[YY] Yang Release
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What do you understand about Yin-Yang in a Daoist context? Knowing this is helpful given that Yin-Yang's form on AB currently is derived from Daoism (thanks Reborn). Then, tell me how this relates to how it is in the Naruto world and the scope of Yang's abilities. I'll fill in any gaps of knowledge.
What do you understand about Yin-Yang in a Daoist context? Knowing this is helpful given that Yin-Yang's form on AB currently is derived from Daoism (thanks Reborn). Then, tell me how this relates to how it is in the Naruto world and the scope of Yang's abilities. I'll fill in any gaps of knowledge.
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Usually, Yin and Yang are thought of as opposites but they're not actually opposing one another in Daoism, they're forces that coexist and complement one another being interconnected and fundamentally inseparable. Like the faces of a coin, two parts of a whole that can never be taken apart. They can give rise to each other and bring out the best in one another or overshadow and eclipse the other but they're never really gone from each other. These can be forces that build upon one another and become more than their separate parts but always form a duality. For example day and night, without the concept of the day, there isn't a concept of night. Light and dark, hot and cold, fire and water, positive and negative the list of examples can go on and on. Yin is thought of as the passive principle and Yang is thought of as the active. So Yin and Yang and all of the analogies I've mentioned as dualities can be thought of as cycles, or processes. Reflecting back upon the day and night analogy, at the end of the day when you're tired and ready to sleep, you find yourself at the precipice of the night and when you make it through the night and wake up rested, the new day is always there waiting for you. Or if you're like me and have insomnia you realize that looking at the clock at 10 pm and then again at 10 am lets you know there's no real difference between not being able to sleep at 10 pm or 10 am and the day and night bleed together not being all that different. The two are never really gone from each other even though we think of "day and night" as separate, they always lead into the other. When a tree grows and reaches for the sky to find the sun a Yang action, it eventually drops it's fruit back to the earth to be reborn as a whole new tree a Yin action then the sapling that blooms from the earth grows into a tree a Yang action and it repeats ad infinitum. Personally, I love how Bruce Lee said: "It's a process of continuing growth." That simple phrase even though he might not have been talking about the concept directly at that moment it truly epitomizes the concept of Yin and Yang a constant cycle of working and building and changing like the day and the night leading into one another. Extrapolating on all of this Wuji is basically nothingness, making it synonymous with infinity. If you think of an empty void it can span on and on forever. In the context of Yin-Yang, it is thought of like the primordial universe so it could, in theory, be equated to the universe before the Big Bang if we toss in some science. It's emptiness. It's like a cup, a teapot, or a bottle before anything is put into it. There's nothing inside, but it has the potential to hold within it anything imaginable. Out of Wuji or nothingness, springs forth Taiji everything, the ten thousand things, etc what gets put into the empty cup. From this point, Yin and Yang come forth, everything carries Yin and embraces Yang. If we look at the cup again the empty space in the cup is Yin, and then what is put into the cup is Yang. "Being and non-being produce each other" just as the dead tree that nourishes the ground becomes nothing, it brings rise to everything by returning it's self to the ground. It's the same with humans, well before the concept of embalming. The earth feeds us while we are alive and we fed the earth with our deaths when we became nothing. Yin-Yang reveals the dualities of the Oneness but they're not truly opposites instead just complimentary forces in harmony. "One begot two. Two begot three. And three begot the ten thousand things." My personal philosophy is influenced heavily by Bruce Lee, who was influenced heavily by Daoism. You need to flow with the way, "Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." If I were to rephrase that iconic quote in my own words for the context of this training I feel like I'd say "Be Yin and embrace Yang. Let your mind be Yin, while your body becomes Yang. While your mind is empty, formless, and shapeless keep your body active and never at rest be ever-changing and unpredictable. An empty mind can be anything you need it to be just like Wuji, nothing can be anything it wants as Taiji springs forth." Obviously, he said it much better than I ever in my life could, but that's what I personally take from Daoism and what I know about it for everyone else it might be different.
With the Naruto World, there's chakra an energy everyone alive produces brought on by the consumption of the chakra fruit of the God Tree. This bigger energy chakra is itself a duality. It's two separate concepts that come together to create something much bigger. These forces are spiritual and physical energies that are molded and used together to play off of and bring out the best in the other. So imagination, meditation, thought, study all become spiritual energy, whereas exercise, movement, fighting etc becomes physical energy. This goes back to Yin and Yang, Yin is passive, Yang is active so by doing passive activities like studying, thinking, or meditating you'll raise your aptitude for the spiritual and if you exercise or fight you'll increase your aptitude for Yang. These two energies combine together into chakra and then from that chakra you are able to mold and manipulate your chakra so that you eclipse one with the other creating Yin energy or Yang energy from it. Yang relates to the physical and is created when a being's physical energy far outweighs that of the spiritual energy it goes back all the way to the Taijitu symbol in my opinion where there is always Yin inside Yang or Yang inside Yin with the two never being completely separate. However to truly learn and master Yin-Yang one must learn both, because "style separates man." There's a small amount of Yin, inside Yang so to produce Yang energy you merely outweigh your Yin, to Yang ratio in favor of the latter. Yang energy is life energy and thus it's abilities revolve heavily around life, the stages of life, aging, peak conditioning, transformation, sentience etc. It's an extremely hot energy, if you were to touch it, it would be like white hot-fire and this is shown in techniques that reference its white-hot whispy nature. Good examples of what it seems like or could do are Akimichi, Sage Transformation, and Inorganic Reincarnation, as well as One's Own Life Reincarnation that technique Chiyo, could use, or Medical Ninjutsu. So now that you have Yang energy from manipulating your chakra the user literally "can breathe life into form." with it. What this means is you are able to manipulate life for example Birth of Nature being able to grow trees to their mature nature. This is like bringing a human to peak condition which is another thing Yang can do, but instead done with trees showing it can work with any living thing. You can heal living beings on par with or even better than Medical Ninjutsu eg Touch of the Sun bringing a person back to peak condition and even regrowing limbs. I have techniques that mimick this via Sage Transformation but even that pales in comparison to what Yang can do saving a person from even the EIG. It can grant genuine sentience and consciousness to constructs, creatures, and elements a la Change into Hell conveying it's similarities to Inorganic Reincarnation. It can be used to alter the strength or speed output of a person, Power of the Sun, Yang Mode etc, or change the body via transformations like Ring of Hell. A good comparison of these transformation based abilities is the Akimichi clan since their transformations revolve around Yang in some way. It shows that Yang has transformative properties to it as life is a process of transformation from a child, to teen, to adult, to death. It can also poison people causing their vitality to degenerate for example 8 Branched Giant Snake or White Tiger both having effects that poison or pollute the opponent's body with Yang energy. This detrimental effect is because the opponent is flooded with Yang energy which is a very volatile and energized substance. They are also unable to control or temper it causing degenerating effects on their body and chakra system. Honestly, the limits are varying but I like what ZK said in his Yin thread "it heals and makes shit stronger" because that's basically what it can do in our RP boiled down to it's easiest to understand properties. Finishing Yang training and specializing in Yang grants the user more aptitude at manipulating their Yang energy with a surplus of life energy/vitality and their chakra giving them an additional 1000 chakra. It also reduces the blunt damage of techniques and attacks by 40 and allows the specialist to take no damage from the recoil of Forbidden rank techniques however they still suffer the effects.
