Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-33030270-20170909134305/@comment-5085906-20170910184828

@Lorenzo.r.2nd

Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags technique has the user act as a medium for the paper bombs, meaning the explosives would drain Tobirama's chakra and kill him. He can use it with a reincarnated body, but how the hell is he gonna go through that ritual in the midst of a 1v1? That technique works best when used by Edo Tobirama, but if he's alive then the technique would be somewhat less effective since with his death the technique would end too. And even if Tobirama can use the kunai of another FTG user, he still has to link his chakra with them which Minato won't allow him to do.

As for Tobirama's water jutsu, he uses hand seals to activate them. Minato does not need hand seals to conjure a Rasengan. Asides from using bukijutsu and his Water Bullet technique which he was shown to use without handseals, Tobirama's other water jutsu each utilize hand seals which create quite an opening for Minato.

Minato elaborated on the FTG a tad bit more than Tobirama. He has been shown using the same FTG techs as Tobirama, including the one where he placed the formula into another seal (in his case, Kushina's jinchuuriki seal) but he could also use techniques like Guiding Thunder. Other than that, they were pretty close with the decisive difference that Minato actually had a technique, the Rasengan, that perfectly complemented his use of FTG. Also, Tobirama and Minato are about equal in terms of intelligence. His performance during the War was admittedly meh, but it is quite a small part of what we've seen of Minato and not reflective of his overall intelligence and battle prowess.

Moreover, Minato's shunshin far surpassed Tobirama as the latter himself admitted. Ay needed to utilize lightning-enhanced shunshin at its full power just to be able to match Minato's reflexes at base mode. Plus, we saw during the war how quickly Minato arrived in the battlefield after making a few stops to place a couple of FTG kunai in a location nearby. He has proven to be almost as adept at sensing as Tobirama, though I guess Tobirama does slightly surpass him in this aspect.

Tobirama killing Izuna has nothing to do with how he'll fare against Minato. This is Naruto - it's not A>B, B>C then A>C - it's kind of more complex than that. Now, I don't know how Minato would fare against MS Madara since we have not seen MS Madara in action. But I know that Madara's skillset is completely different from Tobirama's and Minato's and as such would not be a good indicator of how this versus, in which speed is the main factor, would turn out.

I think Minato takes this - mid to high difficulty.