I see a lot of Minato Hater and Minato defender out today.
Looks Minato when it come to genius plus great power (which is the best ninjas in Naruto manga to me), he is top 5 in the whole Naruto manga.
Top 10 Most genius ninjas, who are also OP in Narutoverse (what I mean by genius is a strategies in their fights, by being two or more steps ahead or have almost double figure, in performing difficult high power techniques, not just clan special techniques).
1. Madara
2. Tobirama
3. Minato
4. Itachi
5. Sasuke as of now
6. 3th Hokage
7. Oroachimaru
8. Tsuchikage
9. Kakashi
10. Kabuto
Don't kill me Naruto Balls Boys, if I was making a top 10 list of strongest most OP characters in Naruto manga, Hashirama, Naruto and Madara would be in class of their own at this point. Also if I was going straight genius, Shikamaru and Kabuto would be on top of that list.
Anyway Minato is a MVP winning ninja, he just turn into the Chokage (Choke Sage of the 6 paths to F up) in the "stop this and prevent further evil" moments. Minato is Peyton Manning and the use to be Lebron James (which was wrong, because he play a team sport and happen to play with a bunch of garbage men). They are the greatest and not to many, if any can defeat them at what they do, but they are label not clutch, cause they come up short or is nowhere to be found in the biggest life changing moments.
Also I don't have a problem with Minato having sage mode at all (it's a insult that Pervy Sage and Naruto would have it and he didn't, when he is 5 time more of a genius than both of them put together). I have a problem in Kishimoto just having him pull it out now, after all that happen so far. That just bad written, that make his own characters (that some people love) and manga B.S or show that Kishi don't give a rat a$$ of what his fans of his manga think (maybe both). Kishi miss out on a opportunity to have Minato & Naruto go tag team on Juubito.