Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26107879-20181004003653/@comment-37328019-20181118192357

So to clarify are your assumptions based off the Chidori being a ball of tangible lightning or a death stab with said lightning?

If Chidori is a ball of lightning, no the user controls the speed of the ball. If Chidori is the assassination, yes the speed the user moves at is part of the technique. See Eight Trigrams Revolving Heaven it is a technique whereby the user spins to deflect attacks, the power is based on the rotational speed of the user but does not accelerate said speed. The user can agument their speed like Neji using Lee's front lotus to spin them both faster.