Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26005711-20150512133037/@comment-26773508-20150721131940

Mcpowa wrote: @baku i would place minato above tobirama

offtopic just wait and see him doing the same for bolt kage and rasengan/chidori xD I think Minato had the potential to be the second-strongest Hokage after Hashirama, but he died too young. His FTG is vastly superior to Tobirama, but I don't think it's sufficient ground to conclude that Minato>Tobirama overall. The manga portrayed Tobirama as being superior in intelligence and tactics. It seemed that he was the one keenly analysing Juubito, not Minato. Also, when the Hokage were revived by Orochimaru, Minato looked shocked by Hashirama and Tobirama's chakra prowess. So at least in terms of physical strength and chakra, Tobirama>Minato. The fact that Tobirama didn't get his arms chopped off by Juubito, but instead managed to use his own TSB against him, shows, in my opinion, Tobirama's superior combat abilities and strategy. The fact that Minato lost his half of the Kurama to Black Zetsu so easily doesn't help, either. Either way, I think Minato died too young and inexperienced. Had he lived, he would have probably surpassed Tobirama and Hiruzen.