Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-25009130-20160914201625/@comment-734582-20160918082219

GreatestSin wrote: ^if the lightning strikes, the lightning is linear in a rough sense, and this was what storm release used as part of its creation :/ I'm sorry but this is grasping straws.

It's true that there's no real physics or logic behind the element choice. Lighting and Wind would still have made more sense to me, but i guess kishimoto's thoughts were "wind" moving "earth", as Magnet Release is solely used to move physical objects (gold, iron, tools).

Similarly, Water + Earth seems to add "flow" to "earth" in the form of wood, storm has "flow" to "lightning" (guided beams of energy). Other cases are crazier, IE Ice acts more like earth than either water or air, and explosion acts neither like earth or lightning (fire + lightning would've made more sense considering they're both energy elements and an explosion is just a really, really rapid fire). On the other hand, Scorch seems to be dry heat / hot air which is why it can mummify people and is made of Air+fire which makes sense. I think this mish-mash of "makes sense", "makes no sense" and "has vague connection" is what makes people so confused / feel like there are better options.

Still, i think it's fairly clear Kishimoto himself wasn't too concerned with the KKG considering Wood Release was initially a Hiden of Earth and the system is more or less retroactively patched together.