2).You loose control over the sand when you leave Short-range, so keeping someone in bay will be hard when you leave said range since the pillars will just collapse due to the magnetic fields stop working.
3).What ranks can it block? Can it block someone using lightning armor in close combat?
Interesting, but not really mandatory as most iron sand techniques(if not all) never need you to actually have iron sand as medium as it exists underground. It's not really stated anywhere either that your gourd can ever run out of sand so. I mean i guess you could throw the shield from mid range, split it and create a bank of ironsand close to the user and then use a mid-ranged technique to manipulate the sand close the the opponent faster. But it's never necessary, as you can quickly gather ironsand directly under the opponent. Unless you're in a huge ocean i suppose. But who fights there, it's cold there >_>
This pretty much cancels out your pro of you gaining element of surprise or atleast it's a counter in itself as both of you lose sight of eachother. This is where tactics come in and you have to think. The advantage is that you have the control over the sand, the opponent doesn't and never can, unless using another Jiton technique that would overcome this technique.
A D-rank direct hit with a raiton attack will cancel the technique, not counter it. The opponent needs to use C-rank in order to counter it and a small portion of the original C-ranked raiton will come towards you and might stun you.
2).You loose control over the sand when you leave Short-range, so keeping someone in bay will be hard when you leave said range since the pillars will just collapse due to the magnetic fields stop working.
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So on all Short-Range Iron Sand techs they demagnetize once you exceed their range? Medium-Range being no different? Didn't know that.
Ranks I'd say C, and up. D possibly if there's a solidified Raiton Jutsu, but I haven't seen any yet so eh. Honestly, I think someone using Raiton Armor like the Raikages would effortlessly penetrate through each of these techniques, but their success is heavily reliant on what rank technique they are using as well the Iron Sand's rank.
Overall though, yeah they'd break through, as the Iron Sand would demagnetize upon impact with the Raiton chakra.
Interesting, but not really mandatory as most iron sand techniques(if not all) never need you to actually have iron sand as medium as it exists underground. It's not really stated anywhere either that your gourd can ever run out of sand so. I mean i guess you could throw the shield from mid range, split it and create a bank of ironsand close to the user and then use a mid-ranged technique to manipulate the sand close the the opponent faster. But it's never necessary, as you can quickly gather ironsand directly under the opponent. Unless you're in a huge ocean i suppose. But who fights there, it's cold there >_>
I actually didn't know Iron Sand would be similar in the aspect of Gaara's sand in regards to being able to harvest it underground. Your way would be much quicker.
This pretty much cancels out your pro of you gaining element of surprise or atleast it's a counter in itself as both of you lose sight of eachother. This is where tactics come in and you have to think. The advantage is that you have the control over the sand, the opponent doesn't and never can, unless using another Jiton technique that would overcome this technique.
A D-rank direct hit with a raiton attack will cancel the technique, not counter it. The opponent needs to use C-rank in order to counter it and a small portion of the original C-ranked raiton will come towards you and might stun you.
#1 True. Never though about it that way at the time.
#2 I always though because Raiton was seemingly superior to Jiton (so I thought, I'll take a look at the elemental advantage/weaknesses again, I haven't RP'd in forever) so a lower ranking Raiton would > Jiton. But I never knew an equal Raiton rank would be needed.
