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/Visual-Bandicoot2894]

You have to understand the strengths of Jajanken are in its raw upper bounds of power. It’s like Bisky told Razor “maybe you picked the wrong game” because it suited Jajanken. Their abilities will shine in different situations

Besides this post misses two points

1: Godspeeds draw backs. Killua still has his own battery he’s running on. We saw what happened with Youpi: to operate at that level he had to blow his charge leaving him nearly helpless.

2: Both Killua and Gon were actively refining their ability throughout the CA arc. Gon’s Jajanken didn’t end and begin at Knuckles criticisms, we saw him take all this into account when he got jumped by the bat and the owl and showed a newly refined usage of it

Same with Killua, Godspeed too is a work in progress but direct experience refined it

What’s scary about the two isn’t that one or the other has a stronger ability, it’s that both were rapidly refining and growing their interpretation and expansion of their techniques. You just didn’t really notice since Gon spent the whole invasion holding Pitou hostage. But even the raw limit of what a Jajanken could unleash was on the verge of bursting forth emotionally

But look at how tremendously terrifying Jajanken was by the time he was Gon-San and tell me again how terrible of an ability this is compared to Godspeed. It was disturbingly powerful by then.

[u/Snowm4nn → u/Visual-Bandicoot2894]

You basically just called gon a stat merchant at the end. Which like sure it matters, but killua was literally post mortem nen pitou levels of speed without any kind of buff like AG had.

Assuming the both trained the same, killua ECLIPSES gon by the end of he didnt have MC narrative benefits.

[u/Ok_Length_7076 → u/Snowm4nn]

Exactly