Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-33030270-20170909171417/@comment-33308438-20171010120820

LegionZero wrote: Minato being the only one to beat Orochimaru doesn't mean he is the only one faster than Orochimaru or that Orochimaru is close to him in speed. It means that Minato was the only one with the skill set to beat him without dying. Has nothing to do with speed. Orochimaru nor Kakashi have displayed speed feats on the level of Minato.

Characters are dangerous for different reasons. Orochimaru and Hiruzen are dangerous because of their jutsu knowledge.

Minato is dangerous because of his speed and teleportation abilities, which make him pretty much untouchable. Doesn't matter how many jutsu Hiruzen knows if Minato can evade 99% of them.

Trapping Minato won't work. He can teleport. Minato is more than skilled enough to break a genjutsu. There are genjutsus which work with non-eye contact like kurenai's genjutsu and itachi's demonic illusion. So if hiruzen can use kurenai's genjutsu, then minato will be trapped. There is nothing to say he'll escape it. Since stamina monsters like kisame was getting manhandled by kurenai's genjutsu until itachi copied it with sharingan and broke it.

Kakashi cut lightning as a kid. He was keepijg up with minato as a kid, not only that, he was sure he could beat minato with raikiri as he said" I was so close to beating minato sensei".

So yes adult kakashi is basically higher than minato base speed and could probably match his shunshin. Not mention the yellow flash moniker came from the advanced mastery of flying thundergod jutsu, databooks confirm it.

You should also consider the fact that, hiruzen despite his crippling old age was beating three speedsters(Tobirama-fastest shinobi, hashirama-strongest shinobi, orochimaru=minato(almost in speed, equal in other categories) and you making it sound as small little feat shows how much you lowball hiruzen. Even if they were not at full power, hiruzen also wasn't at full power so no excuse.

So if hiruzen catches minato by following his markings he could easily use an earth style technique such as swamp of underworld to catch him by surprise then use katon to scorch him and then use kagemane to pierce his body like shikamaru did to kakuzu.

Not to mention enma can form a cage around him and simply block minato from touching hiruzen while giruzen performs all the jutsu peacefully.