Chrollo is one of the smartest, most powerful, clever fighter, leader, and nen user in all of Hunter x Hunter. But even with that he wasn't able to destroy the powers of bungee gum, which has the properties of both rubber and gum.

THIS battle is one of the reasons I don't mind hiatuses. This must have taken a LOT of time to plan out. It expertly meshes known things like post mortem Nen, Chrollo's ability, the Heavens Arena, and gave us a very complex fight. This is not the kind of writing you can bullshit your way through, It takes time.

Cant wait for this to get animated tbh it's gonna look insane and less confusing too lol

The amount of plot lines happening during the succession arc so good. So many things can go wrong at the right time. I’m so hyped for those next chapters.

The mechanics of Hisoka's revival astound me to this day. He commanded his nen to artificially pump his heart and lungs after his death to resuscitate him. That alone would not have been successful, but because his will was so strong that his nen persisted after death, it intensified and got strong enough to actually achieve its assigned result. Hisoka died in order to make his nen strong enough to bring him back from the dead. In other words, he cheated death by embracing it.

This is prime Togashi. Not only the best HxH battle, but the best fight in manga history. The mind games, the intricacies, the details, the brutal nature, the suspense, it has everything. Real thriller, plus the character development they both get. Togashi translated a chess game into a death match. I remember analysing it thoroughly, finding some mistakes just to discover they were not mistakes at all, looking into theories, etc. This fight is a masterpiece.

I love how Togashi's persepective on fights has evolved since YuYu Hakusho. It was majority 'power level hype' in the 90s, but he has since evolved giving it more complexity and finesse. Super dope to see the character development from him, Big Brain Manga Man

The best thing the return of HXH made is this channel coming back to life!

I think the reason why Chrollo gave explanation to Hisoka was to give him a chance to give up the fight because Chrollo knows with the plan he formulated Hisoka was sure a dead meat. Chrollo was showing arrogance in a elegant manner because even if Hisoka knows how all his abilities work, it was still a sure win for him. Machi already warned Hisoka on Greed Island but the jester was sure a stubborn guy.

Chrollo vs Hisoka is one of my favourite fights in anime/manga history

I read their fight not too long ago. And chrollo litterally explained to hisoka all of his abilities, he'll be using to secure his Win. Chrollo gave hisoka a chance to just walk away. But knowing hisoka, it's just not gonna happen.😅

I just loved how absolutely brutal this fight was. Both Hisoka and Chrollo are "evil" so they really don't care who they kill or how they kill them. Hisoka used bungee gum on several dead bodies to create a giant hammer of corpses!

My theory is explaining the abilities to your opponent was the condition he needs to activate Double Face. It makes sense and it would be “annoying” for him - he can bookmark the page, but has to tell everyone what he’s bookedmarked

This fight felt like Chrollo's way of saying, "ok fine we can fight but you'll still not be fighting the real ME."

Maybe Chrollo explaining his abilities was a new condition required in order to be able to use the bookmark

If they bring the anime back this is going to be one of the best parts that we will go back to KZfaq years later to still watch. Chrollo is built different.

Damn I remember reading this way back when, but having it explained like this honestly puts the whole thing in a much bigger perspective

Makes sense though since we learned nen through the eyes of newbies with Gon and Killua. As the story progressed, so is our knowledge of nen along with the main characters. Also, I noticed that Leorio and Kurapika's contrast in nen. Kurapika is gambling away his life for nen power while Leorio is leaning more towards his passion as a doctor that he learns nen "clean and natural".

This gotta be my favorite manga fight ever. I just love it a lot despite the complexity.

What some people might get confused about is that they think Chrollo wanted to prepare to have a "chance" to Beat Hisoka but the truth was Chrollo wanted a "100%" victory. Huge difference between the two. And Chrollo succeeded as the fight wasn't even close. Chrollo also mentioned that style to him was more important than victory itself so that's why it took him some time to ensure he had all the tools for a very flashy fight. I would say a 100+ horde of bomb zombies sure is very flashy. Chrollo on the ship had no issues going after Hisoka alone to kill him so he definitely knows he can kill him without preparation but its definitely not going to be a 100% chance this time around. Bandits secret is an incredible ability Chrollo probably already has set up the abilities he will use to take him down once he sees him. Cant wait to see what happens with hisoka and the troupe

Explaining your nen ability increases its potency as far as I’m concerned. Using the explanation as another “condition” for your hatsu to work better has always made sense to me.

