Minato worth as hokage?

[AlphaScythian]

The coup happened nearly 10 years after his death. Even an elaborate coup doesn't take 10 years to plan and execute.

that was after 10 years after his death bruh :| they didnt start spying on the uchiha until after minato died how was he suppose to see the coup?

True but Tobirama suspected it, hiruzen was aware as well, minato had no clue. The climax was after his death but the problem was kinda old.

 

[Tawleyn]

True but Tobirama suspected it, hiruzen was aware as well, minato had no clue. The climax was after his death but the problem was kinda old.

Sure, the problem might have been old and the tension was likely a pretty big deal, even back then. But a full blown coup had not been started by the time his death came, and we haven't seen anything that says Minato was ignorant to the tension between Uchiha and Senju.

 

[Thundergod123]

If Minato hadnt died, I believe the Uchiha Massacre might've never happened.

No one couldn't stand against Minato during that time, lol so yeah...

 

[startup97]

He died to young to see if he would have made a good impact or a bad one.
P.S: When your Hokage for however long Hiruzen was, your bound to make some mistakes. Don't hate the old man.

 

[Draphsin]

They all did the best they could u_u

Danzo is the only scumbag hokage.

 

[AlphaScythian]

Sure, the problem might have been old and the tension was likely a pretty big deal, even back then. But a full blown coup had not been started by the time his death came, and we haven't seen anything that says Minato was ignorant to the tension between Uchiha and Senju.

Senju were no longer, the tension shifted to uchiha vs the village basically. We have no evidence he was aware of problem, even if he was he hasnt done anything at all, which again hints he wasnt aware.

Bottom line, Minato is strong, has will of fire and all, but he is more of celebrity then true leader with great analytical mind to foresee possible outcome of village in near future.

 

[SharinganisOP]

Minato is the best hokage if anything.

Hashi may have protected the village, but he protected it from a monster he created due to his lack of of will. Had he just been firm against his brother and insisted Madara become the first hokage, things likely would not have turned out like this. They were the best of friends until this pivotal moment, and hashi failed hard to the point where right now, It may cause the destruction of the world. He also didn't ensure that Madara was dead at the end of their battle, which also would have prevented all of this.

Tobirama ****ed up in not letting Madara become the first hokage like his brother wanted, but pressured hashi into changing his mind. He had to take on the duties of hokage, because he didn't let Madara become the first hokage. Other than this we don't know too much about Tobirama's reign as hokage, other than he made the Uchiha the police force (arguably a bad thing), and was an extreme hypocrite in the way a hokage is chosen. Tobirama was firm that their should be a vote for who the first hokage is, yet he solely picked Hiruzen to become the third hokage. Such a thing is hypocritical and bias.

Hiruzen let all the underhanded things go on for decades from danzo, he failed in making a compromise with the Uchiha, he allowed Orochimaru to live and eventually let him destroy a large portion of the city and kill him, and the list goes on. While Hiruzen was a powerful kage, he definitely did not make the wisest decisions for the city.

Tsunade is definitely the weakest hokage overall (not physically weakest of course). She couldn't defend her village from pein when the time came, and even though she used most of her chakra on katsuyu to keep everyone alive she still let numerous people die, including Kakashi. But in the decision making department she can arguably be said to make the best choices out of the other kages. I'm not going to argue that way, but mainly her choice in allowing Naruto to fight has not only saved the city, but has saved countless lives and perhaps the world.

Now for Minato the best of them all. Overall we don't know too much about Minato's term as hokage, though we do know some things. His strength, skill, and intelligence were all great. He was able to fend off both the kyuubi and Obito, something no one else in the entirety of the world could have ever dreamed to have done at the time. Relationships with the Uchiha were clearly amazing at the time period, because Kushina thought Sasuke's mom was trustworthy enough to let her know how her pregnancy was doing. While Minato was hokage, it would seem that most everything in the village was perfect. So during Minato's time as hokage he protected the village diligently (The village was only able to be attacked by someone near invincible). He protected the city from a TBB, saving everyone's lives, he fended off both Obito and the Kyuubi, and his greatest and his riskiest feat of all. He made the choice to give the kyuubi to an infant child. This choice he made as a hokage changed everything. He saved the village from having to be attacked from the kyuubi again once it was revived by doing this and he gave the leaf village a ninja capable of saving their village and creating strong relationships with other villages, like the village of the sand. Minato's sealing the kyuubi in Naruto was a decision that would come to save large populations time and time again. Minato's choices as hokage and his strength as hokage put him as easily the top leader of the leaf village.

