Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32617252-20171112224147/@comment-734582-20171113084158

0-TentouAlucard-0 wrote: In the Gaara vs Second Mizukage fight, his sand becomes wet but he is still able to control it. It became notably more difficult for Gaara to do so. He couldn't hold the Mizukage in his sand burial, despite it being one of his stronger techniques. So i don't think he'd be able to use the same techniques on Suigetsu.

Lorenzo.r.2nd wrote: gengetsu, like I said, uses oil, which is the opposite of water. Not really. It would lubricate the sand more than water, so it's less coherent (and Gaara's techniques depend on compressing sand for hardness and strength), but water effectively does the same.