This is getting repetitive, but anyway... here we go again. ~.~
Minato & Tobirama.
In Term of Jutsus.
Both of these ninja are relying heavily on their teleporting jutsus, FTG. However, Minato is greater than Tobirama with the teleporting jutsus as Tobirama admitted in two places, [
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]. However, some people may argue 2 things. The first is that FTG cannot be slower since it's a teleporting jutsu. However, that was proven wrong by Tobirama himself [
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Not only that, but Tobirama even praised Minato for being fast at striking as well [
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]. Based on that Minato is as proved by Tobirama himself is indeed better, especially that Minato was praised to be the fastest ever [
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As for defenses cases, Minato's greatest defensive moves is his S/T barrier which can deal with moves as strong and the TBB [
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About shunshin. Minato still has some of the best feats in the manga; [
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]. Crossing Konoha in no time, stopping kakashi before he could even move his hand, and separating the Kunais before the Hokages even arrive. On the other hand, Tobirama has none, except taking the black orb off panel, which cannot be taken seriously.
That's in term of their teleportation jutsus (other than the Water Wall) which they rely on heavily. Both of them are sensor type ninje, they can sense the chakra by their fingers or not. Minato can sense with even one finger [
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], unlike Tobirama who uses two fingers for that [
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]. Both have clones, and can use the 4 suns barrier, so they are more or less even in this regard. However, Minato can easily break this when he use his SM to improve all of his base states and make his sensing, chakra, and other things more powerful, although that is only for short time [
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As for offensive moves, Tobirama also has his Water Severing Wave which was able to cut throw some of the Tree's branches [
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], so it does not really prove how powerful this jutsu is. Minato on the other hand has his Rasengan that was able to damage obito's heavily despite he has Hashirama's cells, but he lost his arm and the earth service underneath him was completely destroyed [
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Another jutsu that Tobirama has is his Water Dragon [
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One of Tobirama's most powerful jutses is Edo Tensei. However, he does not really have feats with it, and we have no idea what kind of people that he can summon. However, we know that by Kabuto's statement even Oro's part 1 ET was greater than that of Tobirama's [
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], so I would assume that Tobirama's ET was not meant for the power of the summoned people, but rather for his strongest offensive move which is Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags, which was implied by Madara as well [
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Now, Minato also has a summoning jutsu, but instead of summoning the dead, he summons the frogs. Unlike the Tobirama's case we actually know the frogs and we know their jutsus.
As Tobirama's feats and jutsus stop as far as this. Minato has shown a great mastery over the sealing jutsus that he can do some even with on hand.
Minato also has
Chakra Transfer Technique
Dead Demon Consuming Seal
Four Symbols Seal
Eight Trigrams Sealing Style
Sage Mode
besides his unrevealed jutsu the Spiralling Flash Super Round Dance Howl Participate Formula. That's without going to the other things like their hype and battles ...etc
The Chakra.
Some people may argue that Tobirama has more chakra than Minato, and that based heavily on Obito's statement about Asura and what he inherited from his father [
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], what are the odds that it did not happen to Tobirama who came several hundreds of years after him?
On the other hand, we know for sure that Minato had a massive amount of chakra since he has a perfect SM, which required such a huge chakra [
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In addition to that, some people might use the argument that Tobirama made the wall cracks, but how does that prove that he has more chakra than Minato? have not Hiruzen and Oro done the same thing during their fight? But still they did not get all that much chakra, Hiruzen has only 3 in the Databook, so that feats does not really prove anything at all.
Also, stating that Minato get tired after teleporting Kurama means he does not have great chakra, or Tobirama has more because he teleported both Kuramas. That is cool and all, except, Minato was alive back then, and he dealt with Kushina's seals for hours and then fought obito and all the other things.
HOWEVER, Tobirama was only an ET, and he got his chakra restored every time he gets drained, so it's just natural that he won't worry about that stuff. Had he been alive, he wouldn't have been able to continue fighting after the 4 suns barrier since he was already exhausted before the fight even start [
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I also find the fact that Tobirama is not a SM user like his brother is proof that he does not have enough chakra to learn it.
