Minato is actually weaker than a lot of Naruto Characters.

[ShadowEXP]

If you can get someone from behind in a blink of an eye.
(No thats not a euphemism.)
Then their dead.

 

[Grammar Nazi]

His attacks comprise of
Kunai
Rasengan
Sending your own long ranged projectile attack back at you with ST barrier
Sealing you with-
Four Symbols Seal
Eight Trigrams seal
Dead Demon Seal
So he can attack Naruto with his own TBB
Sasuke with his own arrows(if he's formed the seals for the barrier)
Itachi with his own Yasaka Magatama
Nagato with his own missiles
Kisame with his own sharks
So those are power moves
As for defenses like Susanoo, Earth walls whatever, he can mark them then teleport behind the marked layer to kill whoever's defending himself.
As for opponents like Raikage, Kabuto, Edo Madara he can seal them by-
Teleporting to another location and preparing a seal
Returning to teleport them to that location without physical contact as he did with Kyubi
Sealing them immediately they arrive in that location into objects or toads or himself even.

finally a post that addresses to my real question. You have actually explained this in terms of Minato's feats.

 

[Darkakatsuki]

Tobi not durable? what? The guy who survived a direct rasengan (That rasengan was powerful, just take a look at what happened to the landscape around them.) and blocked Suigetsu's Kubikikiboch sword strike with his bare hand (Suigetsu was making big crators with a mere swing of the sword when he sparred with Kisame, even his first swing at Bee made a huge crator) is not durable?

Sorry mayn, but there is no way that Tobi is not durable, unlesss I am confusing the meaning of the word.

 

[Frikid]

guys are you forgetting minato is the creater of rasengan...
rasengan is basically a ball of chakra.


you put more chakra in it and it become a huge rasengan,

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i think creater of rasengan can easily do that.

 

[Vin Thora]

If you're talking about powerful moves in his arsenal, Im sure Minato has a few up his sleeve. The fact that we only see FTG + Rasengan/seal combo is that it is incredibly difficult (I'd go as far as to say virtually impossible) to counter/stop. Why fix/change something that isnt broken?

The reason he only uses Rasengan with his FTG is probably due to the incredible speed at which he's able to conjure up a Rasengan (as seen against Tobi).

Someone (forget who) said that a jounin has an affinity to atleast 2 elements. I wouldnt be surprised if Minato had an affinity towards 3, seeing as he's after all, a Hokage (would have a huge range of jutsus). Im sure he has a few incredibly powerful jutsus up his sleeve, but he hasnt needed to use it.

 

[BloodSeed]

he will space time you to a lava or a kunai in the bottom of the ocean.

 

[~Uzumaki~]

finally a post that addresses to my real question. You have actually explained this in terms of Minato's feats.

So you see, he's extremely powerful, more than most top tier characters.

 

[Grammar Nazi]

he will space time you to a lava or a kunai in the bottom of the ocean.

LOL He may as well get kisame to transfer those kunais in the bottom of the ocean for him.

 

[Grammar Nazi]

hes not as strong as fanboys make him out to be thats for sure.

alot of his strength is based upon speculation.

Some of these guys are way too extreme, I am a Minato fan as well but maybe not a hardcore one.

 

[-Vegeta-]

I never knew there could be so much fail in one post.

 

[Necron]

I agree with most of it U_U Yet, (and I don't belive I'm gonna say this), I think you underrate Minato...

 

[zombiejesus]

im not goigng to read it but i agree with it lol

 

[MadaraHashirama]

Atleast he makes his attacks and such himself like Hashirama and Tobirama and so on, unlike all the villians in Naruto with their eyeballs and dna and and faces everywhere.

 

[GodaimeRaikage]

Sure the yellow flash is one of the fastest shinobis in Narutoverse. However, what he really lacks is a powerful move. So far from what we've seen the strongest weapons in his arsenal are his kunai and the rasengan. Meaning he can get behind his opponent in the blink of an eye and stab 'em with his kunai. This might be quite effective against some of the characters in Naruto. However, this puts Minato in a bad spot against the top tier naruto characters such as the kages, akatsuki members like orochimaru, itachi, pain and Madara Uchiha and Even Biiju Naruto. Rasengan, as we have seen, has been countered thousands of times in naruto. There are so many characters that can simply withstand it. For example, orochimaru can easily withstand a kunai attack or a rasengan thanks to his regenerative abilities. Minato can keep chopping him off all day but he will just keep coming out of his shells. Sage Kabuto is another character that will annihilate minato in terms of feats. Minato can rasengan him all day but he will just keep healing himself. Ninjutsu is useless against edo madara so minato will have to take him down with power moves. The problem is minato doesn't have any. Like he doesn't have any moves that will break the susanoo. Strength is a feat he seems to lack as well. Now I have no doubt in Minato's superior intellect and I can guarantee he will find a way to score a direct hit on any opponent. The only problem is that hit may not be enough to finish off some of the top rank shinobies. And that makes minato a weak match against them. Sure minato can defeat kakashi and the jonins of leaf village and even jiraiya(because he died cause of the chakra rod stab wound from pain minato can stab him too even in sage mode) with his speed. But against some characters with high defenses, hes just useless. Its a shame he had to die so early cause I am sure he would of perfected his rasengan and chakra affinity if he lived but the fact remains, Minato does not have a high power ninja move.

