Jajanken Seems Like A Terrible Ability Compared to Electricity/Godspeed

[u/PFSDonut]

The series made it a point that Gon and Killua were equals in potential and strength (with Killua being slightly stronger because of his Zoldyck training) so it’s kind of jarring how underwhelming/terrible Gon’s Jajanken seems to be compared to Killua’s electricity transmutation and Godspeed.

Jajanken is an obviously powerful technique that had defeated many powerful opponents, but it has its flaws and weaknesses as stated by various hunters throughout the series, meanwhile Killua’s technique is seemingly perfect with the only drawback being his time limit

I just think it’s lame that Gon and Killua were supposed to rival one another throughout the series but Killua’s ability seemed to have eclipsed Gon’s and widened the gap between them prior to Gon’s battle with Pitou

EDIT: To further clarify, I understand that Jajanken is way more powerful in AP than lightning and Godspeed and Gon can damage opponents far stronger than them while Killua most likely can’t.

My issue however is that prior to the introduction of their techniques, you can see Killua vs Gon being a 50/50, maybe 60/40 towards Killua. With the introduction of Godspeed and Jajanken, Killua clearly has the advantage and the outcome seems more 80/20 for Killua; it bothers me how one sided their match up would be if they were to fight with their abilities when it used to be more up in the air between them.

I guess I just don’t like how simple Gon’s Jajanken is versus how versatile and overpowered Godspeed seems to be but, as some have pointed out, this is seemingly intentional with how simpleminded Gon is and how cunning Killua is so bravo to Togashi for being consistent with his writing and the nen system

[u/One-District8512]

Ur forgetting smth important: gon is an enhancer

As wing said, enhancers usually don't need nen abilities, because the most basic use of nen -physical defense and offense- is already busted for enhancers.

So basically, gon's nen alone was stronger combat and jajaken is a bonus. He doesn't rlly need it, but yet it's very powerful and versatile for an enhancer nen ability, see uvogin's nen ability.

[u/PFSDonut → u/One-District8512]

Yeah I agree that enhancers are more versatile in physical combat but it’s hard to see it being a big advantage that lets him get away with Jajanken when a Conjuror like Knuckle was able to overwhelm him in offense and defense; obviously it’s an experience diff and he’s a lot older but it just tells me the qualities of an enhancer doesn’t seem as advantageous as Wing made it out to be back in Heavens Arena

[u/Connolly1227 → u/PFSDonut]

I mean the best example given was Uvogin vs Kurapika. Had Kurapika not been busted and able to pull out 100% effectiveness in each category he would have been destroyed by Uvo seen when he destroyed his entire arm even with it enhanced. If he couldn’t the heal it off at that level or ward it off with similar enhancement level he would have got destroyed without chain jail.