But Hazo's just not that competent when it comes to a lot of slick human manipulation stuff. What we've seen of Ami makes me think of her as...well, terrifyingly competent in every way. Like 'I could manipulate everyone into making me the obvious choice for Kage in a few years, but I have better things to do' competent.
So your argument is "Ami has higher Deceit"? That seems to just be a problem of XP allocation. And if Shadow Clone farms work out then we'll have more XP to play with anyway.