Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-142748-20150410212019/@comment-142748-20150412002002

QuakingStar wrote:"Its can depend on air conditions, but the typical lightning bolt moves at 224,000 mph -- or about 3,700 miles per second. However, the light you see from the lightning obviously travels at the speed of light, which is roughly 670 million mph, or 186,000 miles per second." Itachi had Susanoo up and read for even THAT. Kirin is natural lightning. Itachi needs more than just reaction speed, that takes speed to be able to block that. That's when it travels around the sky, it can cover vast distances. But when Lightning strikes the earth, it always takes much longer due to various resistances (wind, rain, gravitational). The speed of lightning isn't the speed of light either, its far slower than light, the visible light it gives off is light speed but the lightning itself is far slower.

The time it would take to hit the ground would be 5-6 seconds, if not more if it arced over time through the air. Itachi blocking it isn't that impressive - as I reiterate, any high or top tier can replicate what Itachi did. Its no different than Sasuke, low on chakra, summoning then genjutsuing Manda, hopping into his mouth and unsummoning himself as CO went off.