User blog comment:Patrick x hunter/difference between emission and transmutation0/@comment-48285-20190811045838

I put this to our Nen Teacher, Carni, on the Discord. Here is what he says:

Personally, unless one can name a property these things supposedly have I don't see a Transmutation component

Unless we count "ball shaped" to be a very basic Transmutation one given Biscuits Transmuter level 1 training

Even the explosion doesn't count, in my opinion

Razor's Bullet caused the Spiders' ship to detonate, Gon and uvo's punches resemble explosions and Wing cracked a wall like a small explosion just from flaring his aura

Thing is, the adult Zoldiecs are plain nuts. Zeno can apparently mnage a 300m En when "Mastery" is apparently achieved at 50m. His Dragon Dive Emitts hundreds of Dragons with enough force to turn a palace into swiss cheese despite the inevitable 60% drain

Entering theory land: Silva somehow is aware of Chrollo's ability to steal Nen abilities. How? Either he saw Chrollo use an ability he recognized from someone else or he somehow got his actual Transmutation ability stolen and, for whatever reason, hasn't gotten it back

But given that Zeno realised Chrollo was not going all out and comparingthe power of that Dragon Lance to what Zeno pulled for Netero later on I sincerely doubt that either Silva or Zeno were usingtheir full power in that fight. So Silva may very well have decided against revealing his actual power

At any rate, I would agree with that link, there is no major reason to claim that this ability has anything to do with Transmutation. beyond being used by a Transmuter