Have we picked an electricity standard?

[Golden_Void]

I was scrolling through 15 Naruto profiles trying to find out who scales to what speed, when I found Kakashi's calc.

Naruto: Kakashi intercepts Kakuzu's Lightning Release

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The first comment links two blogs where electricity is not equal to average lightning speed.

Naruto: Kakashi intercepts Kakuzu's Lightning Release

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[KLOL506]

No, I don't think we have.

 

[HammerStrikes219]

Kinda weird, but I am pretty sure I will prefer case by case although electricity by itself does varied in speed IIRC so it shouldn’t get MHS or higher by default unless it is in the cloud to lightning category which is a different story

 

[KLOL506]

BUMP

@DontTalkDT

 

[DontTalkDT]

Electricity flowing through air is lightning.
Our standards are pretty clear that things don't need to be cloud-to-ground lightning to qualify (given, there are qualifiers that need to be fulfilled). Whether or not the word "lightning" is used to describe it doesn't really matter. We don't rank things by what they're called, but by what they are, and there is no real difference between electricity flowing through air called lightning and electricity flowing through air called something else.

 

[Golden_Void]

Electricity flowing through air is lightning.
Our standards are pretty clear that things don't need to be cloud-to-ground lightning to qualify (given, there are qualifiers that need to be fulfilled). Whether or not the word "lightning" is used to describe it doesn't really matter. We don't rank things by what they're called, but by what they are, and there is no real difference between electricity flowing through air called lightning and electricity flowing through air called something else.

So basically all electricity outside of wired transmission is treated the same?

 

[DontTalkDT]

All electricity that flows through the air, has demonstrated a number of properties of realistic electricity (and not many contradicting properties) and carries an energy of at least 1.6 billion Joules or a voltage of at least 100 million volts, to have somewhat comparable parameters to lightning, is considered to move lightning speed.