Seriously, these days, people say Minato is over-rated and that he has no place in top 5. Heck, people even go so far as saying that current Naruto is above Minato. So, I'll cover each and every reason for why he's not over-rated, but infact, under-rated to some extend.
1) For all his godly reflexes, he got bested by B and had to run. - Wrong, just wrong.
^ It is this instance that people use to support their argument. However, here, Minato was simply toying with B and let them go, while many make it look like he ran. First off, Minato's reflexes were not bested by B. He simply predicted Minato's next move and angled his knife accordingly.
^ Here we can see that Minato marked Obito in the back. However, once he teleports, its to his front. We have also seen that Minato teleported to the behind of B, where his marking was. This only leads to the obvious conclusion that Minato can teleport to different places in the radius of his FTG mark. i.e, he could've easily got B with another teleportation. Whether he could've have did this in one move, or if he needs to teleport to another mark before coming to this one again is an entirely different, matter and makes no difference to the end result.
2) Minato doesn't have a powerful attack - Well, this argument has some truth to it. But, there are only a handful of characters in NV that can't have their head sliced off with a kunai or survive a rasengan to the heart. Moreover, we know that A>B, B>C, so A>C logic won't work in NV. Anyway, I'll jus give an argument against this one. He's got KCM now, although if its actually KCM or BM and the diff. in power is entirely uptp debate since he has a half of Kyuubi's chakra to access freely, compared to when Naruto had opposition from Kyuubi and got KCM. Eitherway, he's now got the KCM/BM speed on foot, combined with his already deadly foot-speed and reflexes, not to mention FTG. Then there's the powerups to normal rasengans and like. Whether he can use TBB is uncertain, but its to be noted that he studied TBB and its workings for like 3 years or something to come up with rasengan, so, saying that he simply can't is rather unjust, he previously may not have had the power to replicate TBB, now he does.
3) Has no counter to Susanoo - This is a very frequent argument, since he's mostly put against some Uchihas who have Susanoo. We have just seen that FTG has a radius, so, its basically child's play for someone like Minato to throw a kunai near Susanoo and then teleport inside it. That breaks up one of No-Counter against Susanoo argument. For those not ready to buy this proposition, he's got yet another counter against Susanoo. We all know that Susanoo is like an armor surrounding the user. We've also seen Tsunade's punch causing Susanoo's ribcage to break. Now, Tsunade's punch, in its basic working, can be compared to a chidori, and we've seen the kind of damage Sasuke's chidori did to a water tank, which can be compared to susanoo. What matters here is, Naruto rasengan, which is a grinding attack, infact caused more damage to it, internally. Since the user is supposed to be inside the Susanoo, a rasengan powerful enough (which we know he can have, really, he's got half the Kyuubi's chakra now) can cause internal damage, similar to what rasengan did to the tank where its other side blew up, meaning the user inside Susanoo can take damage from a well powered, timed and positioned rasengan.
4) No counter against genjutsu - This is not a worthy argument since even SO6P can be one-shotted by Tsukuyomi or a similar genjutsu, by this logic. We've not seen Hashi or Madara (Or Minato, for that matter) going against a genjutsu. But, certain people need know that never having to go against a technique doesn't necessarily translate to one-shotted by the said technique.
That pretty much sums up most arguments against Minato that I can think of. Every one has a bad-match up. Minato does too, we can't actually state this guy is the strongest and this the weakest in Naruto. (Juubito maybe an exception) But, speaking in general, Minato with his show-cased arsenal itself is a beast, and in no way over-rated. He deserves a place in top five, and is currently above Naruto.
1) For all his godly reflexes, he got bested by B and had to run. - Wrong, just wrong.
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^ It is this instance that people use to support their argument. However, here, Minato was simply toying with B and let them go, while many make it look like he ran. First off, Minato's reflexes were not bested by B. He simply predicted Minato's next move and angled his knife accordingly.
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2) Minato doesn't have a powerful attack - Well, this argument has some truth to it. But, there are only a handful of characters in NV that can't have their head sliced off with a kunai or survive a rasengan to the heart. Moreover, we know that A>B, B>C, so A>C logic won't work in NV. Anyway, I'll jus give an argument against this one. He's got KCM now, although if its actually KCM or BM and the diff. in power is entirely uptp debate since he has a half of Kyuubi's chakra to access freely, compared to when Naruto had opposition from Kyuubi and got KCM. Eitherway, he's now got the KCM/BM speed on foot, combined with his already deadly foot-speed and reflexes, not to mention FTG. Then there's the powerups to normal rasengans and like. Whether he can use TBB is uncertain, but its to be noted that he studied TBB and its workings for like 3 years or something to come up with rasengan, so, saying that he simply can't is rather unjust, he previously may not have had the power to replicate TBB, now he does.
3) Has no counter to Susanoo - This is a very frequent argument, since he's mostly put against some Uchihas who have Susanoo. We have just seen that FTG has a radius, so, its basically child's play for someone like Minato to throw a kunai near Susanoo and then teleport inside it. That breaks up one of No-Counter against Susanoo argument. For those not ready to buy this proposition, he's got yet another counter against Susanoo. We all know that Susanoo is like an armor surrounding the user. We've also seen Tsunade's punch causing Susanoo's ribcage to break. Now, Tsunade's punch, in its basic working, can be compared to a chidori, and we've seen the kind of damage Sasuke's chidori did to a water tank, which can be compared to susanoo. What matters here is, Naruto rasengan, which is a grinding attack, infact caused more damage to it, internally. Since the user is supposed to be inside the Susanoo, a rasengan powerful enough (which we know he can have, really, he's got half the Kyuubi's chakra now) can cause internal damage, similar to what rasengan did to the tank where its other side blew up, meaning the user inside Susanoo can take damage from a well powered, timed and positioned rasengan.
4) No counter against genjutsu - This is not a worthy argument since even SO6P can be one-shotted by Tsukuyomi or a similar genjutsu, by this logic. We've not seen Hashi or Madara (Or Minato, for that matter) going against a genjutsu. But, certain people need know that never having to go against a technique doesn't necessarily translate to one-shotted by the said technique.
That pretty much sums up most arguments against Minato that I can think of. Every one has a bad-match up. Minato does too, we can't actually state this guy is the strongest and this the weakest in Naruto. (Juubito maybe an exception) But, speaking in general, Minato with his show-cased arsenal itself is a beast, and in no way over-rated. He deserves a place in top five, and is currently above Naruto.
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