Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-3394889-20140714191859/@comment-24294256-20140716112825

Actually in terms of pure speed Minato is the fastest in the Narutoverse, the problem is tht as the other characters became over powered with hundreds of power-ups Minato's speed became overshadowed by the other character's abilities. One cannot compare Minato's speed with Naruto's speed with the Nine-Tails chakra cloak, or with Madara's Jinchuriki mode. If you were to compare Madara's pure speed with Minato's pure speed then Minato would win, even though Madara would probably win the fight, due to reasons. The same counts for Guy's 8 gates opening, one cannot compare Minato's speed with Guy's speed in 8 gates.

Minato is probably much faster than Tobirama, but Tobirama was renowned internationally for all the Jutsus he created, and within Konoha also for his Water Jutsus, I'm pretty sure that in Kiri there were better Water users. Tobirama was not well known for his speed, not as much as "The Yellow Flash".

Another point, note his nickname "The Yellow Flash", this is known to be made because when he moved his yellow hair would leave a streak of light in his path. If he only relied on Hiraishin there would be no "Yellow Flash". The nickname was specific for movement. Just like when Naruto first controlled Kurama's chakra and fought Kisame those who witnessed remarked of the "yellow flash" they observed when Naruto moved fast.

And lastly in Naruto chapter 242, when Minato went to the frontlines he defeats 50 enemy ninja's within the blink of an eye, which even if all of the his special kunai were within arms distance to an enemy he wouldn't be able to kill them all within the blink of an eye. Then in the anime, episode 349 Onoki mentioned that the yellow flash stopped an invasion of 1000 men by himself.

So in summary my point is as follows: 1 - You cannot compare pure speed, with speed gained by a power-up. 2 - There is enough evidence within the Narutoverse to prove that Minato is actually the fastest ninja alive.

P.S. When he was resurrected by Orochimaru, his powers are limited due to the limitations of Impure World Resurrection. And yes, Guy is faster when opening all 8 gates, yes Madara is faster as the 10 tails Jinchuriki, and yes Naruto is faster while in Nine-Tails Mode, and guess what, Kaguya is also faster! Go figure, so much for the reputation of fastest ninja in history. Now Kishimoto made him as useless as Sakura.