Rabid Dog was hand-picked by one of the Ten Dons. The Troupe even commented on how surprising it was that he was able to tear through Uvogin's iron skin and said they were pretty good. Then Machi notes that if he used a lethal venom instead of paralyzing, Uvogin would be dead already. I don't particularly like him, but he's the only one that legit seemed unfair lol.

Wing leaves his shirt untucked in a world that will judge him for it. He enhances himself with their low expectations. A tier.

Hanzo said that to control something as complicated as a nen clone of yourself, most users need to remain still and concentrate. If we take this into account Kastro was a beast.

I feel like Kastro is greatly underappreciated, yes he created a skill that doesn't match his enhancer affinity, but it's still an incredibly powerful Hatsu. It caught Killua, a trained assassin, off guard, and made Hisoka struggle to understand the ability, going as far as sacrificing his limbs and using heavy deception to be able to defeat him. That HAS to count for something

Kastro's whole point in existence was to explain the ladder of Nen's ability.

Kastro and Netero's powers uses the same application of conjuration and manipulation. Kastro tries to brute force it, whereas Netero has a restriction of conjuring and manipulating his statue through prayer. It suits Netero's personality of choosing the hardest path possible

I think ikalgo being an enhancer is a fantastic choice. His most dangerous ability is his sniping which primarily utilizes his lungs. He needs to compress air in his head as much as possible. The more tension he can withstand the faster the bullet goes. He’s 60% effective with living dead dolls and as such he’s been identified as a fake every single time he’s used the ability. It ties into his character really well. He wants to be seen as a squid but he’s always instantly clocked as an octopus. His personality also matches a lot of enhancers much more imo but that’s hard to argue objectively. He reminds me of gon a lot tho. Many of ikalgo’s bullets are made from his body and hardened into metal: That’s transmutation. The poison that stops blood clotting is also transmutation. The fleas themselves as well as their twitching are probably conjuration but that’s as far as his conjuration goes. Was this convincing? I feel like this is a pretty sound argument.

Netero picking his most difficult affinities to base his ability on is such a Netero thing to do. Making things extra hard and challenging to see if he could beat it so in character.

The world of HH is beautifully crafted

Just as Komugi Enhances her brain, i think maybe Palm enhances her eyes to be able to see beyond regular sight and the crystal ball she looks through is a limitation set to make it stronger/possible? + her dedication to stalking whoever she is infatuated with at a given time

To be honest Ikalgo being an enhancer does make sense if we look at his biological structure as a Chimera Ant Octopus. Firsly changing body shape.. Ikalgo is an octopus and octopi are known to change their body texture, color and shape to camouflage. Here Ikalgo would use Enhancement to push his physiology into extreme shape shifting, such as making guns out of his body. Secondly, possessing other bodies. Octopi also possess the shells of dead animals or even plants by slighly changing their body and fitting into the said shells. So he could enhanc his physiological ability to change shape to such a degree that he can freely fit and use anyone's body. We humans have rigid bodies that cannot change/alter properties like shape and texture, hence we would need Transmutation/Conjuration (or even Manipulation in case of Illumi). But as an Octopus, enhancing his shape shifting ability is to Ikalgo what enhancing physical strength is to any Human Enhancer.

After learning Bill's ability was to speed up the growth of things I can't help but think about if he uses his nen ability on Prince Woble

In my mind, the Cimera ants are just so stupidly powerful that it actually doesn't matter if they choose different nen types from their natural ability. It just makes them a normal nen user when compared to humans.

Wing said that Enhancers are strong enough to not even need an ability. Having one is just an add-on at that point. So honestly, if you’re an enhancer, I don’t see why you wouldn’t create an ability around other affinities to add-on to your already insane offensive and defensive capabilities. Also, as an enhancer, you’re blessed with almost perfect placement on the Nen Chart, as none of your worst affinities fall below 60%, which is still a lot. Add a few restrictions here and there and you can make even something like conjuration work very well. All this to say Kastro isn’t necessarily wrong in his choice to use his worst affinities, because his worst is still better than every other affinities worst; rather, he’s wrong because what he chose to conjure was fucking dog shit for something that took an endless amount of work to pull-off. I could see it working if it wasn’t for combat and instead espionage or something, but the fact that something as simple as dirt brought the downfall of his entire scheme is honestly ridiculous.

