Therefore: Jiraiya > Itachi

i mgiht disagree with that then again at the time itachi did not think naruto was worht getting when he ran off to rest. itachi seem to being carfule about thing and advoids pointless or fight that can leave injuuries that him and shark man do not need to get(like back in leaf village he could fo killed all them if he wanted to but it was not worth the effort)

that true he ddi read the sahdow clone skill i take that but since then i not seen him sit down and learn a move since that time. you think he try for the fobbin scroll again some day maybe and learn something new. took all his time wiht it jsut to learn the shadow clone skill which was the first one in the scrolll