Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-33030270-20170909171417/@comment-33308438-20171011170324

Vladosaurus wrote: How was Orochimaru chosen above Minato as hokage, when Minato became the hokage? The fact that Danzo proposed Orochimaru faster than Hiruzen proposed Minato for the hokage position is meaningless. Even if things would've turned otherwise and they would've said: "No, we give the title to Orochimaru because Minato is still too young and inexperienced", it still wouldn't have meant that Minato is weaker than Orochimaru. Naruto was the strongest ninja alive after the war, but it's not like they gave him the hokage title right away. And definitely neither Orochimaru nor Hiruzen come even close to Minato's raw speed, without him even using the hiraijin. Not even close. With hiraijin it's not even comparable. They are miles away in terms of speed.

Also no, Hiruzen has no reaction speed like Naruto had against the raikage in SM. In terms of reaction and sensing, SM is waay above what almost all the kage could do on their own. That another unjustified argument. Hiruzen never ever displayed such feat. Oro was chosen as hokage but his mind was evil so hiruzen retracted his original decision. So if oro can react to minato then, hiruzen prime will easily react. And in the war arc, he did display hand speed and ftg equal running speed as minato and hiruzen escaped from juubito and reached the destination at the same time.