Keep in mind I don't pretend to know everything, or even be that smart so I'm sure I've missed a lot. Especially on the Daoism side.
With the Naruto World, there's chakra an energy everyone alive produces brought on by the consumption of the chakra fruit of the God Tree. This bigger energy chakra is itself a duality. It's two separate concepts that come together to create something much bigger. These forces are spiritual and physical energies that are molded and used together to play off of and bring out the best in the other. So imagination, meditation, thought, study all become spiritual energy, whereas exercise, movement, fighting etc becomes physical energy. This goes back to Yin and Yang, Yin is passive, Yang is active so by doing passive activities like studying, thinking, or meditating you'll raise your aptitude for the spiritual and if you exercise or fight you'll increase your aptitude for Yang. These two energies combine together into chakra and then from that chakra you are able to mold and manipulate your chakra so that you eclipse one with the other creating Yin energy or Yang energy from it. Yang relates to the physical and is created when a being's physical energy far outweighs that of the spiritual energy it goes back all the way to the Taijitu symbol in my opinion where there is always Yin inside Yang or Yang inside Yin with the two never being completely separate. However to truly learn and master Yin-Yang one must learn both, because "style separates man." There's a small amount of Yin, inside Yang so to produce Yang energy you merely outweigh your Yin, to Yang ratio in favor of the latter. Yang energy is life energy and thus it's abilities revolve heavily around life, the stages of life, aging, peak conditioning, transformation, sentience etc. It's an extremely hot energy, if you were to touch it, it would be like white hot-fire and this is shown in techniques that reference its white-hot whispy nature. Good examples of what it seems like or could do are Akimichi, Sage Transformation, and Inorganic Reincarnation, as well as One's Own Life Reincarnation that technique Chiyo, could use, or Medical Ninjutsu. So now that you have Yang energy from manipulating your chakra the user literally "can breathe life into form." with it. What this means is you are able to manipulate life for example Birth of Nature being able to grow trees to their mature nature. This is like bringing a human to peak condition which is another thing Yang can do, but instead done with trees showing it can work with any living thing. You can heal living beings on par with or even better than Medical Ninjutsu eg Touch of the Sun bringing a person back to peak condition and even regrowing limbs. I have techniques that mimick this via Sage Transformation but even that pales in comparison to what Yang can do saving a person from even the EIG. It can grant genuine sentience and consciousness to constructs, creatures, and elements a la Change into Hell conveying it's similarities to Inorganic Reincarnation. It can be used to alter the strength or speed output of a person, Power of the Sun, Yang Mode etc, or change the body via transformations like Ring of Hell. A good comparison of these transformation based abilities is the Akimichi clan since their transformations revolve around Yang in some way. It shows that Yang has transformative properties to it as life is a process of transformation from a child, to teen, to adult, to death. It can also poison people causing their vitality to degenerate for example 8 Branched Giant Snake or White Tiger both having effects that poison or pollute the opponent's body with Yang energy. This detrimental effect is because the opponent is flooded with Yang energy which is a very volatile and energized substance. They are also unable to control or temper it causing degenerating effects on their body and chakra system. Honestly, the limits are varying but I like what ZK said in his Yin thread "it heals and makes shit stronger" because that's basically what it can do in our RP boiled down to it's easiest to understand properties. Finishing Yang training and specializing in Yang grants the user more aptitude at manipulating their Yang energy with a surplus of life energy/vitality and their chakra giving them an additional 1000 chakra. It also reduces the blunt damage of techniques and attacks by 40 and allows the specialist to take no damage from the recoil of Forbidden rank techniques however they still suffer the effects.
Keep in mind I don't pretend to know everything, or even be that smart so I'm sure I've missed a lot. Especially on the Daoism side.
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Lmao I feel like a total ass. Sorry for the wait. Ima teach you the magical skill of paragraphs one day my boy. One day.
Anyways, this was high quality and well thought out. Very thorough. You even hit on the ratios between Yin and Yang, which not a lot of people do. It's important to remember that Yang isn't strictly buffs and debuffs, with a touch of sentience. It can take the form of pure white energy, typically hot to the touch but it doesn't radiate heat. This is evident in the basic form of 8 Branched Giant Snake, which gives you living 'snakes' formed of energy. It isn't until you add Yin that they become flesh and blood snakes.
Also remember, Yang, like Yin, can be weaponized in a way to disrupt the balance of spiritual and physical energy in another. This is evident in Yang with White Tiger. You can triple the chakra cost of someone's techniques (and that's not all!) by simply touching them.
So let's get started.
(Yoton: Jigoku ni henkō) - Yang Release: Change into Hell
Type: Supplementary
Rank: S-Rank
Range: Short
Chakra cost: N/A (+50, -10 per turn)
Damage points: N/A
Description: The user is able to use his Yang nature to embue life into an elemental technique, creating a Yang/Element sentient entity that will stay on the field to aid him. The only limit is the size of the technique originally used as an elemental source as the resulting entity will always be half the size. This entity can be interacted with, can act on its own and is made of the element sourced, with all its properties intact. Its strength is based on the original elemental technique used as a source. This doesn't consume time since its actually a skill applied to a technique used at the same time.
