Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-34277398-20180314193639/@comment-5085906-20180324203709

^I'm gonna say this for what is hopefully the last time - there are NO black flames surrounding Itachi's Susanoo. Sasuke conjured those flames via Blaze Release: Kagutsuchi, which was an ability of his Mangekyo Sharingan which Itachi did not possess. One of Sasuke's eye could cast Amaterasu, the other could regulate the flames. In Itachi's case, one of his eyes could cast Amaterasu while the other was used to pull of Tsukuyomi, hence why he can't coat the Susanoo in flames like Sasuke did.

Itachi's fast hand movements are also not that big of a deal since Minato can match them just as easily. Here's a panel of Minato flicking his kunai just above Ay at his top blitz speed:. To give you a clarification, he had that knife in his hand while Ay was inching towards him and had closed quite a distance at that point. Yet, he still managed to flick it up, dodge his punch and teleport back to it before it had the chance to hit the ground. That is a speed feat that far surpasses that of Itachi.

Also, no one's arguing that Minato should have KCM for the sake of this battle. The OP made it clear it was Base Minato so we'll go with that. And while Minato didn't defeat Kyuubi single-handedly, he did 90 percent of the work, all the while fighting Tobi AND making sure his wife and kid are safe. At one point, he even had to gather enough chakra to teleport Kyuubi out of the village. Even after the fact, he still managed to use sealing jutsu and summon the Reaper. Dude's a beast.

As for Totsuka's Blade, we haven't seen how it fares against a being made out of chakra, such as a Tailed Beast. Kurama is especially hard to seal in all at once. Minato had to separate it into two entities to be able to seal it in his son. Even half of it was powerful enough to conjure a Tailed Beast Ball that was able to match in power another Tailed Beast Ball comprised of shared chakra from 5 other tailed beasts. The best we've seen Totsuka do was seal Orochimaru and later Nagato, which is quite a feat, but nothing compared to sealing a being made out of pure chakra that replenishes almost constantly.

Either way, it's too big of a technique for Minato to not notice it and stay out of its way, so it doesn't really factor that well in this fight. Best it can do is seal Gamabunta if Minato ever summons it.