Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24347194-20150211225344/@comment-5936871-20150410210209

But the fact that Minato is able to use it on the level that he can makes it apart of his speed. You naturally need to be very fast and have great reflexes and perception in order to use FTG. As seen when he was able to react to A's point-blank LRCM punch in an instant by teleporting to his FTG seal. There isn't a single thing that implies that Sage Mode Kabuto is faster than Minato and Sasuke is irrelevant, Sasuke's speed is nothing compared to Minato's and there are several characters much faster than him, so including Sasuke doesn't help the argument at all. Obito and Madara were both the TTJ when they Minato's arms, and you say he isn't that fast because of that? You do realize both Minato and Obito were the most powerful beings in the world at the time right? Kakashi was only faster than Obito because they were fighting in the kamui dimension and neither used kamui. It was shown earlier that NTCM Naruto, Guy, and Kakashi all had trouble landing blows on Obito earlier when he was spamming kamui even after they figured out how his jutsu worked, and Minato figured it out in a few seconds and one-shotted Obito. Even though Obito was weaker then, he was still very powerful thanks to kamui and every single person he encountered around that time and a bit later thought he was Madara and believed he was Madara when he said he was. That right there is an example of how powerful he was regardless of his age. His speed has been hyped all throughout Shippuden so saying "he isn't that fast at all" is just ridiculous, and Minato is much faster than Shisui. Once again, Itachi has to initiate eye contact with Minato to trap him in his genjutsu, and Minato wont give him time to do that. How can he put Minato in izanami when he needs to set it up first with several sequences and conditions when he will have to use susanoo immediately and stay on the defensive to avoid getting his throat slit or a rasengan rammed into him point-blank? He cannot have "a few kunai clashes" with Minato because Minato is fast enough to kill him within a few kunai clashes, Minato isn't dumb enough to make eye contact, and when did Itachi cast a genjutsu just by pointing? He can summon gamabunta above the susanoo to crush it, and as I said before, if he can't break it he can wait until Itachi can no longer maintain it and then kill him. We've already given you plenty of proof on how he can beat Itachi. You're severely overestimating Itachi's abilities like many others do, and we have addressed all of your post, and there are many others who agree with us. But who agrees with who is irrelevant if they don't have a good supporting argument. This has nothing to do with what character I like more but which one is superior based on the manga, and that is Minato. Whether they be alive or reanimated, Minato wins.