Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5780397-20151222190152/@comment-26871105-20160805100733

Diwo wrote: I wonder, if I had a stealing ability. Could I steal Neteros Hatsu and use it on my own? You can, theoretically at least.

You see, to steal somebody's ability as a Specialist (the only Nen type that allows this action), you must have a few to many hardships to clear through before the stealing takes place, depending on the permanency of the stolen ability (Refer to Leo and Chrollo). And in one way or another, you have to be within the somewhat close range of the person you're trying to steal from, usually engaging in something, to serve as one of the pre-requisites to complete the "contract" in which the target "signs" to allow the stealing to take place. Leo has to have helped the target in some way, and the "debt" has to be confirmed by both side in order to steal, and even then he could only use the stolen ability for 1 hour before them being forcibly returned; hence to steal Netero's Buddha, you have really risk it in Chrollo style, which involves multiple close interactions on top of a time limit in which the entire sequence is restricted in.

Now, considering the instant the Buddha is summoned, anything within its reach is effectively as good as horse meat. While in theory it's entirely possible to steal it, but practically I just don't think so.

But even if you did somehow manage to steal it, you will not use it remotely effective as the Chairman anyway. As the ungodly speed in which Netero moves in is not a part of the ability called Hyakushiki Kannon but rather his natural speed after he had trained for so long to be able to reach the pinnacle of Enhancement, performing his speed effortlessly and more or less subconsciously.

So all in all, I say it's both next to impossible to steal and pointless to.