How do you picture this clash exactly? Since when sparks imply equality? Shoot and Youpi clashed, they were not equal you said it yourself. the Palm Strikes are not far faster than Meruem, only Netero prayers are(see here). It was not a classic exchange of moves, Meruem was taking the attacks, retaliating and moving from different angles so that Netero would create a blind spot. Once he found it Netero's palms could no more reach him.Yes. However, your recent links involving Gon grabbing his arm and stabbing Pitou are visible. The previous ones weren't.
You're basically breaking it down pointlessly and avoiding the main point. According to the narrator, the clash between the two resulted in an exchange of thousands of fists that sparked countless fireworks around them. I know they were equal to some degree because if they weren't, it wouldn't have been an exchange of fists and it wouldn't have sparked countless fireworks around them. Considering the HK is faster than anything in this Manga(by a landslide), being able to http://mangahelpers.com/forum/forumdisplay.php/1045-Community-Awards-2014match it blow for blow(or even three blows for one blow, doesn't matter) is unarguably a speed feet completely above everything bar the HK itself.
Starting from here to the end of this chapter. They completed their strategies and that's exactly what happened. Meruem lead him to send strikes from different angles, he sliced Netero's limbs and Netero use Zero, but it was not powerful enough. It was not a clash with Meruem standing still and retaliating against 99 palms while he has only two.
Stop this, you can't say it was not his true strength, he deployed his Aura and she felt it. That's how you show your power in this manga. Pouf didn't want him to be exposed to danger, that's how the RGs act, abilities are various too and what did Meruem do? He deployed his Aura and it was so powerful that their beliefs that Nen battles are not decided by Aura alone were shattered. As a HXH reader you should know this.She smiled because she thought she had him, but his presence was enough to raise her senses to their very peak. Pitou didn't know what Meruem was capable of, not by an stretch of the imagination. What she felt from his Aura was not in anyway, shape, or form, his true strength. Take an example of Pouf and Youpi, when Meruem recovered from the Rose, they could feel his Aura and tell that he's gotten much stronger. However, a few minutes later they told him it was dangerous for him to search out the intruders(and they knew what those intruders are capable of) and even implied that they could defeat him(lol), to which Meruem proceeded to answer by showing his true strength. No surprise at all, his true strength was beyond anything they imagined. Just like Pouf and Youpi, Pitou had no knowledge of pre-rose Meruem's true strength(I'm emphasizing that I'm still talking about pre-rose despite giving an example of his post-rose self to avoid confusion) and was repeatedly surprised every time he did something(like destroy the Chimera Ants nest's walls), so her statement doesn't hold any sort of weight. The fact that the RGs actually believed, for one second, that a Meruem who's more powerful than his previous state(even without needing to see just how much more powerful he is) could be defeated by opponents that couldn't even defeat them, is enough to show that what they say regarding the King is always misguided by their overprotective nature of him.
Compared to the RGs Netero is fragile, he did it with his hand but he could have done it with his tail. You can't say that his hands are more powerful than his tail.Did you see his fight with Netero? Did her rip out his limbs with his hands or not? Yes? Is that any different from ripping his head off which he didn't do because he needed him alive? No? Exactly. His tail is simply strong and fast enough to smash heads. I really wonder why you waste time with these kinds of unnecessary replies. I would assume it's common sense that in order to rip a limb off, your arm has to have more strength than that limbs durability.
Easily defeated?I still don't see how that matters into our discussion when, again, he easily defeated the greatest of martial artists. I'm not saying he would use his tail at all. I have not even mentioned the tail slap to be of any relevance aside from to show that Meruem likes to behead people. In fact, I begun this very argument by stating that his tail strike being unable to injure Pitou is of no impact on the whole fight because he could rip off limbs with his hands if he feels like it.
He can rip off limbs with his hands, OK. It doesn't mean his arms are more powerful, that's my problem with what you are saying. To rip off limbs you use your physical strength and tear the limbs, that's not what Meruem does, Meruem smashes with brute force and the limbs are destroyed. If a tail smash was not enough to behead Pitou then a punch of Meruem can't do it either. He can rip off Pitou's head with his arm or his tail, he would just have to wrap his tail around her head and tear it. He is an heavy smasher, not someone like Killua or Hisoka.
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