So basically, have Kimono Itachi

yep, pretty much XD it's the most effective way to take on kakuzu no doubt

i recommend itachi edo more than itachi kimono if you want to battle kakuzu with water main honestly, it's way more reliable. Problem is that first round, even if you have itachi edo on the field, kakuzu can do insane damage anyways. If you have good resistances and you can last the first round, probably you can win easily, just need to land that control on kakuzu most of the time, which in theory shouldn't be a problem since azure can increase her own critical rate and her mystery has extra critical rate.

This team is way better used on sage world, since you have susanoo kakashi there, you will always hit naruto 6p if you're battling one

Another team:

Since they are giving kakashi anbu on monthly rewards i'm gonna assume his skill trials are coming

With this team you'll have roots that boost your resis by 100% and also itachi edo cutting the opponents ninjutsu dmg in half.

Kakashi anbu will make 2 anbu ninja hide (must be kakashi himself and itachi edo) so you can't use either danzo or shisui for barrier. This is so that itachi edo's mystery can't be blocked and you will have a chance of controlling kakuzu with itachi edo without having to worry about kakuzu blocking you. Kakashi with Y+1 mystery will have a promt mystery that can remove super armor. Since kakashi with +2 chase can boost his own attack he will become a beast dealing crazy amounts of damage.

Keep in mind this is only theory, they might end up nerfing him like they did with shizuka so if it doesn't work don't blame me xD

Obviously your water main should be stacked, and Tenten assist card would be welcome.

You can replace Madara with Ningendo/Kurenai/Edo Itachi or some other ninja, many options there.

This team is very one dimensional and will almost certainly lose against any team with immunity... But if you are certain opponent will use non-immune Kakuzu, it will work ;)

usually the kakuzu users use him with edo itachi so it's always better to have someone to transfer status on your team xD looks like a team that can give kakuzu some trouble, specially since ignition is the worst debuff that kakuzu can have, with ignition he can't heal xD i would put water main first move though since kakuzu can easily block someone who's a 2nd move and if you have huge critical rate chances are that water main will control most of the guys team first round. Nice team man ^^

I know what i did there. It won't work as well with water main position 1, because it's easily interruptable. You start with Jinpachi - if Kakuzu doesn't interrupt there's a high chance he will get chaosed with chases. If Kakuzu interrupts, you can just use mystery.

If Jinpachi is p2, Kakuzu user can just interrupt jinpachi with his Edo Itachi.../Kisame/Anbu Yamato/whatever he uses unless you specifically stack ini on your jinpachi which can be a hassle.

edit: and obviously this team won't work in arena... since critical substat almost doesn't exist there and this team relies on your main critting heavily ;)

the only problem is kimino itachi isn't exactly cheap. Not to mention that if I'm ussing kakuzu I'm using kiame an Edo itachi so I'll sleep your main then use kiame barrier which overrightes Kimino's anyways.

well i can just use itachi on kisame xD

kakuzu will be nerfed anyways because you cant attack if you have more than 50 chakra, so your damage will still be very nerfed thanks to that

Sounds great in theory but again using both edo itachi and kisame will ddump mosst of the chaka you've given an remove kimino's barrier.....So kakuzu will still attack prety freely then give another attack to kisame/itachi that's running a aer option could just use hirzen to ddump 40 chakra an kisame to remove more then it'll get stolen back fom kisame's combo, Ay would be a better overall counte o I've used Edo itachi 4* Shizuka EM an Hiruzen an taken out a skill broken kakuzu

Kisame not the best barrier ninja to counter Kimoni Itachi. KK Gaara is :)

a max breakthrough kushina surrounded by supports and buff ninjas could also work. But tbh the only way to beat kakuzu is by making sure you have the better pos 1 :/

shizuka was supposed to be a great way to beat kakuzu but they completely ruined her by changing her mystery, now you can't interrupt anyone using kakuzu cause they don't spend chakra...

* even if i have better stats than the guy i'm fighting, even using sharkbomb, i fought a guy and only on round 4 did i land a critical hit on him lol so i'm guessing that with the poison mystery i won't land a crit as well xD

well your kushina gets buffed with every attack she receives, if you can make sure kakuzu is nerfed with death mirage i think kushina will be way stronger than him... Problem is that the fight will probably last 10 rounds and it will be naruto 6p type battles all over again xD

Theory behind kinkaku team is wrong. It doesn't reduce damage output by 20% to enemies it hits. His own standard attack (in comparison to base version) deals reduced damage (so hits 3 targets but for 80% of regular standard damage). The same way, as some skillbroken chases can be triggered multiple times but deal reduced damage- see susanoo sasuke, sage naruto.

And whole thread comes down to the point- if you are faster. If you are faster, run edo itachi with shark bomb. Kakuzu will never have chakra, so no need to even bother with itachi kimono.

Any kakuzu team with edo itachi that relies only on earth main to generate chakra (so basically most of them) can attack regardless if you manage to pull off itachi barrier or not. initial 20chakra+ 40from itachi, then opponent edo itachi casts on anything, opponent ends up with 40 chakra so he can easily use standards. For this to work, they would have to have external chakra generation like anbu yamato/kimono konan/asuma wb/madara founder.

Whether kakuzu can attack at 40 chakra or 0 chakra it doesnt matter, he doesnt get buff yet. And edo itachis passive halves that damage. Unless power disparity is huge, you will live through it anyway. And if power disparity is huge, that means you have lower secondary stats so you wont be able to do anything anyway and lose.

in game it says that kinkaku's standard reduces enemy damage by 20%... It might be another error in translation idk

'nuff said.

actually this team:

ningendo konan taisho x

itachi normal x x

x x water main

talents: 22323, summon: kirin

trials required: ningendo mystery that make him like sasuke rs for chaos and itachi full sbs.

full counters any comparable power kakuzu eg team that exists out there as long as you are able to constantly chaos the other 3 ninjas with shark bomb and to eventually chaos kakuzu in round 1 if required (itachi standard attack will keep forever kakuzu under sleep since round 2 onwards because cannot control fail and to be sure to target kakuzu you just need to not select him as a target for shark bomb)