[Lightning Release] with Shinta

[Thoth]

*notices that a bad weather is comening and hears some donner*
He starts collecting his chakra in his right palm. When he thinks that he has enough of chakra for the technique that he wants to perform, he stops. Now, he starts pressuring all of the chakra that he's gathered into the one single spot in his hand - eher into the center of his palm. When he does that, he's avbsolutely ready to start. He raises his right hand into the air, with his palm facing the sky. He closes his eyes and concentrates. He tries to feel the lightning in the air, feel his blood running through clouds like they're part of him.He absolutely feels like he's linked to the art of lightning. At the peak, he finds the perfect moment, pe pulls the lightning enery from the sky into his palm. When he finishes that, he feels refilled with energy and full of power that the natural lightning gave him. Now, he carefully mixes the lighning with his chakra and points the hand towards Shinta's clone. He uses shape manipulation and shoots out a giant bolt-looking stream towards the clone. It easily kills the clone.

 

[Shinta]

Excellent

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(Raiton: Hiraishin) – Lightning Release: Flying Thunder God
Rank: B
Type: Attack
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 20
Damage points: 40
Description: The user raises their hands to the air to draw in lightning chakra from the sky and then shoot the lightning energy at the enemy target.

Similar to wave of inspiration, you'll gather lightning chakra in your hands and then place them on the ground, instead of water. Then release a strong current aimed at the middle of those three training dummies, slitting the current into three sections to strike each one at the last minute.

 

[Shinta]

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(Raiton: Ikazuchi no Utage) - Lightning Release: Lightning Burial ~ Banquet of Lightning
Rank: B
Type: Offense
Range: Mid/Long
Chakra Cost: 20
Damage Points: 40
Description: The user brings their hands together and an electrical energy will begin to crackle around them. They will then slam their hands to the ground to send an electric current racing through the earth. When the current approaches its target, it can split into multiple tendrils to attack separate targets individually.

Similar to wave of inspiration, you'll gather lightning chakra in your hands and then place them on the ground, instead of water. Then release a strong current aimed at the middle of those three training dummies, slitting the current into three sections to strike each one at the last minute.

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(Raiton: Torunedo Raitoningu) - Lightning Release: Tornado Lightning
Rank: B
Type: Offense/Defence
Range: Short/Mid
Chakra Cost: 20
Damage Points: 40
Description: The user generates lightning-based chakra in his/her palms that they can whip around in order to attack their opponent.

This utilises a fair bit of shape manipulation as you release lightning in your hand, making it swirl around like a thin tornado. You'll extend this enough so it looks like a whip, using it to lash out at your targets, zapping them on contact.

Now, you must fill out this template for each jutsu I describe to you. ^^

[B]One/three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
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[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]One/three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]How you would use it in battle:[/B]
[B]How you would counter it:[/B]
[B]How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):[/B]

 

[Thoth]

One/three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. Could be unpredictable because of the sudden splitting into more currents.
2. Can incapacitate more targets at different places at the same moment.
3. Refering to the 2nd disadvantage; but then the user has free space to attack when the opponent is avoiding the stram.

One/three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. Very straightforwardn and not easy to contorl because of its speed.
2. A person fast enough can easily jump away from the trajectory of the current.
3. If the user of the technique is only after the clone, it leaves some attack for the opponent to attack.

How you would use it in battle: I would use it to attack more opponents or clones at time and to surprise the opponent, leaving them stunned.

How you would counter it: If its going after my clones, I would use the time to attack the user of the technique because would be occupied. If it's going after me, I would jump into the air and aim towards the opponent with any technique/weapon.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*claps with his hands and concentrates on doing the technique*
Immediately after clapping with his hands, he starts gatherng Raiton chakra in the center of both of them. As he is collecting chakra for some time, he feels that his hand is shaking a little bit and that the power of Raiton can be also heard as the accumulated electricity makes its recognizable crackling sound. After short time senses that he is ready to perform the technique. He swiftly separates his hands and strikes with them to the ground as fast as he can. At the same time as he touches the ground, he releases the Raiton chakra and using shape manipulation, turns it into a straightforward electricasl current that starts rapidly going towards the three straining dummies through the ground. The current is going precisely going towards the dummy in the middle. At the last few seconds, he intesifies the squeeze on eafth and with that, divides the current into three equal pieces. He carefully and of course swiftly controls the electrical currents to hit all of the three dummies and seriously burns them.

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One/three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The whip can be easily controlled to change its direction.
2. The whip is pretty fats and not everybody can avoid its attacks.
3. Good to attack more targets at the same time because of the speed agility of it.

One/three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. If the user concentrates on the whip too much, the opponent could use some earth breaking, shaking techniques to knock the user down.
2. Sometimes the whip isn't fast enough because it needs time to swing and with it properly.
3. It's not easy to aim with the whip, if you miss one time, your opponent can use it against oyu.

How you would use it in battle: I would use it to play with the opponents speed and nerves by continually
attacking him/her from all directions with it.

How you would counter it: I would counter it by a wind vortex or tornado-like technique that is fast enough and would go after the whip, or through an underground attack towards the user when he/she is busy with controlling the whip.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*starts gathering Raiton chakra in the center of his right palm*
When he thinks that he has enough of the chakra in his palm, he stop and starts performing the technique. He triggers teh chakra in both of his palm and uses shape manipulation to make then into a relatively thin lightnings. Just as he creates thouse lightnings, he makes them to connect reating a semicircle over his palm. Next, he increases the chakra and the power of those lighntning that makes a big lightning that looks like a small tornado and is quickly roaming towards the training dummy. He uses the smaller lightning tornado that originated to make a long whip. He carefully controls the whip by swinigng with his hand. As he does that, he hits the dummy with a whip on the left side of it, making the dummy to rapidly flow away, hit the grounds and have smaller burnings on that left side.

 

[Shinta]

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(Raiton: Raijū Hashiri no Jutsu) - Lightning Release: Lightning Beast Running Technique
Rank: B
Type: Offense
Range: Short/Mid
Chakra Cost: 20
Damage Points: 40
Description: The user channels his lighting chakra to his dominant hand and then radiates it out making it a hound shaped stream of lighting which stays attached to the users hand through a bolt of lighting.

