Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-27233105-20160130092635/@comment-3965545-20160213071217

Itachi uses crow shunshin and manages to trick even Sage Mode Kabuto, Sasuke and Kakashi, so his speed has the same logic here. Itachi is incredibly fast, faster than Sasuke by a good Margin. So Minato won't be making him look like a slowpoke without FTG, and don't forget a deathly ill and just about blind Itachi managed to react to natural lightning(Kirin) and even Black Zetsu commented on that. He managed to react and put up Susanoo faster than actual lightning could hit him.. it managed to break his susanoo barely and destroy his robe, but none the less it happened. Itachi is godly fast, and has godly reflexes to beat natural lightning in pure speed and reaction time. Minato at best is only as fast as Itachi with natural speed.. even then Itachi could react to FTG the same way he reacted to Kirin.. and with full eyesight and infinite refill of chakra reserves?? Minato's chances are ultra slim.

"Sasuke draws natural lightning directly from thunder clouds to supplement the power of his strike and controls it with chakra. Unlike most techniques, which are based on the user's chakra, this one uses the natural lightning, which — as noted by Zetsu — reaches the ground in 1/1000th of a second" Itachi's BLIND reaction time is faster than this. That is incredible beyond reasoning, Minato will not catch him off guard or trick him.