[Introduction] Meruem of Hunter x Hunter has been one of
the most entertaining characters I've seen in the series.
I believe that his character came in a full circle, so in most cases, I wouldn't have
a video on an alternative take on the character, but this is one I wanted to see through.
Meruem was this bottomless well of potential, so, given the position he's in with the Chimera
Ant arc, how strong could he get?
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Since I believe that how strong Meruem can get is dictated by the narrative set, we will
have three potential scenarios with different outcomes—starting with Scenario A.
What originally happened was that Chairman Netero of the Hunter Association came to help
exterminate Meruem and the Chimera ants but got pushed so far in the battle that he blew
himself up with a nuke called "Poor Man's Rose".
This action didn't kill Meruem immediately but instead left him on a timeclock, and then
he died.
In this scenario, Meruem stops Netero from blowing himself up.
Instead of trembling in fear against Netero, this time, he goes forth and stops him.
Be it taking his last arm or decapitating him entirely.
He's been damaged a reasonable amount, so he most likely wants to eat Netero's brain
to give himself some energy.
He also leaves the scene because since Netero made him uneasy, that means he should have
something concerning for Meruem.
That concerning thing being Netero's ace in the Poor Man's Rose.
So, now Meruem gets back to the palace.
His royal guard, Shaiapoof, should still be attempting to get "the Selection Plan" going,
where regular humans would be turned into chimera ant soldiers with nen or die.
Once Meruem gets there, it plays out like how it did in the series.
"Everyone, go home.
The show is over.
I want to play Gungi with my friend, and that's it."
Pouf is upset and all that, but there's nothing he can do.
Considering that Meruem wouldn't pursue the other hunters, the Gungi life continues without
Meruem seeking any more power.
But how strong would Meruem be in Scenario A?
Well, after synthesizing the brain of Netero, the strength that Meruem reaches should be
marginally different than anything we've seen previously.
The amount that Meruem consumes wouldn't do something like give him the ability to summon
his own "Guanyin Bodhisattva," but he should be the strongest being alive in that time.
But the problem is that, as far as we knew, he already was.
So, quantifying this is odd.
Especially since this form wouldn't be something like the Post Rose form, and we can make calculations
with that.
But don't worry, we have scenario B for that.
Now, this scenario is essentially a death of the character type of situation.
We're going to maximize the potential while also ignoring what Meruem would want here.
Not entirely, though.
In this scenario, every limb that Meruem had ripped off from Netero's body, he ate.
He also stopped Netero before he could blow himself up, ate his brain, and dipped before
the Poor Man's rose could go off.
Meruem now has the Guanyin Bodhisattva and realizes that he can get people's abilities
if he consumes enough of someone.
Plus, Meruem's on a colossal power kick, so everyone that wanted to stop the king?
It's "wraps"!
That means Killua, Gon in his Adult form if he hasn't already reverted (which he should
because Pitou is dead now), Palm, Morel, Knuckle, Shoot, Knov, and Zeno if he's still around.
If Meruem was to consume all of these people, where would he be now?
I usually want to use statistics directly given by the verse, but Togashi saying Netero
has a 5 in strength doesn't exactly tell me anything I can use here.
So, I'll try to use scaling here.
Meruem's feat of creating that massive crater in the side of the mountain has been calculated
as a Small City level feat.
When Pre Rose Meruem was supposed to be capable of Small Town level in terms of attack potency,
that's a one thousand times difference in strength.
Now this was with Pouf giving Meruem 6/7 of his body, and we can assume that Youpi did
the same or even more since he was left at a similar state to the Pouf with them, but
Pouf had more of him back at the palace.
Regardless, I'll just stick to say they both gave 6/7.
So, with this info I wanted to be able to apply this with other characters who will
have less than 6/7ths of their body taken away.
Like, let's say that Meruem consumed 3/7ths of everyone I mentioned, because for one,
he's not going to like the taste of these lower hunters by comparison, and two, he doesn't
just eat people entirely in general.
He mainly goes for the brain.
The way I got down to it was calculating the destructive capabilities of Pouf and Youpi,
seeing how much their 6/7ths added to Meruem, and finding the multiplier that I can plug
into anyone else's Attack potency.
That ended up being 1165.5x.
So, 1165.5x the "attack potency" of a character should equal the total amount of nen they
would be capable of giving to Meruem.
I don't know how much of the multiplier goes to Meruem's ability, but to be safe, I'm just
adding it together with Meruem's current attack potency.
After adding up everyone's fractions, Meruem consuming the people we had, including Netero
would be capable of 1.86 megatons, which is Small City level, just like after the Poor
Man's Rose Bomb.
This situation makes a lot of sense, considering that the Royal Guards were on the upper echelon
of the Hunter world and gave more of their energy than I've taken from the other characters.
But
the significant differences here would be the plethora of abilities that Meruem would
now have because of who he synthesized.
At that point, I think Meruem would be significantly more terrifying in this form than his Post
Rose form.
Here's why.
Meruem, in this form, should be capable of the following abilities:
Killua's Godspeed, Morel's Smokey Jail, Palm's Wink Blue, Knuckle's A.P.R, Knov's Hide and
Seek, Shoot's Imprint Conversion, and Netero's 100-Type Guanyin Bodhisattva.
There's also a lot more, but yeah.
These are the notably heavy ones.
I haven't added Zeno or Gon into the mix because, in this scenario, Zeno dipped, and Gon reverted
since he did his job.
I want to say that Meruem could continue to get stronger by trying to conquer the world,
but we don't know the Hunter world entirely, and I don't know when we will.
So, for now, this is what we have.
Thank you all for watching!
Hopefully, I'll see you all in the next one!
Until then, peace out, and godspeed!