Naruto: Is The Rasengan Actually More Powerful Than Chidori?

In all of Naruto, there are few visuals more iconic than those of Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha, charging towards each other with their two signature attacks — the Rasengan and Chidori respectively. The complex relationship between the two old friends and lifelong rivals is the emotional nucleus that the series’ narrative revolves around. Even for the large segments of the story in Part II where there is little, if any interaction between the two, the tension building up to their final face off serves to provide the story with a sense of direction, a well-defined final point of resolution, so to speak.