Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-32617252-20180330183206/@comment-34752936-20180406090746

Surely Minato had FTG which allowed him to travel distances in an instant and superhuman reflexes that allowed him to keep track of everything during this instantaneous movement.

But I say that he was still one of the fastest with his base Shunshin - also known as body flicker - as well and that's what gained him his moniker "The Yellow Flash". Even though it has never been explicitly stated but there are many obvious hints towards it (which maybe inconsistent writing from the author) but we shall take those into account as they make perfect sense.

Minato teleporting via FTG leaves no indication, he just vanishes and on few other occasions, mainly in anime, he leaves a puff of dust just like when a shadow clone is dispersed. None of these occurrences justify the name "Yellow Flash" as there is no flash or anything as such flashy.

Whereas for the first time we saw "Yellow Flash" being used in a direct conversation was when Obito intended to kill just-born Naruto and Minato blitzed past Obito to get Naruto out of the way without using FTG and getting the compliment from Obito. This doesn't justify his title as well though concludes that Minato was insanely fast even without FTG.

Fast forward to Naruto learning to control Kurama's chakra and first exhibit of his newfound power is that he blitzs across the room and pins escaping Kisame to the wall while hurting his feet. Both B and Yamato didn't knew what just happened and as per the translation, it all happened in a "Golden Flash" and Yamato remarked that it was just like 4th's. Naruto didn't teleported, he shunshined and according to Yamato that was very comparable to Minato's and "Golden Flash" and "Yellow Flash"? that's also quite explanatory as there was physical movement and hence left a flashing trail.

Second time, Naruto does the same Shunshin against Raikage and Tsunade thinks of Minato seeing it.

3rd time and the most obvious hint, Naruto blitzs all the Bijuu bombs away from Kakashi and co. during war, Kakashi who has seen Minato the most in action, confuses Naruto with Minato. And Kakashi has seen Minato doing FTG and he just can't confuse a physical Shunshin from FTG.

Conclusion, Minato had one of the fastest Shunshins (easily comparable to Naruto's speed in his KC Mode and Bijuu Mode) and was renowned as "Yellow Flash" for that.

Minato's base physical speed feats (below)

He was able to catch Naruto from a couple meters away faster than Obito could stab him from a few feet away Reacted to Raikage from a centimeter away (Literally) upon first meeting him without knowing exactly how fast he was where as Naruto had a few inches. Managed to Grab Kushina and get a good distance away from 100% Kurama in the time it took it, while in motion, to try and crush Kushina from several meters away. Mind you, 50% Kurama could pressure SM Naruto in attack speed alone. Outpaced the other kages who where rushing across massive countries in a matter of minutes fast enough to prep the battlefield (TenPen-Chii crater is country sized iirc), warp Juubi's BD and have a small conversation before the other Kages arrived.

That's my observation,people can disagree all they like..