The Rasengan's method of attack was crude and direct: get close and ram it into the opponent's chest. Even a Taijutsu ninja wearing iron armor would be blasted open with a huge, bloody hole!
But once the Rasengan was thrown, the Chakra inside would quickly turn into a mushy mass and dissipate in the air, leaving it without the slightest bit of power.
However, a Rasengan infused with a Chakra nature transformation could retain seventy to eighty percent of its close-range power when thrown over a short distance.
Houka liked throwing Rasengans in battle because it looked especially cool, and it also gave him time and distance to form another one for a follow-up attack.
Of course, Houka usually threw them only after getting close to the enemy, never from more than five meters away. The farther the distance, the weaker the power became. It was like the Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms: at close range, a single strike could overwhelm even a man of iron, but if the opponent stood a hundred meters away, even a whole combo of palms would not kill them.
As for how to throw the Rasenshuriken...
Houka decided he should master the technique first before worrying about that.
With a dark expression, he created another hundred and fifty Shadow Clones and continued practicing the Rasenshuriken.
As the saying went, diligence was the path up the mountain of books, hardship the boat across the boundless sea of learning; nothing in the world was difficult for one with determination, and where there was a will, there was a way... With Isobu's oceanic reserves of Chakra backing him up, he refused to believe he could not form a Rasenshuriken!
Boom! Boom! Boom...
A chain of explosions churned the sea into a raging spectacle. Wave after wave crashed onto the