Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-32742265-20171205035814/@comment-734582-20171205215217

Namikazenaruto9 wrote: @Killman I don't follow you. Combining 2 elements in a collaboration ninjutsu doesn't create a pseudo KKG. Combining 3 in a collaboration ninjutsu doesn't create a pseudo KKT.

Elemental collaborations simply combine the elements in a quite literal form. Water + Lightning = Electrified water. Wind + Fire is hotter fire. But Fire + Water is a doused fire. Not every combination works. This was explained by Yamato.

KKG take the aspects of elements and combine them into new elements. Lava is more than just some earth and fire (since it also allows volcanized rubber for instance). It uses the Fire (chemical energy) to alter the properties of the Earth.

KKT go one step beyond and combine Fire and Wind (chemical energy and gas-state) and Earth (solid material) to reverse this, IE using chemical energy to turn solid material back into a gas ("Dust Release"). it's not just hot sand (or whatever exact collaboration happens).

A TSB is a combination of five elements, using properties from each. Malleable like water, solid like earth, floating like air, impermeable like lightning (ie Raikage shields), and contain a lot of energy like fire (Obito blows one up). In a KKG, KKT or KKM, normal elemental arrangements don't matter, IE it's perfect possible to combine water and fire even though a collaboration between them would just weaken the fire.

How KKG react to elements is difficult to tell, but it seems that some combinations weaken the element relations (Water > Fire and Earth is neutral to Fire but Fire > Wood) while others strengthen it (Water > fire and fire > wind but Ice >Fire).