But you have to take into consideration that Kuroro already knows Hisoka's gum ability (since he doesn't hide it at all), where as Hisoka doesn't know what ability Kuroro can use against him. Also what makes Hisoka's gum ability dangerous is that he can place the gum at anytime when the opponent not expected. If Hisoka places gum with every single attack, it'll become too predictable and easily defeated.
Actually, that is not the case at all. I can't remember the chapter exactly -it was one of the many chapters that had merely a couple of numbers for a title- but during the york shin arc the narrator gave a very detailed explanation about every ryodan member hiding his/her abilities from the other. It is something of vital importance to them, no single members has full or even detailed information about what other ryodan members abilities are. Their abilities are to some extent not easy to figure out without the narrator so in general the info they have on other members is actually limited. For instance, maki knows hisoka uses his gum but she thinks it merely makes stuff disappear, she does not know about the other 1000 textures it can reproduce or the gum like abilities it has.
Seriously? Read that 2 pages one more time. Hisoka has TWO abilities, the extensible love and the subtle lie. The extensible love is the bubble gum like nen and subtle lie is the ability to change the texture of a surface. In that 2 pages you mention it's about subtle lie, not extensible love. And how do you think Hisoka hides his extensible love when Gon and Killua see through the nen when using gyo the first time with the tape. What makes extensible love powerful is that even if the enemy knows what the ability is, it'll still be hard to defend against.
You really aren't good with reading comprehension are you. In your response above you imply that bungee gum is more mysterious compare to deceitful texture, where as it's shown several times that deceitful texture is less known and understanded by anyone. Read over all scenes including Hisoka again please. In all his fight Hisoka never bother to hide his bungee gum ability and sometimes even openly explains it. If you want to see an example about how one hides his ability in combat, look at killua's fights.
That makes sense. Hisoka has some kind of attraction to young boys, and Kuroro is a handsome young man... his desire to fight Kuroro is like the one with Gon, he also feel some kind of sexual attraction to them...
They all played around because all of them knew illumi had taken the assignment from kuroro. Especially kuroro who just wanted to drag the time out untill illumi killed the god fathers, although he was tempted to try out his luck to see if he could really steal the abilites of the two elders to make the time worth while. We also knew zeno held back since he never wanted to involve innocently people, as mentioned after he finished netero's assignment with that hectic dragon dive. Silver simply follow through with his father's requests, who know what other things he is capable of. Otherwise, they would not have accepted the request from the god fathers. Two more evidence speaks that was the case, one is is that silver didn't look surprised when illumi called him to ask if his client is still alive.The second was that the zoaldyeck's great great grandpa and kalluto was along side illumi suggesting the entire family or at least most of them were involved.
Wrong! Hisoka mentioned himself that he is not into broken toys. Illumi was someone who would hold back on his fights and run when needed. This is seen in his teachings to killua and the way he planted that needle inside killua's head. The entire zoaldyeck would put their lives first before money; killing is a career for them so don't die on the job in other words. Hisoka is not interested those kind of people who has the potential but will never use it in the fullest; It would not be fun for him.
Wrong, Kuroro only used the poisoned knife because he was outnumbered by two experienced fighters. Kuroro picked zeno to be he one he intended to keep alive and steal his abilites. Kuroro had fought silver before and had decided his ability was inferior or less interesting compared to his fathers, and in that fight he would not have used the poisoned blade because it was during the present fight did he realize they are both immune to poison.In other words using poisonous blade would be pointless.
Kuroro being hesitant to use the poisoned knife, which is standard equipment for him, would be in-character for him if he were trying to steal one of Hisoka's abilities. That would also lead to Kuroro limiting his fighting ability. But if you look at it from a battledome perspective, or where you remove character inhibitions, it's clear that the poisoned knife gives Kuroro the edge because Hisoka has no effective counter against it.
Question 1: Togashi has placed no limits on the number of times Kuroro can attempt a theft of a person's ability. As long as Kuroro meets the required conditions, theft of the ability is successful. Kuroro only loses an ability when the former owner of the ability he stole dies.
They know about Hisoka's bungee Gum. Machi knows about it, Hisoka doesn't make his bungee gum much of a secret, and I believe a member mentioning his difficult ability bungee gum referring to it as being troublesome. His texture works on items like cloth,paper his cards.....It's not primarily one used for battle and he would need quite some skill to pull it of during a battle with somebody capable
Kurapicka vs Uvo was BS, Kurapicka wasn't suppose to be that much faster or that strong to hit Uvo the way's he did. the plot demanded this imo to show that His Chain jail was unbreakable by the strongest member of the Spiders.