Part 1:
Minato & Tobirama.
In Term of Jutsu.
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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], or how the Anime clearfield it even further as Tobirama teleported first [
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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 as Minato was praised to be the fastest ever [
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]. Thus, Minato's teleporting jutsus that he shared with Tobirama give him the edge because of his mastery over them like FTG, and Goshun Mawashi. I may argue that Minato's slashes with the Kunai are also better than that of Tobirama, since when Minato attacks there is no window to dodge as with Tobirama, examples of that are [
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As for defensive cases, Minato's greatest defensive moves are 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 Kunai before the Hokages even arrive. On the other hand, Tobirama has none, but rather, he was shown to be actually slower than Hiruzen [
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Either way, Kishi focused on Minato's speed a lot showing him surpassing those with the greatest speed in a lot of cases. Like he did with Obito's Kamui [
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That's in terms of their teleportation jutsus (other than the Water Wall) which they rely on heavily. Both of them are sensor type ninja, 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 stats and make his sensing, chakra, and other things more powerful, although that is only for a 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, not to mention Minato was able to cut the branches without even using his arms [
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Another jutsu that Tobirama has is his Water Dragon [
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One of Tobirama's most powerful jutsu 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 Tobirama's case we actually know the frogs and we know their jutsus.
As Tobirama's feats and jutsu stop as far as this. Minato has shown a great mastery over the sealing jutsu that he can even do some with one hand [
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Minato also has
Chakra Transfer Technique
Sage Mode
Part 2:
The Chakra.
Some people may argue that Tobirama has more chakra than Minato, and that is based heavily on Obito's statement about Asura and what he inherited from his father [
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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 crack, 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 feat does not really prove anything at all.
Also, stating that Minato got tired after teleporting Kurama means he does not have a great amount of 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 started[
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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 completed 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 that Tobirama fought in is the battle when fought Kin & Gin. One of the fights he fought with them was a surprise attack against him and the 2nd Raikage with him, as a result of this fight Tobirama almost got 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 is the strongest team in Kumo [
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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 safe to assume that Tobirama had the edge because Izuna's chakra became so low that he couldn't keep his sharingan activated anymore. On top of that we do not even know
how powerful Izuna was to begin with. It's also worth to mention that the translation that some of Tobirama's fans use to prove Izuna's power is actually wrong, Itachi (whose 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, who was attacking the village. On top of that he attacked Minato off guard, yet he still got his ass handed 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. In which he also ended up losing, 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 in 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 battles 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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part 3:
The 4th World War.
The only time we got to see those two in a longer time that how we saw them before was in the 4th War, and I have covered different areas about them in the other sections. This section will mainly be a comparison between the two and how Kishi portrayed them in almost the same situation. First of all, the first comparison Kishi made between them was their speed as Minato was the first Hokage to arrived [
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], which is in a normal cased he would have be killed in that second. On the other hand, Kishi putted Minato against a superior obito, who actually can think and control his power, yet Minato suffered much less damage, which is only his 1 arm [
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Part 4:
In Term of Intelligence.
Both Hokages are considered to be intelligent. Firstly, Minato is said to be a genius that appears once in a while [
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In terms of analysing the foe's jutsu, Minato has shown some of the best feats as well. First of all, he analysed Kakashi's chidori from the first time he saw it [
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]. He talked about the speed, distance, and the control, then he came up with a plan 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 Konoha 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 are that he thought of building a lot of constructions for Konoha [
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In Term of Hype.
Tobirama some hype going for him.
Tobirama was hyped by the ANBU to be the ultimate shinobi [
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As for Minato;
He was one of the finest ninja Konoha has ever produced , even the villagers wished that he was alive to deal with the threat [
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], the one who will save the world [
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] that the Raikage thought that there is no one who could surpass him [
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], even the likes of B, a perfect host was trembling the moment he heard his name [
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], and his unique sealing jutsu [
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], that he learned a lot of them from his wife, Kushina [
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and those are the areas that I can cover about those 2 Hokages from the information I have. Minato, Konoha's Yellow flash [
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