Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-33953813-20180130130057/@comment-25122992-20180130161344

Gagua2028 wrote: But Minato should've used it just as he arrived on the battlefield and to make things more easy Madara himself came towards them in order to fight hashirama.

Minato knew about Madara's immense power so he should have deduced that the Reaper death seal was his most powerful Trump card against Madara.

Minato or Hiruzen's sacrifice would have much greater if they had been able to take down Madara with them.

Minato played a major role in the war arc but Hiruzen could have been more useful if he had just tried using reaper death seal on Madara even if it weren't to work for some reason. As I already said, Hokage erected the barrier to contain Ten-Tails almost immediately after coming to the battlefield, since the beast was their priority. And then, Minato had to sustain the barrier up to the point when TTJ-Obito, who also became a prime enemy, broke it. Not gonna explain the same things with Hiruzen, since I've already did this in the previous post. Neither Minato nor Hiruzen had any chance to use the seal. They hadn't even been in the same place as Madara almost all of the time.