Pain Naruto Vs Itachi

The quick answer is pain over itachi in all scenarios.

Bandai naruto relation. Itachis repeated theme of trolling powerful characters when prepubescent or completely. Since he was the leader it is often assumed that pain was the strongest of the lot however itachis strength surpassed that of pains. Itachis clash with him should indicate that hes at least in the same tier as nagato.

Painnagato literally has a bajillion ways to counter a kunaishuriken. Naruto explicitly stated that nagato was on another level from pain rikudo effectively making him the next tier up. Pain was the leader of the akatsuki and one of the strongest members of the group.

But without a chakra reserve equivalent to a bijuu itachi falls short due to exhaustion. This was evident from when itachi was able to fight both naruto uzumaki and killer bee in their perfect jinchuriki states. If one of my points were that itachi would be beaten by kunai from pain i can guarantee you would disagree.

Be it dodging using shared vision shinra tensei flinging it back at itachi with bansho tenin summons taking the hit wind style in the case of nagato etc. 3 meters rules and restrictions. Sasukes battle with itachi to parallel jiraiyas scuffle with nagato and others believe that sasukes battle with itachi to parallel narutos war with nagato.

Itachi kills his clan because as a pacifist he feels that it would lead to fewer deaths overall. Thats why i used my chakra rod argument to suggest how dumb it was and even chakra rods have more utility than kunai. Sure itachi has the tools and skills necessary to put up a fight.

Itachi is at full health. This only makes sense if the uchiha were to somehow kill all members of the konoha shinobi force now abbreviated to ksf for short not just the hokage and the elders and then enter a war with the other nations. Itachi simply does not have enough chakra to hang with the six paths andor nagato on his own.