Note: Usable 2 times per battle and up to 4 times per event to create one entity with up to 300 chakra points that is able to use jutsu from the source it was created from.
Note: Yang Release masters can apply this technique to advanced fields and CE and advanced elements.
There's a lot of obvious stuff in this technique. Ask your questions, explain it, whatever you'd like honestly.
But try to answer this. Where is the Yin in this technique?
Anyways, this was high quality and well thought out. Very thorough. You even hit on the ratios between Yin and Yang, which not a lot of people do. It's important to remember that Yang isn't strictly buffs and debuffs, with a touch of sentience. It can take the form of pure white energy, typically hot to the touch but it doesn't radiate heat. This is evident in the basic form of 8 Branched Giant Snake, which gives you living 'snakes' formed of energy. It isn't until you add Yin that they become flesh and blood snakes.
Also remember, Yang, like Yin, can be weaponized in a way to disrupt the balance of spiritual and physical energy in another. This is evident in Yang with White Tiger. You can triple the chakra cost of someone's techniques (and that's not all!) by simply touching them.
So let's get started.
(Yoton: Jigoku ni henkō) - Yang Release: Change into Hell
Type: Supplementary
Rank: S-Rank
Range: Short
Chakra cost: N/A (+50, -10 per turn)
Damage points: N/A
Description: The user is able to use his Yang nature to embue life into an elemental technique, creating a Yang/Element sentient entity that will stay on the field to aid him. The only limit is the size of the technique originally used as an elemental source as the resulting entity will always be half the size. This entity can be interacted with, can act on its own and is made of the element sourced, with all its properties intact. Its strength is based on the original elemental technique used as a source. This doesn't consume time since its actually a skill applied to a technique used at the same time.
Note: Usable 2 times per battle and up to 4 times per event to create one entity with up to 300 chakra points that is able to use jutsu from the source it was created from.
Note: Yang Release masters can apply this technique to advanced fields and CE and advanced elements.
There's a lot of obvious stuff in this technique. Ask your questions, explain it, whatever you'd like honestly.
But try to answer this. Where is the Yin in this technique?
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My bad, I ended up expanding upon everything until it was a lot more than it was orginallly. I like this technique immensely due to its usability in the NW gifting the ability to set up autonomous, sentient, guardians. There is a question I've thought of for a while, for a technique like ( Doton/Katon: Saruiwa ) - Earth/Fire Release: Monkey Rock, could this technique be used on it? And if it can be would it grant the sentient construct the ability to use both Earth and Fire since it's a dual elemental technique? Or would it just not be feasible.
I could see two things that I can point out that could, in theory, be what you're referring to or at least close to what you're trying to get out of me. Or both could be wrong and I might sound stupid as ****. One is that you are able to interact with the technique that has become sentient, I could be misunderstanding it but that sounds a bit like Yin. Giving tangibility to the intangible for example it sounds like you can interact with fire or lighting but obviously, that could be a misunderstanding on my part. Then there is also the fact that these sentient creatures become susceptible to genjutsu and gain a spiritual aspect due to its sentience. What I'm referring to is the fact that they gain a mind through their sentience a mind that can think, rationalize and act on its own so it has a fairly reasonable consciousness that can be influenced just as a shinobi's mind can be probed and influenced these sentient constructs have their own mind, that can be read through those types of techniques, it can be influenced through genjutsu and it can be acted upon and tricked just as a normal shinobi's could. I would posture that it could maybe even be taken over by a Yamanaka due to its genuine sentience.
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Yes to both your questions regarding Monkey Rock.
So first off when I ask questions like that don't worry about feeling like you're speculating, or just taking a wild guess. Most of the time we ask "Where is the Yin in Yang, or the Yang in Yin" it comes down to pure speculation. But you're actually correct in this sense. Since we're on Yang it's probably important to define what sentience actually is. Often times it's just thought of to be 'life' but it actually is the ability to 'feel.' So to rip from Wikipedia....
It is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively.
So you're right, you're giving something inanimate the ability to feel. That's where the Yin is. So not only can they think, but they'll have emotions and feelings, and the ability to communicate (assuming their structure allows for some logical way to communicate).
And yes, these sentient techniques are able to be placed in illusions. Likewise, you're able to replenish their chakra pools through things like Medical Ninjutsu, Chakra Transfer, etc.
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xD was hoping it could be usable on Monkey Rock and similar techniques. Makes for the potential for some cool autonomous defenses in NW. That's what I was assuming due to the more spiritual aspects gifted through the sentience. Like you said the ability to feel can be reasoned as sentience but the biggest tip-off for me in that regard was the thought that you're giving a non-living object or construct an active mind. Things revolving around the mind, like study, thought, meditation, and emotions always seem to be related to Yin or Spiritual Energy. So even with a purely Yang technique like this one, seeing spiritual aspects via the mind namely "This entity can be interacted with, can act on its own" basically showed me that there was a bit more there than was plain to see. To a degree it shares similarities to the Creation of All Things, however, you're only breathing life into a predetermined form. In this case your other technique. You're not giving form to nothingness like Yin. The creature has enough of a mind to think for itself, and reason what kind of strategy would be best for itself and it's creator. Meaning it could make split decisions and gauge best how to act.
Yeah the object you're giving life to has enough intelligence to make you a sandwich, counter a move, and do a math problem. It's really up to you on the extent of that. A few things to remember with this technique that are very important. Remember this entity is not an extension of you. So with familiar techniques we really get used to the fact that they can counter attacks on them by using your knowledge and senses. But this really isn't the case anymore.
These entities are totally separate from you once created. They can be formed with the knowledge you want to confer, but after that they are 100% autonomous. Now Yang is capable of creating mental links with your creations. But this technique on its own can't achieve that.
Also, just a side note. Remember the technique you have can't be reshaped wildly. By default they are all reduced in size by 50%. But if you imbue a pillar of earth with Yang, you can't give it legs and arms. That said, techniques that have a certain fluidity of shape to them, like Water or Fire, can be reformed slightly. But once again keep the integrity intact.
These entities are totally separate from you once created. They can be formed with the knowledge you want to confer, but after that they are 100% autonomous. Now Yang is capable of creating mental links with your creations. But this technique on its own can't achieve that.
