Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25814498-20150505201606/@comment-26871105-20160618153750

"You seem to continuously be overestimating the extent of Palms abilities before she became a Chimera Ant. She was not a capable enhancer to begin with. She had little to no stamina, almost immediately running out of breath whilst chasing Killua and Gon(one of which was a transmuter and 8 years younger than her), and showed virtually nothing that proved she was competent in enhancement."

Nen stays unchanged even if your body changes, unless you undergo metamorphasis similar to the case of "Gon-san", but that isn't the case with Palm; as one is transformation by sacrificial/suicidal vows while the other is reincarnation by an external force. Killua has stated that when Biscuit switches forms, while there is a drastic difference between the 2 forms' physical capabilities, there is however, no tangible if at all difference between the 2 forms' Nen. And the same applies to the case of Palm, her Enhancement has always been rather strong, it's just that she never developed it around the concept of fighting until she become an Ant.

Just because she doesn't get involved in physical combats prior to becoming an ant, or that she is even versed in the body strengthening aspect of the Enhancement, it doesn't mean she is or was a bad Enhancer as a whole. Her previous ability Clairvoyance is an Enhancement abilities of very high calibre, and that carries onto her status upon becoming a Chimera Ant where she immediately updates the ability to fit her current self after being re-born (since while her personality is the same, her perspective is changed slightly, with the thinking pattern of the Chimera Ant now being mixed into her ego as well).

With her largely unchanged proficiency in Nen after reincarination, with only alterations to her methodology and perspectives, she is now more battle-focused and is capable of forcing Killua completely into defence in a cage fight with no chance of retaliation in the latter's part. That also confirms the fact Palm has always been a strong Enhancer.

Now we've established that Palm has always been someone who's at the very least, a decent if not a strong practitioner/student of Enhancement, her hatsu under foul mood when used on a coffee mug shows 0 signs of damage on the cup itself and the liquid merely flows out of it from the top. Meaning, it's really unreliable to utilise this property in a practical situation.