User blog comment:Jojo-a-gogo/ What would your nen ability be?/@comment-25377405-20141224081052/@comment-26871105-20160909161335

@Ironthumb,

The insta-kill that can't kill everyone is given by balance 101. It should be not mistaken that not being able to 1 shot any and everybody is somehow a disadvantage against the user, it's wrong.

The ability is useless sometimes is NOT how to do drawbacks, it is when things are actually against your favour, and NOT when nothing happens.

It's explicitly stated in HxH that breaking the vow of your ability risks damaging the ability permanently, with the damage being proportional to how heavy the the vow is. Thus it's very possible to lose your ability entirely if you break the rules even once. As such many shifts the price into a one of their own choosing, whatever it might be.

Whatever your price is, if you break the rule, you're expected to pay up, and nothing happens when you break the rule is not a price. Nor is 3 year inactivity anywhere equivalent to an ability that insta-kills regardless of circumstances that literally only has 1 rule as far as everything is concerned (as unlike Chrollo who's also working against the clock while fulfilling all of his conditions that involve actually interacting with the victim, and just to steal the person's abilities too; all of the conditions apart from 1 in this ability can be pre-done and just leave it there).

I still stand by my point, this ability needs some SERIOUS rework or else it's never going to work in HxH unfortunately.