Also, just a side note. Remember the technique you have can't be reshaped wildly. By default they are all reduced in size by 50%. But if you imbue a pillar of earth with Yang, you can't give it legs and arms. That said, techniques that have a certain fluidity of shape to them, like Water or Fire, can be reformed slightly. But once again keep the integrity intact.
(Yoton: Taiyōnomegumi) - Yang Release: Touch of the Sun
Type: Supplementary
Rank: S-Rank
Range: Short
Chakra cost:70 per use
Damage points: N/A
Description: Through the infusion of Yang natured chakra into others, users can heal others to their original best physical form. It can be used to regrow missing body parts, heal wounds, purge poisons, etc. The target needs to be alive and the bigger the injury, the longer it takes to heal. The limits of the heal, however, are almost none as it can even heal the chakra system or other injuries that are otherwise not possible to be healed. The technique requires time and physical contact and as such isn't very suited to use in a battle when compared to regular Iryo Ninjutsu.
Note: Yang Release masters are able to use on themselves.
Next on the list is Touch of the Sun. What do you think you know about this technique?
Type: Supplementary
Rank: S-Rank
Range: Short
Chakra cost:70 per use
Damage points: N/A
Description: Through the infusion of Yang natured chakra into others, users can heal others to their original best physical form. It can be used to regrow missing body parts, heal wounds, purge poisons, etc. The target needs to be alive and the bigger the injury, the longer it takes to heal. The limits of the heal, however, are almost none as it can even heal the chakra system or other injuries that are otherwise not possible to be healed. The technique requires time and physical contact and as such isn't very suited to use in a battle when compared to regular Iryo Ninjutsu.
Note: Yang Release masters are able to use on themselves.
Next on the list is Touch of the Sun. What do you think you know about this technique?
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The biggest thing about this technique is its usability outside of combat. It can be used for nearly anything as it says right in its description. It can regrow limbs, it can cure and purge poisons, as well as the various other things it says it can do. This is similar to what we see in medical ninjutsu, and Sage Transformation which are both aspects of Yang usage. Take Sage Transformation something I'm familiar with. You are able to heal yourself, produce tissue, and rearrange your body to the point where you're able to regrow limbs, and survive usually fatal damage via the canon techniques that allow you to alter yourself, reject and absorb tissue or even my own custom additions to the canon that allow you to heal through producing tissue on your own through transformations. This reflects the transformative properties of Yang in my opinion. From what I've seen the biggest downside for the Touch of the Sun is the time that's required to use it in our RP. This isn't something that can be done in a battle, you can't heal others that quickly and it takes a prolonged period of healing, time and effort to heal such devastating wounds. For example, you're not going to merely "touch" someone and their arms grow back. In a way, it's similar to the Mystic Palm in that regard as we were taught that technique requires time and effort. Mystic Palm isn't something you can use on the fly in a battle, you can use it in the Ninja World to heal others because there is a good bit of time you get to work with usually when using it to heal outside of battle. I think it's the same with the Touch of the Sun. The Touch of the Sun is so potent and so revered in its healing abilities that it can even save someone from something as crippling and debilitating as the EiG, but obviously, there are limitations to this. The Touch of the Sun will keep them alive in a form of stasis until the next arc pretty much allowing them to continue using their bio in the future but they cannot begin regenerating health until the start of the next arc. That's basically all I know that I can think of right now. There are obviously probably holes in my knowledge.
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Touch of the Sun can heal/regrow one limb per turn, so it would take a full turn of healing to regrow an arm. Expanding upon this, if someone ( as a Yang Master ) or someone else lost both arms it would take two turns to regrow them including the turn you started using the technique. So turn one, you'd basically regrow one arm, then turn two you'd regrow the second. Anything more than three turns would be too much to heal from for Touch of the Sun. Though numbers wise there isn't a limitation set for the technique inside its description I've seen LoK state it is to be assumed that 70 damage per turn is its limitation. I remember the example he gave was if someone lost two legs, but took eighty damage it would take two turns to heal both.
Yeah, that's pretty accurate. I'll move on assuming you have no other questions.
(Yoton: Ken'i) - Yang Release: Power of The Sun
Type: Supplementary
Rank: S-Rank
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 100 (50 per turn)
Damage points: N/A (+40 to Taijutsu)
Description: The user will reinforce his own body with Yang natured chakra, empowering his physical abilities to the outermost limits. This allows him to become physically very strong (beyond the normal levels of chakra enhanced strength), increases his resistance to physical damage (he becomes immune to A-rank physical damage from all sources), his speed (boosted to 3x his normal speed), and grants him a passive healing of all minor wounds (cuts, burns, small fractures, etc). However, by infusing himself with the Yang Nature, he becomes unable to use Yin Release techniques or Yin/Yang Release techniques; he cannot use Genjutsu or non elemental Ninjutsu of any kind (including special fields like Fuuinjutsu).
Note: Can only be used twice per battle and lasts 4 turns per use.
What are your thoughts about this one?
(Yoton: Ken'i) - Yang Release: Power of The Sun
Type: Supplementary
Rank: S-Rank
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 100 (50 per turn)
Damage points: N/A (+40 to Taijutsu)
Description: The user will reinforce his own body with Yang natured chakra, empowering his physical abilities to the outermost limits. This allows him to become physically very strong (beyond the normal levels of chakra enhanced strength), increases his resistance to physical damage (he becomes immune to A-rank physical damage from all sources), his speed (boosted to 3x his normal speed), and grants him a passive healing of all minor wounds (cuts, burns, small fractures, etc). However, by infusing himself with the Yang Nature, he becomes unable to use Yin Release techniques or Yin/Yang Release techniques; he cannot use Genjutsu or non elemental Ninjutsu of any kind (including special fields like Fuuinjutsu).
Note: Can only be used twice per battle and lasts 4 turns per use.
What are your thoughts about this one?
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It has an EIGs/Lightning Armor feel to it to a degree using the energizing nature of Yang to empower movement. At least in the way I see it. I could see myself using this, for the speed buffs and damage reduction with the two usages for 4 turns each thats a decent speed buff for a long time. An entire battle for most fights. I think the no Yin/Yin-Yang, or techniques related to Yin like Genjutsu, as well as non-elemental fields as a bit hindering but I tend not to use genjutsu or fuuin anyway. Though it would mess with my poison and sage transformation usage so it's a double-edged technique that pins you into using specific techniques which can make you predictable to a degree. What are the limitations of the passive healing? It's not defined and I haven't found a place where it's stated.
