Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25814498-20150505201606/@comment-25814498-20160617172055

@Louch: Please, call me Alex.

Thank you for the compliments and agreeing with me; I'm glad we're on the same page concerning the effectiveness of my concept. Now, about your point concerning the power of the hatsu; I completely agree. Well, sort of. First let me reiterate something; when I said "instantly" concerning the speed of the explosion, I wasn't entirely being truthful. It isn't instant, but simply very fast. As I have said time and again, the phenomenon is an entropic explosion, meaning the volume of water increases exponentially in a very short amount of time. Due to this, if the opponent is fast enough and can react accordingly, they may be able to escape the Nen cloud before an explosion occurs. Because of the speed required to do so, very few of the characters would be able to pull off this feat, with the ones I had in mind including Godspeed Killua, Feitan and Hisoka.

Also, while one of the Hatsu's greatest strengths is an extreme lethality towards organic material, it is also one of its greatest weaknesses. If the opponent gains enough knowledge of the hatsu beforehand, and realises that the user isn't simply making their foes spontaneously explode, they could avoid the Hatsu entirely by keeping a safe distance away from the user, or attacking right as the user tries to use their hatsu(since it takes a large amount of Nen to use, meaning a large amount would be unable to protect them through something like Ten). And as I said before, while I disagree with almost everything Stand said before, he did make one good point; emitters would especially have a large advantage over the user. Emitters such as Razor for instance(should he know about the ability before hand) could send in several of his Nen beasts in order to pressure the user while attacking them from a distance using emitted attacks.

However, note that this is an enhancement hatsu. The reason I'm so fond of it and quick to defend it is because of this fact. Not only can the user use this hatsu in order to put pressure on(and just plain terrify) their opponents, but because the user is an enhancer, they are completely unreliant on solely the hatsu. Like wing said to Gon, if an enhancer can learn to master basic techniques such as Ten and Ren, they can be considered to have special abilities solely because of this. As such, the user can simply use basic enhancement techniques to overpower their opponent and finish them off with this hatsu when their guard is down.

So to summarise, the hatsu is not over powered because of these three reasons; it's completely useless against non-organic matter, can be easily countered and fought against if enough prior knowledge is gained beforehand, and is at a stark disadvantage against emitters, especially those which can summon Nen Beasts. However, because the user is an enhancer, they can counter the previous three limitations by overpowering their opponent with basic enhancement techniques.