Release a bolt of lightning from your hand, keeping it connected to you as it races towards my clone with the front of it looking like a running wolf that you would have shaped using you lightning chakra.

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(Raiton: Gian Yari) - Lightning Style: False Darkness Spear
Rank: B
Type: Offense
Range: Short/Long
Chakra Cost: 20
Damage Points: 40
Description: The user emits a spear of lightning from their mouth. The spear can then split apart to strike multiple enemies.

This jutsu you will charge lightning into your throat and then open your mouth, spitting out a spear of lightning which you can then split apart to strike multiple targets, whether they be multiple people or multiple points on one person.

[B]Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Strategies and combinations:[/B]
[B]How you would counter it:[/B]
[B]How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):[/B]

 

[Thoth]

Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The beast is very swift and it's hard to hit it.
2. The beast can attack multiple targets using its speed and slalom moving.
3. The size of the beast is almost human-sized, whihc means that it can cause serious damages if it bites, attacks a human being.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The user is connected with the beast which is a massive disadvantage.
2. If your opponent defends with water, you can easily get electroshocked.
3. Since you are attached to this technique, you can't prepare yourself for another jutsu.

Strategies and combinations: I would use this technique to kill clones that are standing in my way because I can easily control it's movement and it could kill multiple targets. Although, I probably wouldn't risk using that technique.

How you would counter it: To counter this technique, I would use Wind Release: Beast Wave Strike to simply cut through the beast and make the opponent lose control over it, or attackit it with a smple C-rank water ttechnique.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*starts gathering his Lightning Release chakra in the fist of his right arm*
While he's gatherinf the chakra, he is soncentrating it into apure center of the fist because that enables him a larger amount of lightning which is stronger. When he has enough of the chakra, he stops and triggers it. Shortly after triggering it, he carefully uses shape manipulation to make a sphere around his fist. Once that the sphere is done, he locates semapi's clone and streches his hand out towards it. While streching, he releases a powerful bolt that remains connected with his hand towards the clone. After a bolt crosses a meter of two, he uses another shape manipulation to make the bolt into a beast-like creature. He does that by gathering more of Raiton chakra in one place of the bolt. When the best is done, he controls the beast to avoid the kunais that the clone throws and as soon as the large beast bite the clone, it vanishes.

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Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. It can be used both to hit multiple targets, mostly clone and as bigger spear to more seriously hit one target.
2. The spear/spears can travel up to long range thus can cover a large ammount of battle field.
3. It can be used by splitting the spear and then aiming at one opponent and make it hard from him/her to dodge.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The power of smaller spears is low.
2. Even though this can work on large distance which is good, it's still hard to aim at the target on such great distance.
3. It is extremely hard to hit the target after slipping the spear because it's no easy to aim such perfectly.

Strategies and combinations: This technique has a surprising effect, so I would maybe stun my opponent a bit when using it. Especially if I only aim at the opponent itself; opponent prepares to dodge it, and then it unfold into more spears and at least 1-2 hits him. Injury is an injury.

How you would counter it: I would use Wind Release: Great Vacuum Cannon to either defeat the big spear which is preferable to do, or could even work on smaller spears.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*starts collecting Raiton chakra in his troath*
When he thinks that he has enough chakra, he ceases and starts moving it towards his mouth. At the same time, he observes the movements of the senpai's clones and thus locates them. When the chakra gets to the end of his mouth, he uses elemental and later shape manipulation to make it into a large spear that starts going towards the clone. He contrinues to observe the clones and when he feels that it is the right time, he triggers it to split into 10 pieces because he counted that to be the number of clones. He snaps with his fingers to accomplish that, but only as his supplement for the technique to make it cooler. Every single peace of that spear hits its target and immediately kills all 10 clones.

 

[Shinta]

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(Raiton: Raiton Kage Bunshin) - Lightning Release: Lightning Shadow Clone
Rank: B
Type: Supplementary
Range: Short
Chakra Cost: 20
Damage Points: N/A
Description: User creates a Shadow Clone of himself infused with his lighting chakra. When the clone gets hit he will return to its previous state of pure lighting chakra. The clone has a physical substance and therefor is able to use ninjutsu and taijutsu techniques as well as he has all the normal moves the user has.
Note: Can only use lightning based techniques up to B rank.

Now I want you to use your lightning chakra to create an exact clone of your self. Give him physical substance and enough chakra to act on his own and attack people. To do this you'll need to start with a clear mental depiction of yourself so you have something to mould the lightning chakra with.

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(Chō Biburāto Raitontō) - Super Vibrating Lightning Release Sword
Rank: B
Type: Supplementary
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 20
Damage points: N/A (+15 to kenjutsu and standard attacks)
Description: The user channels their lightning chakra into a blade, increasing its vibrating frequency and giving it more cutting power than standard wind techniques.

Using a sword I want you to channel your lightning chakra into it, keeping in mind the vibrations that give lightning its power to cut through objects. Push the vibrations of the lightning chakra in the sword until you hear a faint humming sound and then slice clean through this windmill shuriken I'll throw at you. If the vibrations high enough, then you'll simply deflect the shuriken, I want you to cut it clean in two.

[B]Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Strategies and combinations:[/B]
[B]How you would counter it:[/B]
[B]How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):[/B]

 

[Thoth]

Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. Can use up to B-rank techniques which is a great amount of Raiton techniques.
2. Requires no hand seals which can save much time.
3. It is hard to notice which is the original and which is the clone like in Shadow Clone Technique and due to that, the clone can be used as a diversion.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The range of the techniques is short which means that the clone can't go much away wihtr the user losing control over it.
2. Can use only Raiton techniques.
3. -

Strategies and combinations: I would let the clone distract my opponent like clones are mostly used. And then, when the clone turns into lightning, it's an ideal cover for my trap or doing preparation for another technique. The clone using lightning techniques can make things work even better.

