User blog comment:UnknownGeneralHero/Royal Guard vs The Extermination Team/@comment-14902757-20140602160914

Youpi was the biggest RG and in terms of how their powers work, Youpi is definitely the best RG to be situated at the stairs. If it was Pouf there, @Spirit Word is right, he would have went straight to the King's whereabouts and maybe advise him of what's going on. But if a fight ensued, Morel would have engaged him with Smoky Jail right away knowing that Pouf can discharge hallucinative particles. If Pitou was there, the same way he went head on against Netero, he would have engaged the Extermination Team but in a lot less effective manner of stopping everyone. The ET's have the goal of finding each of their own targets so they wouldn't have all stayed there. Everyone was aware that Gon wants Pitou for himself, so if it's Gon who engages Pitou first, then we can't avoid that Pitou would engage him as well, and then the rest of them, except for Killua, would have escaped from the sidelines. We're not sure though whether or not Gon could have transformed without seeing Kite's dead body as that's definitely one of the catalyst of his transformation. But I think Pitou refusing to obey Gon in his demand to heal Kite (without Komugi as a hostage) would have resulted to the same thing. So it would be inevitable for Gon not to transform. I hope that answered your questions.