Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-1512913-20161119171442/@comment-734582-20161202161028

BeyondRed wrote: The fact that Hiruzen identifies Obito's Truth-Seeking Balls as "beyond kekkei tōta" because they contain more natures seems to imply that's the case, but then all of Kaguya's techniques (even seemingly basic ninjutsu) being labelled kekkei mōra implies otherwise. I think Kekkei Mora simply means that it's the complete, undiluted and unfragmented power, as originally received by the Chakra fruit.

Regarding rabbit hair needle, as anything derived from a KKG is labelled KKG, i expect anything derived from KKM to be KKM. And it seems it's labelled KKM because it uses her Byakugan (A Kekkei Mora in this case) to target chakra points and immobilize people.

I suspect that the real reason Rinnegan or Mangekyou isn't Kekkei Tota, is that Kishimoto didn't really invent the term until later and didn't want to retcon things. Because if we go by the definition that a Kekkei Tota is a combined Kekkei Genkai, then a Mangekyou would be Kekkei Tota. After all it not only uses Sharingan, it also uses Susanoo (a separate but related Kekkei Genkai), and Mangekyou techniques.

So i suspect that kekkei Tota refers specifically to the ability to combine 3 elements, whereas non-elemental "Kekkei tota" are simply kekkei genkai.