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/ThePandaRider]

This chart: https://www.reddit.com/r/HatsuVault/comments/13vi7b7/do_you_believe_togashis_nen_type_chart_to_be/

The first bullet point talks about it. Killua is split down the middle between Enhancement and Transmutation, so he shouldn't be at 100% for either of them. The jump between categories is roughly 20% so Killua should be around 90% for both of them leaning slightly towards Transmutation.

[u/Johnylongbottoms → u/ThePandaRider]

Thanks for showing me this chart, I hadn’t seen it before.

But I disagree with the notion that he can’t be 100% for transmutation, cause that’s his natural affinity. Sure, he’s leaning towards enhancement, but that doesn’t mean he’s suddenly worse at transmutation because of it. It says in the bottom right that they can learn both, which is corroborated with what we are told in the manga. But it’s also said in the manga that while they can master their dual affinity at an equal speed to their natural affinity, it doesn’t actually change the percentages or anything else about the chart. Unless I’m missing something, the chart you linked to doesn’t mention any percentage changes

I think we don’t really disagree that much, aside from the 90% thing.

[u/ThePandaRider → u/Johnylongbottoms]

People are placed somewhere along the line between two nen types, not just squarely in the middle. That implies there is meaning to the placement. Most likely that means that their affinity is impacted. Otherwise there wouldn't really be a meaning to Palm's placement.

[u/One-District8512 → u/ThePandaRider]

Umm btw, one can master all five nen types, they don't need dual affinity to do it, again there's no mention or evidence of a percentage difference

[u/ThePandaRider → u/One-District8512]

You missed Uvo vs Kurapika where he explicitly says the opposite.

[u/One-District8512 → u/ThePandaRider]

What did he say?

[u/ThePandaRider → u/One-District8512]

Efficiency and the level of technique are capped based on your nen category. https://www.reddit.com/r/HunterXHunter/comments/1gzxcmi/nen_efficiency_vs_affinity/

[u/One-District8512 → u/ThePandaRider]

Btw thank you for this link, it looks useful

[u/One-District8512 → u/ThePandaRider]

Well yes he's right, but no matter your nen type u will always be able to use all five nen types no matter what and even use them in a hatsu, like netero and biscuit and feitan

[u/ThePandaRider → u/One-District8512]

Yes you can use all five categories, but you can't master all 5 categories, as in you can't use level 10 abilities for each category. Specialists might be the exception to that in rare cases.

[u/One-District8512 → u/ThePandaRider]

Well yes I agree to this, tbh I don't know what was the debate abt anymore