Since DBZ suggested it, I'm leaning towards him shadowing the S-Rank healer. He knows it's the only way to save her, but he KNOWS these guys are going to be horrified to find out he can basically turn people into undead slaves.Originally Posted by MFauli
They'll wonder how much of his army used to be people. It'll definitely get him branded a monster by some of them. Especially tiger-dude, because it's HIS friend.
was it established that the ant king can steal moves? I don't remember it.
Or are we just extrapolating from HxH and Cell?
I don't think anyone will get to level up, defintly not one of the S-rank bozos.
more likely that he'll meet a new team of hunters, each more powerful than last seasons, and each more assholish than him.
- chiense
- russian
- american
- whatever european country the author knows
or more secret ranks, as the association secret weapon (established twenty years ago).
I don't believe there will ever be another dungenon that he doesn't brute force, like the first episode.
speaking of, if he went to that room now, with his current powers, do you think he could just defeat the statues?
Is that really so bad? It gives the series some tension.
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Why would he even NEED to stay ahead of the curve? The other Hunters are mostly his allies.
Because there may come a time when they aren't? Like that bitch his dad ragdolled, not to mention the Japanese and other overseas hunters.
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If S-rank hunters from other countries just happen to be as strong as Jinwoo, I'm gonna call bs.
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Why? Goto was certainly much stronger than the other hunters from Japan and Korea. These 2 countries might just be big fish in a small pond. Places with bigger populations can certainly have stronger hunters just by virtue of numbers.
I don't think they will be as strong as him, but narratively they can at least be in the same league.
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They already introduced Thomas Andrew, the American who can apparently take on an entire country himself, in episode 21.
I don't consider any S-rank that we've seen to date to be able to take on an entire military force and be confident that they'd win. Ultimate Weapon himself would get outshot.
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S-rank, as in Subpar-rank then?
They need to shift power scales every 2 cours so that Jinwoo keeps getting people/monsters near his level...
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If S rank just means that your mana exceeds the measurement capacity of the machine then I guess there's no higher rank based on magic/mana alone. Technically SS and SSS ranks would be available based on anime convention, if there was a way to categorise them afterwards. Achievements wouldn't seem fit though. It'd have to be some measure of power.
Someone mentioned (a page or two back) about whether the king gains abilities from eating prey. It's not clearly specified if it gains abilities from eaten prey, but it did reveal that it gets stronger from defeating and eating, which I presume to mean that it gets more powerful in its attributes in general. A few hints suggested that the improvement it gains may well be individualised to what it eats.
For example, it started speaking after eating Healer. It also mentioned that its toxin was a mixture of the nearby marine life that was amplified with its own power. That suggests that it collected toxins or developed them, rather than having been born with a venomus, barbed tongue.
Someone also asked about how if the current dagger is a strength-attribute weapon, then would it not be a straight upgrade from fists.
While it does scale with strength, its type of damage would also be different (eg slash damage instead of blunt damage). So not exactly a straight upgrade, but raw damage should be higher than fist assuming the enemy doesn't have extremely high slash resistance. High slash resistance has always been the reason whenever Jinwoo switched back from daggers to fists.
These twin swords being called daggers is funny. They're sword-sized, and their design won't even allow you to stab unless you backhanded them.
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If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
South Korea is not that much smaller to have NONE who is significantly stronger, and yet they have NONE who is. So I'd still call bs.
Everything we've seen from S-ranks in the early episodes shows that they absolutely would obliterate any country's military. Do bullets even hurt an S-rank hunter? Not that they'd be hit with their speed.
Taking on a whole country's army is not exactly impressive.
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He ate the head, he learned to speak
He had regen, perhaps because he ate the priest
He had iceblock, perhaps because he ate the gas-mask japanese guy
The only real and direct hint at consumption adding to his skillset is the head-eating part that allowed him to speak. The rest is inconclusive, but his whole idea was "evolution". Even the marine-life poison part could technically have been coating, but very unlikely.
Think vs helicopters, warships and bombers.
S-rank vs a squad of armed people, I would expect the S rank to win. Even maybe the healer.
Against artillery and carpet bombing? I don't think so.
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I think it's more likely that he inherited those toxins based on the queen's diet. Considering he was JUST hatched, and didn't really have time to go feed on wildlife before this battle started.
Considering his evolution is instant, he had at the very least 24h if we assume the stuff happens chronologically in that episode where he hatched.
Eh, not sure. The fire guy would obliterate an entire army full of vehicles in an instant. For others, it'd depend on speed and whether or not they can get up in the air. I guess that giant tank guy would be rather easy to take out, he didn't appear as fast. Bow guy depends on how strong his arrows are against metal armor. For someone like Goto (who we ASSUME was strong as hell), it depends on whether or not he can reach a target like a helicopter or plane.
I guess some s-ranks would have no chance, others might.
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The fire guy can't even run fast or fly or teleport. A single jet firing from beyond visual detection would end him.
Peace.
ok, here it goes. any hunter with decent equipment can beat any non-magic army.
monsters are magic and can't harmed by non-huners, that's the premiese. even armies can't clear gates or harm monsters.
hunters can have special equipment, but non-hunters can't use that equipment, and since theere is both offensive and defensive equipement, it must mean that even shitty armor gets the same power of monsters, and makes the wearer immune to non-magical damage. even if it just emmulates the defensive profile of a goblin.
do I believe this? of course not. but that's the setting.
speaking of which, what are all those crystals jinwoo gathered for? is there civilian use for them?
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But was it established that special equipment can't be harmed by conventional weapons? Only the monsters are immune right?
If we assume that special equipment by virtue of having magic is immune, that means any hunter with magic is immune, so they don't even need equipment to be invulnerable.
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Which is the point.
And if that's not the case, the writing is just shit in that specific part. Because why would certain equipment be effective against monsters who are immune to normal attacks, but not be effective against those who can't even harm monsters?
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