How you would counter it: I would cut through the clone using any of slicing C-rank Wind Release techniques, like Wind Release: Sickle Weasel Technique or Wind Release: Beast Wave Strike for example.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*hardly concentrates onto making a doppelgänge oh simself rom Lightning Release chakra*
Firstly, he starts collecting Raiton chakra in the center of his body, around his navel. When he has enough of chakra, he lets it flow through his body, make sthe chakra visit every single part of it. At the same time, he starts picturing himself, his face and body structure, his clothing. He remembers everything exactly how it is in reality in short time. Then, he rapidly transport all of the chakra into his left palm. When all the chakra amasses in the center of that palm, he immediately starts releasing it through his body and making it into lightning. He carefully takes control over that lightning and starts forming it into his clone. He puts all pieces of his analization together and with cause but extremely fast and with skills, creates lightning clone. He controll the clone to rush towards the senpai's clone who is weaker and easily owerpowers it.

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Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. It's been seen that it can even cut through Zabuza's sword.
2. It's been shown that swords can be also thrown with great accuracy.
3. Perfect way to suprisingly turn your regular sword into a killing machine within short time.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. Although it can cut through stiff swords like Zabuza's, a fair amount of time is needed, which means that your opponent will have enough of time to think of perfect technique.
2. -
3. -

Strategies and combinations: I'd use this technique to strengthen my sword when going into a diret sword vs. sword combat, or to cut through rocks (Earth Release techniques) with greater ease.

How you would counter it: I would use Wind Release: Vacuum Blade also to strengthen my normal sword. This is a perfect counter for this technique when two of those sword clash.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*grabs a sword that Shinta-senpai tosses him with his right hand*
He holds the weapon very firmly and starts collecting raiton chakra in center of his palm. When he has the chakra's ammount perfectly ready. He carefully feels special vibrations that are specific to lightning chakra. When he has a full feel of it, he strats transporting the chakra with those vibrations to the sword. After some short time of feeling all part of sword with Lightning Release chakra, he feels faint humming sound and with that, he knows that the sword along with the technique is ready to be used. Shortly after, he sees that Shinta throws a shuriken towards his face. He has that short concetration moment that he has before every technique and at the right moment, when the shuriken is close to him, yet far enough for him to react properly, he touches the shuriken the same way as he would do if he wanted to reflect it. Only this time, due to the new power his sword has gained, he cuts the shuriken into 2 simetricly equal parts.

 

[Shinta]

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(Raiton: Dai Denki hōden no Jutsu ) - Lightning Release: Large Electrical Discharge Technique
Rank: B
Type: Offensive
Range: Short - Long
Chakra cost: 20
Damage points: 40
Description: By Performing the ram hand seal the user will manipulate their chakra and they then raise their hand to the sky and an electrical discharge is triggered shocking the target.

Perform the Ram hand seal and send your lightning chakra into the sky, after which you will then point at the clouds to trigger a thunderbolt to fall from the sky, shocking your target. This is very similar to one you learnt earlier, but this has a better range and instead of the lightning being released from your hand, it is released from the sky above.

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(Raiton: Shuriken Seigyo no Jutsu) - Lightning Release: Shuriken Control Technique
Rank: B
Type: Offensive
Range: Short - Mid
Chakra cost: 20
Damage points: 40
Description: The user will take out two large shuriken or Windmill Shuriken and channel their raiton chakra into them. They will then throw them at their target to pin them down and maintain a connection with the shuriken through a electrical cable that delivers a numbing shock to paralyse the target and restrict their movements.
Note: Numbing Effect lasts for one turn.

Using two large shuriken with wire attached to them and your raiton chakra channelled through the entire system. Throw the shuriken at your targets to pin them down while you still hold the wires to deliver a more powerful shock to paralyse them slightly.

[B]Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Strategies and combinations:[/B]
[B]How you would counter it:[/B]
[B]How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):[/B]

 

[Thoth]

Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The range of the technique is long, aka the opponent can be very far away from you.
2. The speed and also strength of a lightning bolt is great.
3. Speed combined with surprise effect could can cause avery deadly and unexpected technique.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The user needs a certain ammount of time to prepare everything for the lightning bolt.
2. It requires hand seals. Well, one hand seal, but with all that perparation, one is even too much.
3. By seeing the hand seal and observing clouds, you can predict what will happen and where will the bol strike, especially becaus here on NB, we write the technique and with that, asurprising effect usually vanishes.

Strategies and combinations: This is perfect for situations where your opponent and you are in long range, and maybe is something stands between you, not only distance. You can prepare yourself in peace and then stun your opponent with a swift bolt. I could also attack my oponent from teh ground by using an earth technique. And then wen he/she jumps into the air, dodging becomes quite difficult.

How you would counter it: If I watch cloud movements carefully, there shouldn't be a problem for the technique to hit me suddenly, aka I could dogde the lightning bolt. But, in severe case, I could sens some kind of a wind gust or slicing wind at a counter attack which would slow down the bolt.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*performs the Ram hand seal*
Whilst performing the seal, he starts gathering his Lightning Release chakra in the center of his left hand. After he thinks that he has enough of chakra, he rapidly raises his left hand towards the sky and with that movement, he releases his Raiton chakra into the sky. Once that his chakra arrives to the sky, he starts mixing it with clouds and with that, makes the clouds darker and thicker. He prepares the sky himself for the technique he wants to do. He concentrates the power of those clouds exactly above his senpai's clone. When he feels that the clouds are ready to produce lightning, he triggers but very swiftly after it, using shape manipulation and help of the clouds that he's made, he creates a lightning bolt that strikes directly into the clone's head with an incredible speed, speed of lightning.

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Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. Not only that this technique can cut off a piece of your body if you're lucky, it can also paralyse you and pervent you from normal moving for one turn, which would be great.
2. You can attack two people with this technique, if you are skilled enough in controling the shuriken, or you can evem wave around with it to take down numerous clones.
3. -

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The user stays connected with the shuriken by wires, aka his/her opponent can use that connection to attack you more easily.
2. If you're in a thick area, for example woods, you won't be able to control the shuriken succesfully for them to get to the opponent, especially because the wires can only go up to medium range.
3. This technique only has effects if you succeed to touch your opponent, and it's not easy to hurt your opponent by controlling those shuriken qith the wire. If you miss, which is most likely, you have a fair ammount of chakra lost for nothing.

Strategies and combinations: Most probably, I would risk performing this technique because of serious restrictions, but if I would re risking it (maybe I would because near paralysation for one trun is excellent), I would probably send something to hinder my opponent, like a summoning or a clone, and then I would surprise them with shuriken.

