{"id":"doton","name":"Earth Style","japanese":"忍","category":"techniques","subtitle":"Origin, how it works and limits.","summary":"Earth nature transformation.","facts":[["Procedencia","The profile tells anime and manga apart"],["Alcance","Original summary, not a universal repertoire"]],"lvl":1,"sections":[{"h":"What it controls","t":"Earth Style is the earth nature. It shapes terrain, rock and mud to raise barriers, open pits, move the ground or change the shape of the battlefield. Kakashi uses it early with the Tracking Fang, which brings his dogs bursting up from under the ground, and during the invasion of Konoha the Third Hokage raises an earth wall to stop a water technique. Learning this nature does not give automatic access to other people's techniques: each technique is trained.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-120","ep":"naruto-71","pos":120},{"h":"Barriers and prisons","t":"Earth techniques also serve to trap. Jirōbō, of the Sound Four, catches part of the team sent to bring back Sasuke in a rock dome that also absorbs their chakra. Neji discovers the structure has weak points, and Chōji later defeats him in direct combat. It is Earth Style's typical pattern: lots of defense and control of space, but less speed than other natures. The dome repairs itself while the user sustains it, so hitting it at random only wastes energy.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-190","pos":190},{"h":"Iwagakure's combinations","t":"Earth shows up in combinations with other natures. Iwagakure's Explosion Corps works with Explosion Style, which mixes earth and lightning. Akatsuchi, Ōnoki's bodyguard, combines earth techniques with physical strength. Mū and Ōnoki's Dust Style is something else entirely: it joins three natures, fire, wind and earth, and is not obtained just by mastering earth. Ōnoki also uses earth techniques to make his body lighter or heavier, so he can float in the air or crush his opponents.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-247","pos":247},{"h":"Advantage and weakness","t":"The natures have advantage relationships. Lightning beats earth: when Kakuzu hardens his body with an earth technique, Kakashi pierces him with Lightning Blade, and the rule is explained in that same fight. Earth, in turn, has the advantage over water. That is why Earth Style users tend to combine rock defenses with another nature or with support from teammates. In the war, the Alliance raises enormous earth walls to stop the Ten-Tails' attacks, though they are not enough to hold them back.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-630","pos":630},{"h":"New generation","t":"In Boruto, Iwabee Yuino, of Team 5, appears in the anime as a user of earth techniques, and Kurotsuchi, now Tsuchikage, carries on Iwagakure's tradition. The nature does not depend on a clan: anyone with the affinity and training can use it, and earth barriers are still a common defensive tool in every village. Kitsuchi, Ōnoki's son and Kurotsuchi's father, is another Iwagakure earth user, and Akatsuchi keeps appearing in the era of peace.","lvl":2}],"characters":["iwabee","akatsuchi","onoki","mu"],"related":["chakra","iwagakure","naturalezas-de-chakra"],"reference":"Reading guide for the series indicated. The linked source offers editorial context and does not by itself verify every detail of the technique.","sources":[{"title":"Guía oficial de anime: Naruto y Shippuden","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/anime"}],"figures":["
EARTH · TRAINING · TECHNIQUE
Doton · Original diagramA conceptual application of earth. Knowing Doton does not automatically grant every nature combination.
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