Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-34277398-20180109173309/@comment-9782468-20180111020703

Lorenzo.r.2nd wrote: he did land a hit (why do u think minato didn't run at during the fight. he hurt his leg). and how can u say he never came close? he was almost caught may times over by obito, while minato himself landed one (and pretty lucky) hit. and if he was in such a rush, wouldn't the fight have ended much faster than it did? and hiruzen is already shown to be stronger than him by feats, and he wasn't old either. that was 13 years before the start of the series (if he was about 60 at the time, he would've been 47 during the attack. that's not old at all). Oh whoops, I thought you meant in their exchange in the woods. Yess, one inch-deep kunai stab.

He was almost caught once by Obito. After that, Obito never came close to sucking him in.

Minato wasn't lucky, he had it planned from the start how he'd get him; by making Obito think he was gonna hit him so he wouldn't have the reflexes to go intangible when Minato outsped him.

He was in a rush, but against an opponent he barely knew anything about. And who already proved he was formidable by killing the anbu that Minato had prepared. So no, it wasn't gonna be faster than it was, and it was already pretty fast.

Hiruzen is shown to be stronger than who by feats? Minato? Not at all, Hiruzen has no feats above Minato. Which we don't hold against him, since we've only seen him fight while old.