Battle Meryem vs Every Hunter Survival match

[Phantron]

Meryem is the end all be all of physical superiority. It's been well established since early on even before he got his power upgrade and he also always acknowledged that people could be better than him at other stuff but it doesn't matter because he can kill anybody that is better than him at something else that isn't of physical nature. "Violence is the greatest power", as he would say, and in a fight to the death it doesn't matter how clever you are against someone who can kill you before you can even think about using an ability.

Aura makes up for some physical deficiencies to a point but there's a point where you can no longer make up the difference and Meryem is way beyond that. It doesn't matter what kind of ability someone might have because he can hit someone before they can even use any ability and currently there isn't a human being that can even take a hit from him (especially if he was actually going for kill). Basically the only way anyone would even get to use any ability in front of him is if he wanted to see what ability his opponent may have, but that's probably not going to happen in the hypothetical scenario above.

It might be possible with some extreme amount of planning to come up with some set of rules or something that will allow you to symbolically defeat Meryem, but it doesn't matter because he can still kill you whenever he decides these rules are dumb. Meryem can't beat Komugi in Shogi but he can most certainly kill her any time he wanted to, and at his post Rose state he can pretty much kill any human being anytime he wanted to.

 

[mousiehamster]

Well,

Spoiler

Alluka could wish him

dead.

Somebody could have a blind ability or a zetsu ability or something that forces zetsu...

And the nen of people with strong convictions remain after death.

I mean the possibilities are endless. I think Meryem will wipe out most of the Hunters but something or other would - at least - severely debilitate him.

 

[Demonspeed]

But she is not a hunter...I really don't see how Meruem could win,even with his En,unless all hunters are together.

 

[Phantron]

Well in the hypothetical scenario you can 'win' by just spreading out far enough until Meryem dies from poison.

If you have say Meryem ordered a purge on all Hunters and he's out to wipe every one of them himself in say a month, and say that Hunter are known to be in a geographic location that size of a normal nation and can't leave, and can't just start digging really deep holes to try to avoid being detected, he'd obviously win very easily.

Alluka possesses unconditional abilities, as in it's inconceiveable anything in HXH can resist/fight back against his power. But he's also pretty much the only character who has such conditional abilities, especially when applied in a physical form. For example Chain Jail is 'borderline unbreakable', but given Kurapika needed to test it on Ubogin first, it's clear that it must be breakable if you're strong enough. If Meryem joined the Spiders and got Chain Jailed, the Zetsu part would work, but he would still be strong enough to break the Chain Jail by his physical power. So any special effects that applies some kind of physical force wouldn't work because he can just brute force out of it.

Now stuff like 'paralysis' or 'slumber' might work on Meryem, but how can you even hit someone with Meryem's speed with any kind of weapon? His En is all-encompassing and can read people's emotion, so you're not going to be sneak up on him, not that he'd have any reason to random get hit by objects.

The only kind of ability that might have at least a chance of hitting him would be the 'trigger on death' abilities but generally speaking people in HXH don't seem to specialize in such abilities, probably because they usually want to live.