I'm utterly flumoxed as to why you have jonin and hokage minato classed similarly, Jonin minato is worlds beyond hokage, and whilst hokage offers a lot more utility, his hp scaling is so piss poor, and his ridiculously baitable dodge is so easy to abuse that him dying turn 1 isn't at all unrealistic. I've owned him for months on my main, and ran him in a gajillion different lineups trying very hard to make him work, but every single watermeta or lightning blitz team even with lower power tears through minato. I mean if someone can provide me some incredible lineup that works please do, but in the mean time I'll lament the money i dropped on buying him before they started giving him away for free this week (which always feels like a telltale sign that even oasis thinks he's mid tier now)

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I probably should have worded it better when I said his HP scaling was *. I didn't mean inrelation to his counterpart. What I was trying to say is Hokage Minato's base HP in relation to other "end game" unit's is terrible, it would be ok if his growth rate was better. I'm pretty sure he's in the bottom 5% of base hp's at max level in the game. I wish I could find the site with them all listed again so I could explain my frustrations,

But seen as you brought it up, using your own screenshots let's look at the base stats between him and his jonin version.

6k less hp, 4k less attack 2k less defense, 2k less resistance (ok yes I know he buffs this himself) and as for his ninjutsu ...

I'm just not seeing it, they aren't as good as each other.