User:Omnibender/Elemental recomposition table

These are my own ideas and speculations, do not take it as canon!!! Feel free to discuss them at the talk page.

Currently brainstorming for three element combinations, ideas are welcome

Also adding reasoning for three element theories, if an explanation you want is missing, just wait, it'll be added

About this page
This page is something I created early October in 2009. Around this time, the manga was showing the Kage Summit and its fights. New advanced natures suddenly appeared, going from three to seven in about four chapters, some not making sense (Blaze Release). I felt that some visual way to show what these natures were made of was required, such as showing which advanced natures could be done from a certain basic nature. That need made this page, and though the article ended up using the svg image it uses today, I kept this page because it was a place I could put down my ideas on which combination was what, in the case of the ones that didn't have their components presented in a way you could know for sure what they were. It was a way to try making sense of it all.

It also lead me to think up natures that I thought would be viable candidates for combinations that had yet to be introduced. Blaze Release in particular was a pain, because nothing we knew gave it a satisfactory explanation to me. I filled up all ten possibilities with confirmed combinations and my own theories, as ideas came up. Fast-forward almost a year, into September 2010, and Madara shed some light on Yin and Yang. Blaze made much more sense, and it opened up eleven new combinations, one of which fit Blaze Release very well to me. Once again, ideas filled the spots, some of them even suggested by other editors here.

All I had to do was update things as more natures were revealed, such as Scorch and Explosion. Then in January 2011, everything that was nice and neat and complete went up flames as Kishimoto revealed triple combinations. I didn't enjoy it. The fact we had seven basic components and many possible arrangements meant that the theoretical number of possible combinations went way up. I used some of my disproved ideas for two-element combinations where I could adapt them. I waited until I had enough ideas to publish so the page didn't look so empty.

I don't expect any more triple combinations to be revealed in the manga, though I do feel that Kishimoto will finish introducing non Yin-Yang two-element combinations, as well as explore more of Yin and Yang. Now I simply add new ideas as they come if I deem them good enough. This is to me a creative exercise. Sometimes when I least expect, I'll get an idea that fits a tough combination, such as Dawn Release (though not as Dawn Release, see the reasoning section for that one). All in all, this was an attempt to make sense of what Kishimoto would do to nature transformation that took way bigger proportions that I ever intended it to.

Icon grid
Italicized denotes elements with unconfirmed composition, question marked entries denotes my main theory for hypothetical advanced natures, non-icon anime only image version here.

Three element combinations
Combinations missing so all possible matches have a theory: Missing combinations:
 * 4 natures
 * 4 natures containing Lightning Release
 * 2 natures containing Earth Release
 * 2 natures containing Water Release
 * 2 natures containing Yin Release
 * 2 natures containing Yang Release

One known component table
Advanced natures with only one known component:

No known component table
Advanced natures with no confirmed components:

Proposed combinations table
Current combinations for which there are no advanced natures:

Stronger counterpart table
Under the theory that same element combinations aren't possible, it is possible that there are natures which are simply stronger counterparts. This table includes my thoughts on what each basic nature, and each advanced nature (both confirmed and main theories of tables above) has as a stronger counterpart. Because some of the stronger counterparts themselves are listed in my main theory as partially Yin or Yang, Yin and Yang combinations (Blaze, Radiation, Typhoon, Sound, Dark, Light, Crystal, Land, Brine and Wave) won't be listed as being a weaker counterpart, since that would mean there are three "strength tiers", something even I deem too speculative.

Miscellaneous theories
Other theories that do not fit the other classification.

The Sand Issue
Ever since advanced natures were revealed as being composed of more than one basic nature, it has been speculated that Shukaku's, and by extension Gaara's sand abilities, are an advanced nature, more specifically composed by Wind Release and Earth Release. The purpose of this section is to analyse the pros and cons of this theory.

Pros:
 * 1) Sand being the result of wind and earth is a reasonable, logical, possible outcome.
 * 2) Shukaku is already known to use Wind Release.
 * 3) There is another Tailed Beast which is known to have an advanced nature, which is also used by its jinchūriki. Rōshi is the jinchūriki of the Four-Tails, and because of it, he can use its Lava Release.
 * 4) The only other known nature which could fit this combination, Dust Release, has been revealed to be composed not only by earth and wind, but also by fire, leaving this spot open.
 * 5) It wouldn't be the first time an element-like technique would be revealed as an actual element. Haku used Ice Release very early in part I, long before the concept of advanced natures was introduced. Deidara's techniques, though not as old as Haku's, were also recently revealed to be a product of an elemental kekkei genkai, Explosion Release. Magnetic abilities also turned out to be a nature transformation kekkei genkai.
 * 6) Most sand techniques aren't ranked in databooks. There is a precedent for a technique which isn't supposed to be ranked being ranked in the databooks ("Water Release: Great Water Arm Technique", which is hiden).
 * 7) Hashirama's signature Wood Release technique, which is a kekkei genkai, was labelled as hiden in the First Databook, showing that while uncommon, those changes can happen.

Cons:
 * 1) Sand has never been mentioned as an advanced nature, neither in-universe nor in any other official sources, such as databooks.
 * 2) The sand techniques shown so far differ from usual element techniques in that it was never created out of chakra alone. More sand was either collected from the surrounding area, made by crushing nearby minerals, or appeared as a manifestation of Shukaku itself when Gaara would relinquish control to it, transforming into it.
 * 3) Neither Shukaku nor Gaara were ever shown nor mentioned as Earth Release users.
 * 4) The one technique which uses sand and has an elemental prefix indicates sand as a subset of Wind Release techniques. Wind Release: Infinite Sand Cloud — Great Breakthrough.
 * 5) At least one sand technique ("Sand Binding Prison") has been ranked in databooks. Advanced natures are kekkei genkai, and those techniques aren't ranked.

In my opinion, sand will turn out to be an advanced nature. Considering the above, specially pro points three to five, the revelation of sand as full fledged advanced nature is possible, and even likely, though not necessarily eminent. The best possible moment for this to happen was the confrontation between Gaara and his father in the Fourth Shinobi World War. Gaara was trained by his father when he was little, so the Fourth Kazekage has knowledge of his abilities, and since his death, Gaara is certain to have improved, both good build-ups for the revelation of sand as an advanced nature composed of Wind Release and Earth Release, the. But alas, that didn't happen.

Debunked Theories
Former theories of mine that have been debunked since I first thought of them.

Acknowledgements
Thanks to:
 * First and foremost, ShounenSuki, for providing me with the basic code to make the tables, the icons I like oh-so-very-much (including for theoretical natures), for proof-reading my translations, and numerous hypothetical nature suggestions in the stronger counterpart table that would make this entry just as long as some reasoning entries above. This page wouldn't exist, or at least wouldn't look so good without you.
 * GoDai, for massive amount of feedback and suggestions on mechanics behind natures and mechanics of nature combination, the associating the notion of purification to my initial idea of holiness for the Fire/Water/Lightning combination, resulting in the Purification Release idea, and the Fluid, Dry and Erase Release ideas.
 * Vik0z0z, for the Smoke Release and Star Release ideas.
 * Umishiru, for numerous suggestions on three element combinations, such as Rust Release, Implosion Release, and Pulse Release.
 * DarkblueFlow, for showing me how I could reuse Miasma Release as a combination of three elements.