I think what makes this channel so great is Liam, because any KZfaqr could talk about HxH, but it’s Liam charisma and entertaining nature that makes it so interesting.

I love this fight, its even more JoJo-esque than JoJo fights

Chorollo had time to prepare, gathered abilities just to beat Hisoka, and even put some serious limitations on himself, because Hisoka is that dangerous

My 2 favorite characters duking it out was incredibly entertaining even though it was a bit complex at first. Hisoka Shenanigans continue to be one of my favorite plots of this series and i really hope he becomes our primary focus after we actually land on the Dark Continent. I am fully expecting both Kurapika and the Troupe to perish in this arc. Hunter x Hunter arcs are a bit hit or miss for me from time to time but Yorknew and the Dark Continent Expedition/Succession War have managed to really hold my interest due to the involvement of the 3 mentioned characters. Definitely my 3 favorites in this show, though Hisoka has to take the Crown. Also i would love the Sui Ishida spinoff to be canon as it presents a really nice backstory for our Morally Questionable Clown.

Who knew that Hisoka would get saved by getting stroked?.... And by himself at that....👁️👁️

Thanks Liam, these videos are always greatly appreciated.

Woah! i only knew you for your one piece content, you bet ima binge this channel rn

This fight was awesome. Just an awesome chess match. I remember reading it and once I understood that all of the people were like ammo for Chrollo, the outcome began to feel inevitable. And Hisoka was impressive ah too in the fight. It was awesome. I was also like, "No way Togashi is gonna kill Hisoka, right? Right..?" Such an interesting, scary, creepy character. And super deadly and dangerous. I enjoy HH a lot lol. Gr8 vid

I feel like Chrollo didn’t really need prep time really, he just wanted to humiliate him.

Bro I just watch your channel cause your voice is so calming. Absolutely love the HxH content

This Video has the properties of both *informative* and *fun*

Hisoka vs Chrollo feels more like hisoka survival match (Chrollo edition)

The set up for.their fight greatly inspired how the curses captured Gojo well it looks that way.

I just watched your old video breaking down this same battle maybe yesterday or this morning HAHAHA but love your videos so I'll watch this too

OMG!! I just finished reading this fight in the manga. The timing of this video couldn't be any better. Thanks 👍👍

thanks i was missing some of the context of how this fight worked. i now understand it much better. learning sun and moon keep the gallery fakes active was the hole that was confusing me. great video from a handsome man. When are we going to see you and wife reviewing anime together?

I mean chrollos op but he literally Batman he studied hisoka played him like a fiddle and won .

Forgot how amazing that fight was. Awesome video and keep them coming!

BY FAR the best HxH content I could find on KZfaq.

I surely beleive the conditions to activate the bookmark it's to explain how everything works, from the book and the bookmark. As to the boookmark, he must explain how the abilities he's goona use work and the opponent must know about them. Maybe that's why when he says it creates a complicated condition, the condition is to monolog his abilities. He cannot use other abilities other than the ones he already explained. I truly beleive that if Hisoka attack straight up, he would have gotten him. We will see in the future if when Chrollo uses bookmark again he starts to monolog again. Edit: He activates skill hunter, uses black voice [antenna] (he lets Hisoka know the name of every ability he used) He explains how bookmark works and asks him if he wants to continue (maybe another condition) He explains proof stamp (one hand ability) and gallery fake. Then he switched to Convert Hands and told him, are you sure you wish to continue? (Another condition)

I think that the Double Face ability’s condition is that Chrollo has to explain his abilities that he uses or abilities that he uses that required both hands, since Skill Hunter requires that Bandit’s Secret be held in one hand

0:01 I spit out my water at the way hisoka looks

i’m so hyped for their rematch i mean a one sided match was peak think of all that could happen when they are on equal grounds

Greatest rematch of all time. Knowing that, Togashi will probably have the PT killed by Kurapika before we get it.

Thanks again liam for the recap!

Man, after all thiese years I finally uderstand that fight!. Thanks for that!:D

Really great fight. The only thing I though was dumb is that the audience just stayed and watched the fight while hundreds of them were being killed😂. That was a little too convenient.

