Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-35245311-20200605154655/@comment-39350828-20200623200953

kurama spent years with kushina who as far as we know, didn't get to see minato fight at all, let alone go all out, except for when they were kids and when kurama was unleashed. Alright I'll explain how I'm interpreting this again. Madara said tobirama "used to boast the fastest speed of any shinobi". The point of contention between me and legionzero was whether "you were the fastest" means that at the point in time/period of time being referenced you were faster than the speed people before you used to have but no longer did and the other people of your time or whether it just meant that at that point in time/period of time you were faster than other people were at the same time. Your claim is that tobirama was not being compared to the speed people before him used to have, instead the speed he used to have was being compared to the speed others gained after he died. The reasons why I don't think your or legionzero's interpretations make sense is because of analogies with other similar situations: if someone says jeff bezos is the richest person they don't compare his wealth to people who used to have more wealth than him but no longer do and if someone says "(insert someone who won the olympics) was the fastest" they can say that knowing their record was beaten at some point.