Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26107879-20181004003653/@comment-34194151-20181008001614

@loneninja

Your comparison there is missing a few variables. Why would gaara be as fast as sasuke? clearly something has changed. In fact gaara was increasing in speed massively as more and more shukaku chakra leaked out. By chapter 128, sasuke admits the sharingan is the only thing allowing him to avoid gaara's attacks. Then in the the panel I believe you are referring to include them both jumping at each other, which skews things because a simple jump is not the same thing as running. after your first jump you can't pick up any more speed. So the gaara sasuke fought in the chunnin exam stadium is way slower than the one he was fighting in the forest. I see no signs that using chidori made sasuke slower, in fact both times he tagged gaara in the forest he was using chidori. The idea that chidori would make him slower is quite the leap, because we have been shown and told otherwise.

those other chidori techniques are a bit different because most of the time sasuke is stationary while using them, they are mid-range and long range techniques. Hokage kakashi can still use raiton techniques but not raikiri or chidori, clearly indicating that the jutsu in base is different from the rest. If hokage kakashi cannot use the jutsu, it means the tunnel vision effect is serious, and the tunnel vision effect has been repeatedly attributed to the speed at which chidori is performed, a speed that pushes the limits of their body to the point it creates tunnel vision, meaning their mind and eyes loses the ability to propely perceive the world around them. It is impossible for chidori to be slower than the user's body flicker, when they are always using body flicker alongside their chidori.