I don't understand the reasoning behind Lightening being strong vs Sand

[Zaxelzero]

The only leverage we have is that Sasuke's Chidori broke through Gaara's ultimate defense.

He used the Sand Cocoon. A B-Rank Sand jutsu vs Chidori-1000 birds. An A rank Lightening jutsu.

On top of this in the movie he seemed just fine fighting the raiton user....

I don't understand why Sand is listed as weak against Raiton when it seem's pretty even to me. A rank lightening vs B rank sand= a small cut on his chest.

 

[Selendrile]

Lightning > Earth
Sand is composed of earth, so..
Lightning > Sand

??

 

[Zaxelzero]

Lightning > Earth
Sand is composed of earth, so..
Lightning > Sand

??

Gaara is naturally a wind user and Sand is practically Earth grinded using wind chakra. So it evens out. Earth<Lightening<Wind

 

[Selendrile]

Gaara is naturally a wind user and Sand is practically Earth grinded using wind chakra. So it evens out. Earth<Lightening<Wind

You can grind sand underground without using wind.

 

[Diottcas]

Maybe because he got better with using the sand

 

[Retsu]

putting it scientifically, yet leaving room for the layman to understand, lighting element chakra is the chakra vibrating really fast imitating electricity, although it's not quite as fast as real electricity, which is why ppl can dodge and react to it.

Now just imagine that a rock is made of a bunch of lego bricks or molecules, if you were to shake the lego rock, the vibrations would knock loose the individual lego bricks, which basically means that lightning attacks will pierce rock due to the strong vibrations of the lightning chakra easily pushing the rock material aside.

I hope this helps

 

[Zaxelzero]

Yeah it is strong against rock because it shatters it because rock is unmold-able and cannot move so it just breaks. Sand has leniency to shift. It isn't solid so it can stop the loose particles of the lightening when it expands upon impact and recloses.
The sand Gaara used against Chidori ended up opening around his arm and closing again on Sasuke's arm wounding him

 

[TrollingSage]

From a real world perspective it makes no sense, but hey this is naruto.

 

[Zaxelzero]

From a real world perspective it makes no sense, but hey this is naruto.

From a pokemon perspective my sandshrew raped a pikachu xd
But on top of that, it was never proven in the manga that lightening is strong vs Sand it is just assumed on this site because an A rank beat a B rank jutsu. So my A rank wind beating your B rank water makes the entire element stronger?

 

[OWanime]

either stronger sand or the power of gelel she had is like tailed beast level chakra and she just had more chakra to defend with

 

[TrollingSage]

From a pokemon perspective my sandshrew raped a pikachu xd
But on top of that, it was never proven in the manga that lightening is strong vs Sand it is just assumed on this site because an A rank beat a B rank jutsu. So my A rank wind beating your B rank water makes the entire element stronger?

Well pokemon sucks. Big time. Just kiddingxd
No really.

 

[Zaxelzero]

Lol not the original xd

 

[TrollingSage]

Lol not the original xd

 

[Zaxelzero]

How in the hell did you find my video!?

 

[Black Adam]

You must be registered for see links

it's kind of small but this is the wheel minus the ice

 

[Black Adam]

From a pokemon perspective my sandshrew raped a pikachu xd
But on top of that, it was never proven in the manga that lightening is strong vs Sand it is just assumed on this site because an A rank beat a B rank jutsu. So my A rank wind beating your B rank water makes the entire element stronger?

I believe in the narutoverse the level of the user matters more than the level of the jutsu

 

[Zaxelzero]

I believe in the narutoverse the level of the user matters more than the level of the jutsu

I know that, but i'm not all that bothered there.
On NB Sand is weak to Raiton because of that fight

 

[NLee]

Gaara is naturally a wind user and Sand is practically Earth grinded using wind chakra. So it evens out. Earth<Lightening<Wind

None of Gaara's sand techniques incorporate Wind chakra. Sand is basically Earth and Lightning > Earth. It makes perfect sense if you don't overthink it

You can grind sand underground without using wind.

Exactly.

Besides, Gaara never claimed he uses Wind chakra to create sand from the ground. In fact, we've never seen Gaara use a single Wind technique outside his Shikaku transformation.

 

[Black Adam]

None of Gaara's sand techniques incorporate Wind chakra. Sand is basically Earth and Lightning > Earth. It makes perfect sense if you don't overthink it



Exactly.

Besides, Gaara never claimed he uses Wind chakra to create sand from the ground. In fact, we've never seen Gaara use a single Wind technique outside his Shikaku transformation.

Well I believe it was assumed since he's from Suna you know hidden village inside the Wind Country....not a bad assumption...

 

[Igrav]

Well I believe it was assumed since he's from Suna you know hidden village inside the Wind Country....not a bad assumption...

In reality, lightning is superior to earth and sand. In nature, lightning exists because the Earth acts as a ground, which completes a sort of circuit. Because Earth conducts electricity, it is penetrated by it.

Also, when lightning strikes sand, it creates these inflexible crystalline structures called fulgurites. The lightning penetrates into the sand, turning it into glass. In terms of defense, Earth and sand is naturally weak against it. In terms of offense, I can't see any amount of sand or rock actually harming a lightning strike.

Wind, on the other hand, makes perfect sense against lightning. If you think of wind as air, air is a buffer that makes conducting electricity difficult. Electricity arcs best in a vacuum, and adding air causes the required voltage to increase multiplicatively to generate an arc.

Then fire only burns in the presence of oxygen so fire > wind, fire is smothered by water, water is absorbed by earth, etc.