Originally posted by: Uchiha Barles
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Originally posted by: RasenDori
well, water, fire, wind, lightning, rock are parts of the 5 basic jutsu elements, if you remeber the chapter way back when kakashi explianed it. anything outside those catergorires ike ice and sand are specialist abilities. although i really cant understand the ice thing... if its just another form of water, and controling mist is a basic kirigakure thing.
That's pretty interesting. Maybe the thing is that, although ice is just another form of water, its uses would be different from what you would use water for, and as such, different techniques are required to make proper use of ice. Same thing with sand. Probably the uses for rock and for sand are different, and the techniques required to use sand most effectively aren't techniques that can be done by anyone. For example, I can imagine a rock specialist causing a rock avalanche in a mountain terrain. A sand avalanche probably wouldn't be as effective, but no one argues about sand jutsu effectiveness when gaara uses it because of the utter control he exerts over it, which I imagine is more difficult than causing a rock avalanche. Uh...is this making any sense?