{"id":"rasengan","name":"Rasengan","japanese":"螺旋丸","category":"techniques","subtitle":"Rotation, power and containment.","summary":"A spinning sphere of chakra created by Minato and passed on through training. It is not a hereditary Uzumaki technique.","facts":[["Creador","Minato Namikaze"],["Base","Chakra shape transformation"],["Requisito","Control and training"]],"lvl":0,"sections":[{"h":"The three stages","t":"Jiraiya shows Naruto the Rasengan during the search for Tsunade: a sphere of chakra spinning at high speed in the palm of the hand. The Fourth Hokage created it. The training has three steps: making chakra spin (with a water balloon), giving it power (with a rubber ball) and containing all that force in a stable sphere (with an air balloon). It is a shape transformation technique with no element: just pure chakra, compressed and rotating.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-155","pos":155},{"h":"A clone as a second hand","t":"Naruto cannot complete the third stage alone, so he uses a clone to help shape the sphere while he concentrates the chakra. He manages it in time: against Kabuto, the Rasengan works, and he wins his bet with Tsunade, who gives him the First Hokage's necklace. For a long time, Naruto depends on a clone to form the Rasengan, an easily missed detail that sets him apart from those who master it alone.","lvl":0,"ch":"naruto-168","pos":168},{"h":"The Rasenshuriken","t":"In Shippūden, Naruto learns to add his wind nature to the Rasengan, through training built on shadow clones that share their experience. The result is the Rasenshuriken, a sphere with a ring of wind that damages the target's cells. The first attempt goes wrong and the second works against Kakuzu. But the technique also injures Naruto's arm, and Tsunade forbids him to use it until he can throw it.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-346","pos":346},{"h":"Sage Mode and students","t":"With Sage Mode, Naruto learns to throw the Rasenshuriken at range without hurting his arm, and uses it against Pain's Paths. In the same arc, Konohamaru defeats one of the Paths with a Rasengan he learned from Naruto, and later the Rasengan appears in the Fourth Hokage's hands in the memories of his fight against the masked man. The technique starts passing from hand to hand, and each person adapts it to their level.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-502","pos":502},{"h":"Wartime variants","t":"With the power of the Six Paths, Naruto combines the Rasengan with the tailed beasts' chakra and creates lava, magnet and other variants. In the fight against Kaguya, he throws nine Rasenshuriken at once. No variant replaces another: learning one does not mean knowing them all, and each depends on the chakra he has available at the moment. The Rasengan remains the basis of almost his entire repertoire.","lvl":1,"ch":"naruto-688","pos":688},{"h":"Boruto and the vanishing Rasengan","t":"In Boruto, Konohamaru teaches Boruto a tiny Rasengan, and he combines it, without meaning to, with lightning: the sphere vanishes from sight and reappears on impact. Against Momoshiki, Naruto helps him form a giant Rasengan. Later, Boruto uses it against Delta, and Kawaki, with an Ōtsutsuki's power, absorbs a Rasengan from Momoshiki. Knowing one variant does not grant the others: Boruto does not inherit the Rasenshuriken just because he is Naruto's son.","lvl":2,"ch":"boruto-65","pos":765},{"h":"Uzuhiko","t":"In Boruto: Two Blue Vortex, Boruto shows a new Rasengan, the Uzuhiko, which he develops during his years away from Konoha. Its shape is different and its power exceeds anything he showed before. Even so, the story makes clear it is not invincible: against Jura it has no effect. It is the technique that most defines Boruto's new stage, and proof that the Rasengan keeps evolving with each generation.","lvl":3,"ch":"tbv-22","pos":802}],"characters":["minato","naruto","boruto"],"related":["chakra","kage-bunshin","senjutsu","naturalezas-de-chakra","sellos-de-manos"],"reference":"Naruto, chapters 150–167 and 321–342; Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, chapters 1–10.","sources":[{"title":"Minato: el nacimiento de Naruto y el sellado del Nueve Colas","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1519"},{"title":"Naruto: formación y vínculos, primera parte","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1610"},{"title":"Boruto: familia y primeros pasos del Equipo 7","url":"https://naruto-official.com/en/news/01_1745"}],"figures":["
ROTATION · POWER · CONTAINMENT
Rasengan · Original diagramRotation, power and containment of chakra. The drawing shows the basic form, not every variant or an inherited power.
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