Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-36512555-20200101053037/@comment-9782468-20200107040335

? So you think Kakashi was running and Lightning fell on his hand and that's why he nicknamed the technique Lightning cutter?

Kakashi cut the lightning. The lightning did not cut itself on Kakashi lol.

Ninja in general are moving so fast and have insane reaction speeds already. I don't find it implausible for the faster Ninja of the series to be able to react to Lightning. In Kakashi's case, it'd make more sense for him to be standing still, since I don't think he's got travel speeds close to Lightning. He'd just have to block the strike of Lightning.

Honestly a lot of Ninja might be able to react to Kirin but not many might be fast enough to do anything about it. Itachi was fast enough to pull up a technique (after much explaining and also a visual indicator of the technique about to occur). That's not too impressive to me.