Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25814498-20150505201606/@comment-26871105-20160617034053

Pigzillion wrote: I̶'̶m̶ ̶a̶ ̶g̶o̶d̶d̶a̶m̶n̶ ̶g̶e̶n̶i̶u̶s̶ Behold the greatest Enhancement Hatsu that ever was or will be(a.k.a my new favorite of my own Hatsu Concepts):

Name: Entropic Enhancement (Explosive Aura)

Nen Type: Enhancement

Description: This hatsu is essentially the same as what is seen during Water Divination by an enhancer, with the exception that this version is exceptionally lethal. When the users Nen comes into contact with a body of water, they can cause the volume to increase exponentially without releasing a large amount of thermal energy. If the user is powerful enough, they can increase the volume so fast that an Entropic Explosion occurs(Gon was able to do something similar to this, albeit on a much smaller scale, during his water divination test). Normally this only takes place during water divination, however, this hatsu is able to do the same thing to living tissue, including humans.

Once the user comes into physical contact with their opponent, they are able to increase the volume of their body fluids at an extremely fast rate, ripping apart their cells and body tissue and causing them to literally explode. The user is also able to expand their aura away from their body in order to encompass their opponent and reach the same effect, without having to get close to them. The aura would be concealed with In, meaning that any onlookers and even Nen users would simply see the other person exploding without the user doing attacking their opponent in the first place.

Limitations:

-None-

This ability is pointless. It may sound cool on paper but if you really think about it, it's utterly useless. First of all, though a person is mostly water, the liquids are however spread across the body with most of it being the various other body fluids for circulation or libricant purposes. A human is not the same as a plain contain that is used to hold water or other liquids. Water is not just bagged inside the body like a container would, it is stretched thin and compressed across our system as such to trigger explosions by water expansion upon contacts results would merely result in swelling or local damage at best with negligiable effectiveness for any offence, defence or utility purpose.

Though indeed you can try touching body parts that have larger water storages in human bodies to trigger a larger and potentially liquid expansion, the best bets are mouth, brain case, stomach, heart and bladder. However think about this, if you can have Enhancement so strong to the point that that the absolutely minor water expansion property of Enhancement Nen is now a liquid explosion capable of perhaps ending one's life, then why don't you just punch enemies with your fists and be done with them instantly?

The damage that can be done by water expansion is also incredibly fixable or ignored with basic applications of many other Nen types to begin with too. Enhancers could just enpower the entire body so water explosion is completely nullified. Emitters would generally attack you from afar, there is no chance for you to get close to do your thing to begin with, and even if you do get close, they can just propell themselves away, giving you very little time so you might as well just punch them in the face instead. Manipulators have way too many ways to solve this I don't even want to bring it up. Transmuters can just turn their nen into tangible stuff and plug the holes. The best you could do is against Conjurers and Specialists, and their abilities are generally very conditional with special properties that make themselves outright invincible (or nearly so) in certain situations, so even if you do manage to defeat a few, there is no guarentee that you'd come out unscathed.

Not to mention, to continuously increase the liquid, you will need to establish a continuous physical contact with them so that there is a nonstop flow of Enhancement Nen. How are you meant to keep yourself at point blank throughout the entire fight without the target retaliating and/or break free from your touch? Again, as an Enhancer ability, why can't you just punch them in the face with your fist?

To me this seems like a completely unoptimal ability that is so offbeat it is almost redundant, incredibly 1 dimensional, utterly without a sense of uniquness and character/uninspired, on top of serving no purposes in almost any situation whatsoever. But what do I know.