Quote Originally Posted by ASSpirine
You could say Tobi is as useful as Sakura (before the Sasori fight) for now.
Tobi floored the Three Tails. He's infinitely more useful than Sakura.

Quote Originally Posted by antiravage
Tobi wasn’t close to Sasuke’s and Deidara’s location when both fell to the ground because he had to escape the C4 mini-bombs
Exactly. What do you think of when your partner goes:

"I'm going to kill this fucker with airborne anthrax."

1) Run
2) God help the fucker



Knowing the nature of Deidara's attack, and not knowing the nature of the sharingan, it's normal to assume whoever didn't start running would die.

That is, of course, if you don't assume Tobi is Obito, which hasn't been confirmed yet.