The Channeling enchantment can be added to a trident. With this enchantment, your trident will summon a lightning bolt at a mob if you throw the trident and it hits the mob (while its standing in the rain). ... This means that you can only enchant a trident with up to Channeling I, and nothing higher for this enchantment.

What can you do with channeling in Minecraft?

This enchantment allows the player to change creepers into charged creepers, villagers into witches, pigs into zombified piglins, and mooshrooms into their opposite color (red into brown and vice versa). In Java Edition, Channeling doesn't affect mobs in some circumstances.

Is channeling or Riptide better?

Riptide launches the user in the direction the trident is thrown, making it a perfect weapon for close up melee fights. Channeling is on the other end of the spectrum, summoning lighting if it strikes a mob, making it a brilliant enchantment for long range fighters.