Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-27233105-20160130092635/@comment-26403664-20160202014145

Itachi was able to keep up with Ninetales Chakra mode Naruto in speed and taijutsu and meet him blow for blow. It showed he didn't have a hard time with it and he was also able to fight evenly with taijutsu and kenjutsu on Kabuto until he let Kabuto cut him in half in order to start the Izanami loop. My point is that Itachi is capable of keeping up and reacting to Minato. You could even say that Itachi could react to FTG as long he wasn't physically tagged in the same way Madara and Obito could. Minato only wins in speed due to FTG and even he won't be able to land a presice enough blow to take him out ASAP. It would be a dragged out fight, more akin to part one as in hiding attacking and then hiding again. If this is normal Minato I think Itachi would win just because of the susanoo. If it's Minato with Yin Kurama eventually he would steamroll Itachi because he would just bomb the hell out of the susanoo in the blink of an eye. Genjutsu could work on normal Minato and that's how I think he would win against Normal Minato. It wouldn't be an immediate hit with genjustsu but he would succumb eventually. Againdt ninetales Minato Kurama would release him and then Minato would whip Itachi's ass unless Itachi uses izanagi on him but even then I think the fight would be over before Itachi would consider using it.