Who is Minato's rival?

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Wasent there a flashback with his teammates? If I'm right every generation has a failure at first who becomes strong and a cool genius. Minato is obviously the genius so his rival must have been a failure. Who knows he might have died in one of the wars Minato fought in.
 

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Orochimaru. Minato and Oro were the two main candidates for the title of Fourth Hokage.

Realistically: He was unrivaled.
 

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He was too irrelevant lol
 

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He was unrivaled, he had no rival. His was leagues beyond everyone at the time.
But I'll give some leeway and say Kushina.
Too strong to have a rival.
Plus he was a nice guy, he aint about that life.
Death was his rival.
 

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hahahahaha xD Minato xD Rival xD Maybe in fanfiction.....
 

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Minato so out of league... lmao
 

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Kushina maybe? She doesn't really fit the definition as a rival, though.
I think the closest thing to a rival for Minato would be Ay.
 

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My boy was too good. Only Ei could even be considered a rival but for everyone else, Minato was pretty much the best of his time.
 

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Only possible people being his rival would probably be the 4th raikage or kushina
 

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It seems like every generation had a rival but Minato has none
and no I'm NOT talking about ashura/indra reincarnations, i'm just speaking in terms of character development, and how most important "good" characters have rivals yet minato has none

Ashura - Indra
Hashirama - Madara
Tobirama - Izuna
Hiruzen - Danzo
Jiraiya - Orochimaru
Minato - ?
Kakashi - Obito
Naruto - Sasuke
post your thots

Killer Bee -Yotsuki A tag team was his rival
 

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he had no rival but same is case with itachi... itachi had none too...! it seems both my favs are too awesome to have rivals.... <3 <3
 

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It seems like every generation had a rival but Minato has none
and no I'm NOT talking about ashura/indra reincarnations, i'm just speaking in terms of character development, and how most important "good" characters have rivals yet minato has none

Ashura - Indra
Hashirama - Madara
Tobirama - Izuna
Hiruzen - Danzo
Jiraiya - Orochimaru
Minato - ?
Kakashi - Obito
Naruto - Sasuke
post your thots

His competitor was his sensei himself
 
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