as i said before and will say for the last time, minato did not win a fight he died in and so did his wife. i never said tobi himself killed minato so don't put words in my mouth please. Tobi's actions were the catalyst for minato basically being forced to commit suicide.
tobi killed the fourths wife when you think about it lol. It is obvious minato is skilled, i never doubted that. but when you put the fight into perspective minato is strong as H** but greatly overrated.
Minato has only shown us that he can send objects to other special kunai, and he uses seals for speed. his reaction time is great but his raw speed with out justu is unknown.
During the fight with tobi minato did quickly figure out tobi technique (smart man).
Yet during the very next move tobi figured him out but got countered and hit. that was the end of their fight but tobi had already basically killed minatos wife, and the biju tobi unleashed would in the end kill minato.
so how is it that minato gets praised for such a epic fail? i understand folks like the char,but facts are facts. I have no favs i just enjoy the show as a whole
Tobi actually failed to beat the fourth. Wasn't his plan to take over the nine tails and destroy the Leaf? So he did get the nine tails out,but the fourth was able to realese it from Tobi's controll. Tobi retreated because he was blasted with a rasengan and was too injured to continue fighting the fourth.*
Would you have retreated if you can win the fight?
The nine tails was responsible for the fourth's and Kushina's death who Tobi realeased but was not under his controll anymore.
So the fight was actually Minato vs. Tobi then followed by Minato vs Kurama.
And since Minato used a considerably big amount of chakra on his fight with Tobi controlling Kurama, he did not have enough chakra to fight Kurama (uncontrolled)
Plus I wouldnt call it an "epic fail".
He fought two big fights in a row with his only goal was to protect the village,and he did.
Again,Tobi's plan was to extract and controll the nine tails then destroy the leaf and his plan did not actually fall in place. Anything after that rasengan was a different fight.*
Unless you can give us all proof that Tobi planned on releasing Kurama,make the fourth release it under his comand and *get himself blasted with a rasengan.
If you still think we should give Tobi credit for the Minato and Kushina's death ,
I want to give credit to the following.
Fugaku Uchiha & Mikoto Uchiha- credit for the massacre of the uchiha clan,*
Orochimaru's death, Deidara's death etc.
Because they are responsible for Sasuke and Itachi's existance.
Minato & Kushina-credit for beating Pain and countless villains in the story.
**because they are responsible for Naruto's existance.
Tobi is one bad a$$ shinobi dont get me wrong. But it is just unfair to give him that kind of credit againts the fourth.
Plus I do think that Minato is a little overrated specially with that "Flying Thunder God" tech that everyone claims unstoppable.*