How you would counter it: I would use Wind Release: Beast Wave Strike to cut through opponent's wires and make him/her lose control over those shuriken. With that technique, I could also in one move, slash those large shuriken into pieces. I could also use Wind Release: Gale Palm for the same effect of cutting the wires.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*grabs two large shuriken, which with one of his hands*
He specifically takes shuriken that have wires attached to them. Then, he starts collecting his Raiton chakra in centers of both of his palms, After some short time, he figures out that he has enough of chakra and instantly starts transferring chakra into two large shuriken. He also puts Raiton chakra into the wires for him to keep contact to the shuriken and the whole system. When he has accessories filled with chakra, he aims with the shuriken towards senpai's clone. Due to the fact that shuriken are connected with wire, he is able to control them while they're travelling. When he waves with his hands up, the shuriken also go up and then as he makes a movement like he's maneuvering with a whip and with that, he makes the shuriken pin down on the clone. I still keep the connection to them with electrical cables, aka wires to boost the effect of this technique. When both shuriken hit the clone, it vanishes, but if it was a real person, it would cause short paralysation and restriction of his/her movements.

 

[Shinta]

Apologies for the delay.

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( Raiton: Rakurai Senkou ) - Lightning Release: Thunderbolt Flash
Rank: B
Type: Offensive
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 20
Damage points: 40
Description: The user releases a current of purplish lightning from their hands forward, damaging and knocking away enemies. The range of this technique is, however, limited.

A simple but powerful jutsu, similar to Sith Lightning in Star wars. Simply release a powerful current of lightning from your hands, sending it through the air to shock your opponent... also make it purple in colour xD

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( Raiton: Purazuma Bōru ) - Lightning Release: Plasma Ball
Rank: B
Type: Offensive, Defence
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 20 (+5 per turn active)
Damage points: 40 (-15 if target comes into contact with the barrier)
Description: The user manipulating their chakra generates a plasma barrier around them to serve as a defence which protects them from incoming attacks, even from something as wide-ranged as the Quicksand Waterfall Flow however the user cannot use other techniques besides lightning release or physical based techniques. The user can rush at their opponents even if the barrier is active. The shield can be used offensively, by discharging the electricity in the direction of their choice in a wave resulting in using the energy of the barrier and ending its effects.
Note: Technique remains active for 3 turns.

This combines two D-rank lightning jutsu into one. The first creates a powerful shield around you, impervious to taijutsu and certain ranks of jutsu (basic elemental weaknesses/strengths). Inside, you cannot perform jutsu other than lightning jutsu or basic taijutsu, in which can you are simply ramming them with the shield xD
When you feel the time is right you can discharge the power of the shield, focusing it in one direction to release a powerful stream of lightning.

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( Raiton: Kaminari no Shōgeki Ame ) - Lightning Release: Lightning Shock Rain
Rank: B
Type: Offensive
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 20
Damage points: 40
Description: The user manipulates their lightning chakra condensing into a orb of chakra and then releasing it into mid air. The lightning orb will then remain in the air for several seconds releasing a continous rain of lightning bolts shocking any enemy within the radius of the attack.

Create a dense orb of lightning chakra in your hands before throwing it up above the battle field where it will stay momentarily, before raining down lightning bolts on the battlefield. It has a short range reach around were the orb sits so you better stand back after you release it.

[B]Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Strategies and combinations:[/B]
[B]How you would counter it:[/B]
[B]How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):[/B]

 

[Thoth]

Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The technique is pretty powerful and has the ability to knock over an opponent and serious damage him/her, whihc not many lightning techniques can do.
2. Due to technique not needing hand seals, it can be done exetremely fast and thus it's very hard to dogde it.
3. It's purple and that makes it fancy.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The range is short and thus the current is only few meters long.
2. The flow is pretty straightforward due to it's speed and can't be controlled; once you release it, it's going straight that way.
3. -

Strategies and combinations: This is like the perfect close-range lightning technique. While fighting, you can simply fake a ounch and release that powerful lightnign stream that would throm my opponent away with giving him some burns.

How you would counter it: I must admit that this is very hard to counter because it has to be used in short-range, but I guess experienced Taijutsu users shouldn't have problems dogding it. If not with a swift Taijutsu, it is hard to find a Wind Release technique that would counter this on fime, but I would probably try pulling this off with Wind Release: Hurricane Fist. (Flying Thunder God, for the win! T_T)

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*starts channeling Lightning Release chakra in the center of both of his palms*
After a few seconds, he's done with dsoing that and he feels like he's completely ready to perform this simple but powerful technique. He starts releasing chakra from his hands and at the same time, he starts making Kha-me-ha-me-ha movement with his hands. That helps him to get better control of the chakra. When he suddenly points with his hand towards the senpai's clone, he quickly uses shape manipulation and makes an extremely fast and strong (and purple) lightning towards the current. It gets there in an incredible speed because the clone was in short range and makes him vanish in a split of a second.

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Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. Even though the user is in a form of barrier, he/she can still freely move around the battlefield without any holdbacks.
2. The defence is so great that it can also protect you from wide-scaled techniques and not only Taijutsu.
3. This techniques is both a defence and an offence when being in plasma ball, and later, when discharging the electricity, it can also turn into a deacent attack.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The user cannot perform other elemental techniques nor even simple Ninjutsu ones while being in the blasma ball.
2. The range of the offensive part of this techniques is short.
3. Easily defeatable by Wind Release.

Strategies and combinations: I think that this techniques is great. It's definitely the best defensive lightning attack, not to mention that it can be used both both as an attack and defence which places it amoung the most useful techniques we have. I would use this one in many different ways; when fighting an experienced Taijutsu user, this could be a life-saving technique because it'f fast and no hand seals and you can really stun a person with it, our I would protect myself from a wide-scaled Earth Release, or sand technique.

