Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24347194-20150211225344/@comment-5936871-20150410182621

@Hilary Itachi is not extremely fast and him being more versatile doesn't matter if his attacks cannot hit Minato. He is primarily a stationary fighter who uses his genjutsu and long-range attacks to take down his opponent. Itachi didn't fight toe-to-toe with Naruto in NTCM at all. Naruto easily countered his sneak attack from the sky because of Nagato's warning. Then Itachi and Naruto traded blows for like 15 seconds and the whole time they were discussing Sasuke. Naruto wasn't even trying to hurt Itachi or speedblitz him at all, he easily blocked and countered all of Itachi's blows. When did Itachi keep up with Shisui, and even if he did, Minato is faster than Shisui regardless. Also him matching Sasuke's lightning flash blade creation is irrelevant because Minato could easily destroy Sasuke at that point in time too and besides that trade-off that Sasuke and Itachi did was with shuriken and their sharingan, not their overall movement speed.