Quote Originally Posted by boilerph
Since the general fandom seems to hold Itachi on a higher level than almost every other character, who do you think could beat him from what we've seen so far? Please note this doesn't mean who do you think is stronger because that doesn't apply well to Naruto, it's more a question of who's fighting style gives tham an advantage.

Characters that I think would beat Itachi:

Hidan- All he has to do is wound Itachi and since he doesn't have to dodge his opponents attacks he's pretty much guaranteed to at least scratch anyone he gets close too. Also, the fact that he relishes pain takes a lot of the power out of genjutsu.

Sasori- Puppets are immune to genjutsu and I don't think Itachi could dodge 100 different expertly controlled attackers.

Jiraiya- This really stems completely from what Itachi himself said because I haven't seen anything from Jiraiya that would leave me to believe that he would beat Itachi. Of course we've also never seen him fight at full power.

Hiashi Hyuga- Byakugan should be able to analyze chakra flows to predict Itachi's attacks and there has to be a reason why teh Hyuga clan was Konoha's top family and not the Uchiha.
All Itachi has to do is look at Hidan and he dies, same with Jiraiya and Hiashi Hyuga too. Sasori has eyes too.. he has a mind, Itachi can still put him in a gengutsu. Furthermore, Itachi doesn't need to dodge 100 controlled attackers, he can make kage bunshins. Itachi is undoubtedly the best fighter in the series, even if he were to be defeated, it would be by a sharingan user.