#warning its a shalnark centric post

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Hunter x Hunter: copium

imagine with me for a second that chrollo managed to return kortopi and shalnark's abilities before hisoka showed up.

this is your only warning: this is a long ass post

THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SECOND (coping so hard)

like idk where this mf went after the fight, but it would have been in chrollo's best interest to immediately return their abilities (more copium).

so let's just say he does (COPE). could Black Voice and Gallery Fake at their maximum potentials actually take hisoka down?

For one, we know that Shalnark has the secret Autopilot ability that he only uses in desperate situations. And that taps into an OBSCENE amount of aura being released all at once and for all argument's sake, it's basically super saiyan mode. Meaning he can probably fly.

For two, we don't (officially) know what Kortopi is capable of. But we know that guy has a reserve of aura that is capable of supplying copies of, lets assume, 200 rare items that have been taken all across the city (assumed 472 square miles). and they last for 24 hours. that isn't any kind of nen curse or condition, that is straight up just raw power.

am i thinking about this fight in detail? yes i am. am i going to actually write it? maybe!!

how i think it would play out logistically.

assuming hisoka doesn't know about autopilot, shalnark has the best opportunity to one shot the clown. however, depending on how fast hisoka is able to adapt to autopilot (going to refer to it as shark mode for the haha), it will cost shalnark.

if the fight gets drawn out, it could potentially kill him anyway. put him in nen debt so deep he will never financially recover.

that being said, shark mode can overpower bungee gum just like we saw it get overwhelmed in the fight with Razor: if the thing on the other end of the gum is stronger than the thing holding it (hisoka's arm), then hisoka will either lose that arm or disengage. That, or the sheer amount of aura will make it impossible for bungee gum to stick to anything. shark mode is definitely stronger than hisoka's bones.

Shalnark can set elimination targets but can he also include conditions? because shal has two win conditions: 'eliminate' hisoka, or stick him with the other needle. One is arguably easier than the other: so can he set shark mode to deactivate when one or the other is fulfilled or not? who knows.

Kortopi on the other hand shows hisoka up in quantity of aura big time. He's only held back by his need to use the toilet during this fight.

he doesn't have a lot of weapons in his immediate utility while out in the open, but he is still very much a utility. I discussed this in an earlier post, speculating about kortopi's bigger copies being able to be dragged and dropped wherever he pleases before conjuring, but say he could and bro just starts copy and pasting entire plots of land on top of hisoka.

And while kortopi doesn't have a lot in terms of physical strength, assuming he's been trained like the rest of the troupe, he knows how to utilize the basic concepts and could probably survive a hisoka punch directly to the face if he used Ken. Because again, Kortopi has an absolutely insane amount of aura.

i also enjoy the idea of kortopi using a broken iron fence post and using it as a super charged javelin. i just think thats funky~~

he can also cancel bungee gum placements if it is attached to any of his copies. He has baggy enough clothes that if hisoka attaches to it, he has more than enough 'armor' to duplicate and then throw away.

on top of that, kortopi can copy shalnark's antenna using his own aura, which means it costs shalnark nothing, and disguise fakes to try and fool hisoka. it might work once but it could buy them time/warm up the fight.

that being said. this is a lot of assumptions and there are two ways hisoka clean sweeps shalnark. with kortopi i think he might actually struggle, just because of kortopi's proficiency at conjuration. he only outclasses kortopi in the field of experience and physical strength. With shalnark though, there's two ways to get rid of shark mode: remove the antenna from shalnark's body or destroy his phone.

Hisoka probably knows this because he's had experience with manipulators and if he's observant enough, he'll pick up on it immediately. The main question is, could his gum actually get through the aura barrier to attach to the antenna or phone. If yes, he wins as soon as he attaches gum to the antenna.

The phone is a harder question because we don't know if shalnark has to be holding it or not to activate shark mode. This isn't a question i thought i'd ask but im asking it now for the sake of the plot of this fight.

it would be an interesting restriction: "i have to hold my phone while in this mode" H O W E V E R i think shalnark is smart enough to consider that sometimes shark mode will overstay its welcome and end up with him in a nen debt. so i think he has an override installed on the device so someone else can shut him down if he goes for too long. It's a risk and a reward. so in this scenario i think he doesn't hold the phone at all and instead hands it off to Chrollo who is there because he just returned their powers to them.

which is a very big risk. because hisoka then has an opening to circle back and snatch the phone from chrollo and destroy it, cancelling shalnark's entire game plan, but i think he'll be thoroughly distracted for at least a while.

i just think it would be interesting. and hisoka is a changed man now, he wouldn't get any schwing out of fighting them because he's so dead set on making chrollo suffer for killing him.

who would win? that depends on a lot of things. Shark mode has a warm up timer and kortopi has to defend them both in the 1.5 seconds that takes. if hisoka successfully slashes shal in that time frame, then yeah. kortopi has to 1v1 hisoka and will probably lose purely because of their surroundings.

but, if they're all running at maximum capacity then my money is on autopilot shalnark. Bro outpaces, out punches and out aura's hisoka in every field. There is no escape. Unless chrollo presses the (not canon but canon because i said so) override, then shalnark will chase that motherfucker to the ends of the earth until he dies.

i think it will cost shalnark his life if he does win. but it's worth it and much more satisfying than if he'd been completely defenseless cough togashi COUGH TOGASHI YOU DIDNT HAVE TO DO THAT TO HIM. COUGH COUGH.

and kortopi gets to live.