Shinra Tensei restricts the whole Deva. When Choji threw a Kunai directly before Deva's feet, he couldn't use the ST. Minato would teleport to that Kunai to blitz him. In this case, Preta Path couldn't react as well. Minato could go in close combat and if Ashura Path catches him, he will mark him and teleport out. A marked Nagato is a dead Nagato, because he won't react to that blitz. Hiraishin with clones makes this even worser. Multiple opponents who can jump with Hiraishin and can teleport to each other due to being connected with Chakra. Two clones will attack Nagato, he will push them away, while the real Minato will teleport to him and blitz him within the interval. Minato can use Kagebunshin and has high Chakra reserves, as he could obtain Sage Mode. That enables him to use the Hokage level Jutsu Tajuu Kagebunshin no Jutsu.
Soul rip can't end Minato, as he immediately teleports away if Nagato only tries to touch him.
How does the kunai reach if the ST is being fired? Minato has to teleport away and then somehow bring a kunai right before Nagato''s feet? Anyways, alive Nagato's ST is on
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scale, Minato will be nowhere near this radius, and he will have to teleport away in order to prolong his inevitable loss. Implying Asura doesn't do anything about it. Anyways, if Nagato changes into his Asura path, he practically has a new body. The seal will no longer be present the same way it was no longer present when Obito received his new body. Preta path should be able to absorb it assuming it is made of chakra (nothing implies it isn't). Anyways, he is more than capable of realising Minato is over him with his linked vision. Bee reacted with no vision and put his sword out. All Nagato has to do is notice through linked vision/sensing and use his Asura body to create new arms/strengthen his body with steel durability. IN the case of a rasengan, he uses Preta path the same way he did to Nardo, in the page I showed bogard. Clones aren't doing much either, you seem to be forgetting anima, path is present, Asura tanks all their kunai stabs, and preta absorbs any rasengans. Lol @ SM. Not even going to argue with you if you think he can use it in a fight against Nagato. BT nullifies the massive amount of time required for Minato to get into it. What more could people ask for when Minato says he has never used it in an actual fight and he isn't proficient with it?.. Seriously. Minato is getting outlasted at the end of the day. CT can end the fight if it is used at the beginning of the fight. All the Kunai's are sucked into it and so is Minato, who has lost his only form of escape. One touch and Minato dies, Minato cannot teleport if his soul is in Nagato's hands, unless someone is willing to argue the 'he choses what to teleport' applies to an external soul as well..
1- Animal Path is irrelevant because it's a long range support summoning that can be hold off by Minato's summon. Besides, the most important thing is to kill the summoner and FTG allows the user to reach the opponent really fast at any point in battle
2- S/T barrier counters Nagato's CT
3- Shinra tensei is no problem either. During the Pain arc Kakashi and Choji could throw kunais 3 times in a row during the interval. Someone like Minato can easily take advantage of this
4- Nagato still has asura, human and gakido path left for defensive use but not only he lacks the reaction speed to use them during a Hiraishin attack, but a kunai is enough to make gakido path useless, asura path is never restricting a teleporter and human Path takes a while to remove the soul
So all in all, his only relevant defensive jutsu is Shinra tensei, but the 5 seconds interval will be like an eternity against an opponent like Minato. Not to mention, Minato can easily make the combination with his clone to be safe.
Fair points.
1- How are summons a factor in this fight? ST was shown to break the bones of the toads when it was done by Deva. Unless you are saying Minato will waste chakra the entire fight dodging ST with his FTG not only for himself, but for his toad as well. I don't see your point. Toads are a non factor.
2- How? I don't get this comparison tbh, it stops incoming attacks by redirecting them. Furthermore, nothing implies Minato can create such a large barrier, let alone create the large amount of handseals required while being attracted to the CT core.
3-That's Deva path alone. Mobile Nagato has shown that his ST's are much stronger and the fact he can use all his other paths, while the dogs are helping him, make it ever the more easier for the interval to be overlooked. Anyways, thrown kunai's are non factors going by this scan [
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4- Don't see how Asura cannot affect the kunai, elaborate. Minato teleports and still has to strike. Asura blocks a kunai stab and Preta
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a rasengan the same way it did to Nardo. It stops a kunai stab from Minato the same way it stopped Bee from striking [
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], or simply engulfs his body with steel armour. There's nothing up for arguing here, teleporting doesn't mean striking instantly, as Bee and Madara have shown. Nagato's linked vision furthers this since he will know where he is at all times. Human path only did take a while because Naruto had chakra arms clinging on to it. Had he not, he would have lost his soul long ago.
It is not his only defensive jutsu. It has already been shown that KCM Naruto couldn't see or sense the negative emotions of Nagato when he used his stealth chameleon [
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]. That is only one defensively plausible jutsu. However, what you fail to realise is that Asura's tanking capabilities are far beyond what most people make it out to be. Kisame got hit by v2 Bee's lariat and lost half his chest even though he absorbed the chakra. When Nagato was hit by v2 Bee's Lariat, he began absorbing the chakra after there was contact, yet was completely unaffected by the lariat. This implies Asura was in fact able to tank the initial force, and Preta nullified the rest. Nevertheless, an amazing durability feat.