Personally I don’t want chrollo to die lol

I must say I love hxh and one piece so your channels are like heaven to me thank you for making vids you are truly awesome

I love your stuff! Keep the great work up

Excellent update to what happened with this battle, though you missed the part where Shalnark, Kortopi and Machi were helping Crollo in this fight. Making it a 4v1. Shalnark has never needed to talk into his nen phone to activate the ability. Watch when he uses it on the gangsters in York new and you what I mean. Notice the panel with the hand on the phone controlling it, we never see who is controlling it. Chrollo was giving orders to Shalnark. Kortopi was helping Crollo make extra copies of the puppets. Because by Hisoka's estimate he could at max make 20 to 30 alone. But if Hisoka was distracted with fighting and chasing Chrollo and he returned gallery fake back to Kortopi... Then it makes sense why there was over 200 copy puppets. Chrollo made a comment about a puppet needing it's head to be seperated from its body to be considered destroyed. Kortopi who had the ability to mass produce copy puppets, had his head removed from his body. Shalnark who has the ability to manipulate humans, is made to look like a manipulated puppet on the swing. The scene right after the battle begins, Hisoka sees the human corpse that was being manipulated by Chrollo and realizes the antenna is gone. Hisoka made a comment about fishing line. The only one in the spider's with skills with strings is Machi. No doubt hiding it with her "In". Shalnark was also responsible for Hisoka's left hand being blown up. He controlled a human with black voice to do it. We know Shalnark uses his phone to give people instructions to his target by using the buttons on his phone to give instructions. He has never used his voice to control a target before. Chrollo was giving Shalnark instructions over the phone. Notice in the panel we only see the hand holding the phone and pressing the buttons. It also does not help that Chrollo was literally stalling the entire fight. Giving ample time for his team to 'setup' his win condition. In one scene he uses both the book and bookmark to cancel the copy puppet from attacking for the fake Chrollo. Who has no fighting ability just to escape from Hisoka. He was using convert hands and black voice to create a fake of himself to deceive Hisoka. Shalnark manipulated chrollo's fake to buy some time. While the real Chrollo keeps his convert hands in a bookmark to keep his abilities going. While Kortopi is making copies, Chrollo can use order stamp on the copy puppets. If Kortopi was using gallery fake from the start of the battle, then Chrollo had plenty of time to press order stamp and sun and moon on the copy puppets even of it's not shown. But implied. Also the main thing that gave the plan away in the end. Kortopi, Shalnark and Machi confirmed Hisoka's death. Also the look on Hisoka's face when Machi warned him about picking his battles better next time. He immediately knew that it was not a one on one battle as he wanted. It was instead a one against four. An his wording to Machi confirmed it when he said he was not going to allow his 'opponents' plural, to get the better of him.

Excited to see how hisokas Nen will amplify itself in upcoming chapters

Hunter hunter was on hiatus for years and this guy has literally been reaching new peaks. These new videos are the best ones yet. Man finally got a camera 🎉

Cant wait for your next vid🔥🔥

I just noticed something seems like togashi is drawing one page of HxH each day or more like 1 rough sketch of a page. Gonna take quite a bit in that case before we get any HxH chapters. Especially (if I remember right) he said that he'd finish drawing 10 chapters before we start getting them. So would take 200days+

Can you do a series based on Marvel and DC characters and explain what their nen type is based on abilities they have

Love the video and keep up the great work Liam

So well done thank you

One thing that I’m curious about is with hisokas new upgrades would he be able to completely change his whole appearance with texture surprise. Face clothes and everything. In a crowded ass boat this could prove very useful for picking off the troupe members 1 by 1 without ever really being identified

One of the best fights in all manga period.

Can’t wait to see the rematch

I just read this fight again. This was the most marvelous confusing masterpiece fight ever. So simple but complex at the same time.

My bet is on Chrollo to go 2-0 in this duel

I feel like hisoka will come back with his own new ability just to kill the spiders one by one.

Whoa, I just watched the previous video of Liam on Chrollo vs Hisoka - recorded in 2019 and boom this video dropped. This is freaky Liam sensei

Love your content m8, keep it up !

I want to know how exactly Hisoka’s nen after death differs from the normal nen after death buff. All the times we have seen it or heard about it up to this point needed death to be the trigger to carry out the users strong desire at death. With Hisoka, death was the trigger but his effect was bringing himself back to life. So what I’m confused about is if his buff will last indefinitely or is this going to expire once he kills Chrollo and the spiders?

