Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-34277398-20180109173309/@comment-3568954-20180111214432

Lorenzo.r.2nd wrote: and hiruzen wasn't a prodigy? he learned every single jutsu in konoha, and is the second youngest hokage (maybe not even, cuz I don't how he was when tobirama elected him). like being a prodigy is no excuse. what can minato even do to people like hiruzen, jiraya, and pain? no he wasn't stated to be a prodigy, even if he was thats not the same thing that minato got described as, minato was described as a prodigy among prodigies, a prodigy that occurs only once a generation.

minato is the second fastest character to ever appear, he had natural speed boosted by the body flicker and further boosted his combat speed by using a teleportation jutsu. he has a natural high level of chakra high enough that he was able to master sage mode, Where in his master jiraiya was in capable of truly mastering. as he still changed into a toad.

and all this stupid stuff about a character knowing X amount of jutsu is stupid. the more you know the less you know. Bruce lee said fear not the man who practices 10,000 punches once but fear the man who practices 1 punch 10,000 times. the human brain can not process information like a computer, the more info you have to sift through the longer it takes to find specific info for example kakashi is stated to have learned 1000 jutsu, but thats all irrelevant as it would take to long to sift through all those jutsu to use even a fraction of them efficiently. so it doesn't matter how many jutsu Hiruzen knows or has mastered. all of that is irrelevant, what is relevant is how efficiently you use the jutsu you know. Minato has a jutsu that allowed him to completely slaughter enemy armies simply by throwing a bunch of kunai across the battlefield. he was able to fight an enemy that had complete intangibility and figure out how to hit him with no prior experience fighting said individual