In Term of Battles.
we either have some scan of their battles, or not even a complete fights. Therefore, I will rely on, both the scans we have about the fight, and the statements that were made for the given fights.
First of all, one of the fights we know about Tobirama is the fact that he fought Kin & Gin. One of the fights he fought with them was a surprised attack against him and the 2nd Raikage with him, as a result of this fight Tobirama got almost killed by them [
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While also we know that Kin & Gin have Kurama's chakra within them, but we know that Kinkaku does not use it unless someone has taken Ginkaku out according to Kakuzu [
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On the other hand, Minato fought against A & B several times, a team which was stated to be superior and the strongest team in Kumo [
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]. Current B, was trembling just because Naruto's mentioned his father's name, he won't tremble if Minato was inferior or equal to him. Not to mention he was not fighting Minato alone, but with A along side him, so that's enough to be sure that he's alone can't deal with Minato, otherwise he would destroy Minato with A! Anyway, A also admitted inferiority to Minato [
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Other battle is almost one scan, which is Tobirama's battle against Izuna [
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Izuna in that scan was not even using his MS, so I think it's save to assume that Tobirama had the edge because
Izuna's chakra became low that he couldn't keep his sharingan activated anymore. In top of that we do not even know
how powerful Izuna was to begin with. It also worth to mention that the translation that some of Tobirama's fans use to
prove Izuna's power is actually wrong, itachi (whom his knowledge in that regard was proven to be wrong) did not say that Izuna was as powerful as madara, but rather they were training together [
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Minato on the other hand fought against Obito who was trained by madara as well. Not only that but he also has Hashi's cells and he was controlling Kurama, whi was attacking the village. In top of that he attacked Minato off gourd, yet he still got his ass handled to him. Even though he has a superior jutsu to both Minato and Tobirama's s/t jutsus.
So, once again Minato fought superior foes to that of Tobirama.
We also know that ET Tobirama with his brother and Oro fought against old Hiruzen. Which he also ended up losing the fight
it is true that he was not at his full power, but so was Hiruzen, and even if we ignored that, it's still one of his battles.
On the other hand Minato was fighting on the 3rd war and pretty much changing the entire result from Konoha losing the war to konoha winning the war, and it was even stated that he ended his battled in a blink of an eye. As we know that in the front line, there were 1000 shinobi as Minato stated [
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In Term of Intelligent.
Both of the Hokages are considered to be intelligent. First, Minato is said to be a genius that appears once in a while [
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In term of analyzing the foe's jutsus, Minato has shown some of the best feats as well. First of all, he analyzed Kakashi's chidori from the first time he saw it [
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]. Which took Naruto, kakashi, guy, and B a lot more time to find out about, and a lot of team work to overwhelm Kamui so to speak. Minato's feats continue that in the War when obito trapped them, and Tobirama tried to come with a solution, Minato gave a better solution than that of Tobirama [
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]. He talked about the speed, distance, and the control, then he came up with a plane to deal with it, even though he only met Lee and Gaara for a minute or so! That's beside his plan for Naruto and the village by sealing only half of Kurama inside Naruto, so Konoho does not lose its Bijuu, and sealing his chakra and Kushina's chakra inside Naruto to help him.
In term of jutsus, he created the Rasengan, Rasen-Flash Super-Circle Dance Howl Stage Three, S/T barrier, and improved the FTG to a higher degree than Tobirama. Also, according to the DT3 he was creating the jutsu after the other [
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Tobirama's feats, is he thought of building a lot of constructors for Konoha [
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In Term of Hype.
Tobirama some hype going for him.
1- From the ANBU [
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2- Danzo [
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3- Madara [
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So, Tobirama was the fastest during his area, and was the strongest in the village when he was the Hokage.
Minato has a lot of hype as well.
From Tobirama [
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From B [
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From A [
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From Jiraiya [
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From Tsunade [
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Hiruzen [
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kakashi [
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Kushina [
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In Conclusion, Minato is superior by feats, hype, and portrayed.