I can see hisoka and kurapika teeming up to beat the phantom troupe

your videos keep me going

first time seeing your face reveal, look just as i expected. love ur vids

The fact that Chrollo needed THAT much just to beat Hisoka says a lot.

I got a theory that to use his new Nen ability (the bookmark that allows him to use two hands), Chrollo has to reveal his nen ability to his opponent. That would explain why he was revealing all that info to Hisoka and why he considers the Nen Restrictions annoying. I think that's at least one of the Restrictions, there might be more

Love the way you explain

Yessssssss i can’t believe losing Rock Paper Scissors one day would get me amazing hunter hunter content directly into my KZfaq feed

See you guys in 2030 when this fight gets animated...LOL.

I have a question for you and it has been on my mind for the longest time. Who do you think is stronger, Kite or hisoka?

The jokes in this video are hilarious Liam's only getting funnier by the upload 😂😂

If this ever got animated in my lifetime, I would die of happiness immediately after watching

Imo the reason this battle was one sided was because half way through the fight Hisoka realizes that this is not that fight he wanted. what he wanted was a more traditional more intimate if you will 1v1 and even though Chrollo was smart enough to not underestimate him but at the same time he didn't take him too seriously thus Hisoka refrain himself from showing his serious nen moves and shift his focus to get out of situation. that is why he started to target troupe members to get him into that serious mindset that he wanted since beginning.

Can't wait to see some more clownage

Excelent video ma dude.

I needed this.

I think it wasn't mentioned here, but my understanding is that it's not possible for chrollo to "make" that many copies during combat, since he has to use gallery fake, then sun&moon then order stamp, which is quite time consuming especially since he has to swap out book marks. So he and potentially goltopi must have created hundreds of puppets before hand as a preparation.

I honestly think the theory "the spiders were helping chrollo in the fight with hisoka" is true, if you understand this fight and look into the theory you will see that there are tons of evidences that prove the spiders were helping chrollo in the shadow amongst the crowd. There are many things that are not explainable

Thanks Liam forgot how the fight went down now im ready for hxh return

Whenever the anime continues this will be literally the first thing we will see. And this will be epic.

the best part of this fight is hisoka surviving it

I feel like it's also implied that Hisoka killed Lestrade to remove her ability from Chrollo's arsenal. It's very convenient that it's revealed upon beginning the search for hisoka, the ability has disappeared. One which would be very useful for chrollo to use in order to find hisoka (particularly if he is indeed disguising himself as illumi as it'd give him away immediately and this is my personal headcanon and I'd bet money on it), and that hisoka has knowledge of. She was also the daughter of a mafia boss, but not threatening herself meaning her death being unrelated seems unlikely.

CANT WAIT FOR MORE HXH

I just noticed the volume in the background nice touch

If Chrollo hadn't manage to create the perfect scenario to fight Hisoka he would be dead meat

I am disturbed on how by Hisoka standards. He was literally f*cked to death Also THE NUMBER OF INNUENDOS HERE..........

One last crucial detail about Bungee Gum that you forgot to mention is that it has both the properties of Rubber and Gum.

I just wanted to say that I really, really dig the thumbnail. ✨

Ima glad to hear chrollo bookmark comes at a risk, it would of been really dumb if he just never thought about a bookmark. But also since the bookmark is actually really useful in his case I felt like some form of consequence was needed. We don’t know what it is, but at least it’s acknowledged.

There is a popular theory that chloro was not fighting by himself he was getting the help from the three other troop members that's why he is able to make so many puppets and join the fight himself at the same time I think that makes sense cuz it seems a little odd that it's not Choloro that check checking hisoka body after death. Is the three other troop member that came out of nowhere and when chloro explodes Hisokas hand he was talking to the cell phone but the ability black voice doesn't require talking it's just using the cell phones monitor the control. That is why he's okay wants to kill all the troops members because if he begins another fight with chloro then he was just trying to same problem that Troop member will help him

LETS GOOOO, ANOTHER GOATED UPLOAD

OMG this is the 1st time am so early on your videos!

The markers weren't a real ability, Chrollo was being helped by the Troupe, this is why he need to kill them all, he was naive to think that they would ever let Chrollo fight alone.