There was interesting thread about this in thé prévois forum, so decided to recreate this match-up
Location: Konoha
Restrictions: None
Who wins? Kisame has much more chakra, coule compète with Base Gai and overpower him in cqc, could also change the Battlefield to his advantage with his waterdome and absorb ninjutsu with samehada or his ultimate jutsu, all of which would cause Itachi some problems if he tries to overpower him in a ninjutsu battle.
Furthermore if Kisame fuses with samehada, he becomes a sensor, allowing him to fight and detect targets without eye contact. However Itachi has faster jutsu skill, is smarter, is great in weapons handling, and we saw that samehada hates fire, so Amaterasu could likely be too much heat for Samehada to handle. And without samehada, Kisame would have no way to handle Itachi's hax MS techniques, which would ultimately allow him to win imo.
By portrayal as well, Kisame was places below Itachi when it came to dealing with Jiraya in part1 when he said he doesn't think he can handle him, but Itachi might bé able to. Itachi also said he'd take too much time and will be injured if he fought part1 Kakashi, but that if he were the one to do it, it would take no time at all, all of that ultimately placing Itachi as stronger, so i think Itachi would win with maybe mid or high diff max, likely mid, but what do you think
Location: Konoha
Restrictions: None
Who wins? Kisame has much more chakra, coule compète with Base Gai and overpower him in cqc, could also change the Battlefield to his advantage with his waterdome and absorb ninjutsu with samehada or his ultimate jutsu, all of which would cause Itachi some problems if he tries to overpower him in a ninjutsu battle.
Furthermore if Kisame fuses with samehada, he becomes a sensor, allowing him to fight and detect targets without eye contact. However Itachi has faster jutsu skill, is smarter, is great in weapons handling, and we saw that samehada hates fire, so Amaterasu could likely be too much heat for Samehada to handle. And without samehada, Kisame would have no way to handle Itachi's hax MS techniques, which would ultimately allow him to win imo.
By portrayal as well, Kisame was places below Itachi when it came to dealing with Jiraya in part1 when he said he doesn't think he can handle him, but Itachi might bé able to. Itachi also said he'd take too much time and will be injured if he fought part1 Kakashi, but that if he were the one to do it, it would take no time at all, all of that ultimately placing Itachi as stronger, so i think Itachi would win with maybe mid or high diff max, likely mid, but what do you think