Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-36512555-20180814043009/@comment-734582-20180814165306

Mr. Grave wrote: I think it's just a matter of what you consider a speed feat. Obito's an adept sensor, so his fast reaction time is most likely him anticipating attacks and timing his movement right. Though that would be giving Kishimoto credit - chances are his speed is just an inconsistency, as were a lot of things during the War arc. I think it's fairly obvious that speed feats are intended to scale, even if their depiction of it doesn't. to make sense of Minato's speed, Kishimoto needed super-slo-mo. But logically, that means he would need to cover all of Minato's speed feats in the 4th war in the same superslowmo. Stuff like Juubi obito (which blitzed even Minato), would need to be drawn on an even greater level. But this makes accurate depiction impossible, let alone the effort and amount of panels needed. Kishimoto seemed to have realized he drew (heh) himself into a corner there. It's not unlike DBZ, where even though power levels scaled the level of destruction remained fairly constant (simply because to do so accurately would make his job a living hell)

Mr. Grave wrote: I think it's just a matter of what you consider a speed feat.

Effective speed is the only thing that matters most of the time. Only in very specific cases would it make sense to consider actual and effective speed separately, e.g. what Naruto and Sasuke do to the 3rd and 4th raikage respectively. Obito is canonically extraordinarily fast though.