Though I know this was a dead thread brought back I just want to throw in my two cents for anyone saying Itachi's bad. He's fantastic support for certain builds.

One trick I have seen to make Itachi good is a combination of tricks:
- Regular Asuma who after Itachi uses his Mystery and the team starts each round with 100 Chakra Asuma's combo rate increases and his Mystery can be used without cost or Cooldown.
- High Chakra Mysteries that unlock early like Kakuzu's cannon that costs 60 chakra but can be used turn two if you somehow gain 20 more chakra from base. Itachi grants that chakra for round 2 with 40 more chakra to spend on anything from another high area attack like GNW Kankuro to get Ignition and Poison on the entire enemy team or the Main Character's options for Mysteries like Fire or Lightning's 6 person attacks. Turn two and you can practically nuke the field before standards and chases come into play.
- In combination with the previous trick I have seen something powerful. The Wind Main has a Mystery that unlocks turn 2. When used it clears all debuffs from the team and removes cooldowns, so it puts a lot of focus on the only mysteries that do damage is two people but you can instantly use some high chakra demanding moves effectively in full on turn 2 and 3 before needing their regular cooldowns to trigger. In the case of GNW Kankuro I have seen someone not only use them Turn two but they also readied the use of the mystery again in the same round which started it's two round cooldown. They effectively had GNW Kankuro attack the field on rounds 2, 3, and 4.

Without Itachi you have to wait for high chakra demanding moves on round 3 or more unless you had a Sage ninja or someone who takes Chakra away. Itachi's dodge triggers irregularly but can trigger multiple times a turn and on any attack even halfway through a chase which, honestly, is really nice. With a chase link broken it prevented it from being potentially triggered a second time from a different source. Two more things about Itachi and then I'll stop trying to sell him. His Standard instantly causes sleep guaranteed which I have Only seen the Fire Main being capable of doing and when you're down to a 1 on 1 against someone like that you have to hope you have more life by round 10 than them. His chase causes Ignition but unlike other ignitions his doesn't go away after the round, his ignition stays around for three turns meaning if you didn't pack debuff removal you will not be able to heal and will keep taking damage.

This post was last edited by Ganturo at 2016-11-21 15:04
This post was last edited by Ganturo at 2016-11-21 15:04