Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-26998824-20151210004253/@comment-26773508-20160220182944

Ishi208 wrote: @Minato87 What?? I'm really confused. Why do you think Tobirama needs prep for his FTG and Minato doesn't? And how is it hard to put his marking on a Kunai?? The way you're saying it's like he has to draw it on with a pencil. He's saying that Minato mass-produced his special FTG-marked kunais in huge numbers, spread throughout different strategic locations. Also, he carried a whole bunch of them every time he went to battle. That gave Minato a huge advantage as he could teleport to all those kunais he had spread throughout the battlefield (and Konoha as well).

Tobirama, on the other hand, marked only one or two kunais at a single time. Not only that, the manga seems to suggest that he used to mark the kunais during the battlefield, unlike Minato who had already produced hundreds, if not thousands, of special kunais before he went to his first major battles as a jonin. So clearly, Minato's use of FTG is vastly superior to Tobirama's.

Had that not been the case, Tobirama would not have been killed by Kumo's Kinkaku Squad. Had Tobirama used FTG like Minato, he could have easily teleported himself and his team (Team Hiruzen and Team Danzo) to a safe place. But he didn't use FTG like Minato, which ultimately ended in his death.

Also, apart from the kunais, the manga seems to suggest that Minato's version of FTG was superior to Tobirama's even if both were to use only one FTG-tagged kunai. So it seems that Minato's FTG was better in quality and quantity as well.