Rasengan vs Chidori

[FatalChakra]

I was wondering wich attack is the strongest.
Naruto fought Sasuke in the regular episodes with a rasengan and Sasuke used the chidori
but they both flew away from the explosion.
So i think they are around the same strength, the only difference is that the rasengan does not require handseals.

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[Naruto9001]

Rasengan. The reason they always tie is because Naruto holds back when he uses it aganist Sasuke.

 

[Champ]

Chidori, a weaken half blind Sasuke matched a healthy Naruto Rasengan

 

[Bogard]

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[Turson]

Well, Rasengan and Chidori were always matching each other during direct clashes. And although it has been stated in manga that Rasengan is stronger technique, personally, I find Chidori more lethal. I mean, if Minato hit Obito with Chidori instead of Rasengan, Obito would have been dead. Same can be said about Kabuto during battle between Sannins. Its like Rasengan main purpose is to hurt, cripple the enemy, not kill them.

 

[Bogard]

Well, Rasengan and Chidori were always matching each other during direct clashes. And although it has been stated in manga that Rasengan is stronger technique, personally, I find Chidori more lethal. I mean, if Minato hit Obito with Chidori instead of Rasengan, Obito would have been dead. Same can be said about Kabuto during battle between Sannins. Its like Rasengan main purpose is to hurt, cripple the enemy, not kill them.

Spiral Zetsu was protecting Obito's body. It's him who died in Obito's place. Deva got defeated by a rasengan, same goes for Itachi at the begin of shippuden. The power of the rasengan is shown when it explodes. It's different from chidori which is a assassination-made jutsu

 

[pateuvasiliu]

Rasengan is stronger. It's been stated a few times and Chidori has a couple drawbacks, as well as costing a lot of chakra. ( in Part 1 it did, at least ).

Also, Rasengan has more powerful variants. Minato and Jiraya's regular rasengan was the size of Naruto's odama rasengan.

 

[Micho22]

Rasengan is better

 

[Turson]

Spiral Zetsu was protecting Obito's body.

At that time, it seems that Zetsu was just replacing some missing parts of Obitos body, but Obito wasnt covered with him like he was when Rin died and he went mad. ->

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Deva got defeated by a rasengan

Yeah, Deva got defeated by Rasengan, although from what Ive seen by those two techniques I still find Chidori more lethal.

same goes for Itachi at the begin of shippuden.

Still, that was Oodama Rasengan.

 

[Bogard]

At that time, it seems that Zetsu was just replacing some missing parts of Obitos body, but Obito wasnt covered with him like he was when Rin died and he went mad. ->

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Obito's height was comparable to Minato's:

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when he is supposed to be around 14-15 if the timeline is accurate. Totally different from the Obito who is on your pic(who is supposed to be 13) for example who was much more smaller. We've seen Kakashi and he was also small at that moment. So the only way for that to be possible is that spiral Zetsu was protecting Obito's body at that moment

Yeah, Deva got defeated by Rasengan, although from what Ive seen by those two techniques I still find Chidori more lethal.

If Chidori doesn't hit vital points though, it's not mortal, when Rasengan is more effective since it hurts the opponents internally, so effective that it even makes regenerative abilities useless(Kabuto or Edo Muu were incapable to regenerate against Rasengan)

Still, that was Oodama Rasengan.

True but the principe stays the same i believe. It now only depends on the user capacity. For example, Minato's rasengan is comparable to Naruto's Odama rasengan

 

[Turson]

Obito's height was comparable to Minato's:

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when he is supposed to be around 14-15 if the timeline is accurate. Totally different from the Obito who is on your pic for example who was much more smaller. So the only way for that to be possible is that spiral Zetsu was protecting Obito's body at that moment

I agree.

If Chidori doesn't hit vital points though

Chidori is technique made for assasination, which energy is way more focused than in Rasengans case. If I had to choose: being hit in chest with Chidori or Rasengan, I would definietly pick the latter. Most probably would have been killed anyway, but at least in Rasengan case I would have some slim-to none chances to survie.

 

[FatalChakra]

Rasengan. The reason they always tie is because Naruto holds back when he uses it aganist Sasuke.

Indeed, because Naruto didn't want to kill Sasuke

 

[Hoshi]

Well then if u want the answer then just see which of these are stronger; lighting vs wind.

 

[Turson]

Well then if u want the answer then just see which of these are stronger; lighting vs wind.

Rasangan is not Fuuton (wind) based attack. That technique has no chakra nature.

 

[FatalChakra]

Well then if u want the answer then just see which of these are stronger; lighting vs wind.

I dont think that the rasengan is a Wind based attack, it has no specific chakra nature

 

[lanakui8]

Chidori, a weaken half blind Sasuke matched a healthy Naruto Rasengan

being blind has nothing to do with the power of chidori, and Sasuke was not weakened as he had a chapter to rest from the last time he used susanoo and as long as sasuke has enough chakra to perform the technique his chidori will be at full strength.

That said, both techniques depend on who is using them. If their users are pretty much equal, their powers will be equal. However SM Naruto's and KCM Naruto's rasengan are much stronger than his base rasengan and in tern would be stronger than a chidori coming from base sasuke.

 

[Eternal Sage]

Rasengan > Chidori
Chidori is cooler though imo

 

[NagazuDead]

Spiral Zetsu was protecting Obito's body. It's him who died in Obito's place. Deva got defeated by a rasengan, same goes for Itachi at the begin of shippuden. The power of the rasengan is shown when it explodes. It's different from chidori which is a assassination-made jutsu

True Story, dude

 

[XtreMage]

rasengan is weaker and it's just chakra manipulation while chidori/raikiri is lightning element and it's more dangerous and lethal because of it's piercing ability. many people died because of that tehnique while people hit by rasengan were only injured. if i remember well, nobody died because of rasengan (at least nobody notable).

 

[lanakui8]

rasengan is weaker and it's just chakra manipulation while chidori/raikiri is lightning element and it's more dangerous and lethal because of it's piercing ability. many people died because of that tehnique while people hit by rasengan were only injured. if i remember well, nobody died because of rasengan (at least nobody notable).

besides the super weak rasengan jiraiya used on that rock chuunin (it didn't even rip his shirt), rasengan has never been used on a shinobi who didn't have super durability or super healing.

- Kabuto only survived it because he had super regen, and even then he still was taken out by the technique. If he was hit with chidori, he would have just regenerated.
- every path of pain that was hit by naruto's rasengan was killed
- tobi survived rasengan because he has both super durability and super regen, he would have also survived a chidori or raikiri

that's basically it. we see that in the war arc naruto uses rasengan on the jiton user and he strait up dies as well as when he uses it on muu it puts huge craters in muu's chest.