chidori tree buffs?

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for a few reasons this (really cool) ati is rather underwhelming considering that its an ati.

with the armor system, it only does damage equal to its rank, meaning when you finally set up and get to blast someone with kirin, it does a magnificent...100 damage. before damage reduction, which can halve that or more.

plus, unlike rasengan which at least has the benefit of being a universal/shape transformation technique, the chidori techniques don't deal full damage vs incorporeal.

i propose either upping its damage output across the board to compensate for its nature as an elemental jutsu or granting it through its sheer slicing power (as per the tech) some level of hardness penetration.

also full damage to incorporeals would be great. thats all for now.

[Skulking Shinzu]

I actually agree with this. Kirin can ignore S-rank defenses, but by the current Armour Points system, I think that only means that it can bypass up to 100 AP before dealing 100 AP of damage (someone correct me if I'm wrong). Pretty underwhelming when other Jutsu can deal far more AP damage for about the same (or even less) investment overall.

Unless I'm wrong here and Kirin actually ignores ALL S-rank and below defensive techniques rather than just 100 AP worth, this is pretty underwhelming for a ATI.

[Madame Loki]

Don't think it will ever be full damage against incorpeal, it may be an ATI but it's still an element. Also all the chodori techs penetrate defenses equal to it's rank, before actual damage calculation. This would include someone's natural AP, as well would it not? So a Raikiri, is just igoring 100ap (a number of ap few people have more than) then it's dealing 100ap of damage to the individual. Of course this is assuming that individual doesn't have more ap than the previously ignored 100. then th resulting damage would be hindered by resistances and armors effect on lighting.

Chidori was never meant to be this grand power house tech. It was made to peirce defenses, with it does. I don't see anything else on site, that straight up ignores 100ap worth of defense.

There may be other techs that deal more damage, and lighting does have some ground to make up because of its element, but you can also use Jutsu enhancements of Chidori. And un like Rasengan you don't have to invest TP in another slot to do so.

However, I will say that Karin does need a power boast, it does ignore 100ap and deals 100 more over a stupid large range, but for what you have to do to actually set it up... it definitely needs a little boost.

I also wouldn't be against chidori by-passing Lighting resistances, or absorbsion abilities.