I’ve been thinking about explosion release recently and thought about two things that could make it close to wood release in strength terms.
Firstly, a property/technique that allows a direct explosion to happen once the release’s projectile or attack is being absorbed. This way the jutsu eliminates any chance of it being absorbed by say Wood Release, Scientific Ninja Tools, Momoshiki’s Rinnegan, etc. The explosion created would be both unabsorbable concentrated as it’s a projectile and thus be extremely devastating. Through this property, one of Wood Release’s strongest properties would fall short in a head to head battle.
The second is if one could be more precise with their explosions and shape them to fit their needs. This way, explosions could concentrate that insane destructive power into a smaller radius, making it decimate anything in its way. The user could also make some spots of the explosion more concentrated than others depending on what they want to achieve.
With the large-scale capabilities seen with C0 for instance, and being unabsorbable, one single (non-suicidal) explosion could potentially take out a wood golem, dragon and the thousand palms statue all with one jutsu. As a requirement, obviously the user would need high chakra reserves to perform such vast techniques or insane chakra control, but it was an interesting thought to me.
What do you think? Could this release be buffed any further and match the almighty Wood Release anyway? Throw in any ideas you guys have!