How you would counter it: Now, even though this technique has many advantages, it is still prety vunerable to wind, like all of lightning attacks. A simple C-ranked Wind Release technique that can be formed quickly, such as Wind Release: Wind Terror, should have no problem in defeting this.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*starts collecting Raiton chakra in the center of his body*
When he's done with channeling chakra, he makes it flow through his body. After a short amounf of time, the chakra experiences every single part of his body and he feels ready. He swiftly but with cause starts releasing the chakra out of his body. He uses chape manipulation and starts making lightning around his body. But this time, he ably controls the lightning that he's created and after a second or two, he forms a plasma ball which center is his navel and its radius is is about one mater. Just after he makes the plasma ball he sees that the senpai's clone tries to make a Taijutsu move on him. As soon as the clone, touches the plasma ball, it vanishes. He sees the other clone running towards him and he decides to do something different. He stasrt discharing the plasma ball but also carefully control it, and he quickly cncentrates all of the chakra and the power in fron oh him, releasing a powerful lightning wave towards the clone that's just gotten into close range with him. The second clone also gets instantly deleted from the planet Earth.

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Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The user can create really many of lightning bolts.
2. The lightning bolts are very fast and can get to the oppoent very quickly.
3. Due to speed and quantity, it's hard to dodge the lightning bolts when being in close range with it.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. If not going backwards after sending the orb into the air and just continue being on the same place, the user also gets shot by the lightning bolts rain.
2. The user firstly needs to create a lightning orb which is not practical because it can be blown away before the technique takes effect.
3. Because the range of this technique is short-ranged the lightning bolts can't travel more than few meters.

Strategies and combinations: I would use this for example while fighting in close-range, and preferably tossing some Taijutsu moves at my opponent, I would swiftly release the orb because I am able to do so (no hand seals) and then when the user gets distracted by the orb, I would try to knock him down and use him/her not being ready and/or concentrated. Then I would do a few back flips and let the lightning bolts rain numble my opponent a bit.

How you would counter it: Now, even thought this isn't a too shabby techniques, the lightning rain isn't deadly and doesn't do much damage. Also it's not even hard to avoid the technique's range and due to some time being needed for the orb to be thrown and for rain to start falling, it can be destroyed by swift Wind Release technique, such as Wind Release: Beast Wave Strike.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*starts gathering Lightning Release chakra in his left palm*
After a really short amount if time, he has the chakra ready for this techniques to be fullly performed. He puts his palm in a way that he's holding an imagonary orb. He carefully starts releasing chakra out of his hand and immeditely, by using a really advanced shape-manipulation, he starts forming an orb in his palm. After a few second, imagionary orb becomes a real one and he has a dense orb of Raitonchakra ready to be used. He makes a move with his left hand, like he's throwing a frisbi and with that, he throws the lightning orb to make is flow exactly above the clone's head. When the orb gets where it's supposes, it rapidly starts releasing lightning bolts, looking like a lightning rain at the clone. The clone disappears on the touch of the first few bolts but the rain countinues a few more seconds.

 

[Shinta]

Very good.

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( Raiton: Raisogekishin ) - Lightning Release: Lightning Rat Violent Quake
Rank: A
Type: Offensive
Range: Short - Mid
Chakra cost: 30
Damage points: 60
Description: After performing the required hand seals Monkey → Ox → Boar → Tiger the user releases a discharge of electricity that fires several destructive disks of electricity.

If you've every watched DBZ, you'd know of the destructo disk... this is essentially that in the way you make a slicing disk of energy (lightning) about the size of man-hole cover. Use the four hand seals for the shape manipulation required for the jutsu, being sure to compress the energy flat enough to create the disk.

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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 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.
Note: Someone who mastered lightning release can perform chidori with just the Ox hand seal.

Chidori.

11 hand seals along with high levels of elemental manipulation in one of your hands, with some relatively average shape manipulation to shape the chidori into your palm. The high concentration of lightning will take the form of an unstable ball of lightning, chirping as bolts fly off harmlessly.
This should easily pierce anything in your path as well as induce a numbing effect.

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( Raiton: Fusei Shuriken Chidori Jutsu ) - Lightning Release: Rigged Shuriken One Thousand Birds Style
Rank: B
Type: Offensive
Range: Short - Mid
Chakra cost: 20
Damage points: 40
Description: The user will utilize a large shuriken and channel a chidori into it. The user will then throw the shuriken charged with chidori towards the opponent resulting in paralysing them on impact. (paralysis lasts for 1 turn)
Note: Must Know Chidori

Channel chidori into a large shuriken and throw it at your target, causing paralysis on impact. Basically a higher level chakra infusion as you must channel the chidori into the shuriken instead of normal lightning. This would still have some level of chirping of course.

 

[Thoth]

Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The sharpenss and speed of the disk is incredible.
2. The user can make many of those disks and thus, it's very hard to dogde it.
3. -

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. Four hand seals are a bit much for this technique.
2. Fairily easy to counter with a Wind Release stream.
3. No numbing effect like in most of Lightning Release techniques.

Strategies and combinations: There is a little problen with the hand seals and four of them are too much. Without Lightning Release speciality, I probably wouldn't use it. But, if I could perform this with for example with one hand seals this actually wouldn't be a bad technique because the disks are very fast and to make streams and gusts and such, it usually takes more time. If I would be very close to opponent, not necessarily short-range, I would release the disks very rapidly and it would be extremely hard to counter and with dogding, it' a high possibility that one disk will hit my target.

How you would counter it: As I've said, this technique is very easy to counter by a simple stream, such as Wind Release: Violent Whirlwind because a wind stream both discharges the disks, can do it to all of them because it coveres a fairly large area and can also go after the opponent as a D-ranked strema in my opinion. Because due to disks being as flat, they cannont stop from the whole stream.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*performs Monkey → Ox → Boar → Tiger hand seals*
He starts gathering Lightning Release chakra in his stomach. He starts channeling gathered chakra from his stomach into both of his hands, more precisively. After few seconds ,he finnishes with channeling chakra towards centar of bouth left and right palm as well as making hand seals. He spreads out his hands towards the clone with his palms being opened and being parallel to the sempai's clone. Now he really carefully starts releasing chakra from his palms and at the same time he uses nature manipulation to create actualy lighting. At the same time of using nature manipulation he uses shape manipulation to compress the energy created out of lighting chakra and create it flat enough to look like a disk. After few seconds of imagining disk like form, eh shoots out ten lightning disks that rush towards the clone. Seven disks manage to hit it ut it dies to the touch of the first one.

