User blog comment:-Saryn-/Togashi writing patterns for antagonist in dark continent/@comment-48285-20140305220532/@comment-16938192-20140306004314

the clasification of weak (i wouldnt even call tonpa weak if he made it to phase 4 of the exam) was really just showing antagonists that gon and killua dealt with either alone or with minimal outside help (ie. bisky in greed island) or antagonists of that level (pariston is still presumably powerful but not at the level of the zoldycks) the rating "strong" was given to those who (like the chimera ants) they needed signifigant outside help to deal with or didnt deal with at all. Also assuming that beyond has his own zodiac 12 then its much more likely because (as with the phantom troupe) the whole group would be antagonists, also its true that netero failed to beat meruem but we should acknowlage that he was at close to half the strength he had say, 50 years ago, if beyond is arround that age he COULD (im not saying he is) potentialy be twice as strong as netero or more