Edit:Rescinding above question about passive healing since it was defined.
(Yoton: Ken'i) - Yang Release: Power of The Sun
Type: Supplementary
Rank: S-Rank
Range: Short
Chakra cost: 100 (50 per turn)
Damage points: N/A (+40 to Taijutsu)
Description: The user will reinforce his own body with Yang natured chakra, empowering his physical abilities to the outermost limits. This allows him to become physically very strong (beyond the normal levels of chakra enhanced strength), increases his resistance to physical damage (decreasing 60 damage from any physical contact), his speed (boosted to 3.5x his normal speed), and grants him a passive healing of all minor wounds at 30 damage per turn. However, by infusing himself with the Yang Nature, he becomes unable to use Yin Release techniques or Yin/Yang Release techniques; he cannot use Genjutsu or non elemental Ninjutsu of any kind (including special fields like Fuuinjutsu).
Note: Can only be used twice per battle and lasts 4 turns per use.
It's a lot more defined now and I like it a lot more for those reasons. The passive healing is 30 per turn, which puts it on par with or better than Perfect Sage Mode. The speed boost was buffed to 3.5x which is even better than the 3x it used to be. I'm actually rather happy with the changes and can see myself using it a lot more often than I originally thought I would. Going to have to use it soon just to mess around when I get the chance. I heavily wish it didn't restrict away the use of Sage Transformation as I could see this vibing extremely well with the aggressive taijutsu and transformative nature of Sage Transformation. The no non-elemental ninjutsu part is a hard restriction, and I understand to a degree why that is. I have enough taijutsu based elemental techniques or elemental taijutsu that I can see this working well with a more direct style getting in close and staying there.
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Yeah you definitely do get pretty restricted with this technique. But simultaneously you gain a lot of boons as well. It's very potent at what it does, giving you a broad range of benefits. So the restrictions set here, along with the chakra drain, are definitely warranted.
(Yoton: Yamata no Orochi) Yang Release: 8 Branched Giant Snake
Type: Supplementary
Rank: S
Range: Short - Mid
Chakra Cost: 100/110 for Yin-Yang chakra
Damage: 100/120 w/ Elemental or Yin-Yang chakra
Description: This technique sees the creation of the mythical serpent, the Yamata no Orochi. The user begins by gathering their Yang chakra into their arms and creating three branching streams of white chakra from each of them as well as coating both arms in chakra. The user’s arms and streams of chakra will take the form of serpents with flaming amber eyes. Due to the nature of this technique utilizing one’s Yang chakra, these serpents are not simple manifestations of chakra, but actual sentient creatures. The serpents can sense entities like ordinary snakes and they share a telepathic link to the user, allowing them to communicate with each other. They act like chakra arms and can be used for a variety of purposes. In the base form of this technique, the 8 branches are simple ethereal constructs of sentient Yang chakra. In their second form, users can add nature release to the branches to increase their power. In their third and final form, the user can add Yin Release chakra and give the branches physical bodies. The addition of the Yin Release also gives the branches unique venom which drains the physical vitality of the victim. The bite from each snake lowers a victim’s physical speed, reaction, and ability to use high ranked physical techniques.
Note: Form 1 is capable by all users of Yang Release, Form 2 is capable of Yang Release masters and Yin-Yang users. Form 3, also known as Yin-Yang Release: Yamata no Orochi is only capable of Yin-Yang Users with an affinity to Yang Release.
Note: The vitality degenerating venom is capable by all branches of this technique, however there is only enough for 3 usages. The vitality degeneration venom becomes worse with every bite. If a victim is bitten once their base reaction/tracking is reduced by half, twice and their base speed and physical damage is reduced by half, and thrice they will lose the ability to use any form of tai or kenjutsu techniques and will be rendered completely paralyzed 2 turns after the third bite if not healed. The victim will be unable to do anything short of breathing, including using their chakra. Users bitten once also become incapable of using physical elevating techniques such as Sage Mode or EIG.
Note: Medical ninja or other Yang Release users can rid themselves of the poison through means of medical techniques or vitality boosting techniques such as power of the sun.
Note: Technique can only be used once per battle and requires 50 chakra points to maintain (60 above the first form). While this technique is in use, the user cannot use any non-elemental ninjutsu, Yin Release, or Yin-Yang techniques (other than this technique’s advanced variation).
Next up! This is a big one, so break this down for me step by step.
(Yoton: Yamata no Orochi) Yang Release: 8 Branched Giant Snake
Type: Supplementary
Rank: S
Range: Short - Mid
Chakra Cost: 100/110 for Yin-Yang chakra
Damage: 100/120 w/ Elemental or Yin-Yang chakra
Description: This technique sees the creation of the mythical serpent, the Yamata no Orochi. The user begins by gathering their Yang chakra into their arms and creating three branching streams of white chakra from each of them as well as coating both arms in chakra. The user’s arms and streams of chakra will take the form of serpents with flaming amber eyes. Due to the nature of this technique utilizing one’s Yang chakra, these serpents are not simple manifestations of chakra, but actual sentient creatures. The serpents can sense entities like ordinary snakes and they share a telepathic link to the user, allowing them to communicate with each other. They act like chakra arms and can be used for a variety of purposes. In the base form of this technique, the 8 branches are simple ethereal constructs of sentient Yang chakra. In their second form, users can add nature release to the branches to increase their power. In their third and final form, the user can add Yin Release chakra and give the branches physical bodies. The addition of the Yin Release also gives the branches unique venom which drains the physical vitality of the victim. The bite from each snake lowers a victim’s physical speed, reaction, and ability to use high ranked physical techniques.
Note: Form 1 is capable by all users of Yang Release, Form 2 is capable of Yang Release masters and Yin-Yang users. Form 3, also known as Yin-Yang Release: Yamata no Orochi is only capable of Yin-Yang Users with an affinity to Yang Release.
Note: The vitality degenerating venom is capable by all branches of this technique, however there is only enough for 3 usages. The vitality degeneration venom becomes worse with every bite. If a victim is bitten once their base reaction/tracking is reduced by half, twice and their base speed and physical damage is reduced by half, and thrice they will lose the ability to use any form of tai or kenjutsu techniques and will be rendered completely paralyzed 2 turns after the third bite if not healed. The victim will be unable to do anything short of breathing, including using their chakra. Users bitten once also become incapable of using physical elevating techniques such as Sage Mode or EIG.
