User blog comment:FinalFlash18/Gon's power level/@comment-14902757-20140602035644

You, Finalflash18, have just created a very intriguing set of questions. Congratulations. I love them. As you know I love question-and-answer type posts. So here are my answers. I'd appreciate the patience going over my lengthy explanations.

1. Yes. Pitou wasn't mistaken in saying that Gon achieved the level of Meruem. Remember that Gon is only 12 or 13 y.o. during the chimera ant arc. I have never heard of any character besides Killua who was able to be at that level, able to scare the shit out of Morel even prior to his transformation, at least not in the anime. Even if we take Kalluto into consideration, Hisoka was able to sense him in GI Island. For an assassin who's supposed to be superbly skilled in the stalking game, Gon has Kalluto beat. Gon has witnessed a lot of gruesome events and high level abilities during their adventure with Kite, fight with Knuckle and Shoot, confrontations (along with Kurapika) of the Panthom Troupe, life and death situations with the Bomber, etc. Having learnt all of these at such a young age and along with these knowledge forcing to mature all his inate talents and potentials I think he is definitely among the top 5 strongest. If his anger's target was Meruem, I believe he would have been able to finish Meruem. Yes! I dropped the bomb there. The reason is because if Gon matured himself, his talent and everything and with the knowledge of what the ant's are like, at his matured optimum self even if he may not have as much aura as Meruem, he'd have been able to beat him.

2. Remember that just because Netero wasn't able to finish Meruem doesn't mean that Netero wasn't a phenomenal fighter. Guanyin simply lacked the raw power needed to finish the king. What was needed to kill meruem is an ability that is fast enough to land a hit AND strong enough to overcome his defense or one that works like that of Knov's Scream (but should be used by someone fast enough). Netero's Guanyin may pack a powerful punch but I think it was made more to perfect speed and deliver strong punches BUT ultimately works only for enemy's possessing HUMAN PHYSIQUE and not like that of Meruem's. Gon's stamina maybe over the top but he's not like Meruem, and so his body would give some time during a fight with Netero's Guanyin. So Netero got this one.

3. Gon may not be able to top Guanyin's speed but he is definitely fast enough to slaughter the PT. This one about Killua I'm not 100% sure but we've seen how Killua reacted while Terpsichora was controlling Pitou's dead body. Even with lightning speed, he was a bit late in saving Gon which means that Pitou was also superfast but not at the level of Netero's Guanyin and that Gon to be able to fight a Terpsichora which "exceeded its limits" with SO MUCH EASE means he's extremely fast and powerful. So clearly we can see here that Gon is actually somewhere around Meruem's speed level and that is the speed (along with his talent at its pinnacle level) you need to slaughter PT even with all of them working together.

4. This is a tough one because we have very limited basis for answering but here's how I put it. When Gon was born, Ging was already a Nen Master creating Greed Island so genetically, Gon has the advantage knowing that Ging's gene has been passed down to Gon. Now we don't have a clear timeline on whether Ging also learned nen at 12 y.o while it's clear, even though his age has been screwed by Togashi, that Gon learnt it while he was 10-11. Ging's experience is his ace up his sleeves. HOWEVER, Gon's evolution was produced by Nen itself like a super subconcious existence. His abilities, speed and instincts are almost controlled by something we can call here supernatural (similar to Kurapika's but even more arbitrary and free), something not normal even for nen masters to develop over a long period of time, not normal even for Gon himself. So I believe that Gon at that evolved state, with his rage and calm melded together, can defeat Ging. BUT if Ging has a speed and ability similar to Netero's, then it's a different story. Like I said we can only guess so much.

5. No. More experienced yes but more powerful? No. His evolved form has put both his entire life energy and his ability to use nen on the line. So growing normally, fighting normally, won't achieve that level of power unless he does something similar to what Netero did where like Meruem described, trained on the verge of insanity.

So @FinalFlash, like I said on #3, I'm not sure about Killua's speed. So do you think he was simply shocked that's why he wasn't able to save Gon, and meaning he's supposed to be so much faster? Thanks for the amazing questions.