Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-46441687-20200805182809/@comment-39350828-20200812141031

LegionZero wrote: And how do you know someone is so dangerous that you need to flee on sight? By having intel of their exploits. And we know they do because A4 acknowledged that Minato singlehandedly stopped them from stealing Kurama 1. Unless they had seen slicing feats from him that would prove he was capable of cutting through A's armor during that event, they still wouldn't have the intel you're supposing they had.

2. Even if they had seen the limits of what he could and couldn't slice through at that time, he was a kid back then so they couldn't have known how he might've changed since then. LegionZero wrote: The Cloud had that order. Someone in A4's squqd said that they should run. A4 was just being a fuckin meathead. That doesn't translate to an order having been given but it does prove that they did in fact know he was dangerous unless that particular ninja was just cowardly or acting off of rumors or minato's rep that they couldn't really be certain about. For argument's sake let's say he did know for sure that minato was dangerous enough that they should probably run. That doesn't mean that they know for a fact he's a danger to A. That just means they were erring on the side of caution because they know what minato had done to other people and even if they did know that he was specifically a danger to A, apparently A didn't know that because, as you put it, he was a meathead. Also, if they thought that the squad should retreat with A included that could just be to maintain the integrity of their unit rather than leaving A behind with a bunch of konoha shinobi because regardless of whether they had intel on minato to know he could or couldn't break through the raiton armor, they probably didn't know if anyone on minato's squad could, even if only temporarily, to create an opening for minato. LegionZero wrote: A4 and his squad recognized Minato by his hair, teleportation technique, and referenced his moniker My point still stands that we really don't get anything close to a hint that they would've known whether he was capable of slicing through A's armor or not. A, B and that one cloud ninja's responses to the situation aren't supposed to be taken as completely rational and informed. When A tries to fight minato you agree this is just him making a mistake but when B puts his tentacle in the way of minato's kunai it has to be a good move.