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Good points the both of you, really great discussion i must say!
But since we're drawing on what little we know from the Anime and manga, Meruem would have to be faster by leaps and bounds. Gon had nothing. NOTHING that makes him seem blindingly fast, except when he left pitou's vision for a moment to get ready for the fight and she flipped out thinking he was going to fight the king. and the attack dodge. It's been stated that most people who fight Netero don't even see his Hatsu get set up before the attack all they see is the flash of light (aka Pitou's first experience) before they are destroyed. For a physical movement to seem like a flash of colored light says alot about it's speed, and for Meruem to be able to keep up with, successfully counter and track 10000s of these says even more about his natural speed. Gon being caught off guard by pitou says something about his speed. Sure, he wasn't as alert as the first dodge when she tried basically the same attack, but from what we know Gon is hyper sensitive, after all he was able to sense Komugi's life force and call Pitou's bluff about the heal time. It took Killua in God speed's full reaction time to push gon out the way so the attack barely grazed him.
What Meruem took advantage of wasn't even qualified as a mistake, just natural rhyme. He knew what Netero was going to do well ahead of time and cornered him before he could consolidate his defenses. Although you can argue that Netero preferring a certain pattern of attack as a defense is indeed a mistake, biases appear in all of us. The largest one being, which hand do you write with? Right? Left? If someone forced you to write with the opposite hand, naturally the writing would be sloppier than the dominate, it wasn't necessarily a mistake for you to make that preference in your life as much as it is someone else's for picking out that particular weakness.
Meruem's tail whips = Auraless forms of punishment he gave out to his servants he thought were out of line, far be it from him if they died or not. Gon's aura enhanced kicked to the creature he's been harboring ill will towards since the begginning of the arc under the life and death convenant he placed himself under.. The two are no where near comparable. Of course gon did more, because he put more effort, and more raw emotion into hurting pitou and plus having a leg that probably weighs more than your target overall doesn't hurt your chances either...
But since we're drawing on what little we know from the Anime and manga, Meruem would have to be faster by leaps and bounds. Gon had nothing. NOTHING that makes him seem blindingly fast, except when he left pitou's vision for a moment to get ready for the fight and she flipped out thinking he was going to fight the king. and the attack dodge. It's been stated that most people who fight Netero don't even see his Hatsu get set up before the attack all they see is the flash of light (aka Pitou's first experience) before they are destroyed. For a physical movement to seem like a flash of colored light says alot about it's speed, and for Meruem to be able to keep up with, successfully counter and track 10000s of these says even more about his natural speed. Gon being caught off guard by pitou says something about his speed. Sure, he wasn't as alert as the first dodge when she tried basically the same attack, but from what we know Gon is hyper sensitive, after all he was able to sense Komugi's life force and call Pitou's bluff about the heal time. It took Killua in God speed's full reaction time to push gon out the way so the attack barely grazed him.
What Meruem took advantage of wasn't even qualified as a mistake, just natural rhyme. He knew what Netero was going to do well ahead of time and cornered him before he could consolidate his defenses. Although you can argue that Netero preferring a certain pattern of attack as a defense is indeed a mistake, biases appear in all of us. The largest one being, which hand do you write with? Right? Left? If someone forced you to write with the opposite hand, naturally the writing would be sloppier than the dominate, it wasn't necessarily a mistake for you to make that preference in your life as much as it is someone else's for picking out that particular weakness.
Meruem's tail whips = Auraless forms of punishment he gave out to his servants he thought were out of line, far be it from him if they died or not. Gon's aura enhanced kicked to the creature he's been harboring ill will towards since the begginning of the arc under the life and death convenant he placed himself under.. The two are no where near comparable. Of course gon did more, because he put more effort, and more raw emotion into hurting pitou and plus having a leg that probably weighs more than your target overall doesn't hurt your chances either...