 

[Gold Lightning]

We got to see how Minato first became Hokage in todays latest episode of Naruto Shippuden. It was a badass filler, the soundtrack they used when Minato wore the Hokage hat and presented himself in front of everyone was epic.

 

[minatoisagod]

hell he saved the village and ensured it kept it's tailed beasts so he did a damn fine job. Still his reign was too short to say much, i mean even he himself said if he was alive he maybe could have found away to pacify the uchiha.

 

[Lucidus]

in all honesty minato didnt really have the chance to prove himself as a kage his reign was short lived :/ but in the short time he was around i think he did great..

he didnt exactly persecute the uchiha, he took on the kyuubi and obito aswell as protected his son at the same time i dont think anyone else apart from Hashirama and possibly tobirama could have done that..

i admit its not all about power when being a hokage but we didnt exactly get a chance to see minato's true worth as a kage :/

 

[TenthHokagexRamen]

toSharinganisOP

It wasn't tobirama's fault that madara didn't become hokage, the fact was nobody wanted that lunatic to be hokage except hashirama.

 

[Ovan]

All of them did something special during their time as hokages. There is no best nor worst because they are on the same team. They all shaped the village into something better then last with everyone's procedures working at once.

 

[NaruSasuRival]

No not really. He didnt even see coup coming talk about rest of things he supposed to deal with. It isnt only about power.

What coup?

 

[xxSAGExx]

Do you guys think that Minato was a better hokage than Hiruzen and Tsunade, any thoughts?

Well Hiruzen been Hokage for the longest out of all Hokages and when we see the start of Naruto, the village was in peace and friendly term with the other villages. Minato wasn't Hokage long but he for the short amount of time he was, he did what a Hokage should do to protect the village and thought of the future. Tsunade also did well, because she made the medic department even better and there were ninjas who took up medical jutsus such as Sakura and Ino.

 

[Thundercles]

Do you guys think that Minato was a better hokage than Hiruzen and Tsunade, any thoughts?

Well, one-sentence-post, we really have little info on Minato's reign. It seems just as he was chosen, he died shortly after. Therefore, it wouldn't be fair to judge him against someone who has had it longer than a month.

 

[xxSAGExx]

Minato is the best hokage if anything.

Hashi may have protected the village, but he protected it from a monster he created due to his lack of of will. Had he just been firm against his brother and insisted Madara become the first hokage, things likely would not have turned out like this. They were the best of friends until this pivotal moment, and hashi failed hard to the point where right now, It may cause the destruction of the world. He also didn't ensure that Madara was dead at the end of their battle, which also would have prevented all of this.

Tobirama ****ed up in not letting Madara become the first hokage like his brother wanted, but pressured hashi into changing his mind. He had to take on the duties of hokage, because he didn't let Madara become the first hokage. Other than this we don't know too much about Tobirama's reign as hokage, other than he made the Uchiha the police force (arguably a bad thing), and was an extreme hypocrite in the way a hokage is chosen. Tobirama was firm that their should be a vote for who the first hokage is, yet he solely picked Hiruzen to become the third hokage. Such a thing is hypocritical and bias.

Hiruzen let all the underhanded things go on for decades from danzo, he failed in making a compromise with the Uchiha, he allowed Orochimaru to live and eventually let him destroy a large portion of the city and kill him, and the list goes on. While Hiruzen was a powerful kage, he definitely did not make the wisest decisions for the city.

