra while draining the enemies' one) and was saved in a clutch moment from Dust Release from Ohnoki by Obito.

Something silly I just realized is that Sasuke acknowledges he couldn't have beaten Orochimaru if he wasn't weakened by his "illness". And yet he thinks he's capable of beating Itachi at that level? That doesn't track 🤔

Sasuke doesnt touch nagato until he get rinnegan.

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One thing I also think about pain is how on top of his crazy powers, for their oponents to just figure them out is very hard. I think at least a few heavy hitting attacks that drain a lot of stamina would be wasted just by not knowing who he is and what he can do

Sasuke : look at me I can traumatize you.. look deep into my eyes and cry. Pain : waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa The rest of the paths : what the fu-

I don’t see how Itachi is a rival to pain. He cannot beat pain either. That’s just fans glazing Itachi. Uchiha too ninjutsu heavy to beat pain when he has a body that absorbs ninjutsu. Even Amaterasu and susanoo gets absorbed. Itachi is prob slightly faster but pains shared vision. 16:40 it’s import to realize that path fighting jiraiya while he wasn’t looking, a diff path was, so shared vision was how he seen the attack to block.

Great video, finally someone that brings up a Pein going all out in a versus, usually I feel like he gets scaled on his compromised screen times such as him fatigued, not going all out and powers exposed against Naruto.

Sasuke at that point in the story gets absolutely humiliated.

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Too much hype for itachi 😂😂 when did itachi bacame Pains level?

Thank you guys for bringing up the four tails. People be using that to downplay my boy Jeriah.

22:35 Black Zetsu directly said Itachi is quicker on the uptake than Sasuke is, even all the way to the war. Pain is also more difficult to blind than Nagato since Nagato only has the Summons to extend his vision, whilst Pain has six Paths. Usually this is compensated for by the fact Nagato is much stronger, but since even a few Paths are already stronger than Sasuke, it just makes it hopeless for him. I think a good way of establishing Taka Sasuke's ceiling is that he was pushed to his limit to defeat someone who conceded inferiority to Hiruzen, who by Danzō's estimate is likely inferior to Pain. Pain would have easily swept through the individual Gokage at the summit, whilst Sasuke nearly died multiple times.