Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-9782468-20150219204421/@comment-25025726-20150411234320

Well since this would be when Minato's alive, he obviously doesn't have the 9-tails chakra. In that case I give this one to Pain. People are forgetting that if Pain decided to hold the Naraka Path back so it couldn't get marked or destroyed, anytime Minato defeats one, he could summon it back, have the Naraka Path bring it back to "life", and then the Path goes back to the battle. For example, hiding it in the chameleon or keeping it off the battlefield altogether. Plus when a Path is brought back via Naraka Path, they go back to the state they were in before the battle. Although Minato says the mark never disappears on someone once he's marked them, who's to say the mark would stay after they got restored. And since Uzumaki have more chakra, he could make it a battle of attrition.

FTG is an OP move, but anytime he throws a Kunai Pain could deflect it with Shinra Tensei, or blow them up via Asura Path. He would also have a hard time even marking the Paths because of the shared field of vision which can go from 6 to 20+ since the summons have them too. As for Minato's sage mode, Minato has to stay still in order to gather Nature energy. I highly doubt Pain would let him do that. Unlike Naruto, Minato can't use RasenShuriken, since he wasn't able to add Nature Transformation to it.

Pain wouldn't dominate him, in fact I could see him having to use the Naraka Path more than once, but in the end, as long as Minato has no prior knowledge of the Rinnegan, I give the victory to Pain.