Lightning with Lili-Chwan

[The Necromancer]

Suika leans against a tree and contemplates the universe, waiting for his sensei.

 

[Lili-Chwan]

*drops down from a tree*

Hullo!

 

[The Necromancer]

*Falls on the ground from surprise*

Woah... Hi!

 

[Lili-Chwan]

So, tell me about your rp experience. Have you ever been trained before in any element? Have you ever fought anyone? Do you read training threads, battles? Etc Etc

 

[The Necromancer]

Pretty much the same answer as the wind thread.

I'm currently being trained in water and it's going pretty well. Before creating my first bio i read a lot of forums on how to battle, and how to create custom jutsu and such. I read a few threads giving examples of how to battle and such. The only thing i couldn't find is what the numbers for each jutsu mean... I understand that a jutsu does a certain amount of damage, and uses a certain amount of chakra, but i could never find out how much health and chakra you begin with...

 

[Lili-Chwan]

I answered that question in the other thread xD

Now, tell me, what is Lightning, it's characteristics, it's strengths, weaknesses, how can it be combined with other elements to make your techniques stronger, or how can you use water to make your other elements stronger?

 

[The Necromancer]

Well, Lightning is essentially pure energy. It can be fluid like water and burn like fire. As it is pure energy and so destructive, it is very hard to control in its basic elemental form, however this also makes it one of the fastest elements, as lightning has the potential to move great distances is 1/1000th of a second. This also makes it one of the more chakra taxing elements to use.

Lightning is weak against wind as wind is a natural insulator and can stop lightning from spreading and doing damage. Lightning is strong against earth because as earth is a natural lightning rod, the lightning is free to flow through the earth and break it down to its basic components, making it useless.

As water is an even greater conductor of lightning than even earth, water can be greatly used to supplement lightning attacks, or used against you if you're not careful. One can use a water based attack which creates a field of water, or just use a natural body of water by itself, and funnel one's lightning attacks into it. As water conducts it, the water becomes as electrified, or even possibly more electrified, hitting all targets who are in contact with the water, potentially extending the range of electric attacks indefinitely.

 

[Lili-Chwan]

Tone down the speed way more. This is Lightning release, but the speed isn't light speed. It's still one of the fastest elements though.

I like everything you said, bravo. I guess the real difference between Water and Earth is that, earth is rigid and thick, so, when met with lightning, it crumbles and breaks. Water is free-flowing and flexible, so, while it conduces lightning, it doesn't get broken apart. Though, one should still note that both elements are, in strength, neutral to each other. So, if you have a lightning jutsu higher than a water jutsu, you could still control the current to a certain extend, so it goes away from you and doesn't electrocute you. Likewise, if the water is stronger, it can push the current away, and make it short circuit around you, away from the water user. And if both are equal in strength, the lightning should just spread in the water, in every direction, attacking everyone close by in contact with the water.

Now, what about lightning and Fire? Also, how can you use the characteristics of the lightning and the earth in your advantage, or lighting and wind? How can you combine both elements (And I mean you, not a KG or a CE), to make your lightning techniques stronger?

 

[The Necromancer]

I was only referring to the fact that one of the fastest techniques in existence, Kirin, happens to be a lightning release technique.

Now, I would guess that the relationship between fire and lightning is the fact that both can cause severe burns, and both require more chakra than the average technique. Also it would seem that most techniques of these elements are created by your chakra, rather than being manipulated by it, meaning that these techniques can be used at any location, regardless of the surrounding environment.

If using Earth and Lightning, i would probably use the earth release techniques to defend myself from attacks, and then switch to lightning release to attack through my own prior defense, as lightning can easily attack through earth, giving me an added element of surprise.

As for Lightning and Wind, i think that using wind to make an opening, or even to block and disperse another wind based attack would make it possible to strike with another lightning release attack.

When it comes to physically combining the techniques to strengthen lightning... i'm not exactly sure how that could be done, as earth would naturally absorb the lightning rather than strengthening it, and wind would naturally insulate against the lightning, i don't know how i could really combine them.

 

[Lili-Chwan]

I was only referring to the fact that one of the fastest techniques in existence, Kirin, happens to be a lightning release technique.

Now, I would guess that the relationship between fire and lightning is the fact that both can cause severe burns, and both require more chakra than the average technique. Also it would seem that most techniques of these elements are created by your chakra, rather than being manipulated by it, meaning that these techniques can be used at any location, regardless of the surrounding environment.

If using Earth and Lightning, i would probably use the earth release techniques to defend myself from attacks, and then switch to lightning release to attack through my own prior defense, as lightning can easily attack through earth, giving me an added element of surprise.

As for Lightning and Wind, i think that using wind to make an opening, or even to block and disperse another wind based attack would make it possible to strike with another lightning release attack.

When it comes to physically combining the techniques to strengthen lightning... i'm not exactly sure how that could be done, as earth would naturally absorb the lightning rather than strengthening it, and wind would naturally insulate against the lightning, i don't know how i could really combine them.

Well, Kirin is a tricky situation, as it's not Lightning Release, but rather the manipulation of Natural Lightning. But we shall get to there in due time.

Now, first of all, the Bold, great observation. That is indeed correct.

I guess what you're trying to say, when you analyzed the "burning" aspect of each element, is that they're both Energetic elements, while the other 3 are more substantial elements. Combinations of the two will, of course, create more energetic outbursts, either accelerating their speed, or their temperature, or there volatility. Indeed that is. But also because they're both energetic elements, it's harder to combine, as there aren't any actual substance through which one can infuse the other. To bypass that, I found that using techniques that force both to coexist, especially in high motion, is the best. So vortex-type techniques are the best for combinations (This is true for most elements, if not all). Since you'll be making both elements rotate in the same speed and manner, they're forced to interact, without canceling or overpowering one another. What should come out of that combo is an highly energetic and volatile "tornado" at great temperatures (Without exaggeration, of course). Likewise, we can look through a more tactical eye. Fire's strength is Lightning's weakness, so if you use a fire technique, that would make the opponent more hesitant in using a Wind technique, if you then follow with a Lightning technique, it will give little chance for your opponent to be able to block.

I like your rendition of Earth x Lightning. That element of surprise is always great to use. Another thing you could do, though, is charge lightning through the ground, making it graze and friction through the ground, rising dust and debris in a wave, following the lightning. It will sacrifice the speed a bit, but it will add a more substantial attack to the lightning, as the enemy is hit with it and with flying rocks and sand.

Wind x Lightning is not very good. At the light of the new knowledge I shed, come up with a better answer.

PS: I didn't quite get the part where you said that Fire and Lightning require more chakra. That's not really true, they require just the same amount of chakra as any technique of their rank