Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1018594-20140711002406

While it might not be the most popular opinion, I think that Minato Namikaze is the most overrated and unnecessarily overpowered character in the whole Naruto series. And I mean like, DBZ-level overpowered.

He pretty much stole the Flying Raijin and got famous off it. Tobirama invented it, along with a ton of other jutsu and he goes down as a footnote in ninja history, apparently.

He knows Sage Mode but he didn't think to use it when he fought Tobi and he somehow knew he could use Kurama Chakra Mode after being reincarnated despite there being no possible way he could have known about it beforehand. Sage Mode was too difficult for Jiraiya to perfectly master, but Minato was good enough to enter Perfect Sage Mode in seconds and still say he "wasn't too good with it." Naruto had to have a legit battle with Kurama to use its chakra and we've seen that Minato also had half of Kurama inside him; did they also decide to randomly become buddies?

He could do all that and he STILL had time to NOT save Rin or Obito or complete the Rasengan...but he could make like 4 different variations of it, including a Senjutsu variant. For someone whose intelligence is lauded by so many, you think he would have had the foresight to tell that sealing the demon fox that just totaled the village into his only son would give the kid literally the worst childhood ever. If I had to pick three people responsible for all the events in the Naruto timeline, they're Madara, Danzo and Minato.

While I might just be ranting and you might just call it sour grapes, I sigh in disappointment whenever Minato "Without my other arm, I can only warp away ONE of those gigantic, ridiculously destructive and earth-shattering Tailed Beast Balls..." Namikaze gets honorable mentions. A horrible Hokage and an even worse father. 