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This is a very underrated technique, actually. People held Raikiri in higher regard and think about Raiden as a less powerful variant of the main technique, but Raiden is more powerful than Raikiri, for sure, maybe even better overall as an offensive technique. The Fourth Databook still heavily hypes and underlines Kakashi's power and proficiency with Lightning Release:
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Again, from the profile of this technique from the Fourth Databook:
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We know Kakashi can attack a single objective at one if he dashes with Raikiri (well he can create a clone or two clones and have them use Raikiri as well to be honest), Raiden can be used to dash and attack against multiple objectives in a single row, with a power that far surpasses the Raikiri's power, doubling it at the very least, as Raiden is created with the fusion of the highly focused Raiton chakra of two Raikiri connected, one to the left and one from the right, to create a chain. When Kakashi hit Obito's Six Paths of Pain transformed in their respective V2 version of their Bijuu, the V2 chakra could completely tank his
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. But the same V2 chakra was easily cut through, like a hot knife through butter, when Kakashi used
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. Kishimoto there seemed also to directly compare the power and the efficiency of Kakashi's attack with Raiden to the one of Might Guy with Asa Kujaku. Before someone says "chakra arms are weaker than the main body" that's completely untrue. As the V2 is nothing more than the Bijuu chakra focused with the Bijuu power surrounding the human body: the human jinchuuriki's body surrounded by the Bijuu's chakra focused in a shroud which encompasses all the power of the Bijuu. The thing that makes the V2 Bijuu extremely durable is the V2 chakra, not the human body. Kakashi's Raiden is able to cut said V2 chakra with utter ease, while his Raikiri couldn't pierce it (and we know that Raikiri has enough cutting/piercing power to
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); not to mention that Raikiri is the S-rank more powerful version of A-rank Chidori, and
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, that was tougher than steel, as
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from
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.With that said about Raiden's cutting power, two other arguments. The first is about Kakashi's attacking speed: Kakashi and a clone will Shunshin towards the objective with their Raikiri fused to create Raiden. Canonically, Kakashi's clone can Shunshin at the same speed as the original Kakashi. Kakashi has impressive speed feats, even without the final DMS/Six Paths power up:
Beginning of Shippuden Kakashi can casually outspeed and intercept Naruto in his Kyuubi powered first stages (
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), can move (
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) for long distances (
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) in the blink of an eye and he easily handles a Shoten Itachi (30% of Itachi's chakra but perfectly equal skills in taijutsu, speed, everything) in a CQC battle, even using a Kage Bunshin (
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). Shippuden Kakashi could dodge a forest-destroying attack (Kakuzu's Fuuton: Atsugai) at point blank and with his attention divided by the taijutsu fight against Hidan (where, even with an injured arm, he was taking care of him with ease using just a mere kunai against his scythe), keeping up with Kakuzu's masks and taking an eye on team 10 (
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) ... and right after that quickly jump to intercept Kakuzu's fast Raiton ninjutsu with Raikiri, saving team 10's asses (
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). With a little distraction, Kakashi could blitz Kakuzu who didn't even perceive his fast attack (
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), even if we know that Kakuzu has so fine reflexes and perception skills that he can perceive Shikamaru's Kagemane (who obviously doesn't make any noise) approaching his back (
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). It's worth note that Kakashi attacked so fast that even Hidan and the team 10 members, who were facing Kakuzu and so had free sight of what was happening behind him, were completely surprised. Top notch raw speed is one of Kakashi's main qualities as a shinobi, as Obito unhappily has to underline and hype (
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) and the databook does too (
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). Kakashi could nearly blitz Asura Path with his raw speed, dodging his giant AoE attacks and appearing at his back (
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), with the Pain body able to dodge Raikiri only thanks to the Rinnegan shared field of vision. Kakashi completely blitzed Zabuza, cutting off his arm with the sword and piercing his heart with a single dash (
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). Kakashi is so fast that he was able to keep up with Gated Gai's speed more than once (
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) and together with Gai managed to counterblitz the V2 who were ganbanging KCM Naruto and Bee landing Raikiri on them (
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). Kakashi, right after regaining his mindset, outreacted and outspeeded Obito (
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) who could react to KCM Naruto's Shunshin speed (
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) and who had the same physical speed of no Shunshin KCM Naruto (
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), who is casually as fast as Itachi (
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) and V1 Ei (
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), who then Kakashi logically outspeeds. Kakashi also proved to be faster and better in CQC than Obito (
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), even stopping his surprise attack with a powerful chakra rod (
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). Kakashi could also canonically move and react at least on par with Minato in physical speed, evidenced with both reacting and moving at the same time against a sudden threat (
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).The other thing, is really hax: we all know about Kakashi's feinting skills, one of his
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. He
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even
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, he could fool even
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with Kage Bunshin/
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feints. Now to create Raiden, he has to be wielding Raikiri and connect his chakra with the Raikiri wielded by a clone who is a few metres far from him. Imagine if Kakashi fights the opponent, while actually having a clone fighting the enemy while he is hidden underground (like he did with ease against Itachi and against Pain): he can do that making the opponent being in between the position of the original body underground, and the clone, than suddenly activate Raikiri in his hand and
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, while the clone activates Raikiri two, and instantly bisecting/beheading the enemy by connecting their Raikiri and creating Raiden literally through the enemy's body. Kakashi can also do the same even by simply creating a clone, pressuring the enemy so that he can be in between the original body and the clone, and suddenly create and utilize Raiden. Without knowledge (and no one bar Might Guy, Naruto, Killer B and Obito canonically witnessed that technique in the manga), it's incredibly useful: the surprise effect is even bigger if Kakashi applies also
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, which he learned to do in the War Arc. Here you can visually witness what Kakashi could easily do to trick and surprise his enemy with a lethal move he won't expect:
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And even if used normally to dash against the enemy, it's a very powerful offense due to Kakashi's dashing speed and the technique's cutting power.
The last thing, Kakashi's Raiden focuses an incredibly great and refined quantity of Raiton chakra, to the point just the static electricity created by the just packs enough power to freeze and stop an arm from the freaking Gedo Mazo, so that Guy, Naruto and Hachibee can freely attack the monster: another massive feat.
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