Note: Medical ninja or other Yang Release users can rid themselves of the poison through means of medical techniques or vitality boosting techniques such as power of the sun.
Note: Technique can only be used once per battle and requires 50 chakra points to maintain (60 above the first form). While this technique is in use, the user cannot use any non-elemental ninjutsu, Yin Release, or Yin-Yang techniques (other than this technique’s advanced variation).
Next up! This is a big one, so break this down for me step by step.
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Let's see if I can use this "magical skill of paragraphs" you spoke of.
Alright, this was another one I got to use pre-update as Cassander. It was extremely potent and excessively broken in a slick way, you could have up to 8, one-hundred damage Yang/elemental chakra arms just swinging around merely by using the elemental variation. This has been drawn back considerably and for good reason, because 8, one-hundred damage sentient, chakra arms just swinging around the field from a single technique is extremely crazy especially when you take into consideration the potential for clones, summons or other jutsu using creations or the potential to boost and buff them up past their normal limitations.
The serpents are sentient creatures with a mental link to their creator and each other meaning they can communicate telepathically and be directed. They can work and think and feel as mentioned when we spoke about sentience and what it means for Yang. The way I assumed, and the way I used it was the serpents act on their own upon the mental command of their creator and the way the others serpents were perceiving the world around them. This, in turn, frees the creator up to continue attacking and applying pressure onto the opponent while letting the serpents act as their own separate entity maintained by the chakra drain. They have heat sensing like an ordinary snake, as well as all of the senses an ordinary snake has thus allowing them to track the opponent and the field to a decent degree sensing heat signatures and such.
We'll start with the beginning form 1, the branches manifest as simple ethereal Yang energy chakra arms. This would mean they would have an extreme heat upon contact, but wouldn't give off that heat beyond contact. As I mentioned the biggest advantage of this is they are sentient. That means they can move, act and change direction, for example, veering into the path of a technique and nullifying a defense allowing the user to pierce through that defense with another technique or a follow-up. They can also split the damage now, between all the serpents, attacking from numerous angles splitting the damage evenly among them. This is true for the other variations as well. This form has a massive 100 damage, which is still high compared to other S ranks, but not as high compared to what it once was, pre-update, but that's fine because as I mentioned the previous iteration was broken in application and practice.
The second form manifests as a Yang/sentient element hybrid, similar to Change into Hell in that regard. This increases their power by an additional twenty damage placing the cumulative damage at 120. This puts it on par with or beyond a lot of high-level boosted techniques making it on par with a Perfect Sage Mode user throwing out +30 boosted techniques and even to a lesser degree a Jinchuriki tossing out their own buffs. For this variation, does the Yang/sentient elemental constructs have the s/w'es of the element taken? It's something I'm not sure about.
Moving onto the third and final form and hoooooly shit. This is one of the aspects of Yin-Yang that drew me into it, because it showed me that it could work well with my style with the proper customs. For the third form, you combine your Yin and your Yang giving form to the etherial sentient constructs. You create physical creatures with bodies. This isn't the part I was referring to. "The addition of the Yin Release also gives the branches unique venom which drains the physical vitality of the victim. The bite from each snake lowers a victim’s physical speed, reaction, and ability to use high ranked physical techniques." This is, I won't be able to use this until I get Yin and Yin-Yang but that ability gives so much potential for a poison user to exploit in customs. Obviously, it would need to be done in customs because for the most part these techniques usually restrict you to no non-elemental ninjutsu just as this one does, so you wouldn't be able to combo this specific technique with poison. Though you could create a technique that produces the venom alongside your poison, or through your poison usage. Which is a plan I have. This venom and it's effects is described further down. "The vitality degenerating venom is capable by all branches of this technique, however there is only enough for 3 usages. The vitality degeneration venom becomes worse with every bite. If a victim is bitten once their base reaction/tracking is reduced by half, twice and their base speed and physical damage is reduced by half, and thrice they will lose the ability to use any form of tai or kenjutsu techniques and will be rendered completely paralyzed 2 turns after the third bite if not healed. The victim will be unable to do anything short of breathing, including using their chakra. Users bitten once also become incapable of using physical elevating techniques such as Sage Mode or EIG." Its hard to apply and has few uses but by expanding upon it in customs it opens the doors for it to be more useful, and I have eventual plans for it. Even a simple application it removes the ability to use modes like SM and EIG to me that's crazy.
Finally, we move onto the restrictions, which are primarily the chakra drain. It's -100/110 depending on the variation and -50/60 per turn, that's a decent amount of chakra roughly 4, S rank techniques for two turns of usage. Furthermore, you are restricted heavily in your usable ninjutsu being brought down to only using non-elemental techniques and Yang from what I see. You are unable to use advanced fields, fuinjutsu, poison ninjutsu, sound ninjutsu, HA, KG etc and you cannot use Yin, or Yin-Yang barring the Vitality Degenerating Venom created through the technique itself. AE and CE are fair game though. This is limiting but for the power you're obtaining through the technique, it's justified especially if you can get a clone or in my case some personal summons on the field. Or even with Yin-Yang a CoAT. It makes it so you're able to tear through just about any defense your opponent can throw up and pressure them with an additional technique that bursts through the broken guard/defense. This has to be my second favorite technique for Yang-... because Yang Mode is #1.
Alright, this was another one I got to use pre-update as Cassander. It was extremely potent and excessively broken in a slick way, you could have up to 8, one-hundred damage Yang/elemental chakra arms just swinging around merely by using the elemental variation. This has been drawn back considerably and for good reason, because 8, one-hundred damage sentient, chakra arms just swinging around the field from a single technique is extremely crazy especially when you take into consideration the potential for clones, summons or other jutsu using creations or the potential to boost and buff them up past their normal limitations.
The serpents are sentient creatures with a mental link to their creator and each other meaning they can communicate telepathically and be directed. They can work and think and feel as mentioned when we spoke about sentience and what it means for Yang. The way I assumed, and the way I used it was the serpents act on their own upon the mental command of their creator and the way the others serpents were perceiving the world around them. This, in turn, frees the creator up to continue attacking and applying pressure onto the opponent while letting the serpents act as their own separate entity maintained by the chakra drain. They have heat sensing like an ordinary snake, as well as all of the senses an ordinary snake has thus allowing them to track the opponent and the field to a decent degree sensing heat signatures and such.
