User blog comment:Kevo411/Nen Battle Poll - Gon vs Meruem/@comment-14902757-20141101055431/@comment-25014015-20141103143346

So what you are sayingt is that they are pretty much always using Ryu during combat fluctuating their aura around to best suit the situation and when you say their defenses are down you don't mean they have no aura but that it is not concentrated...? If that is what you are saying than it sounds belivable and hard to argue against. But I'm still going with Meruem because what it seems to come down to is that Gon needs to fight almost perfectly to win well Meruem just needs to be focused and based on that I think Meruem has a higher chance of winning. Really though Togashi needs to show us a fight in which we see every little movement and flucuation of aura so we can get a direct understanding of this stuff, I mean there is only so much we can confirm and percive with implications alone.

Also about Meruem being able to rip off his arm but not decapitate Pitou, we don't know how hard he hit her and given that the people he hit before were much weaker and died very easily Meruem could have thought that it would be enough power to kill Pitou so perhaps the power of the tail whip that killed Peggy was similar or around the same power as the tail whip that hit Pitou, if he knew how durable Pitou was ahead of time than he could have used more force.