If Minato Reached Old Age, Would He Be The Strongest Hokage?

[Megatolium]

He was a ninjutsu genius that even other genius' admired and acknowledged. Clearly the man was in his own league. He invented Rasengan, revamped Hiraishin to powerful heights and overall just a pure genius in combat. Definitely the greatest minds in Narutoverse. Which raises the question, would he have been the strongest Hokage if he lived a full life?

Maybe 2nd to Hashirama, which is still impressive.

 

[Kanino]

Yes Pretty much he had everything at his disposal

 

[Sagebee]

No at most he would be third to naruto and hashi

 

[KCN]

He would be third behind Hashirama and Naruto in my opinion.

 

[adeshina365]

Absolutely not.

He simply lacks the raw ability to challenge Naruto and Hashirama (especially the latter).

 

[InfiniteMugen]

Possibly, he died at 24 so he had plenty of time to get better before even hitting middle age

 

[Tonybeeth]

He'd have less Chakra than hashirama, but about the same knowledge base and more refined jutsus which would make him last a few minutes against hashi in a battle. But hashi's reserves outlasts minato

 

[LoZelda101]

lol no. I'd even argue his edo kurama form would still surpass his potential if were alive.

 

[BenjerminGaye]

he'd be a better tobirama

 

[lndra]

Below Hashirama and Naruto, but for sure.

 

[chintu234]

Minato doesn't have low reserves if you guys remember correctly when he first fought obito he not only succeed in defeating obito, but also succeeded in summoning the toad chief then successfully managed to teleport kurama away even managed to teleport the bijju bomb away.
And even after all this he had the stamina to stop kurama and seal half of kurama into naruto and then perform the reaper seal.
All this feat means he had pretty good chakra reserves.

 

[Im Still Robin]

Minato would be the greatest Hokage.

Had he lived he would of possibly learned sage mode from Naruto.

WRS

And create more strong jutsu

Hashirama is only seemingly strong because of sage mode (everyone lets admit that was a last minute ass pull by Kishi to up Hashirama's power it's not even a known sage mode)

Also current Hokage Naruto is a freaking bum he got killed by a teenager gtfoh man.

 

[Nidaime Suiton]

He would be stronger than Tobirama , because i think that at 40 years old , Minato would be able to control perfectly the senjutsu.

But Hashirama would be alway stronger than Minato , prime or not prime. Hashirama is simply the descendent or Ashura like Naruto , it's an other level.

 

[LoZelda101]

smh @ these comments.

without war minato would've been stuck behind desk doing paper work rotting himself to rust like hiruzen and adult naruto. edo BM minato is the peak he would had never reached alive, let alone as hokage in the semi- peace diplomatic era.

 

[YellowFang]

With the theme of Naruto changed to the destined individuals...
I don't see him going past Hashirama/Naruto, incarnations of Ashura.

But he'd have been a beast, clearly ahead of the rest of the shinobi(unrelated to Sage's fault's BS).

 

[Dizzldot]

lol no. I'd even argue his edo kurama form would still surpass his potential if were alive.

This^ hashirama is the only character who can be at the level of power he was without borrowing anything whether it be jinchuriki, EMS, handouts of any kind Minato could possibly be like hiruzen and use every element but FTG is his trump card so against normal jonin/kage he's still great but never be near hashirama/madara