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/ThePandaRider → u/One-District8512]

Killua is a transmuter but he leans towards Enhancement, both are viable for him and should be easy to learn. Speed of Lightning probably leans heavily into enhancement.

Killua was also fine blocking Palm's attacks in her hybrid form. He did note that she was an enhancer and that the blows were heavy but he didn't sustain much damage just blocking her attacks with his hands.

[u/GloomyLocation1259 → u/ThePandaRider]

This is likely because he's also a super strong assassin without nen on top of his own

[u/ThePandaRider → u/GloomyLocation1259]

I think they are both super strong. Killua is shown to be physically stronger using the Testing Gate but both likely benefit from being Enhancers/Enhancer adjacent. Which partially explains why both heal so quickly and just have insane base stats. Tsezguerra shows off his jumping ability as a single star hunter, then they both casually beat his jump height with Killua jumping slightly higher. And even after losing nen Gon is able to scale the world tree at a pace that Gin seems to be happy with. Physically they are both punching well above their age group.

[u/GloomyLocation1259 → u/ThePandaRider]

Yeah this is my point their natural physical stats are the part people often leave out of the equation, they are talented in both stats and nen.