If you want to look like the coolest kid in the Zombie Apocalypse. Riding the lighting with a Tesla Coil Gun would have to be on the shortlist. At the current range, you will be up close and personal with the Zombies. What's not to like?

The Tesla Coil Gun is from 5:30 seconds on the video.

1 Dec 2016 - Handheld TESLA COIL GUN at 28,000fps - SmarterEveryDay

On a slightly different note. Experimentally, lasers are being tried as a way to control the path of a lightning strike. Are you thinking what I am thinking?

24 Jan 2024 - Laser beam diverts the path of lightning strikes

The basic theory behind a laser-based lightning rod is that intense and short laser pulses are fired into the air, where they become sufficiently intense to ionize air molecules. Along these long narrow channels of ionizing laser pulses, air molecules are rapidly heated and expelled at supersonic speeds. This leaves behind long-lived channels of air with reduced density that are more electrically conductive than surrounding regions, offering an easier path for the electric discharges of lightning to travel along.

https://physicsworld.com/a/laser-beam-diverts-the-path-of-lightning-strikes/