{"id":"raiton","name":"Lightning Style","japanese":"忍","category":"techniques","subtitle":"Origin, how it works and limits.","summary":"Lightning nature transformation, not a synonym for Chidori.","facts":[["Procedencia","The profile tells anime and manga apart"],["Alcance","Original summary, not a universal repertoire"]],"lvl":1,"sections":[{"h":"What lightning does","t":"Lightning Style is the lightning nature. It concentrates chakra as electricity to cut, pierce, paralyze or strengthen the body. Kakashi shows his best-known technique in the Land of Waves: he gathers lightning in his hand and runs it through Haku, who steps in to protect Zabuza. Knowing Lightning Style does not give automatic access to Chidori or other people's techniques: each one has to be learned. It is a fast, piercing nature with the advantage over earth.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-30","pos":30},{"h":"Chidori and its limits","t":"Kakashi created Chidori. He first uses it in combat at the Kannabi Bridge, back when he still could not keep up with the attack's speed. The problem was tunnel vision: at that speed he could not see counterattacks, and the Sharingan fixes that flaw. Sasuke learns it for the Chūnin Exams and uses it against Gaara, but Kakashi warns him he can only use it twice a day; he only manages a third time with the curse mark.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-239","pos":239},{"h":"Sasuke's variants","t":"Sasuke adapts lightning to his style. With Chidori Current he discharges it through his whole body to paralyze several opponents at once; he also fires Chidori needles and extends the technique into a spear. Against Deidara he discovers that lightning neutralizes the explosive clay. Against Itachi he uses Kirin: he does not generate the lightning, but directs a natural bolt from a storm prepared with his fire, which is why he does not need to spend as much chakra.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-391","pos":391},{"h":"The Raikage and Darui","t":"The Raikage use lightning differently. The Fourth Raikage wraps himself in lightning armor that speeds up his reflexes and movement until he matches Sasuke's Susanoo at the Kage Summit. The Third Raikage used an even more piercing technique. Darui, his bodyguard, wields Storm Style, a combined nature of lightning and water: he fires beams of energy that can bend like a liquid and be steered around hostages. None of these techniques comes included with knowing Lightning Style.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-464","ep":"shippuden-203","pos":464},{"h":"The war and the last clash","t":"In the war, Darui seals Kinkaku, and the reanimated Third Raikage demonstrates the piercing power of his strongest technique. The Chidori's story closes at the Valley of the End, where Sasuke and Naruto clash with their last Chidori and last Rasengan. The price was high for both: each loses an arm. Every user ends up giving lightning a shape of their own: Darui with bending beams, the Third Raikage with an attack that pierces, and Sasuke with Chidori.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-698","pos":698},{"h":"Sarada and Chidori","t":"In the new generation, Sarada learns Chidori from Sasuke. She uses it in earnest against Boro during the Kara mission, relying on her Sharingan to read her opponent's movements. It shows the technique is passed on by teaching, not by blood. Like Sasuke, she relies on the Sharingan to avoid the tunnel vision Kakashi described. It is not a power inherited from her father, but a technique she learned from him, with the same chakra limits.","lvl":2,"ch":"boruto-43","pos":743}],"characters":["kakashi","raikage-tercero","raikage-cuarto","darui"],"related":["chakra","kumogakure","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":["
NATURE ≠ THE WHOLE REPERTOIRE
Raiton · Original diagramFictional lightning, not a real discharge. Raiton is not the same as Chidori or the Raikage's particular armour.
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