Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26107879-20181004003653/@comment-34194151-20181007020506

That's my point though. Why use raikiri if the body flicker and a kunai/sword can achieve the same thing in most situations? The opposition claims that chidori/raikiri offers no speed boost, yet users of chidori were shown and stated to have speed induced tunnel vision specifically when using that jutsu, and not any other time. So running at the same speed they normally do, but yet they all of a sudden have tunnel vision? I don't get it. All ninjas are using the body flicker technique when they move, straight line, circular movement, doesn't matter. Blazerelease said this in the first comment. kid kakashi must be an idiot because he is supposedly at minimum equal to weightless base rock lee who is equal to kid chunin exams sasuke in speed was literally running circles around gaara's sand. rock lee was able to literally run at his sand in a straight line, appear behind gaara, sees gaara's sand, reacts to it, and then appear rights in front of him again. Sasuke could achieve and displayed the same feat, so, why use raikiri as a linear and straight attack that causes tunnel vision when sasuke, rock lee and kakashi can run circles around an opponent like kid gaara without that at the same speed? The jutsu has the added benefit of speed, that's the only thing that makes sense, and is directly confirmed in the canon. You could argue that sasuke needed the chidori for gaara's ultimate defense, but that doesn't hold up because kid kakashi used it because of the power and speed. Hokage kakashi no longers uses the technique because of the aforementioned tunnel vision. Why would lightning chakra concentrated in the user's arm cause tunnel vision? the same reason why I say it boosts the user's speed beyond their normal limits, just as Might Gai stated in the canon. This is anime, Not everything makes intuitive and logical sense. You talk as if there are no statements that support this. Minato basically showed that kid kakashi lacked insight, as kid kakashi clearly thought it was safe to use the jutsu, but it nearly cost him his life. Minato needed to save him from Mahiru. Minato basically told kakashi that kakashi screwed up by trying to use an incomplete jutsu in battle. with the logic being used here, kakashi should have just used his body flicker and his sword and he would have killed mahiru without any issue, because his body flicker speed is supposedly the same as his chidori speed and doesn't cause tunnel vision, and the sword is sufficient to kill someone like mahiru who got one shotted by minato's kunai to the throat.

The jutsu boosts their speed beyond their normal limits, that is the advantage. the disadvantage is that the boost in speed is not naturally accompanied by an increase in visual perception and reactions. the sharingan or raiton armor fill that gap. Hence the chidori and raikiri became complete. Now they can run at their opponent normally when using the speed boost. The tunnel vision does not come from merely using the body flicker, so people need to make up their mind on how the jutsu creates tunnel vision. and there is no evidence to suggest that hokage kakashi became slower, debunking the idea that the ability to use raikiri is dependent on being at a certain level of speed.

As for the wiki not outright stating it like it did with those other jutsu, it is indeed interesting, when might gai clearly states so in the canon. The wiki still says that speed at which the technique is performed causes tunnel vision, which in of itself implies a speed boost because tunnel vision happens when your speed transcends your visual perception, which only has happened when kakashi used raikiri on top of his body flicker. So I don't see how the wiki is in disagreement.