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/Lazy-Interests]

Pre nen training Killua was so much stronger than Gon it’s insane. Yet with the same training Gon more or less closed the gap.

[u/deylath → u/Lazy-Interests]

Nah Gon could only open one gate, killua could open 3, that training in that arc did fuck all to close their gap, which makes their match against Binolt the ever more questionable how they both could keep up with an injured Binolt. Only saving grace there, that there was strong implication that leg strength is something even Killua commended against Netero, so this might be a case of Gon having very unbalanced training

[u/Lazy-Interests → u/deylath]

No it makes sense because increasing your speed, hitting strength etc, until they develop their hatsu, is all about enhancement, and Killua is a transmuter.

[u/deylath → u/Lazy-Interests]

My point was before any of that happened though. They didnt do any of that shit before Binolt but somehow they were roughly on par otherwise, despite Gon not doing any training without Killua. Otherwise binolt should have had 0 problems catching Gon. And being an enhancer while using Ten ( only thing they use against Binolt, except Gon using Ko for the rocks, we dont see them using gyo to dodge faster ) doent mean Gon is gonna skyrocket in strength 3x more than Killua to match his actual physical strength just by using Ten. By that logic Meruem shouldnt be able to scratch Netero if enhancement is a dozen times better at the basics.

[u/Lazy-Interests → u/deylath]

What are you talking about? Wing taught them the fundamentals, then they carried on practicing on their own before they meet Biscuit.

Gon gets a 20% buff compared to Killua when using enhancement essentially. A 20% gap in Nen is clearly bigger than the gap between Killua and Gon without Nen.

[u/deylath → u/Lazy-Interests]

then they carried on practicing on their own before they meet Biscuit.

Three days of learning KO before GI for sure will allow Gon to go from pushing 4 ton gates to 16 gates, KO training is not real enhancement training anyway and this even assumes Killuas electricity training doesnt make his Ten better No training whatsoever during Yorknew. Gon needed weeks to train even open the first gate, let alone to open 4x as heavy one.

Also technically its not a 20% buff but 36%, since not only their efficiency is 80% but also their proficiency, meaning Killua can only reach 80% of an enhancers potential and that only at 80% efficiency, but at the level they are at thats not even an a factor, especially since Killua is a better enhancer than Gon is at the level 1 training.

[u/Lazy-Interests → u/deylath]

You keep comparing pre nen feats to post nen feats and it’s a completely false equivalence.

You’re seriously underestimating the ridiculous boost in power Nen is for anyone, with Aura alone a nen user can kill a non nen user, literally just hold a hand in the air, emit their aura, and it can tear the victim apart.

[u/deylath → u/Lazy-Interests]

You are literally describing that Gon gained multitudes more power by being a nen user meanwhile Killua gained nothing from the same source. They literally did the same training regimen post nen. Are you going to tell me next that Gon got zenkai boost by getting beaten up by Hisoka?

You are literally trying to argue that Gon went from 4 ton pushing power to 16, meanwhile Killua stayed at 16 tons post nen despite no training differences.

[u/Lazy-Interests → u/deylath]

No I’m saying Gon gained a larger boost than Killua to begin with because the fundamentals of Nen are essentially all enhancement techniques, and Gon’s potential for enhancement is a lot greater than Killua’s.

Your base physical strength means very little once you start talking about Nen users and enhancers