Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26005711-20160110170452/@comment-9051002-20180417132611

Wow how is this a even a question? :P

Silva is the head of the Zoldyck Family and in his prime this automatically tells you that he's the strongest

I think people think lowly of Silva because he just laid back and supported Zeno when fighting Chrollo but that doesn't mean that he's weaker at all, it was just the best strategy at the time, to use Zeno's long range attacks as a distraction to prevent Chrollo from stealing abilities.

Another thing is the way the Zoldyck family does things. They're pros doing a job, they don't fight for fun, so they take the least amount of risk possible. Even if that risk is 0.001% they are always careful and don't fight unless there's 100% chance of winning. So this may seem as being weak when it's just being cautious.

Silva has fought Chrollo alone before and even killed former Spider members. People think that he's weaker than a Spider because he said more than one time that "they where strong" "It was a difficult job" but if you notice he says this as a sign of respect for Chrollo's fallen commarades. It was a form of praise, that may have been lost in translation. (Source: I study Japanese)

Another thing Hisoka is at least equal or stronger than Chrollo, Illumi is very close to Hisoka and Silva >>>>>>>> Illumi

So how could Silva even be weaker than Chrollo or Zeno whos on par or a bit weaker than Chrollo?