Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-732150-20151211220100/@comment-732150-20151214182005

AsianReaper wrote: Something that has always bothered me is Naruto's Rasenshuriken doing nothing to the Third Raikage. It's literally the highest level of shape transformation possible combined with the highest level of nature transformation possible. It should've overpowered the Third Raikage's shield, considering that Lightning is weak to Wind, but whatever.

Anyways, what about an Earth Release: Rasengan? Instead of cutting you up like a Wind Release, it'd break your bones with the force of a bomb on impact. Yeah, I thought that the Raikage no-selling the Rasenshuriken was bs as well. The best rationalization I've seen of what happened is that the Rasenshuriken, despite being so strong, got sort of "used up" or weakened getting rid of the lightning armor, which despite being weak to wind, was also extremely strong. This way, whatever destructive power left in the attack was within range for the Raikage's toughness to withstand.

An Earth Release Rasengan/Rasen-whatever happens when it's earth instead of wind, it's always the one I had most trouble figuring out. The third databook said it changes the hardness of stuff, so my guess is that it would petrify stuff, or make things brittle.