Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-46441687-20200805182809/@comment-31715856-20200806195917

What do you mean "clearly"? Minato never got the chance to actually attack him because of Bee, but he was obviously about to do so. Unless you think Minato is an idiot who would try an attack that wouldn't work, this is not a defensible belief. And the idea he would always kill him if he could is disproven by him using Bee to force Ay to let the Konoha-nin retreat.

My speculation about the chakra flow simply comes from the idea that it explains why he tried to use a normal blade on Ay's armor, but I didn't rest on that. There's no evidence his larger Rasengan couldn't break through the armor. For one, Chidori got through and it has already been established in the series that even the regular sized Rasengan is better at breaking through things than Chidori (this is a huge reason why Sasuke was angry after fighting Naruto on that hospital roof).