Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-5407586-20150624095943/@comment-25122992-20150627183125

Legendary Super Saiya-Jin 4 wrote: I've read over all of this discussion, and I still believe that Explosion Release = Earth + Lightning. The clay isn't special, it's just clay. Deidara takes the clay into his mouths, infuses them with explosion release chakra, and then makes them detonate. Sasuke's lightning disrupted and neutralized the chakra in the clay because one of the main component of explosion release is earth. Sasuke's lightning chakra would do nothing to regular clay, his chakra stopped them from detonating by overloading them to disrupt the balance of lightning and earth within them, therefore making them unable to explode and neutralizing them. Sounds convincing, although contradiction with Steel Release doesn't dissapear. SR has too many similarities with Kakuzu's Earth Release: Earth Spear, that's why if it's really an elemental KG, one of it's components must me Earth Release too. But there's no free spots for this: all KG containing Earth Release are actually confirmed, aside from Explosion Release, whose component and nature wasn't explained clearly. That's the main point of this discussion.