Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-36006024-20180716193648/@comment-34194151-20180718010856

Hype and Portrayal matter a lot especially since we don't have many feats to go on for kakashi. Again superior prodigy, and Minato had enough confidence his skills to let him be the team leader and recommend he be promoted to Jonin. Rank is a good indicator as his development of shinobi far outpaced that of sasuke. Using the logic that has been presented as a counterargument, Asuma isn't good because he doesn't have alot of feats, but yet he made Jonin mostly through his taijutsu skills with Hien. That said, I agree rank isn't everything, because naruto who became god tier was basically a genin the entire series until the very end, but that is an exception and not the rule.

As for speedsters, kakashi was trained by the fastest shinobi alive, and sasuke doesn't even approach the speeds that minato can go to, FTG or not. During the War Arc Minato outran the three previous hokage to the battlefield using Shunshin (not FTG as common mistranslations imply), and those same three hokage got to the battlefield way faster than EMS sasuke. Kid sasuke's speed won't be an issue, kakashi has seen worse, and kakashi was a war hero.

It's gonna take more than exaggerated stat differences for sasuke to keep up with kakashi's superior combat intelligence, combat skill, and  combat experience.

Sasuke can be moody, arrogant, and can be taunted imo. Kakashi as a kid and even in Part one has shown to provoke his opponents and shit talk. he will copy sasuke's techniques and humiliate him like he did to Zabuza, especially since sasuke has been shown to be angry that kakashi sports a sharingan like he is an uchiha. Then kakashi sneaks in his classic clone feint to take sasuke out.