Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-31338621-20190501030435/@comment-26636534-20190503160827

AsianReaper wrote:

What I'm wondering is, why wouldn't he just summon Ma and Pa? He's a perfect Sage, so with them gathering energy for him him, his Sage Mode would be stronger than Jiraiya's. On top of that, it negates his disadvantage of not being able to maintain the form very long. Yeah me too. From Jiraiya's instance of summoning them, it's known that there is some condition that has to be met first before they can be summoned. It was probably plot induced to prevent spamming but oh well. You don't think Minato would incorporate SM into his fighting style?

I say that he would have eventually, since we see all the other characters with SM finding ways to use it effectively in combat. Hashirama can enter SM in a moment, Jiraiya can sustain it with Ma and Pa, Naruto uses shadow clones, Kabuto used Jugo's dna and even Orochimaru utilized SM via his cursed seals (not really but it shows creativity).

I don't expect Minato to use one of these methods, although he could. Maybe using his knowledge of sealing jutsus he can store SM chakra into a seal similar to Tsunade and Sakura. To use anytime in combat.