Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34277398-20190315034807/@comment-28691302-20190410124846

Minato was by no means equal or comparable to Kurama at all. The first thing he did was summon Gamabunta. Then he teleported one of his attacks with Flying Raijin. Then he teleported Kurama himself. Then he got impaled by a single finger nail trying to save Naruto. Then he sealed him. Minato hasn’t shown anything even remotely comparable to Kurama in terms of being able to actually fight him. Ay (4) physically cut off Gyūki’s horn with his Nintaijutsu back when he was a Jonin assisting Ay (3) in its capture. That being said, Killer B and Gyūki as well as Naruto and his half of Kurama seemed to be extremely close in power during the war. It could just Hebrew me memory messing with me but I don’t remember Kurama outdoing Gyūki by a large margin at any point.

It’s kinda iffy to say that the Raikage didn’t improve or get any significant gains in the 16+ years between when he was a Jonin and when he became Raikage, especially since he’s shown to be able acces a second level of LCM where his hair spikes up, chakra reaches Biju levels, (Karin has just sensed fully transformed B, though B wasn’t serious. Not sure if that affects his chakra levels or not) and speed increases greatly compared to V1. Naruto also called V1 Ay’s punches heavy, and this is a Naruto who’s physically stronger than in Sage Mode as I said before. It’s also iffy to say Minato didn’t get any stronger between the third war and the 9 Tails attack. We know that Minato did Sage training and was trying to perfect the Rasengan but couldn’t before he died, and we know that say managed to achieve another level with his Lightning Chakra Mode. Not much evidence to go by but it’s hard to see how two Jonin that got appointed to Kage would just be stagnant.

Flashing back to Minato vs Ay though, he didn’t have a chance to test his strategy because Minato teleported to B. If we look in both the anime and manga, Ay actually managed to scan every single one of the marked Kunai that Minato scattered around the area in that brief moment before Minato re-appeared, and was able to react to 2/3 of his teleports in that encounter. And I don’t get why people think that since Minato dodged Ay’s punch once, it means Ay could never hit Minato. Minato barely managed to dodge that punch, and in fights against two people with comparable reaction and combat speed, it’s not as if they always dodge and never hit. Eventually hits land. And even if Ay can’t hit Minato, Minato can’t really do much to Ay either. You said Minato wasn’t fully serious, yet he immediately tried to go for a killing blow on Ay in their first encounter. Granted, Minato probably didn’t know the Lightning Chakra Mode acted as a defense too, as I doubt his Kunai swing could’ve pierced through the armor and killed Ay, but the point is he went with killing intent.