Tsunade is definitely the weakest hokage overall (not physically weakest of course). She couldn't defend her village from pein when the time came, and even though she used most of her chakra on katsuyu to keep everyone alive she still let numerous people die, including Kakashi. But in the decision making department she can arguably be said to make the best choices out of the other kages. I'm not going to argue that way, but mainly her choice in allowing Naruto to fight has not only saved the city, but has saved countless lives and perhaps the world.

Now for Minato the best of them all. Overall we don't know too much about Minato's term as hokage, though we do know some things. His strength, skill, and intelligence were all great. He was able to fend off both the kyuubi and Obito, something no one else in the entirety of the world could have ever dreamed to have done at the time. Relationships with the Uchiha were clearly amazing at the time period, because Kushina thought Sasuke's mom was trustworthy enough to let her know how her pregnancy was doing. While Minato was hokage, it would seem that most everything in the village was perfect. So during Minato's time as hokage he protected the village diligently (The village was only able to be attacked by someone near invincible). He protected the city from a TBB, saving everyone's lives, he fended off both Obito and the Kyuubi, and his greatest and his riskiest feat of all. He made the choice to give the kyuubi to an infant child. This choice he made as a hokage changed everything. He saved the village from having to be attacked from the kyuubi again once it was revived by doing this and he gave the leaf village a ninja capable of saving their village and creating strong relationships with other villages, like the village of the sand. Minato's sealing the kyuubi in Naruto was a decision that would come to save large populations time and time again. Minato's choices as hokage and his strength as hokage put him as easily the top leader of the leaf village.

-Actually Hashirama did not create Evil Madara, Madara became evil from the hatred that is born in war. Uchihas and Senjus are raised to hate each other which is made worst when the other kills the other members. Hashirama didn't only protect the village, he created the village system along with Madara which other nations adopted. It wasn't only Tobirama who didn't want Madara as Hokage, it was the people of the village so don't blame Tobirama when it's the people. The village is created of many different clans, it they don't like the leader then they wouldn't stay in the village and it would all fall apart

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-Tobirama didn't force Hashirama to do anything, He said it's fine if he wants to elect Madara but he can't make that decision without taking what the people of the village, country and seniors want. So you're being bias if you blame Tobirama when Hashirama was the one who wasn't going to ask the people what they want, Tobirama did list reasons why Madara shouldn't be Hokage but doesn't mean it's his fault for wanting the people to have a say

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. Tobirama created the Chunin exam which prevent war while making ninjas stronger, gives a way for other villages to rate each other and test if the genins are ready to become Chunins. Go here and read the next couple of pages as Hiruzen talks about it

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. He also made the academy, Anbu, and Military police system. What he did to the Uchihas were to prevent then from losing control when they lost someone as he seen happened for many years. This is also why Sasuke said only a selected few Uchihas awakened the Sharingan, because they weren't put into the situation to awaken them.

-Yes Hiruzen let Danzo work in the shadow, he didn't know everything Danzo did but knew Danzo worked to protect Konoha; he is his former teammate. Failing to make a compromise with the Uchihas? It takes both parties to compromise so it's as much the Uchihas fault as Hiruzen. It was Madara and Obito who made all Uchihas seem untrust worthy to some of the higher ups since only a Uchiha would have the power to control Kurama since Hashirama is long dead and wouldn't do that. Hiruzen cared deeply for Orochimaru as any other teacher cared about their student; that's like saying Gai will kill Lee right then and there. Hiruzen needed time to get his mindset right, he been with Orochirama since he was a kid to like his 30's. Hiruzen was picked to be Hokage by Tobirama because Hiruzen did not hesitate to volunteer to sacrifice himself for his team while Danzo and the others had. Hesitating to kill your student is not the same as trying to protect your comrades.

Not much wrong with Minato's post except that Minato wasn't Hokage long, it was peaceful because that's how Hiruzen gave it to him. Minato didn't really have time to do as much for the Village as the other Hokages before him who all were in charge during wars and had to make tough decisions but if he lived on then I believe he would have been the best.

 

[BloodSeed]

he made naruto

 

[Champ]

They all sucked, but Minato wanted to die cause he couldn't live without Kushina. What a pussie