Is this a vs thread or a achievement comparison thread? Kinda lost now.
Same here. Regardless of what it was intended to be, it seems to have evolved (or maybe devolved) into a vs thread. I my opinion, although you can technically compare them as they are both high level shinobi, I don't think that is a good aspect to compare them in. Sure, if you wanna compare what they did for their village, I'd say that's a bit more reasonable....but to try to predict a battle between the two is too much. Why?
Nonetheless sadly we can't conclude on unproved feats, thus Itachi>Minato by manga facts
We've seen more of Itachi fighting than we have Minato. Itachi has been explained and explained again, and we know pretty much all of his techniques and abilities. As for Minato? We're not even sure of his chakra nature. We know he has some powerful techniques (FTG, Rasengan), we know he's fast, we know he's smart. But really, you guys take this limited knowledge and stretch it so much. Because not much else is known about him, I guess there isn't really much you can do (I'm sure he had other techniques, but we don't know them, so they can't really be used as evidence).
Basically people are taking Minato's few
known powers and totally pushing them to their limits, hyping them up so much and saying they could counter anything. Which is probably not true. But, like I said before, there's probably more to Minato than we know of. So, until we know more about him, I don't think it is fair to compare them in a battle situation when we know Itachi's whole arsenal and very little about Minato's. Not trying to hate on either character, I like them both.