Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-36950799-20180918174601/@comment-9782468-20181030163447

Kirito975 wrote: well i remember somewhere in the manga/anime that natural elements such as Lightning, was much more powerful. Techniques that use a pre-existing natural, non chakra initiated, element made the techniques much stronger.

i could be wrong though They're not necessarily more powerful. But they're easier to make more powerful, because less of your chakra is being used up in Nature Transformation to create material to use and all of it is being used at directing already existing material/power.

For example, Kirin uses natural lightning and is exceedingly powerful. Indra's arrow is composed entirely of chakra and is more powerful.

The difference is in how much chakra is used. Kirin uses almost no chakra while Indra's arrow almost depletes 4th War Sasuke when he was amped with Tailed Beast chakra.