Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5780397-20151222190152/@comment-26871105-20160612094956

The statue is not as strong as the chairman himself, at least in the aspect of speed as it's clearly shown as such.

The sole reason to why the statue has many arms, outside of sticking true to the source of inspiration, is that Netero is significantly faster than the statue and as such the statue could only keep up with Netero's real speed by having many arms to act as a compensation, whenever the chairman decides to do a combination attack.

The statue most likely don't have the same punching power as Netero himself too, it's not shown or hinted but I think it's pretty obvious as he's an Enhancer and not an natural Emitter.

In the aspect of endurance however, Netero should be more durable than the statue if we consider them seperately. However during the time he uses the statue, he actually has rather minimal amount of Nen on himself considering he's poured much of it onto the statue itself; he leaves only the amount needed to get lightspeed hand motions while the rest seems to all go to the statue. When you're using Nen not of your own natural type, you will cost you more energy and still perform worse than experienced users who have those as their natural type. As such, when Netero is using the technique, his body is actually rather fragile, which is also why he got easily shred by Meruem when the latter got into melee range after bypassing the statue's attack.

So does it mean the Hyakushiki Kannon is a bad technique?

Not exactly. Though the statue is not as powerful as the chairman himself, nor is the statue capable of keeping up with Netero's real speed, and it leaves the chairman very vulnerable should his attack for whatever reason, misses; however it's still a wonder Hatsu.

Reason being this 1 simple factor: Range.

Uvogin despite being one of the strongest melee character in the entire series, capable of throwing punches so strong it creates craters on the ground as if a missile blew up there. Yet he still lost, because he is in the end of the day, just 1 very strong human being and any ability with some layers of trickery could simply do him in no problem.

Netero's Hyakushiki Kannon fixes this problem by keeping enemies at bay and outright unable to get close to pull tricks on him, at the cost of the immediate stats in trades for much higher survivability. And considering he's already unreal-ly strong to begin with, he doesn't really care about losing 20% of power when using the statue (as an Enhancer, he at best could utilise Emission up to 80%), since even with that handicap the statue is still strong as all hell and attacks at speeds outright impossible to be avoided by humans.

Hyakushiki Kannon is one of the most well thought-out ability in the entire series.