I don’t think people realize that Itachi is the main reason why the war was won, you need at least one rewatch to appreciate it.
If you had any hard feelings for his character while he was alive due to the way he went about things… you have to be an irrational hater to not put it past you once he came back as an Edo. It was Kabuto/Obito biggest blunder and cost them an easy war.
Simple play by play of his actions and the consequences:
Without Itachi, Edo Nagato oblirates Naruto/Bee combo. They literally had zero chance against him and would have gotten their souls taken out of them. I don’t have to explain to you how this is game over for the Shinobi Alliance.
Itachi being able to use Kotoamatsukami worked so well even if it felt like an asspull at the moment, because Kishimoto set it up way way before, even before the Uchiha brothers fought against each other when he met Naruto in the forest.
Itachi then goes to find Kabuto (With Nagato’s help) and along with Sasuke defeats him, not only does he defeat him, as killing him wouldn’t stop the Edo Tensei, but he makes him tell him the signs and stops it himself.
Kabuto would have never been found and Edo tensei would have never been undone. Mind you that Nagato would have probably joined Obito/Madara against the Alliance. So three guys with a Rinnegan and Naruto/Bee dead.
Add that Sasuke himself was a complete wild card and could have easily destroyed the Leaf if he never had that talk with Hashirama, that was only possible due to Orochimaru, that was only revived because Kabuto was defeated and his brother last words and is GG as well.
Since Kabuto wouldn’t be stopped, Sasuke doesn’t get to revive Orochimaru, therefore the 4 Kages don’t ever join the fight.
And if for whatever reason Naruto/Bee stopped Nagato and we skip over to the Naruto/Kakashi/Guy/Bee fight vs Obito/Madara/10 Tails, that 10 Tails beast bomb that Minato teleported into the ocean would’ve taken out Naruto and the remaining of the Shinobi there.
If you had any hard feelings for his character while he was alive due to the way he went about things… you have to be an irrational hater to not put it past you once he came back as an Edo. It was Kabuto/Obito biggest blunder and cost them an easy war.
Simple play by play of his actions and the consequences:
Without Itachi, Edo Nagato oblirates Naruto/Bee combo. They literally had zero chance against him and would have gotten their souls taken out of them. I don’t have to explain to you how this is game over for the Shinobi Alliance.
Itachi being able to use Kotoamatsukami worked so well even if it felt like an asspull at the moment, because Kishimoto set it up way way before, even before the Uchiha brothers fought against each other when he met Naruto in the forest.
Itachi then goes to find Kabuto (With Nagato’s help) and along with Sasuke defeats him, not only does he defeat him, as killing him wouldn’t stop the Edo Tensei, but he makes him tell him the signs and stops it himself.
Kabuto would have never been found and Edo tensei would have never been undone. Mind you that Nagato would have probably joined Obito/Madara against the Alliance. So three guys with a Rinnegan and Naruto/Bee dead.
Add that Sasuke himself was a complete wild card and could have easily destroyed the Leaf if he never had that talk with Hashirama, that was only possible due to Orochimaru, that was only revived because Kabuto was defeated and his brother last words and is GG as well.
Since Kabuto wouldn’t be stopped, Sasuke doesn’t get to revive Orochimaru, therefore the 4 Kages don’t ever join the fight.
And if for whatever reason Naruto/Bee stopped Nagato and we skip over to the Naruto/Kakashi/Guy/Bee fight vs Obito/Madara/10 Tails, that 10 Tails beast bomb that Minato teleported into the ocean would’ve taken out Naruto and the remaining of the Shinobi there.