Kastro was able to sever hisokas arm while using his two worst nen types at the same time he's pretty skilled

My favourite enhancer also uses conjuration. He conjures hunter x hunter content straight in to my youtube feed. But in a very enhanced form.

I will maintain that Merman Clairvoyance and Wink Blue is likely some strange form of Emission. I think she sends an invisible bit of aura to act as a portal to see through, which is feasible since teleportation in a thing. Whether or not the statue is Conjured and just always maintained is a different story (it could be a condition), but so definitely think it is some sort of emissive ability.

I genuinely love Bill. I can't pinpoint exactly why, but he is definitely one of my favorite characters this arc. I think I just enjoy the idea of Bill and Kurapika joint-fathering baby Woble.

I think Ikalgo’s enhancement comes from his ability to change his tentacles into guns. Since Enhancement is the change of the ‘body’s’ physical properties, like Ramoot enhancing his feathers into blades or Youpi’ using metamorphosis

Technically kastro could've made his whole gimmick work if he went through the anime training arc that netero did surpassing human limits and gaining massive amounts of aura to use in his techniques. I doubt he would've done any of that if he did survive but hey it's theoretically possible.

Palm could use emission to project her sight and view distant locations and just add in a few restrictions and you get a very efficient ability

OK, QUESTION: With Palm (prior to the transformation), I've always wondered if Merman Clairvoyance was less of an ability and the merman corpse was more of a Nen infused artifact that she happened to own or find and figure out how to use. The Seed Urn in the succession war is what got me thinking about that. The same way Greed Island cards work. Could anyone come up and drop their blood in the artifact and see targets they stalk, or perhaps even a different reaction based on the users personality. Thoughts?

I think uvo is in his own tier. Below netero and maha and above S. He was able to spit a part of a skull through an enhancers defense. Kurapika was in emperors time and doing no damage to him with his hits. Then said his enhanced fist is slightly stronger than uvos natural physical strength. Because of the kurapika fight he isn’t given enough credit for how powerful he is.

This should definitely be a series.

About *Ikalgo,* I think his "Enhancement" and Palm's original clairvoyance share an aspect of Enhancement that I don't think a lot of people realize exists: They enhance corpses to use their abilities after death. Palm's crystal ball is actually powered by the statue that she feeds her blood to. This hideous statue is actually called a "mermaid" and is probably the corpse of a magical beast.

I think Uvogin should have his own category between S and God. He is someone who uses enhancement 100% and is extremely powerful in terms of aura output.

I think my dream would be having you able to discuss all your thoughts of HXH with Togashi so he could clean up loose ends and inconsistencies.

Surely Tonpa will be SSS tier for every Nen affinity

that shot with kurapika in a white dress better not awaken anything in me

I think the reason ikalgo is an enhancer is to show that even the chimera ant soldiers had enough Aura to overcome mismatched affinities in his ability

things ranked by man on the internet are some of my favorite things. keep doing these things milord (ramble comments and liking still)

