Rasengan: Naruto's Swirling Orb

Rasengan, a technique which consists of rotating a large quantity of chakra to form a sphere and swing it at the target. 🎯The rasengan is one of the most powerful techniques there is, this technique is not taught to just any shinobi .

The Creation of the Swirling Orb

The swirling orb was created by the yellow lightning ⚡ of Konoha: Minato Namikaze which he based on the demon orb (bijû). He spent three years perfecting the Rasengan . Like many of Minato's techniques, the Rasengan does not require seals to work.

Once formed, it also does not require chakra to keep it in the hand, it can be inferred that the user can keep the orb swirling. 🌀 However, the Rasengan will dissipate if it collides with something, even if it is an unintended target.

The size of the rasengan varies from user to user by barely enough to be noticeable. Basically, the orb is a little larger than the user's hand. With greater experience in this technique, the Rasengan can become larger, such as Naruto's Mega Swirling Orb 🍥 (Cho odama rasengan)

Rasengan vs Chidori

Jiraiya thinks that the Rasengan is stronger than the Chidori , another shinobi agrees with this statement, in fact Sasuke Uchiha has seen the damage caused by these two techniques on several occasions. Indeed, as Naruto's rival, Sasuke is familiar with the swirling orb. 🌀

On contact, the Rasengan propels its target away from the user or into the ground. When it bursts, this technique causes serious damage to the point of contact.

How to make a rasengan?

The Rasengan requires extreme chakra control, something very few ninja naturally possess. For this reason, the Rasengan is difficult to master. In order to help shinobis acquire the chakra control necessary for learning the Rasengan there are 3 steps:

• Rotation🔄
• Power💪
• Containment💥

Chakra rotation:

The user learns to spin their chakra in a rotary fashion. To help with this step, users are given a water balloon 💧 so they can pop them through chakra malaxation . Chakra control to pop the balloon is facilitated by the presence of water. It is important for the user to know which direction their body naturally turns its chakra for this step. This test ends when the user bursts the balloon. Naruto achieves this technique by using his second hand to help rotate his chakra.

Chakra power:

The user must increase the volume and density of the chakra they produce. To help him in this step, Naruto is given a rubber ball. There is no water inside to help them pop the outside and the thickness of the rubber is thicker than a balloon. This step will put Naruto in difficulty . To help him, Jiraiya will make a mark in the palm of his hand. 🤚

Orb Containment:

The user must combine the first two steps in a confined sphere. To help with this challenge, users can be given a balloon to help them imagine the orb; if the balloon is burst or becomes distorted, mastery of the swirling orb is not yet achieved. This is the most complicated step, only the greatest ninjas manage to master it. To achieve this, Naruto found a trick: he created a clone which rotated the chakra while he himself supplied the chakra.

Completing the last step is by far the most difficult. Because of this, Naruto Uzumaki and Konohamaru Sarutobi both use clones to help them train the Rasengan, the clone rotates 🔄 chakra while they supply the chakra.

This gives everyone a shortcut to using the Rasengan without spending the time to fully master their chakra. Both eventually learn to use the Rasengan without clones: Naruto during World War IV and Konohamaru during the decade following the war. The swirling orb became Naruto's main technique that pushed him to his climax. Like on thisSwirling Orb T-shirt 💪

Rasengan: Improvement and potential

There are two main methods by which the offensive potential of the Rasengan can be increased : making the Rasengan itself larger (such as with the Mega Swirling Orb) or by using more than one Rasengan at a time (such as the Fury of the Rasengan). orb). After absorbing Konohamaru's Rasengan, Momoshiki seamlessly fused it with his chakra to greatly increase his size. ↕Akatsuki Bread i also tasted rasengan.

Minato created the Rasengan with the intention of combining it with his own chakra nature, a task that proved too difficult to accomplish before his death. Kakashi Hatake also failed to combine the Rasengan with his own lightning nature, leading him to invent the Chidori instead.

Naruto initially has difficulty combining the Rasengan with his wind nature, which he describes as difficult to look left and right at the same time. He is ultimately able to overcome this obstacle by using a clone to provide chakra transformation while he and another clone form the Rasengan, creating the Wind Release: Futon Rasengan .

Boruto Uzumaki unknowingly adds his lightning nature to his Rasengan, allowing him to throw it at targets and make it invisible.

Boruto's Swirling Orb

After creating a small Rasengan, Boruto unconsciously adds the Raiton element to it, before throwing it. As she slips, nature's transformation abruptly kicks in, causing the technique to disappear. This adds an element of surprise to the attack, as an opponent can let their guard down, assuming the technique has dispersed, only to find themselves hit by the invisible attack.

The size of Boruto's Vanishing Rasengan saw a significant increase after the Bandits arc, where it was shown to be the size of a regular Rasengan. With enough chakra added, the Rasengan can grow giant. 💢

The influence of Senjutsu on the Rasengan

In Sage Mode, Naruto can use an enhanced version of the rasengan known as Sage Technique: Rasengan. It's basically the same as the normal version, except louder. In Sage Mode, Naruto has an easier time forming larger Rasengan . It is by using Sage Mode that he is first able to cast the Rasenshuriken.🌀

Rasengan Vermilion

Naruto, as a jinchūriki , can use the chakra of the Nine-Tailed Demon Foxes 🦊 to help use the Rasengan. In the first part of Naruto,Kyubi priests his chakra to Naruto, he easily manages to make a rasengan without using a clone. Due to the influence of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, this rasengan is darker in color and much more powerful. Various video games have called it "Fox Demon Rasengan", "Vermilion Rasengan" "Nine-Tails Rasengan"

Rasengan Kyubi

After learning how to use Kyubi's Chakra Mode in Part II, Naruto uses chakra arms in place of a shadow clone to help him create the Rasengan. Because he can manifest multiple chakra arms at once, he can use multiple Rasengan simultaneously, such as with the "Planetary Swirling Orb" technique. 🪐

Kurama does not cooperate when Naruto begins using Kyubi's Chakra Mode, preventing him from using the Demon Orb. 😈 Kyubi eventually agrees to work with him, allowing him to use the Demon Orb .

Naruto later gains access to the chakra of other tailed beasts, whose nature he can apply to the Rasengan and its variants, as seen with Yonbi's Chakra and the lava rasengan.

Anedctodes on the Rasengan:

• The coloring of the Rasengan varies throughout the manga. On the cover of volume 52 it is yellow, while in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations and on the covers of volume 67 and the third art book it is blue.🔵
• In the anime, when Naruto and his clones used the Rasengan underwater, the rotational force was capable of creating a whirlpool. 🌀
• In the anime, Naruto was able to throw his Rasengan, but in the manga it was established that the Rasengan cannot be thrown
• In Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, Jiraiya was able to breathe fire from his Rasengan.
• According to the fourth Databook, Minato tried to combine the Katon 🔥, Futon💨 or Raiton⚡ with his Rasengan before his untimely death.
• Katasuke was able to use this technique thanks to his Ninja glove.
• The Jump Super Stars video game is one of the rare instances where Part 1 Naruto 🍥 is able to access his unfinished version of his Rasengan, dubbed "Rasengan: In Training"