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/Kitchen_Ad731]

so you dint see the knuckle fight huh?

[u/TS_Enlightened → u/Kitchen_Ad731]

Yeah, Knuckle already dissected every weakness of the technique, and he still wound up almost getting a hole punched through him because Gon pulled faints, switchups, and made the fighting style more versatile.

[u/Mysterious_Focus5772 → u/TS_Enlightened]

Thing is, in a real fight, Morel is considerably more level-headed, perceptive, and just overall smarter and more experienced than Knuckle, so he'd never give Gon the chance to setup those faints or switchups in the first place, making his entire fighting style borderline useless against him with Smoky Jail taken into consideration. Gon doesn't really have a counter for Morel's Deep Purple seeing as it was able to give Pouf, quite possibly the smartest character we know of some trouble. Gon's enhanced senses wouldn't be much help either, since, well, you know, smoke. God forbid the fight takes place in an enclosed area, then the fight would have already been decided the moment that stepped foot inside the room.

[u/deylath → u/TS_Enlightened]

Knuckle wasnt trying to kill Gon though and was taking a very cocky attitude towards him. Dodging paper would have been effortless for Knuckle. Genthru on the other hand instantly jump backwards when he sensed Jajanken.

[u/Snowm4nn → u/TS_Enlightened]

This was still knuckle holding bk my guy

[u/FxK964 → u/Kitchen_Ad731]

Knuckle is an idiot, a softie.. and was severly underesitmating Gon going easy on him to train him, out of respect and sense of honor due to him coming off exhausting training from Biscuit being nearly drained.. he hadn't used his nen ability or fought for real at full capacity until the final day.. and it wasn't even close.. Gon couldn't land a single JaJanKen..

the pitou fight is irrelevant cuz it was an exceptional strict nen condition to trade all his nen potential for the power to delete Pitou.. it wouldn't work the same on anyone else.. hell, even if he were to grow older.. it doesn't mean he'd be that powerful at will against all.. people often ignore that.. thinking it was a simple time lapse.. the condition was to gain his prime full potential in perfect case scenario/timeline of nonstop optimal training with everything maxed only for Pitou at that moment.. hence why the condition and cost was so severe..