Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31338621-20190129080042/@comment-9782468-20190204051711

FlatZone wrote: Yeah if Minato was so fast and all, he would not have been outreacted by Tobirama who was outreacted by Madara who had 1 eye. Minato is fast sure, but FTG is his saving grace and like I said before, it was War time and Minato had shown before he had no hesitation killing enemies, yet B and A never died showing Minato could not kill them or truly beat them, they just could never catch him to beat him and while we are at it he couldn't even finish a 14 year old Obito, only managing to hurt his arm and remove the Kurama contract. Minato was not outreacted by Tobirama. In the instance where Tobirama teleported the TSB away when Minato didn't, here's why.

Minato just teleported away, and his shoulder obviously isn't in his field of vision. So he didn't notice it while exchanging words with Naruto and Sasuke. Tobirama was watching the whole thing, so noticed and reacted first. While Tobirama did teleport it away, Minato himself was just about to do the same thing anyway. Tobirama was able to observe the situation as a big picture rather than being directly in it like Minato.

Minato easily would have finished Obito had his attention not been focused on the strongest Tailed Beast by far killing his village at an alarming rate. Obito did not land one blow on Minato. He grabbed him in his chains, which MInato easily excaped, and also earlier grabbed his arm when he let it phase through his head, which Minato also escaped. Then Minato landed a hard blow (which would kill anyone without some sort of healing like Hashi cells btw, Big Ball Rasengan is no joke), and left a way for him to easily get back to him, the FTG mark. Then he undid the contract with Kurama which was his priority to begin with. Then he let Obito leave because he had to go save his village.

A not being alive doesn't mean Minato couldn't kill him, it means later on their villages weren't warring. Besides, by that logic, every rival that's alive means the other couldn't kill the other. That's just not the case. Ay himself acknowledged Minato as the better Shinobi.