9:13 I think the point about Palm is pretty interesting so here are my two cents If you ask me Palm's clairvoyance ability makes a lot of sense and could easily be an application of Manipulation, Emission, or both. The Hatsu including Emission in some way is the most likely since Emission is one of the categories next to Enhancement on the nen chart. There is also a precedent for Manipulation and Emission having Clairvoyant or info gathering abilities. The most obvious example of this we have in the manga is Sayird's Little Eye Hatsu from the manga. It is a Hatsu that makes use of Emission and Manipulation and allows the user to gain control over a small creature and allows him to gain the knowledge of anything the manipulated animal sees or hears. Which is similar to a clairvoyance in that it allows the user to perceive things from a distance. Similarly, Kalluto's Paper Doll Hatsu only makes use of manipulation and allows him here anything said within the vicinity of a person after he makes a paper doll version of said target and attatches a piece of confetti to them. Shalnark's Black Voice, which makes use of manipulation, seemingly allows him to see some sort of video or pov from a person he is manipulating via his phone. Knuckle's Hakoware utilizes emission and manipulation and while its main gimmick is its debt and interest feature it does also allow him to track the general location of anybody that's effected. As far as more Emission related stuff goes there's the "ultrasound" ability Ging used where he releases aura in pulses that allows him to detect living things or potentially abnormalities in the human body through walls and other such physical boundaries and areas. Emission also seems capable of teleportation and making portals, as seen with one of the random pirate boxers at greed island. Allowing things to pass through it. I could easily see someone using emission to create some sort of portal or similar equivalent to watch people through. This could be especially effective if one mixed manipulation with it in order to somehow mark a target. It is always possible that the ability makes use of specialization, like she becomes a specialist while using the Hatsu, but this is extremely unlikely and is literally like 0.0001% because she is an Enhancer. If I had to speculate, I would assume the ability makes use of Emission to allow her to observe things from a distance. With the crystal ball, the blood offering and the fact that she has to physically have seen the person with her own eyes acting as limitations. Interestingly when she becomes a chimera and her new clairvoyance ability, Wink Blue, only allows her to be able to see the last three people she's gazed upon with her right eye, and the oldest target is displaced whenever she looks at someone else. This version of the ability seems more convenient but also with a huge limitation on who she can observe. So, I assume the scrying orb was probably not conjured and was probably a physical object. Although, I guess the possibility that this object is infused with nen in some way to allow for someone else like Palm to use it is not impossible, and it is also possible that the orb is even someone else's hatsu, I find it unlikely sense Wink Blue seems to be some sort of take on the Hatsu and might have taken its place. My personal conclusion is that while Palm's ability is extremely unexplored and in theory could be just about anything I think that it is a nen ability that is totally plausible by making use of what we know about Emission and Manipulation and while mysterious I don't think it is as confusing or nonsensical as a lot of people make it out to be(but my opinion may change if we ever get a confirmation on how it works).

I believe Palm's ability relies on emission. If emission can teleport you, I don't see why it couldn't teleport your ability to see. It's also possible this is an emission/enhancement ability, that strengthens your sight and visual processing before transmitting it elsewhere.

RIP Uvo

Kastro had incredible potential. He also landed hits on Hisoka and apparently the only one until Gon does.

I kind of assume with the latest doorway portal buff to emission that palms wink blue is an emission technique that opens a portal at a 3rd person perspective of whoever she is watching. It’s the only feasible way to not call it specialization I think, however probably due to the distance restraints it can only be used to watch someone, not interact with them

The shadow beats had simple but strong abilities for their characteristics Even the Troupe admitted for the beasts only to use “hair and teeth” to pierce Uvo’s skin, they were strong Nen users Machi (feitan in the 1999) said if they used lethal toxin on Uvo, they would’ve won.

9:39 Ik what the chart says. But personally I’ve always looked at the 0% Specialist capability for Enhances, Emitters and Transmuters as due to rounding. By this I mean, possible, but so rare and enough standard deviations away from average that after rounding it’s easier to simply say zero. Even if we never get clarity on this, I’d put money on it without hesitation.

Netero gave birth to enhancer affinity

I hadnt seen your videos suggested until your first HxH rankings video and now the algorithm is comin through again. Crazy how well this man understands it

Netero mastered enhancement when he got to the mountain. His prayer session was decades of enhancing his base abilities that his weakness spawned an ability that was intertwined between the two types of nen.

Okay, so here's ym headcanon on Palms ability: The mermaid corpse/crystal ball is an artifact that has (weak)clairvoyant abilities, Palm uses her aura to enhance the artifacts abilities, with blood as its condition for activation.

