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(Raiton: Chidori) - Lightning Release: One Thousand Birds
Rank: A
Type: Offense
Range: Short
Chakra Cost: 30
Damage Points: 60
Description: The user must first perform the following sequence of hand seals Ox → Rabbit → Monkey → Dragon → Rat → Bird → Ox → Snake → Dog → Tiger → Monkey and they will then focus lightning chakra into their hand to create a lightning jutsu that is concentrated in the user's palm and thrusted toward the opponent at high speed. The lightning in the user's palm sounds like birds chirping, hence the name, and allows the user to perform high grade cutting damage or high penetration piercing thrusts.
Note: Someone who mastered lightning release can perform chidori with just the Ox hand seal.
Note: Uchiha Sasuke and Kakashi Hatake bios can use the technique without handseals
Behold, the second lightning technique shown in the manga. After weaving a long set of handseals, you gather a large amount of lightning chakra in the palm of your right hand. After gathering your chakra, you focus it at one point, meaning you channel all your chakra at one point, and condense it highly using shape manipulation to form a whitish-blue sphere of lightning in your palm which glows brightly. Due to the massive chakra concentrated all at one point, it gives off the sound of a thousand birds chirping at once, and it possess high frequency vibrations, electricity branching off the central point of focus. This, as you know, can be used to perform high penetration and piercing thrusts, as well as super and concentrated damage. When you pierce an opponent with it, it forms a large amount of damage at one singular point, and can easily rip through his/heart with ease. The downside is that it only can do focused damage, so it doesn't cover a large area, but makes it up with the piercing power it possesses.
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