Originally posted by ScreamPaste
The lightning itself would be quicker, but Zeus telegraphs that pretty well. It's still good, and I'm by no means putting Kratos down here, but it's one of those cases where it's possible to "block the aim".
That is true; though the extreme telegraphing is only present in gameplay and during his attack on Sparta. In the first case, it's gameplay, and in the second, well, his targets were still, so he had all the time in the world.
It's entirely possible that Zeus could throw them out just as Kratos did with Zeus' Fury in God of War (rapidfire-esque and without the telegraphing shown in II).