We'll start with the beginning form 1, the branches manifest as simple ethereal Yang energy chakra arms. This would mean they would have an extreme heat upon contact, but wouldn't give off that heat beyond contact. As I mentioned the biggest advantage of this is they are sentient. That means they can move, act and change direction, for example, veering into the path of a technique and nullifying a defense allowing the user to pierce through that defense with another technique or a follow-up. They can also split the damage now, between all the serpents, attacking from numerous angles splitting the damage evenly among them. This is true for the other variations as well. This form has a massive 100 damage, which is still high compared to other S ranks, but not as high compared to what it once was, pre-update, but that's fine because as I mentioned the previous iteration was broken in application and practice.
The second form manifests as a Yang/sentient element hybrid, similar to Change into Hell in that regard. This increases their power by an additional twenty damage placing the cumulative damage at 120. This puts it on par with or beyond a lot of high-level boosted techniques making it on par with a Perfect Sage Mode user throwing out +30 boosted techniques and even to a lesser degree a Jinchuriki tossing out their own buffs. For this variation, does the Yang/sentient elemental constructs have the s/w'es of the element taken? It's something I'm not sure about.
Moving onto the third and final form and hoooooly shit. This is one of the aspects of Yin-Yang that drew me into it, because it showed me that it could work well with my style with the proper customs. For the third form, you combine your Yin and your Yang giving form to the etherial sentient constructs. You create physical creatures with bodies. This isn't the part I was referring to. "The addition of the Yin Release also gives the branches unique venom which drains the physical vitality of the victim. The bite from each snake lowers a victim’s physical speed, reaction, and ability to use high ranked physical techniques." This is, I won't be able to use this until I get Yin and Yin-Yang but that ability gives so much potential for a poison user to exploit in customs. Obviously, it would need to be done in customs because for the most part these techniques usually restrict you to no non-elemental ninjutsu just as this one does, so you wouldn't be able to combo this specific technique with poison. Though you could create a technique that produces the venom alongside your poison, or through your poison usage. Which is a plan I have. This venom and it's effects is described further down. "The vitality degenerating venom is capable by all branches of this technique, however there is only enough for 3 usages. The vitality degeneration venom becomes worse with every bite. If a victim is bitten once their base reaction/tracking is reduced by half, twice and their base speed and physical damage is reduced by half, and thrice they will lose the ability to use any form of tai or kenjutsu techniques and will be rendered completely paralyzed 2 turns after the third bite if not healed. The victim will be unable to do anything short of breathing, including using their chakra. Users bitten once also become incapable of using physical elevating techniques such as Sage Mode or EIG." Its hard to apply and has few uses but by expanding upon it in customs it opens the doors for it to be more useful, and I have eventual plans for it. Even a simple application it removes the ability to use modes like SM and EIG to me that's crazy.
Finally, we move onto the restrictions, which are primarily the chakra drain. It's -100/110 depending on the variation and -50/60 per turn, that's a decent amount of chakra roughly 4, S rank techniques for two turns of usage. Furthermore, you are restricted heavily in your usable ninjutsu being brought down to only using non-elemental techniques and Yang from what I see. You are unable to use advanced fields, fuinjutsu, poison ninjutsu, sound ninjutsu, HA, KG etc and you cannot use Yin, or Yin-Yang barring the Vitality Degenerating Venom created through the technique itself. AE and CE are fair game though. This is limiting but for the power you're obtaining through the technique, it's justified especially if you can get a clone or in my case some personal summons on the field. Or even with Yin-Yang a CoAT. It makes it so you're able to tear through just about any defense your opponent can throw up and pressure them with an additional technique that bursts through the broken guard/defense. This has to be my second favorite technique for Yang-... because Yang Mode is #1.
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I'm so fucking proud of you. If I missed any questions then wew my bad. But I don't think I did.
" For this variation, does the Yang/sentient elemental constructs have the s/w'es of the element taken? It's something I'm not sure about. "
Yes it does, I believe. Similar to how the Phantom Dragons of Yin Release also take on their elemental strengths and weaknesses.
Anyways - sorry for the wait. I purposefully didn't reply until I finished Yin-Yang Release so I had a better idea about Yang State, and it's derivative techniques. Here we go:
(Yoton Modo) - Yang State
Type: Supplementary
Rank: S
Range: N/A
Chakra Cost: 200 (-50 per turn)
Damage: N/A
Description: Based on Hagoromo's Six Paths Sage Mode, those who have completed Yin-Yang can enter this mode to elevate their prowess but only in their spiritual or physical capabilities. The lack of the Juubi’s monstrous chakra and natural energy makes it impossible for proper balance of both Yin and Yang natures simultaneously at such a high level. When entering this mode, users first gather their five basic nature chakras and their Yin and Yang natures. They then manipulate the ratio of their Yin to Yang chakra such that one nature almost completely overshadows the other, done almost instantly and effortlessly. The result causes the user to enter one Yang State. Yang State is the state entered by users when they emphasize their Yang chakra over their Yin chakra. In this state the user is endowed with a white and black jumpsuit akin to the one Bruce Lee donned in the “Tower of Death.” Their hair and sclera become white as well and their hands gain pure white, fingerless gloves with black magatama on the back. Along with the 6 Truth-Seeking Orbs, the user will gain a pair of white nunchaku consisting of the same energy and ability of the orbs. The main attribute that users in this state gain is Tian. Tian refers to a physical power beyond the scope of the earthly mortal. While in this state the user’s ability to track and react to movements and actions is near limitless. Gaining a tracking capability on par with the Eighth Gate, the user's speed increases by x6 as well. Almost all physical damage is all but negligible to a user in this state, tanking S rank damage from any clash. The only possible way to cause physical harm to a user in this state would be for them to use Yang Release or Forbidden ranked techniques, or techniques that exceed the damage of 7th Gate and beyond. The effects of these Jutsu, while not dealing physical damage, will still apply such as fatigue, paralysis, etc. The drawback to this technique is that, due to the massive imbalance of Yang chakra, Yin Release and other spiritual techniques are impossible to use whilst in this state.
