Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-36512555-20180814043009/@comment-34194151-20180824041555

@jason

Madara isn't hyped for his hand seal speed.

He also was holding back and testing out the kage abilities. You can clearly see in the manga that the lava obscured his vision from seeing Ay coming. He was focused on the lava, and you can see his thought bubble confirming that, saying the jutsu was something that could harm him. And Like I asked, show me a panel where someone used their running speed in mid air lol. Madara chose to do a guard because it got the job done, Ayy failed to hurt him with it.

Itachi and naruto were doing taijutsu in mid-air, how is that running speed?

Sasuke didn't use his running speed to avoid bee in mid-air. He parried the punch and then used bee's back as leverage to summersault off of him. That is taijutsu speed/tactics amplified by sharingan, not running/shunshin speed. The rinnegan doesn't seem to have precognition, so that's why Madara couldn't replicate that feat against Ayy. Also, sasuke already had forward momentum from being thrown by Jugo, where as madara did not. It's apples and oranges we are comparing here.