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Other than the Shadow Clone Jutsu, Naruto’s signature move is the Rasengan, a rapidly spinning compressed ball of chakra that’ll blow away his opponents. It’s a move that kept growing and changing throughout the course ofNaruto,Shippuden, andBoruto, as more and more variations of it were developed.
For the sake of simplicity, this article will only cover the Rasengan variationsNarutocan and has usedon his own. There are a lot of variations exclusively used by other characters, like Boruto with the Compression Rasengan and Momoshiki with the Deep Crimson Spiral. Then there are also the variations that Naruto can only achieve when teaming up with other shinobi, like the Parent and Child Rasengan and the Gentle Wind Spiralling Twin Lion Fists: Snow White. Naruto on his own has more than enough variations to fill a book, so the other variations are best saved for another day.
Also, note that these variations can and have fused together to create dozens of sub-variations.For example, the Rasenshurikenfused with the Big Ball Rasengan creates the Big Ball Rasenshuriken.
Naruto’s Rasengan Variations
Big, Ultra-Big, and Super-Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan
One of the most basic ways Naruto has modified the Rasengan is by simply giving it more juice and making it bigger.The Big Ball Rasenganand its even bigger brothers are essentially just regular Rasengan with more chakra packed into them. While these three might be relatively simple, they do have a couple of sub-variations that give them some more spice.
Wind Release: Rasengan
This version of the Rasengan was created by Naruto, who added his wind-nature chakrato a regular Rasengan. The result is a stronger version of the Rasengan that can now be thrown in addition to its normal function. Learning to add his chakra nature to the Rasengan was a huge step towards perfecting it, and helped spawn a ton of sub-variations, all involving wind-nature chakra.
Sage Mode Rasengan
Entering Sage Mode givesNaruto access to senjutsu chakra, opening him up to a wide variety of new jutsu. However, when it comes to the Rasengan, Naruto never really developed a new original technique while in Sage Mode. Instead, he merely used it to enhance his already existing Rasengan variations. For example, the Sage Art version of the Rasenshuriken allows Naruto to throw it like an actual shuriken. The regular version of the Rasenshuriken couldn’t maintain its shape ifNaruto or one of his cloneswasn’t constantly holding on to it.
Tailed Beast Chakra-Based Rasengan
As the name implies, Naruto developed several variations of the Rasengan that involve using the chakra ofthe Nine-Tailed Beast, Kurama.
Additionally,combining Sage Mode withthe Nine-Tails chakra creates evenmorevariations.
Baryon Rasengan
Oddly enough, what should be one of, if not Naruto’s strongest Rasengan variation, is pretty basic-looking. In his hand, it looks like a regular Rasengan, but upon hitting the opponent, Naruto releases it and launches them back. Then, after a brief moment, the Rasengan explodes with the brightorange-red chakra of Baryon mode. There’s a chance this is the strongest the Rasengan has ever been since Baryon Mode is the strongest form Naruto has ever achieved.
