Minato is actually weaker than a lot of Naruto Characters.

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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.
exactly what i said before, kishi failed to develop a proper move set for minato. I am not saying his current move set ain't worthy of kage level. But at the same time its hard to consider him to be one of the strongest shinobis based on the limited moves in his arsenal. In other words, his hypes and feats just do not match.
 

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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.
Rasengan is not a powerfull move lol
 

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Rasengan is not a powerfull move lol
well after seeing other moves like resenshuriken, odama rasengan, kirin, amaterasu, biijudama, shinra tensai etc. Yeah standard rasengan does pale in comparison to them. Even kakashi knows how to use it and yet he prefers to use raikiri. I wonder why?
 

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well after seeing other moves like resenshuriken, odama rasengan, kirin, amaterasu, biijudama, shinra tensai etc. Yeah standard rasengan does pale in comparison to them. Even kakashi knows how to use it and yet he prefers to use raikiri. I wonder why?
got a point but what about Minatos Space-Time Rasengan that's pretty strong
 
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according to jriaya he is weaker than alot of the top tier characters.. he died before reaching his prime, had ALOT of potential.. enough to become the strongest hokage
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according to jriaya he is weaker than alot of the top tier characters.. he died before reaching his prime, had ALOT of potential.. enough to become the strongest hokage
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So he's saying he had the talent to become a top rated ninja, meaning he's a toP rated ninja because of his talent, how dOes that make him weaker than top tier?
 
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I wouldnt say that he is weaker than a lot of characters because we really havent seen a lot of him and what other techniques he has up its sleeve. Its just like when people were arguing about how strong madara is when all he had used was susanoo and the meteor technique....we dont know yet, leave it at that. I see a lot of irony in this thread from people who were speculating on madaras power, which is a similar situation.
 

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So he's saying he had the talent to become a top rated ninja, meaning he's a toP rated ninja because of his talent, how dOes that make him weaker than top tier?

having talent to BECOME top tier, isn't the same as being top tier..

if i have talent to become a pro gamer, doesn't mean i am a pro gamer ..

so if all he had was talent to become extremely strong, it obviously means at the time, the top tier ninja who were extremely strong would be able to beat him

 

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So he's saying he had the talent to become a top rated ninja, meaning he's a toP rated ninja because of his talent, how dOes that make him weaker than top tier?
Its amazing how minato managed to do all that without even having a kekkei genkai unlike those Uchihas and senjus but still its safe to assume he never made it to the level of the likes of shodaime and madara.
 

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I still think the shadow shuriken jutsu he uses is such a large scale attack
It is one awesome move from the movie. I have seen hiruzen and konohamaru using that move but minato's one is on a whole new level. Tho I wouldn't say its one of his strongest moves. Its really upsetting to see how little information we have on Minato's abilities.
 

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ever heard of sealing techs? he was supposed to be unbelievably skilled at sealing techs meaning that yes he could take down almost all those oppenents you put him up against oh and that thing about him not being able to take down itachi or kabuto is retarded both of their justu (susanno and self healing techs) take a huge amunt of chakra itchi can only hold susanno for about 2 minutes and kabuto lost all his chakra after healing a rasengan about half the power of minatos. so minato could take down almost every one
 

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ever heard of sealing techs? he was supposed to be unbelievably skilled at sealing techs meaning that yes he could take down almost all those oppenents you put him up against oh and that thing about him not being able to take down itachi or kabuto is retarded both of their justu (susanno and self healing techs) take a huge amunt of chakra itchi can only hold susanno for about 2 minutes and kabuto lost all his chakra after healing a rasengan about half the power of minatos. so minato could take down almost every one
Sealing techniques can be really strong but we still haven't seen them being used much in combats..(except for sealing all the edos)
well yeah minato might be able to counter susanoo by simply dodging it and waiting for itachi's chakra to run out. But I disagree on what you said about kabuto. That was ages ago and kabuto was not nearly as strong as he is now. The amount of chakra kabuto has now in unbelievable plus he can draw more chakra from nature. Hes fighting 2 full powered uchihas and yet hes confident that he can heal any injuries in seconds.
 

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having talent to BECOME top tier, isn't the same as being top tier..

if i have talent to become a pro gamer, doesn't mean i am a pro gamer ..

so if all he had was talent to become extremely strong, it obviously means at the time, the top tier ninja who were extremely strong would be able to beat him

'HAD the talent' implies past tense so he's gone past the having the talent to become top tier. For Example Orochimaru had the talent to become a powerful shinobi its meaning is different from Orochimaru has the talent to become a powerful ninja.
 

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'HAD the talent' implies past tense so he's gone past the having the talent to become top tier. For Example Orochimaru had the talent to become a powerful shinobi its meaning is different from Orochimaru has the talent to become a powerful ninja.

They are speaking in past tense because he is dead dude..

If someone says orochimaru has the talent to become the strongest shinobi-
It means while he isn't the strongest shinobi , but has the aptitude to become it

jiraya says Minato had the talent to become extremely strong, then tsunade says but he died quickly...

it means he didn't have time to use that talent
 

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Minato has fought A (a kage with incredible defense) AND B at the same time. He didn't win but he didn't lose. If B wasn't there he easily could have won sooo I don't get where you're coming from
 
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