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Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The power of it is incredible; can pierce through human flesh.
2. One of the best Lightning Release techniques and any techniques as well not only due to it's power but it having almost no real disadvantages.
3. It's shape and usement can be manipulated in many ways through numerous technique, making it multipurpose.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. Without Lightning Release matery, it requires way too many hand seals.
2. It's range is short and thus it wouldn't be smart to start running with it towards your opponent from mid long-range, because he/she would surely do everything to stop you from getting to him/her.
3. While being in short-range, one might not be fast in performing Chidori to it's fullest because it's a fairly complicated technique and your opponent could either escape or make a move on you.

Strategies and combinations: Even though Chidori is very popular and overall extremely powerful (and also mainstream but only I mind that) I wouldn't use it too much. Especially not against Swift users, EIG masters and experienced Taijutsu users because they'd have no trouble dogding Chidori. I'd use it with combinating it with Taijutsu, there are many posibilities; either making the opponent go into mid-range, knock him down... Shortly said, I would use Taijutsu to create myself an oponenign and swiftly strike through my opponent's chest. I like variations of Chidori that we will learn very soon much more and they are a lot more usable and useful, though.

How you would counter it: As Minato's said, Chidori itself isn't hard to stop. My first solution is a A-ranked wind gust or a stream that would both deflect Chidori and push away/hurt the opponent when they would starts running towards me with Chidori, such as Wind Style: Pressure Damage. Another way is a Kenjutsu technique that I personally adore, Sword Technique: Lightning Rod that would take over the opponent Chidori as soon as he gets into short-range with me. This would also work if my opponent would starts creating Chidori close to me, as I would immediately take over all of the lightning. Another solution for short.range is Wind Release: Peacock Whirlwind Formation that would easily push away my opponent before he even manages to do Chidori. Swift Taijutsu moves also always work.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*performs the Ox → Rabbit → Monkey → Dragon → Rat → Bird → Ox → Snake → Dog → Tiger → Monkey hand seals*
While performing hand seals he starts collecting Lightning Release chakra in the center of his right palm. After some time, he finishes doing it, but not before he's completely sure that he has enough of chakra because this is a rather complicated technique. He opens his palm out in a similar way to performing Rasengan and starts releasing the chakra out. The ammounf ot the chakra is so great that with using elemental manipulation, it becomes visible. He uses only a weak form of shape manipulation to use the piece of the lightning to create a ball in his palm. The rest of the chakra freely flows around the ball. Because of the high concentration of electricity, it produces a rather loudsound reminiscent of many birds chirping. He starts runnning towards the sempai's clone, not losing the concentration over maintaining the Chidori. When he gets close to the clone, he easily pierces through its chest, making it vanish in a split of a second.

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Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. If the shuriken manages even to touch your opponent, gentily cut him/her, he/she will be paralyzed for one turn which is amazingly a lot and the fight is pretty much over.
2. Lightning Release chakra makes the shuriken much faster than its original speed.
3. -

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. Due to shuriken being as large, it's easily noticeable.
2. Once you throw the shuriken, it's movement is very straightrward.
3. Also, one shuriken is always easy both to dogde and counter also considering Wind Release is the most usual way of defending against any shuriken and wind > lightning relation.

Strategies and combinations: I would use this technique as a great way to pierce through Erath defences and even attack as it's very fast and could easily pierce through rock and still be going towards by target and with that stun him/her for example if he/she creates a wall in front of him/her and thus he/she might not be able to defend against it. Also great for bigger earth projectiles. Not for small ones with great quantity, though.

How you would counter it: It's not hard to defend this technique and the speed of the shuriken can be easily overdone by a Wind Technique that doesn't require any hand seals; the stream type that would stop the Chidori on Shuriken and also deflect the shuriken to starts going back at my opponent (Wind Style: Hurricane Fist), and a weapon-like version that would only counter the shuriken and annul with it (Wind Release: Beast Wave Strike).

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*performs Ox → Rabbit → Monkey → Dragon → Rat → Bird → Ox → Snake → Dog → Tiger → Monkey hand seals*
He starts channeling Lightning Release chakra in the center of his left palm. After a very short time, he has the chakra ready; not as much as he would have if he'd be performing Chidori but still a fair amount. When he has his chakra ready, he takes out a large shuriken and hold it with his left hand. Now, he starts releasing the chakra out of his hand in a very similar was to Chidori. Only that this time, he doesn't cocnentrate it into a free-formed ball, but he straightly tranfers it into the shuriken. A few seconds later, he has the chakra ready and with the use of elemental manipulation and almost no shape manipulation, he coveres the shuriken in Chidori. He locates the sensei's clone and swiftly throws the lightning shuriken towards it. The clone surprises when the shuriken's speed gets enchated a lot and he doesn't dodge it on time and teh shuriken hits it. Thus, he immidiately vanishes.

 

[Shinta]

Just remember with any jutsu such as Lightning Rat Violent Quake, that involves you creating multiple projectiles, that each on does not equal the rank of the jutsu, all of them combined would be A-rank for example; each individual projectile would have it's power divided equally.

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(Raiton: Ikazuchi Hakai) – Lightning Release: Lightning Destruction
Rank: A
Type: Attack
Range: Short – Mid
Chakra cost: 30
Damage points: 60
Description: After performing a small sequence of hand seals the user will place their hand on the ground converting their chakra in to lightning. The user then sends an enormous bolt of electricity that cuts through the ground in the direction of the enemy. The shape of the bolt is a triangular with the base in the direction of the user and the tip headed towards the target. It causes devastating destruction on its way and generates enough heat and power to destroy whatever it comes into contact with.

Charge a large amount of lightning into your hands as you perform a few hand seals before placing them on the ground. Release the stored lightning chakra and release it as a triangular-shaped bolt of lightning that races across the ground towards your target, searing and tearing through the earth as it travels. You can then split it into multiple tendrils to afflict multiple targets.

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(Raiton: Chidori Senbon) - Lightning Release: One Thousand Birds Needle
Rank: A
Type: Offense
Range: Short/Mid
Chakra Cost: 30
Damage Points: 60
Description: The user reshapes the Chidori in their hand into the form of countless senbon. It has more specialized speed than the normal Chidori and can cause damage throughout multiple places on the body. Although it’s not stated, this technique probably takes on Chidori's characteristics such as its ability to cut through almost anything and numb parts of the body.

