Chidori an assassination technique? Wtf?

Does it make a good assassination jutsu?

  • Yes, the positives outweigh the negatives

    Votes: 16 55.2%
  • No, too many drawbacks and dangers for stealth missions

    Votes: 13 44.8%

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Sageflash

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I was rereading Part 1 and Gai said this:
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I was just thinking, how did the Chidori get to be classified as an assassination technique? The move has stopping power, but it's a terrible choice if you are actually try to take down a target effectively from the shadows for obvious reasons.

Chidori, as is indicated by it's namesake, is a a very loud technique that sounds like the chirping of a thousand birds. Not only that, there's a large ass flashing blue light that accompanies said noise. You would essentially make yourself a giant beacon for the enemy.

How would you infiltrate an enemy stronghold or ambush a guard squadron with that as your jutsu of choice for taking lives silently? The target would be alerted immediately once it's fired up and would take cover or call his guards. Beyond that, it opens yourself to counterattack unless you have the Sharingan since the speed doesn't allow you to ascertain enemy position properly.

The Rock jounin was gonna counter Kakashi because of it's linear nature and speed too great to alter movement
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Minato tells us how it's incomplete
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Chidori takes time for fire up completely as Sasuke says
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And Lee tells us the weakness of Chidori
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It just seems like the worst possible choice for an assassination jutsu. Your only hope would be that you blitz the kill and his resistance before they even know what's going on, but ninja of that speed are few and far between. A kunai to the neck seems a lot more effective.
 

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Because of the speed at which you move to perform it.
 

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Because of the speed at which you move to perform it.
I considered that, but the Stone jounin was going to counter Kakashi's Chidori. And Kakashi only has a 4.5 in speed which is matched and surpassed by quite a few ninja including Kiba. Plus Part 1 Naruto was able to match it with Rasengan at VoTE without Kyuubi chakra. So, to use it, you don't need to be Ay level speed which would be required to use it successfully on a stealth mission unless you want to make the enemy aware of your presence.
 
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It is a technique designed not for espionage assassination, but for simply killing people of in a fight one by one. think back to kakashi's battle against kakuzu. No one had any idea what was happening!
 

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That's why the Sharingan make the jutsu complete. Chidori might have took time when he younger, but now he can wipe that shit out in seconds.
 

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That's why he invented raikiri, which is a more concerntrated quieter version more suited to assassinations.
 

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Because of the speed at which you move to perform it.

which is only a little benefit considering the loud noise, time and light given off by it..

it would be better just to increase your speed the way Lee and gai did and use a kunai but put ur lightning nature into the kunai to give the kunai more penetrative properties
 

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Just watch the kakashi fillers and youll see. The jutsu is more effective with the sharingan. Having the sharingan allows kakashi to predict he's fleeing targets moves and he can strike effectively.
 
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Kakashi has the sharingan which allows him to see the counter. Also he doesn't have to be running to execute Chidori
 

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It is a technique designed not for espionage assassination, but for simply killing people of in a fight one by one. think back to kakashi's battle against kakuzu. No one had any idea what was happening!

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Yep.
 

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Just watch the kakashi fillers and youll see. The jutsu is more effective with the sharingan

The Sharingan makes it complete as you can overcome a single target, but if you're on a mission to kill a political leader with a guard force or something, the Sharingan doesn't quell the noise or hide the light. The enemy would know that their leader had been killed and you would be exposed.

See what I'm getting at? For stealth and recon missions, it's the worst possible choice.
 

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And none of those were stealth missions, they were direct combat type situations. Read the OP.
 

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The Sharingan makes it complete as you can overcome a single target, but if you're on a mission to kill a political leader with a guard force or something, the Sharingan doesn't quell the noise or hide the light. The enemy would know that their leader had been killed and you would be exposed.

See what I'm getting at? For stealth and recon missions, it's the worst possible choice.
Yea Thats true that's why kakashi is smarter and knows what moves to use in these situations. I'm Pretty sure shadow clones are ment to to the stealth n recon missions.
 

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Why post this? I'm not questioning the lethality of the jutsu, just it's usefulness on stealth type missions.

He's not gonna activate it until he has his mark. Also its seems like they seldom send one anbu member by himself.
 

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Edit: Damn, I was too late.
 
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