Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-1512913-20180917223942/@comment-734582-20180918173529

Seelentau wrote: If the clay was Earth Release, why could Deidara run out of it and not simply use the earth around him? If Earth release is a part Explosion release, he would still have Earth release. Which still raises the question. But if he's normally an Explosion release user (fire+lightning), then it could be that the only earth release he knows, is the manipulation of clay into bombs. We've seen that element users can manipulate existing elements (water being the most common). So it's likely that Deidara simply isn't proficient enough to make clay, but IS proficient enough to shape it. After all, it was a huge deal that Tobirama could create water from nowhere in large quantities, implying that creating an element is far more difficult than controlling existing elements. Thereby, it makes sense that Deidara only knows how to shape clay into bomb (and bomb structures), without knowing how to make clay. Seelentau wrote: Also, if it wasn't the chakra that was made up of Earth Release, why would Sasuke use Lightning Release to disable it? What good does disabling the Earth Release clay, when it's the Explosion Release chakra inside that explodes? The clay is what contains and controls the explosive chakra. So lightning simply destroys the bomb part. I don't see why an element would attack part of a KKG: fire is weak to water, yet it burns wood release (water+ earth). By that logic, Explosion release should not be weak to lighting. ice (water + air) was strong to fire, but if the elemental wheel applied, it ought to be neutral.

So i think the precedent is that it makes no sense that lightning would weaken a KKG that contains an inferior element, because the elemental wheel does not predict behavior for other cases.