After you form the chidori, focus on releasing small needles of chidori-lightning, in a tight or wide spread. These will numb your opponent on impact as well as damage them. As I said, you have the option of releasing a tight spread or affect a wide area before you.

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(Raiton: Sanda Appu) – Lightning Release: Thunder Up
Rank: A
Type: Offence
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 30
Damage points: 60
Description: The user concentrates a lot of lightning chakra into their hand and compressing it into a ball of energy and then releases it at once, causing a huge explotion.

Get in close as you charge a compact ball of lightning in one of your hands before slamming it in your targets face, releasing the built up lightning energy as you make contact. The end result it a sizable explosion that will severely damage your target. Use your chakra to direct the blast towards your foe so you remain unscathed.

[B]Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Strategies and combinations:[/B]
[B]How you would counter it:[/B]
[B]How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):[/B]

 

[Thoth]

Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The good thing about this technique is that you are able to make huge damage if the person is underground.
2. Once performed, it is a very fast making it hard to dodge.
3. The power of it is amazing and it can literally destroy everything on its way.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. For performing this jutsu, you whave to use the ground.
2. The number of hand seals isn't specific, which could cause trouble.
3. Althought the lightning is really fast, it is also straightforward and it's movement cannot be controled.

Strategies and combinations: I would mostly use this technique when my opponent would go underground my defending against a certain technique with seemingly the easiest solution; Hiding Like a Mole Technique and attack and seriously damage or kill my opponent.

How you would counter it: I would counter it by using Wind Style: Hurricane Fist and pushing myself into the air, this is a very easy solution both because of wind > lightning relation and the fact that the hurricane fist can be performed very quickly.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*starts out by performing few hand seals*
As he is performing hand seals he starts to gather raiton chakra in his abdomen. When he feels like he gathered enough of raiton chakra he starts to channel it towards his hands and also his palms. As he finishes with channeling chakra he is also finished with doing handseals. Now with lighting chakra in his palms he swiftly crouches down clapping his hands onto the ground and releases it. As he releases chakra he uses nature manipulation to create it into lighting and then shape manipulation to create a triangle look that cuts through ground.

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Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. This technique can easily numb my opponent making him unable to react.
2. It can be used in more ways; either as a really width technique to make it hard to dogde or a narrow technique making it quite deadlier.
3. It's good for shooting both multiple targets and concentrating on one.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. One needs to perform a hand seal (when mastered Lightning Release, if not, then even worse) for this which affects it's rapidness.
2. Easily defeatable by a winde-ranged wind stream.
3. -

Strategies and combinations: This is overall a very good technique. As I've said before if you remember, I find formations of Chidori much more usefull than the Chidori itself. This would be perfect for defeating clones and attacking multiple targets with fast senbons; much faster than if I'd thrown the normal senbons and of course, much more deadly.

How you would counter it: I think this is not hard to counter, both versions of it by a simple B-ranked streams like Wind Release: Rotating Ferocious Wind or Wind Release: Gale Surge Technique which will destroy the senbons.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*performs the Ox → Rabbit → Monkey → Dragon → Rat → Bird → Ox → Snake → Dog → Tiger → Monkey hand seals*
While performing hand seals he starts channeling Lightning Release chakra in his right palm. After some time, he finishes doing it, but not before he's completely sure that he has enough of chakra. He opens his palm out in a similar way to performing Rasengan and starts releasing the chakra out. The ammounf ot the chakra is so great that with using elemental manipulation, it becomes visible. He uses shape manipulation to use the piece of the lightning to create a ball in his palm. Now, once that he has the basis of the technique he wants to perform, he stretches his hand out towards the sempai's clone and uses an even more advanced chape manipulation and controls the ball to start shooting out lightning senbons. He shoots the so much and so fast that he makes it unable for the clone to dogde and it disappears.

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Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. It makes huge damage and it can easily kill numb and opponent making him unable to move nor do anything to counter.
2. It doesn't require any hand seals.
3. It doesn't require much preparation time and thus can be made while moving swiftly.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. It is a a close-range technue.
2. If you don't control the balst carefully, it could hurt you as well.
3. -

Strategies and combinations: I think that this technique is even better than Chidori because it doesn't require any hand seals and it seems like it can be performed much faster. So I would use this if I would get the opportunity in close-range while tossing some hand-to-hand combat.

How you would counter it: Due to this being short-range and partially even similar to Rasengan and Chidori, it isn't hard to defend against it. I use the logic; if the user starts running from mid or long-range with the ball ztowards you, you have hundreds of ways to stop it. If he uses this in short range, he makes himself vunerable and/or gives you time to exacpe or do a Taijustu or Kenjutsu attack on him/her.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*starts unning towards the sempai's clone*
While he's running, he starts collecting Lightning Release chakra in his right palm. When he gets fairly close to the clone, he finishes collecting the chakra and now, he starts releasing it out of his body. Immeadiately, he uses nature manipulation to make the chakra into lightning and also as quickly, he uses percise shape manipulation to form it into a ball. A ball gets finishes when he gets into close-range with the clone. He rapidly raises his hand and points it towards the clone's head. He manages to hit the clone in the face but knows it's not over. At the point of impact, he uses shape manipulaiton again and points the explosin that was caused away form him. He thinks that this could have been done a lot faster and that it reminds him of Chidori.

 

[Shinta]

Very good.

Before we move on, Scorps made a clarification about Chidori and it's varients in the RP Updates threads;

Nagashi: there is a confusion about what nagashi can or can't do. Nagashi is unfocused lightning that spreads throughout the user. It can numb and paralyze opponents. Though, it can be used in different ways. If you channel it through B-Rank earth, wood, etc up to S-Rank (of anything weak to lightning) it willspread through it and neutralize the technique but won't destroy it. Nagashi only has detructive properties if a big difference in ranks exist (C-Rank or lower). It has not tangible properties. If used from the body as a omnidirectional "spread", it will only reach up to Short Range of the user. If used through the ground and targetting a piece of metal or other conductors stuck on the ground (like a kunai near your enemy or similar), it can reach mid range but in this case will not have any omnidirectional abilities.

