Board Thread:Boruto Discussions/@comment-26389992-20180223153129/@comment-734582-20180226202341

Gagua2028 wrote: Yeah true but considering it was meant as a replacement for chidori, I highly doubt that it's complexity will be so low that some genins would be able to learn it in a few days without getting proper guidance since we never saw Kakashi ever in the Boruto manga. He's never interacted ever with Boruto in the manga and only once in the anime during the graduation exams. So far i've seen nothing that makes me think it's special or different in any way. Chidori is difficult because it both uses nature transform and shape transform for a highly localized, high damage attack. It requires immense speed and so immense reflexes.

What we've seen of Purple Lightning so far is that it's chakra in one's palm that occasionally shoots out. It seems no more complex than any other lightning jutsu. Ravenlot 27 wrote: C`mon, if Kakashi was allowed to pass on his signature Chidori technique to Sasuke, I'm sure there's nothing wrong in him probably teaching modern ninja his Purple Lightning. True. In the Anime at least, we saw them train and fight quite a bit. Boruto's Kote jutsu were certainly within the realm of what he could do (since nobody questioned that he made those jutsu, and it wasn't until his mass Shadow Clones that Naruto - and only Naruto- got suspicious.) It's entirely possible that he learned Purple Lightning from Kakashi somewhere after graduation (or has yet to learn it in the Manga). Mitsuki is a known Lightning release user, so he may have picked it up from Kakashi just by observing.

No difficulty is listed for the jutsu, so we simply have no idea about the complexity there.