I feel like Uvogin is really underrated because of his fight with Kurapika he is still one of the strongest characters ever in hunter x hunter it's just Kurapika was prepared very prepared his abilities were specifically designed to defeat the Troupe I am really upset at the fact we'll never see his true power and potential as well as the other members hopefully there will be a phantom troupe spinoff

To be fair, I'm pretty sure it was said Ikalgo's bullets didn't even hurt that much or did much damage

the most painful part of this video is being reminded that Hunter x Hunter isn't real...

The Maha one was a mistranslation. Iirc, it means that Netero was the only person whom Maha fought who's still alive today. It mostly speaks to how old Netero is since Maha is probably Zeno's grandfather.

I honestly think Kastro is being undersold here. He went up against Hisoka and gave him a pretty good fight (possibly the worst shape Hisoka has been in until his Chrollo fight). In fact, if he had better mental, or just used his initial advantage to the fullest, he could potentially have killed Hisoka. Like Hisoka was genuinely confused at the start, and if Kastro used this window to just tiger bite fist Hisoka's head instead of toying with his arms, he could have just... won? Yes, his ability is a bit counterproductive to enhancement, but it's a rather nasty trick when unrevealed and even after the reveal, he can still use it as an "enhancement" of sorts by doubling his attack power (two tiger bite fists). He doesn't really need to disguise the clone per se, he just needs to attack simultaneously with it, giving him two angles of offense, which is a weird but potentially effective way to overwhelm opponents.

I saw some idea somewhere on the internet that they don’t believe Ikago is an Enhancer. I think Ikago is Kastro of the ants. Now that you mention it, I want Rammont vs Cheetu comparison.

Think about this, though. 6:48 - Had his ultimate Nen ability taken his base nen-affinity into account, maybe he could have survived his encounter with a colony of ants.

love your content man, keep up the good work

I think Bill is important for the DC more for research and maybe food purposes. He can be used to study all the developmental stages of a plant and some animals. Also probably helping with farming on any colony they set up on the DC. There are 200 beyond. Ikalgo self-heals to make bullets. He doesn't conjure them. He transforms the tips of his tentacles into bullets and splits them from his body then regenerates his tips. I think he's more Razor/Morel than Kastro in that he dips into every category without skipping Emission&Transmutation. He might only be able to use the ability of controlled bodies from having a lot of aura from enhancement. Kastro's actual Enhancer ability was powerful. His issue is he stunted his potential but he's basically so strong he thought he could get away with an sub-optimal ability. I thought Liam knew/did a video about the proper translation on Netero vs Maha? It just means that they are the only people from their generation who used to scrap who are still around. If Don Chinjao and Garp were the last survivors of the Garp/Roger/WB gen he'd be used to talk about how Garp's age. Palm enhances the item she uses to scout with her blood. Ant form directly feeds it blood/her life-force. Sometimes the simplest explanation is what works best like with Ikalgo instead of always jumping it makes no sense. Like with Knov our mistake was focusing mostly on the Mansion and not the portals to the mansion.

Palm possibly through her hyperfixation on a target can focus, through nen, all of her attention on them to and channel that info through her tool maybe.

I always get a laugh of the new categories Liam adds, such as the Simon Tier xD

In the first minute it hit. Prince Woble, a wee babe. Bill, speeds up growth and development of living things. Need I say more?? Is this a classic Togashi “ahhh yes good set up but I shall not use it” or will he do an age up of prince woble?

I think about Phinks arm roll at lot he might be able to one shot anything with enough time but the time it takes to get there is crazy especially in a 1v1

9:22 Palm's ability fits into emission.

Maybe Merman Clairvoyance is using Enhancement with the restrictions of the Merman Corpse and Crystal Ball to allow Emmission and Manipulation of Aura to far away targets and see those areas. Heavy restrictions since it isn't a typical ability, but definitely makes sense. Basically Enhancing her own Nen use to allow long range useage of other affinities

Heyyy Kastro’s Tiger Bite Fist was actually a good application of Enhancement. Had he chose to improve it or tapped into Emission (Flying Tiger Bite Fist,anyone?) he could’ve been something special.