Chidori Variations: Ok, none requires you to use chidori before and they only require handseals if they were seen in the manga or anime to require them. Normally, And I checked, all of the techniques that fit under "chidori variations" have an acurrate description of what they need and if they don't say they need handseals, they don't.

Any questions about this?

 

[Thoth]

I have no questions, it's very clearly written. :3

 

[Shinta]

Spoiler

(Raiton: Jūrokuchū Shibari) – Lightning Release: Sixteen-Pillar Bind
Rank: A
Type: Supplementary
Range: Short – Mid
Chakra cost: 30
Damage points: 60
Description: After performing the needed hand seals Rat → Monkey → Horse → Tiger the user will create a even more powerful version of lightning release: four pillar bind, the user creates sixteen giant pillars, which then form a giant oven to trap the enemy. It is often used after Earth Release: Mud Fall to cover the enemy target in mud and then follow up with using Fire release: Firing Biscuit, creating flames in the oven to roast and harden the mud, immobilising the enemy.

A more advanced version of the Four Pillar Bind jutsu, four times as complicated... or time consuming... The only differences between Sixteen Pillar Bind and Four Pillar bind is as follows; Instead of just an open, four-point prison that shocks your opponent, this jutsu forms a complete box that traps your opponent but it will not shock them with electricity. Not that I've seen anyway.
Follow the method you used to perform the Four Pillar Bind jutsu but focus your lightning to force up more pillars, having them lock-in next to each other as they box in my clone.

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(Raiton: Chidori Eiso) - Lightning Release Chidori Sharp Spear
Rank: A
Type: Offense
Range: Short/Mid
Chakra Cost: 30
Damage Points: 60
Description: The user increases the range of their Chidori by using form manipulation to extend it into a blade up to 10 meters in length. This blade is capable of splitting into multiple additional blades upon contact with an enemy, drastically increasing the number of wounds it can inflict. Like other Chidori-related techniques, this jutsu will numb its target upon contact.

Create a Chidori in your hand (You'll still need all the hand seals as you haven't completed lightning yet) and then point it at your target. Channel more lightning into it to extend the chidori into a long point, almost looking like a spear. It is possible to split of several other blades from the tip, allowing you to strike multiple points on your target. This will also induce a numbing sensation in the immediate target area.

[B]Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):[/B]
[B]1.[/B]
[B]2.[/B]
[B]3.[/B]
[B]Strategies and combinations:[/B]
[B]How you would counter it:[/B]
[B]How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):[/B]

 

[Thoth]

Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. This technique is able to trap opponent from all sides.
2. Using it in combination with Fire Release and Earth Release, especially if you're in a team, you will be able to completely immobilize your opponent.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. It takes a lot of time for pillars to rise up, giving your opponent time to come up with something he wants to do next and how to swiftly counter this technique.
2. It requires 4 hand seals and isn't really great if used on its own.

Strategies and combinations: Except the original combinnation which in my opinion requires to much effort (Earth Release: Mud Fall and Fire release: Firing Biscuit), I think that this technique is good to be used with something that will limit opponents movements from the underground as well making him very limited, and also for it to be a very powerful technique, like Earth Style: Swamp of the Underworld.

How you would counter it: The best way to counter this technique alone is to simply cut through the pillars before they succeed to trap you. Even when they already trap you, ou'r enot in a big hurry. Considering that wind is stronger than lightning, that goes in my favour and I would use something like Wind Release: Vacuum Wave. Although it as well requires 4 hand seals, it can definitely be done on time.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*performs Rat → Monkey → Horse → Tiger hand seals*
While performing the hand seals, he starts to gather Lightning Release chakra in his abdomen. When he feels that he has enough chakra for this A-rank technique to be performed, he stops and starts to channel it all over his body but channels most of the chakra towards a one point in his feet, the pure center of it. Once chakra is channelled in that one point of his feet, he starts to release it into the earth on which he is standing. Once this chakra is released he starts to control it and he directs it towards the sempai's clone. He, by controlling chakra surrounds sensei’s clone from all sides with chakra and then start to release it by using shape and nature manipulation and creating sixteen giant pillars to rise up and once they rise up. As soon as those sixteen giant pillars rise up from the ground he once again uses shape manipulation creating an oven.

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Three advantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. If the technique succeeds to touch the opponent, it becomes a serious and very hardly stoppable threat.
2. The spear extends in an incredible speed.

Three disadvantages (no obvious ones, be creative):
1. The attack is very straightforward, the first big blade continues to move in the same way as you've pictured at the pure start.
2. The techniques actual purpose and biggest advantage can be formed only if the blade touches the opponent and that's not easy to achieve because most people will stop it before it touches them

Strategies and combinations: This is not a technique that is used with a lot of thinking and combinating and due to its explosiveness, speed and destrictiveness, it's fine to be used by itself. But some situations that would be good for it is when the opponent doesn't have enough time to properly react; either he/she is too close to you, or is distracted by somehting else.

How you would counter it: I always like to use a technique that's very nice in my opinion, and is good to defeat up to A-rank lightning tecniques that are spear-like, Wind Release: Vacuum Blade. Or I could even use Wind Style: Beast Tearing Gale Palm which is good to stop the spear's extending and the whole attack.

How you perform it (with as much detail as you can):
*performs the Ox → Rabbit → Monkey → Dragon → Rat → Bird → Ox → Snake → Dog → Tiger → Monkey hand seals*
While performing hand seals he starts channeling Lightning Release chakra in his left palm. After some time, he's finished doing it, but not before he's completely sure that he has enough of chakra. He opens his palm out in a similar way to performing Rasengan and starts releasing the chakra out really quickly. The ammount of the chakra is so great that with using elemental manipulation, it becomes visible. He uses shape manipulation to use the piece of the lightning to create a ball in his palm. With that, he has the Chidori in his hand. Now, he puts some more shape manipulation in it and a hard concentration, he control the Chidori to start extending towards the sempai's clone. After only a few seconds, it starts to look like a long spear and he continues to extend it is an incredible speed. When it gets close to the clone, the clone doens't even get the time to properly react and before it even blink. The spear touches it and it automatically splits splits into hundreds of smaller sowrds that all attack the clone at the same time, from various sides. This kills the clone in an instand and if it was a real human being, it would cause some serious injuries on his/her body.