You Won’t Believe How Many Rasengan Variations Naruto Has!

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Summary

  • Naruto’s Rasengan has evolved into various forms, like the Big Ball and Wind Release: Rasengan, boosting its power.
  • Naruto’s Sage Mode enhances his pre-existing Rasengan techniques, but doesn’t introduce new original ones.
  • Utilizing the Nine-Tails chakra, Naruto created Tailed Beast Rasengan variations, including Vermillion and Baryon Rasengan.

Apart from the Shadow Clone Jutsu, I’ve noticed that Naruto’s signature technique is the Rasengan – a swiftly rotating, densely packed sphere of chakra that can send his adversaries flying. This move has evolved and transformed significantly over the course of Naruto, Shippuden, and Boruto, with an assortment of new variations constantly being introduced.

To keep things straightforward in this article, we’ll focus on the unique Rasengan variations that Naruto himself has utilized independently. Characters like Boruto with the Compressed Rasengan and Momoshiki with the Deep Crimson Spiral possess exclusive versions, while some variations such as the Parent and Child Rasengan, Gentle Wind Spiralling Twin Lion Fists: Snow White, require Naruto’s collaboration with other shinobi. With so many variations at his disposal, it’s only fitting that we save the others for a future discussion.

Additionally, remember that these distinct forms often merge to generate multiple offshoots. For instance, the Rasenshuriken blending with the Big Ball Rasengan results in the Big Ball Rasenshuriken.

Naruto’s Rasengan Variations

Big, Ultra-Big, and Super-Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan

One fundamental method Naruto enhances the Rasengan is by adding extra power and expanding its size. The Big Ball Rasengan and its larger counterparts essentially contain more chakra than the standard Rasengan. Although these three may seem straightforward, they do have a few variations that add some zest to them.

  • Giant Rasengan Barrage Line – Naruto creates hundreds of clones, with each of them welding a Big Ball Rasengan. They then rush at the opponent in horizontal line formation to endlessly pummel them with Big Ball Rasengan.
  • Sage Art: Massive Rasengan Barrage – This move is similar to the Giant Rasengan Barrage Line, except this time, Naruto amplifies it with Sage Mode, and it uses Ultra-Big Ball/Massive Rasengan instead of Big Ball Rasengan.
  • Planetary Rasengan – While in Nine-Tails Chakra Mode, Naruto creates a Big Ball Rasengan orbited by three regular Rasengan. Upon hitting its target, it blows up into a gigantic vortex of violent winds.

Wind Release: Rasengan

In Naruto’s innovation, he infused a standard Rasengan with his wind-attuned chakra, enhancing its power. This new form of the Rasengan can not only be utilized as per its original purpose but also thrown. Mastering the art of incorporating his chakra nature into the Rasengan was pivotal in refining it and led to the development of numerous derivatives, all centered around wind-attuned chakra.

  • Rasengan: Flash – The technique that’s every Dragon Ball and Naruto fans’ dream come true. It starts out as a normal Wind Release: Rasengan, but Naruto then fires it as a destructive beam like the Kamehameha, except, instead of Ki, it’s highly pressurized air and chakra.
  • Wind Release: Rasenshuriken – This is the perfected form of the Wind Release: Rasengan. It’s a Rasengan encircled by four blade-like chakra points, giving it the appearance of a shuriken. The blades aren’t just for show though, and are sharp enough to cut through rock. Upon hitting its target, the Rasenshuriken will further travel a short distance before exploding. A vortex of wind is then created, where countless wind blades are blown around, piercing every cell in the target’s body and messing with the chakra flow within their bodies. The Rasenshuriken itself has spawned multiple sub-variations like the Big Ball Rasenshuriken and the Tailed Beast Ball Rasenshuriken.

Sage Mode Rasengan

Using Sage Mode, Naruto taps into senjutsu energy, broadening his repertoire of jutsu. However, when it comes to the Rasengan, even in this transformed state, Naruto didn’t invent a fresh technique. Instead, he only heightened existing variations of the Rasengan. For instance, the Sage Art Rasenshuriken enables him to hurl it like a real shuriken. Without Naruto or one of his clones continuously holding onto it, the standard version of the Rasenshuriken wouldn’t retain its form.

Tailed Beast Chakra-Based Rasengan

Observing closely, I noticed how Naruto masterfully crafted multiple iterations of the Rasengan, each infused with the chakra of his formidable ally, the Nine-Tailed Fox, Kurama.

  • Vermillion Rasengan -The first Nine-Tailed Rasengan variation is purple and is stabilized by the Nine-Tails chakra that enveloped a young Naruto, allowing him to create it without a shadow clone.
  • Tailed Beast Rasengan – Naruto initially couldn’t fully control Kurama’s power while in the Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and had to develop this move to compensate. The move was left imperfect though, with Naruto finding it difficult to get the correct ratio of black and white chakra and struggling to hold it up due to its weight. Thankfully, after he got the hang of his Nine-Tails Chakra Mode and learned to use the Tailed Beast Bomb, he no longer needed to rely on the Tailed Beast Rasengan.
  • Rasengan using the other eight Tailed Beasts’s chakra – Not only does Naruto have Kurama-based Rasengan, but he also has variations linked to all the other eight Tailed Beasts whose chakra he gained. However, the only ones that were named and properly shown were the Rasengan linked to the One-Tail Shukaku, Sage Art: Magnet Release Rasengan and the Four-Tail Son Goku, Sage Art: Lava Release Rasenshuriken.
  • Sage Art: Super Tailed Beast Rasenshuriken – This is basically a move that turns all the Rasengan based on the other Tailed Beasts into Rasenshurikens and fires them all at once at the opponent. Naruto performed this attack in Naruto Shippuden episode 473, “The Sharingan Revived”, where he launches all the Rasenshurikens at once at Kaguya.

Additionally, combining Sage Mode with the Nine-Tails chakra creates even more variations.

Baryon Rasengan

Interestingly, while one might expect Naruto’s most powerful Rasengan variation to be visually impressive, it appears quite ordinary. In his grasp, it seems like a standard Rasengan, but upon impact with an opponent, Naruto releases it and propels them away. A short time passes, then the Rasengan detonates, revealing its true power in a burst of vibrant orange-red chakra from Baryon mode. There’s a possibility that this is the strongest the Rasengan has ever been, given that Baryon Mode represents Naruto’s greatest power yet.

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2025-01-16 05:35