Most people gotta remember that netero still uses enhancement on the statue. Conjuration, then manipulation of movement to enhancement of attacks. Remember the netero himself can do the same things that his statue can do, this just is more versatile and leaves less danger for the user.

judging from Killuas assessment , I would Put Palm in Stier maybe. or atleast roughly in the same Tier as Nobunaga and Phinks (id put all 3 in like A Tier probably personally)

To be fair, kastro had that tiger slash using enhancer ability, but since he lost to hisoka, he tried to use a creative strategy to outsmart or overrun his opponent but requiring manipulation and conjugation using the doppelganger or double techniques while he should have enhanced his enhancer technique to a larger scale line the big bang level of uvo and/or worked on the next affinities transmutation &/or Emission instead of depleting his potential and aura reserves.

Oh wait is Youpi no longer an enhancer now? None of his hatsu seem enhancement based but given how physically strong he was I always assumed

I still think Nobunaga has an automatic hatsu. In York New I got the sense that when he told the man not to move that it was cause he couldn't stop the slash. Like a hatsu that automatically attacks any movement within his radius.

It’s crazy how gon is just starting with his powers but we saw his peak powers too

One of my favourite creators atm, keep up the great work. Also can't wait for the next iceberg video!!

"Someone incapable of making a stand." I felt that in my soul

That is the greatest thumbnail I've ever seen

Plot twist: Bill is going to age up the prince to an adult in the final succession war battle

I love your sense of humour, if always sounds like you’re having fun making your videos, keep up the good content!

I feel like netero being such a strong nen user his manipulation doesnt matter is some kind of setup for Ging/Pariston like there is some secret to nen that not many ppl have realized except at its highest level

What I like is Maha's name in malay is associated to godly properties. Like "Maha kuasa" would translate to "All-Powerful" or "Maha mengetahui" to "All-Knowing" so he might very well deserve that spot.

i get the cardboard cutout look, but it kinda looks like shaky cam with how much every cardboard thing moves. It looks like a early season of south park

Can we please agree that Mereum is a total M for falling in love with the lady who absolutely trounces him on the daily? Man's a different breed, literally and figuratively.

Imagine the most dangerous place nearly thousand times bigger than the world you thought would be the whole world. A place full of nen creatures, diseases and dangers And there is this dude who didnt just get there and survived, but writes a book about it for 300 years. Don Freecs is someone I imagine to have a 10 kilometer En radius just in case he wont die once a deadly nen mosquito tries to attack him in lightspeed. This dude might have all kinds of crazy abilities, weapons, fancy tools like, his own pets and shit Maha and Don seem to be the strongest men to have ever existed, and it makes sense since they also are the ancestors of our main protagonists

I havent watched yet but if uvogin isnt on the highest tier im going to be upset Ok i have watched i think S suits him very well.

Ikalgo's nen abilities actually make sense, he uses manipulation at not its best as he only requires to manipulate dead bodies, to conjure a bullet then with conjuration it is not like Castro who needed a full body and mimic all its traits, and then enhance the $#! T out of that bullet, it makes sense to me that he is an enhancer

Dont let this video distract you from the fact that bungee gum has the properties of both rubber and gum

Could we see something like this but strength wise and all characters that you see a relevant but not adult Gon his current strength is more suitable

Komugi's power feels like a weird high rist high reward item from an RPG.

Good old buddies, kastro and Simon

"Undisputed Punch King". Truly the best title for Uvogin

7:21 to this day I can't believe that this blind yet weak girl made one the most powerful yet bone-chilling villains of all time submit without really trying to. In addition when The King(I'm gonna even try to spell his name) knew something is up when they spoke: “Is it okay that I bet on what I usually bet with? Okay, but what exactly is it that you usually bet with? My life my king. What?!!😨”

Don't let the Nen Ranking distract you from the fact bungee gum has both the properties of rubber and gum 🃏

I'm pretty sure ikalgo used his hosts' nen abilities, so that would probably make him a specialist too

Neteros Hatsu might be outside of Enhancement BUT he uses enhancement to reach his insane god levels of speed. His hands being so fast is him pushing enhancement to its peak

Kastro gets a lot of flack for a guy that tore off Hisokas arm.

