It's wrong to say Hidan wasn't that gifted in Taijutsu, especially when the Naruto-verse considers weapons use as part of the Taijutsu suite . If you try to be good with a scythe in real life you'all notice he was pretty good with it, a clumsy and awkward weapon at the best of times, unlikely to actually kill a target, but very likely to cause wounds of some kind, either puncturing or slashing. Shikamaru even comments on this fact, surmising the exact reason Hid*es a weapon like that rather than just a sword. He does have a sword as well, and he proves he c*e it as more than just a backup or ritual killer.

However, like the other big bads, what has been insinuated, Hidan's flaw is his arrogance and blind ignorance. He knows he's immortal, so he acts like nothing the opponent does actually matters. He throws himself into battle, amuses himself by watching 'pitiful displays of his opponent's jutsu and tactics because he knows they won't do anything to him he has to care about. Even losing his head didn't teach him that he should probably be a lot more careful, so he just blindly carried on as though nothing had happened.

He's a dumbass, basically. An arrogant, *y idiot. Not in the single-minded Naruto kind of idiot way, in the kind that refuses to learn from mistakes or think through his opponent's tactics too much.... but even that isn't 100% correct. Hidan does pay attention, does look for flaws in defences and ways to get that kill-shot in. He plans towards achieving his one goal of killing his opponent, it's just he doesn't stop to consider too much what the enemy intends, believing they will just dumbly (to him) try to kill him with attacks he is basically immune to.

He's also the perfect bad-guy to complete Shikamaru's growth to adulthood. Hidan is a puzzle to be solved, Asuma's great skill and heart didn't prove to be enough to win out and neither Ino nor Choji had the abilities to defeat him either at that point. Heck, even fully Kurama-Sage'd Naruto wouldn't be able to defeat him. Hidan just couldn't be taken out by anyone else (except Tobi perhaps, and by extension, Kakashi if he'd known about what actually happened when Kamui is activated at that point)

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Should also add, Hidan's demise proves that if you want to mess with someone, don't mess with Shikamaru