Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31338621-20190129080042/@comment-31715856-20190204151858

I'm honestly still confused why people thought Minato couldn't kill Ay and Bee. He teleported to Bee to force Ay to stop fighting. Konoha had been given word from the higher ups to fall back, but Ay was refusing to allow it. So he used Bee as leverage and said out loud for Ay to stop. Bee only had time to point the sword backward because Minato was talking, you can see in the chapter before that he didn't expect for him to appear there (the end page shows him with his mouth open and the old sweatdrop-of-surprise). It's not surprising, the workings of FTG aren't exactly common knowledge. Even Obito got caught off guard by it's capabilities, and surely he is stronger and smarter than Ay, Bee or Itachi.

To be honest, if Itachi had an extra three or so years to catch up in age to Minato (Itachi was, what, almost 20 when he died?) he could probably come very close. No one mentions Sage Mode though. Even if Minato wasn't good at maintaining it, are we going to consider the Amphibian Jutsu as some do for fights involving Jiraiya?