Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26636534-20170619154549/@comment-734582-20170626213247

Mr. Grave wrote: It's when you get into these kind of discussions that you notice how shoddy the writing is in Naruto. It's mostly fine. There's no definitive need to explain everything all the time (since it would just bog up the story with endless explanations), and most of the time we can make fairly proper theories on how things work. Most common questions are from the 4th war phase, at which Kishimoto clearly tried to fit in most of his ideas in his allotted time, but otherwise he did a fine enough job. Rereading the manga often leaves me wanting to read more and i rarely feel that the pacing is really off.

Things like speed and rankings are a hairy subject anyway (if you want to write yourself in a corner, try to be 100% accurate with everything all the time - it doesn't work and it's not worth it).

But we do have someone who was quite fast (itachi) and someone repeatedly stated to be the fastest in the world (Minato), so i think it's clear that Minato would be very unlikely to get caught in any type of genjutsu. There wasn't one that Itachi could fire at Kabuto without his MS, and with his MS couldn't fire Amaterasu accurate enough to get him. Hell CS Sasuke could almost outrun his Amaterasu casting. Itachi isn't gonna cast Tsukuyome orders of magnitude faster than that. Between Minato's respectable chakra levels, speed and maneuverability and Itachi's inability to really make anything stick to him, it's simply heavily in Minato's favor.

Itachi can't keep Susanoo up forever, yet Minato has been seen teleporting lots of times with no sign of fatigue, even after teleporting massive objects. It's simply in Minato's favor. Even when the Raikage figured out Minato's Jutsu, Minato was still a step ahead. It was only because Bee did understand Minato's words (and A didn't) that he could predict the next attack, because he pretty much blatantly spelled out his next attack.