Note: This technique only last 6 turns and can be used only once per battle.
Note: One must have completed Yang Release in order to use this technique. The user can only use either Yin or Yang State on any bio.
Note: Once the technique ends the user’s spiritual or physical chakra is drained to the barest minimum for their survival, thus making them incapable of using Yin, Yang, or Yin-Yang Release techniques for 10 turns and incapable of using taijutsu for 5 turns (this includes releasing leg weights and physically augmenting techniques).
Note: Likewise, users are unable to use techniques above A-rank for 4 turns.
Do your normal and analyze this one. Ask your questions. Then we'll get into Yang's TSB and Toyokumono.
" For this variation, does the Yang/sentient elemental constructs have the s/w'es of the element taken? It's something I'm not sure about. "
Yes it does, I believe. Similar to how the Phantom Dragons of Yin Release also take on their elemental strengths and weaknesses.
Anyways - sorry for the wait. I purposefully didn't reply until I finished Yin-Yang Release so I had a better idea about Yang State, and it's derivative techniques. Here we go:
(Yoton Modo) - Yang State
Type: Supplementary
Rank: S
Range: N/A
Chakra Cost: 200 (-50 per turn)
Damage: N/A
Description: Based on Hagoromo's Six Paths Sage Mode, those who have completed Yin-Yang can enter this mode to elevate their prowess but only in their spiritual or physical capabilities. The lack of the Juubi’s monstrous chakra and natural energy makes it impossible for proper balance of both Yin and Yang natures simultaneously at such a high level. When entering this mode, users first gather their five basic nature chakras and their Yin and Yang natures. They then manipulate the ratio of their Yin to Yang chakra such that one nature almost completely overshadows the other, done almost instantly and effortlessly. The result causes the user to enter one Yang State. Yang State is the state entered by users when they emphasize their Yang chakra over their Yin chakra. In this state the user is endowed with a white and black jumpsuit akin to the one Bruce Lee donned in the “Tower of Death.” Their hair and sclera become white as well and their hands gain pure white, fingerless gloves with black magatama on the back. Along with the 6 Truth-Seeking Orbs, the user will gain a pair of white nunchaku consisting of the same energy and ability of the orbs. The main attribute that users in this state gain is Tian. Tian refers to a physical power beyond the scope of the earthly mortal. While in this state the user’s ability to track and react to movements and actions is near limitless. Gaining a tracking capability on par with the Eighth Gate, the user's speed increases by x6 as well. Almost all physical damage is all but negligible to a user in this state, tanking S rank damage from any clash. The only possible way to cause physical harm to a user in this state would be for them to use Yang Release or Forbidden ranked techniques, or techniques that exceed the damage of 7th Gate and beyond. The effects of these Jutsu, while not dealing physical damage, will still apply such as fatigue, paralysis, etc. The drawback to this technique is that, due to the massive imbalance of Yang chakra, Yin Release and other spiritual techniques are impossible to use whilst in this state.
Note: This technique only last 6 turns and can be used only once per battle.
Note: One must have completed Yang Release in order to use this technique. The user can only use either Yin or Yang State on any bio.
Note: Once the technique ends the user’s spiritual or physical chakra is drained to the barest minimum for their survival, thus making them incapable of using Yin, Yang, or Yin-Yang Release techniques for 10 turns and incapable of using taijutsu for 5 turns (this includes releasing leg weights and physically augmenting techniques).
Note: Likewise, users are unable to use techniques above A-rank for 4 turns.
Do your normal and analyze this one. Ask your questions. Then we'll get into Yang's TSB and Toyokumono.
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This technique is the one that got me into Yin-Yang, mainly due to its aesthetics over how it used to be before the Yin-Yang changes. This was because honestly before the updates it was bad like it was worse than the Yin variation of Yin-Yang Mode because of what it did and how it did it. Which was funny because Yang is known for taijutsu and Yin isn't so getting a better movement "buff" from Yin always seemed weird to me. This was due to the fact that the Positive Zone boosted everyone in short range no matter if they were an ally or a foe. So compared to Yin Mode which debuffed others with the Negative Zone excluding the user which made the effected people slower, and in essence making, you seem faster it was the worse version. However, I really liked the aesthetics and appearance of it so much more than Yin Mode. For me it was more a form over function thing that drew me into Yin-Yang so much so I had an art commision for this technique even before learning it xD Props to @Chihaya.
Anyway, this one got a considerable buff recently imo like I mentioned. A x6 speed buff, which is enough to warp time and space which is amazing putting it on par with EIGs in a lot of aspects. The durability of the individual is immense while in this mode with them being able to outright tank S rank techniques from any clash, with the only possible way to deal damage to them being Yang or Forbidden or higher techniques. There isn't much else there beyond the speed buff and damage negation there's the TSBs but I assume we'll talk about that when we get to it. The restrictions seem fair, no Yin or Spiritual techniques, which what does the second portion mean? What falls under the scope of "spiritual techniques" and the effects after it ends can be pretty bad. Genjutsu obviously, and Yamanaka or Nara techniques but what else? However, if you're using Yang State I'm assuming you're trying to end the fight with the speed buff and the space warping, so the drawbacks of it ending aren't as crippling as they'd be in say NW where you'd have to deal with no A ranks for 4 turns and no Yin, Yang and Ying-Yang for ten turns outside of combat where you could be attacked in a disadvantageous position. If a fight goes on for 6 turns without a quote, and then more than 4 more turns when you're restricted to A ranks for 4 turns idk if you're doing something right, or wrong.
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Lol jesus that image. Just note that it was changed to four orbs in both Yin and Yang states, rather than the original 6.
Yeah, basically those. Spiritual techniques are things like Yamanaka, Nara, etc. So those would be off limits while in this technique. I'm sure there are others like this, customs wise, that can't also be achieved. Things like from the Katsuryoku clan, other custom clans I'm sure, etc. If it is at all spiritual, in any way, definitely stay away from trying to use it lol.
I miss anything?
Yeah, basically those. Spiritual techniques are things like Yamanaka, Nara, etc. So those would be off limits while in this technique. I'm sure there are others like this, customs wise, that can't also be achieved. Things like from the Katsuryoku clan, other custom clans I'm sure, etc. If it is at all spiritual, in any way, definitely stay away from trying to use it lol.
I miss anything?