Palm’s esp/clairvoyant abilities could be considered an enhancement ability training her esp/clairvoyant powers

"that's how good he is, not very"XD I need to use this

Great list but let us not forget that bungee gum possesses the properties of both rubber and gum

i think the points made by other commenters about Ikalgo's nen abilities are a little aside the point and convoluted. Regardless of biology every other major nen-based body transformation we've seen (bisky, tsubone) have been done through extremely talented and specific uses of transmutation. Being a natural enhancer, wouldn't it be more likely that his transformative abilities are from his neighboring category of transmutation? I would offer that it's MUCH more likely that Togashi's inclusion of Ikalgo on this memo is very intentional and moderately well-thought out. This is the same expo where Togashi revealed his rating system for nen users & abilities, and he was very intentional about who he included on this list. He even went so-far as to deliberately leave Ging in the diagram without indicating his affinity to make a point about his affinity being unknown to us. In the same way he used Kastro & Cheetu to make a point about improper nen application, I think his inclusion of Ikalgo here is to demonstrate that his ability just plain kinda sucks. His distribution is only 2% emission with a 98% lean towards enhancement and its unlikely that he's enhancing the fleadom ability very much. As a chimera ant, Ikalgo is likely to have a high amount of natural aura reserves, and we don't see his emission abilities as being very devastating. All of the chimera ants are relatively unskilled with nen and don't put much thought into their abilities or typing. Ikalgo's rifle using the fleas is actually a pretty big restriction due to the specificity. instead of using this restriction and genuinely applying it to improve his enhancement or emission, Ikalgo just relies on what appears to be a perfectly non-nen pneumatic cannon combined with emission. If he used any of his likely high aura reserves to enhance the ability, he would have devastating power which we just don't see. It's off memory but I can't recall a time when Ikalgo did significant damage akin to something that a similar ability from franklin or even bloster could do. It's possible that the enhancement leaning was shown to show us that Ikalgo COULD have had a more devastating ability but chose not to because he's not a killer. Idk its just very like togashi to make intentional critiques of his character's abilities to add intrigue to the world, but its also very like togashi to just forget shit and be weird so who knows

Bill's got a special place in my heart. As low-key as he appears, I do think Bill has that "all-in, consequences be damned" possibility within him, like most Enhancers do. He does body-block a couple bullets, after all. A part of me hopes that Bill goes full Gon-mode and gives up his life to hyper-accelerate someone into monstrous power or growth. My money's on the babby.

Ichalgo's method of firing the fleas would fall under enhancement. It's his one ability that doesn't have as many absurd restrictions too.

Just discovered this channel Mr Liam, and it’s awesome, keep it up!

Enhancers really aren't given justice. (Maybe because they're mostly stupid tho) I wouldn't be surprised even if Ging was a perfect enhancer, with how much potential it has. Difficult problem? Enhance your brain Diving underwater? Enhance your pressure resistance and lung capacity Strong enemy? Enhance attacks Complicated nen abilities? Enhance your understanding Weird mission with seemingly no way out? Enhance your nen control Prophecy? Idk, enhance your intuition, intelligence and nen sense To hell with it, even enhance your affinity with other nen paths. Anything they want to do with nen can be brought down to being enhancement of sth. And as proven by Komugi, there's a lot potential those meatheads are wasting.

The world needs Kurapika in more dresses. Thank you, Tron.

All the chimera ants were an amalgamation of different creatures. Most were already capable of certain feats before learn to use nen.

I knew you said every enhancer but I didn’t think you actually would do ALL THE ENHANCERS

I think palms ability is that she enhances her blood to be special so that she can watch somebody. Knob said to palm that she has special blood and she uses hatsu a lot as seen with the cup scene so maybe she enhances her blood

Im pretty sure the explanation for Palm is that she is natural psychic, and enhances that ability for her hatsu. But I could be hittin the hatsu a little too hard tonight idk

I think the ants not knowing what their affinities are and choosing hatsu that makes no sense for their affinity makes complete sense