Minato's arsenal is greatly overlooked

[Bogard]

Well in majority of threads concerning Minato's arsenal, many people believe he only has rasengan, FTG and RDS when it's in fact far from the truth. People confuse fighting style and arsenal. Minato's fighting style is made around his FTG. Because of this i believe people overlook greatly his other abilities and think he is weak because he only has them, but i'll just give you example of ninjas who only use 2 or 3jutsus in fight when infact they are known to have much more:

- Naruto(Rasengan, KB, TBB)
- Kakashi(Raikiri, KB, Kamui)
- Raikage(Lightning shroud)
- Obito(Kamui)

Naruto for example developed plenty of versions of rasengan(or FRS), but all in all, it's still rasengan. Obito has Kamui, plenty of fire or Mokuton techniques, Izanagi, Uchiha forbidden techniques, etc, but only relies on his Kamui most of the time. Kakashi is known to have more than thousand techniques. We've seen him fight plenty of times, but he always relies on the same basic jutsus(Raikiri, KB, Kamui)

But these guys(especially Naruto and Obito) are noted to be one of the most if not the most powerful ninjas currently by majority of people in Narutobase. Unfortunately there are some Minato haters who don't see this and create more than thousand threads to downgrade the character and even ignoring how overpowered FTG can be. FTG and it's variations(Space time barrier) alone could be greatly versatile, but it's not the object of my topic, so i'll skip it from now

What i mentioned above is only to show you that it's not because you've thousand jutsus that you have to use all of them in fights, no, you only use what you think is useful for you in a fight. It's with that, that you create your fighting style, and it's exactly the same for Minato whose fighting style works around FTG, but it doesn't mean it's his only jutsu(s). It's only that he uses jutsus depending on the situation

Now i'll explain why i believe that contrary to the popular belief, even judging only from what we know about Minato currently, he is already complete as a ninja.

Minato's overlooked arsenal

What people forget is that Minato can use the summoning technique. Talking about summoning jutsu, i'll like to mention that the main difference so far between Jiraya's and Minato's fighting style is that Jiraya's fighting style involves summoning jutsu a lot. Majority of his jutsus or combos are made thanks to his summons, summons that Minato himself can use in a battle, only that it's not his fighting style.

That said, i believe people greatly neglect the apport that can give a good summon in a battle.

With summons he can use practically any affinity:

- Gamabunta can use water and oil:

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- Gamakichi can use fire:

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- Pa and Ma could use futon, suiton, katon, oil:

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They could even also use sound jutsu and sound genjutsus(the most powerful according to databook)

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Or a binding tongue technique that can even catch invisible individuals

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In CQC, Gamabunta is a gigantic and powerful summon, even capable to handle a Bijuu like Shukaku or Kyubi(though with difficulties):

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And he can also rely on other summons who aren't that far behind Gamabunta in strength

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There are even sealing toads like Gerotora(the one he summoned during the Kyubi's attack for him to conserve the key of the Eight trigram seal)

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Unknown arsenal

There is also a vast arsenal of Minato that is still unknown by us because of lack of panel time. Minato is said to have at least one affinity according to Kakashi:

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It's said he learned practically all Uzumaki sealing techniques:

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Techniques that were feared over the world so much that almost everyone wanted Uzumaki clan to disappear:

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Among them, we've already seen the RDS

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And the Eight trigrams sealing technique:

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Sealing techniques able to seal the most powerful Bijuu in existence

Besides that, we've also seen that Minato is capable to remove the possibility that has a summoner to use his summon thanks to a contract seal

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Maybe i forgot some, but i think i covered the most in this thread, only to show you that contrary to the popular belieft, Minato has a great arsenal

I know it's a long thread, but i hope you enjoyed reading U_U

 

[The Big Boss]

i thought i was reading a bio lol

 

[hixa kuogame]

agreed people think its just sealing tech and ftg and rasengan

 

[ballerjordan]

Naruto has different variations of rasengan to suit the situation.

They aren't the same thing.

You can't compare a rasen shuriken to a normal rasengan and say it's still a rasengan.

They are different types of rasengan.

 

[take it easy]

fuuton rasengan=rasengan. rasenshuriken not looks and action like rasengan

 

[BISHOPALONE]

Nice thread.

 

[take it easy]

this thread fan speculation

 

[Dreckerplayer]

It's not the quantity of jutsu, that makes a shinobi powerful, it's their proficiency in them.

 

[thesurvivor]

i concur, people just underestimate him because of his good looks .

 

[Murasame]

Ok this might be a dumb question so bear with me but how do you know he can summon ma and pa or the other summons besides Gambunta?

 

[Sabuto Hayashi]

Nice, I agree.
As Hokage, you'd expect Minato to know many more techniques than he has currently shown. Stating that he only has 3 or 4 is a rather closed point-of-view. When you think about it, he probably doesn't need to use something other than FTG and Rasengan, because those alone are effective enough for most of his opponents.

 

[yellowxflash]

Arsenal geeeeeeaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrr

 

[Dreckerplayer]

Ok this might be a dumb question so bear with me but how do you know he can summon ma and pa or the other summons besides Gambunta?

Dumb question indeed...

 

[Murasame]

Dumb question indeed...

All I'm asking is for an answer no need to make me look dumb.

 

[Erin]

I agree, though I doubt Minato has the same cohesion with the toads as Jiraiya did.
As far the sealing techniques, I think its a bit far to say that he new the majority of Uzumaki sealing techniques.

Maybe if we see him summon something as an edo, we can see how he uses the frogs, but until then, I'm going to assume he didn't have mastery on par with jiraiya.
(examples are the difference in use of snake summoning between sasuke, anko, orochimaru and kabuto.)

I think it's possible that minato has a more powerful variation of rasengan, to take out larger enemies, though I believe they would all be short range/contact jutsus, since they would most likely be created to complement his FTG.

 

[Souji]

Minato has not shown his full capabilities; same with Hiruzen. This is a fact.

 

[Ōkami]

I do hope we see far more diversity in his tech when gets to the battlefield and joins the war.

 

[AllomnisymbolsparttwoT]

I totally agree! Minato is overrated!

 

[Dęvîa Puęrî]

I didn't read the whole thing but gammabunta can't make fire u see jarirya is on top of him gammabunta spits out oil and makes the fire grow

Also a lot of ppl can beat Minato from what we've seen so far from him
I don't think he's OP a good amount of ppl can beat him Minato is only OP to fodder

From what weve seem currently 3 out of 5 of the current Kage can beat him the only two tht can't would be Ay (supposedly idk tho I fail to c how Minato gets through his V2 armor they said he was faster then him not stronger) and Mei (she's really a jonin posing as kage
But tht might change after we see him fight

 

[Gregjader]

Just hope Kishi will give him a chance to live up to his name.