@robbybevard:
Shikimaru's shadow hold alone could have aced a single Pain and held him in place while others acted. Let alone his whole family of shadow users? Or ninja with 1000's of bugs? Or an all taijitsu ninja against a body that has no physical defenses?
My personal favourites were the two Pains who used soul-sucking. It was their ONLY power and was totally reliant on them grabbing the skull of their opponent…which ALWAYS just happened to happen off screen, so we never got to see how the Pains, who weren't excactly taijutsu monsters (outmanouvered by effing Konohamaru!) managed to do it.
All through the Konoha invasion, no ninja managed to stand up to their awesome skull grabbing powers!
Nearly as stupid was Animal Pains summons, who caused everyone to run around like headless chickens, being saved by EFFING GENIN SAKURA, in her sole moment of pt.2 glory outside of the sasori fight: punching a centipede. Wow. Good going Konoha, good going.