Tobi would like to have a few words with you

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So many things wrong with your post it's comical.For one, how many shinobis have you seen counter Minato's rasengan? Not naruto's, not Jiraiya's, but Minato's rasengan? Tobi was nearly killed and probably only survive thanks to his S/T jutsu and having the first hokage's cells. As for Rasengan being uselesss against Edo madara, why would minato need rasengan? Minato is the best sealing jutsu users shown in the series and he is the fastest shinobi, so wouldn't the logical point of attack would be to seal Edo madara? The same for Orochimaru who is a soul attached to a body.If minato seals him, it's over.As for Sage Mode Kabuto, how exactly will he hit minato? Does sage mode Kabuto have a S/T jutsu I don't know about? Or do you think Kabuto will just heal himself so much Minato will pass out from witnessing too much of the sheer awesomeness of his healing ability?

 

[GodaimeRaikage]

If you're talking about powerful moves in his arsenal, Im sure Minato has a few up his sleeve. The fact that we only see FTG + Rasengan/seal combo is that it is incredibly difficult (I'd go as far as to say virtually impossible) to counter/stop. Why fix/change something that isnt broken?

The reason he only uses Rasengan with his FTG is probably due to the incredible speed at which he's able to conjure up a Rasengan (as seen against Tobi).

Someone (forget who) said that a jounin has an affinity to atleast 2 elements. I wouldnt be surprised if Minato had an affinity towards 3, seeing as he's after all, a Hokage (would have a huge range of jutsus). Im sure he has a few incredibly powerful jutsus up his sleeve, but he hasnt needed to use it.

Actually, I think Kishi was just too lazy to create them.Minato was said to have created the rasengan to mixed with his nature element, which has never been shown.You would think during at least one of his flashbacks, you would have seen Minato used at least one nature element jutsu in battle.Then again, Tsunade has been a Hokage for years, and we have yet to she her used one of her nature element, even though base on the fight with Kabuto, she has to be a lightning element users.Kishi is just to lazy when it comes to those type of things.Which goes along with the lack of development of many of the supporting character in the naruto series.

 

[jordy kusturica]

Sure the yellow flash is one of the fastest shinobis in Narutoverse. However, what he really lacks is a powerful move. So far from what we've seen the strongest weapons in his arsenal are his kunai and the rasengan. Meaning he can get behind his opponent in the blink of an eye and stab 'em with his kunai. This might be quite effective against some of the characters in Naruto. However, this puts Minato in a bad spot against the top tier naruto characters such as the kages, akatsuki members like orochimaru, itachi, pain and Madara Uchiha and Even Biiju Naruto. Rasengan, as we have seen, has been countered thousands of times in naruto. There are so many characters that can simply withstand it. For example, orochimaru can easily withstand a kunai attack or a rasengan thanks to his regenerative abilities. Minato can keep chopping him off all day but he will just keep coming out of his shells. Sage Kabuto is another character that will annihilate minato in terms of feats. Minato can rasengan him all day but he will just keep healing himself. Ninjutsu is useless against edo madara so minato will have to take him down with power moves. The problem is minato doesn't have any. Like he doesn't have any moves that will break the susanoo. Strength is a feat he seems to lack as well. Now I have no doubt in Minato's superior intellect and I can guarantee he will find a way to score a direct hit on any opponent. The only problem is that hit may not be enough to finish off some of the top rank shinobies. And that makes minato a weak match against them. Sure minato can defeat kakashi and the jonins of leaf village and even jiraiya(because he died cause of the chakra rod stab wound from pain minato can stab him too even in sage mode) with his speed. But against some characters with high defenses, hes just useless. Its a shame he had to die so early cause I am sure he would of perfected his rasengan and chakra affinity if he lived but the fact remains, Minato does not have a high power ninja move.

:sy:
Its your opinion so i have respect that, but I disagree just not enough pantience to do this again for the 501667th time so lets stay like this

 

[Shisui Namikaze]

Wow just wow. And some of you haters actually agreed with this blasphemy. It's clearing stated in the manga that minato is Extremely powerful. Yet you make a thread saying he's weak? Gtfoh.

 

[Narutopedia]

aare you high? minato is not usless against some of the shinobi in naaruto universe.:sy:

 

[Narutopedia]

Actually, I think Kishi was just too lazy to create them.Minato was said to have created the rasengan to mixed with his nature element, which has never been shown.You would think during at least one of his flashbacks, you would have seen Minato used at least one nature element jutsu in battle.Then again, Tsunade has been a Hokage for years, and we have yet to she her used one of her nature element, even though base on the fight with Kabuto, she has to be a lightning element users.Kishi is just to lazy when it comes to those type of things.Which goes along with the lack of development of many of the supporting character in the naruto series.

agreed:scorps:

 

[Grammar Nazi]

-___- i thought this was a joke when i read the title.... but then i looked at what you posted and i assume your serious for typing that much.

Please take cover for alot of people flaming you.

fuaark now I know what you meant about getting flamed...I just don't have the stamina left to argue.