Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30323490-20180607192958/@comment-34194151-20180826234228

I never said he couldn't find a way to deal with FTG. Wind techs, shinra tensei, chibaku tensei all work. It's not much different than how nagato figured out how to deal with naruto's rasenshuriken, while naruto figured out how to deal with shinra tensei by the end of the battle. But nagato suffers from the lack of initial knowledge more than minato does. Nagato catches minato off guard, minato teleports out due to better reflexes, and gains more information on rinnegan techs. On the other hand, Nagato is likely to get marked early on when he is caught off guard by FTG, which is really bad. After that, both secrets are known. Nagato would have his counter-measures, and so would Minato. So it comes down to skill after that. The problem is, once the tricks are all out in the open, he has never faced someone as fast minato before, so he would have a harder time defeating minato's tactics. Because Minato is smarter, he would be able to establish his win-conditions faster and more effectively than Nagato would be able to. Minato has a body flicker that makes the three previous hokage slow. Nagato has never been hyped for his speed. He has the one decent speed feat of shunshining to save konan from hanzo, but that is nothing compared to Minato. Minato could end the fight with repeated slashes with his kunai or a powerful enough rasengan, teleporting in and out. Nagato is highly durable and has insane endurance, but he lacks a consistent healing factor. He doesn't have the reflex/ reaction feats to tell me he would be able to react to a surprise FTG-induced attack. Tobi, who has far better reflex feats with kamui, got owned by FTG once minato outsmarted him. Minato couldn't put him down immediately due to obito's durability and healing, but had the fight continued he would try to go for head/neck shots with rasengans and kunais to try and get the fatal blow, it wouldn't be easy but minato was more experienced, so he would have found a way to make it land. With nagato, it would be a similiar ending.

Admittedly, Chibaku tensei would be the hardest thing for minato to overcome, but he has shown to have kunai all over the place, such as when he teleported the kyuubidama to who knows where. Remove the pre-prepped kunai from minato's arsenal, and it's actually a good chance chibaku tensei could end him, but even then he can theorectically survive through FTG'ing to a hypothectical mark on nagato, and look for an opening to try and warp the planetoid away with the FTG barrier. Though tbh, with his experience he would probably try to warp away the core immediately, but I don't think he would be able to succeed consistently.