Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-30323490-20180607192958/@comment-9782468-20180725183142

@Namikaze, Minato did not figure out the mechanics of Obito's abilities. He found a way to counter the abilities since he had the speed to do it.

Minato never knew Obito was sending bits of himself to another dimension for example. Minat never had to figure that out, because he had the speed and reactions to just hit Obito before he activated his intangibility.

Minato commented on Obito's space-time technique, yes. But he only noted it was more versatile because it didn't require a mark to teleport to. SO in that sense it was superior to FTG. And that was after Obito literally just teleported in front of him so it wasn't a feat of intelligence there.

In fact, I forget who exactly, but didn't Sakura already hypothesis in their fight that Obito's body parts were disappearing instead of him turning legitimately intangible? THe squad just had no counter for it at the time; none of them were fast enough to catch Obito off-guard.