Hex's Blogs: Akame VS Killua

 

"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being" - Albert Camus

 

Akame: Night Raid's cursed killer!

 

Killua Zoldyck: Hunter x Hunter's electric assassin!

 

Assassins. Known to be fast and swift at taking your life from the shadows mercilessly. There's no surprise they usually have lots of reputation, especially if they are part of a notorious clan, where people look at them with expectations. But those expectations also cause unjust suffering, loneliness, and pain. So what if the killer wants to kill the bloodshed for a better life and joining the side of good, despite even the eventual family problems? 

 

With their hearts, the rebellion starts.

Before We Begin...

For this blog we will take into consideration everything about both Hunter × Hunter and Akame ga Kill! For Hunter × Hunter, this means we'll use: 1999's anime, 2011's anime, the Phantom Rouge and Final Mission movies, and of course also the manga. Meanwhile, for Akame ga Kill!, we'll use: the 2014 anime and all of the mangas (Akame ga Kill!, Akame ga Kill! ZERO, and Hinowa ga Crush).

Oh and, major spoilers. Ofc.

Background

Akame

 

 

The 1000 Year Old Empire, which initially seems a good place, it's actually a place filled with sadistic people that enjoy over-taxing near villages, and torturing people for their own pleasure. But a Revolutionary army was formed to combat the government, especially the sub-faction made specifically for killing the Prime Minister Honest, the responsible of all this mess, Night Raid! And their deadliest member is no other than the lightning-fast cursed one-hit killer: Akame.

 

As a Night Raid member, Akame's wanted all across the Empire, with a bounty on her head. Well, with her agile, speedy combat style and cursed Murasame, she's a force to be feared, alongside the other Night Raid members. But under her cold and indifferent facade, there's a kind girl that usually comes out when she's with her friends, especially with her best friend Leone, and Tatsumi, the new member of Night Raid at the time. But how did she become part of Night Raid? What made her a rebel?

 

When she was just a child, Akame and her little sister Kurome were sold by their parents at the capital of the Empire, where the two were forced to partecipate to a deadly survival exam in a Danger Beast-filled forest alongside other 100 kids. Luckily the two survived, but Gozuki, the one who organized the exam, separated the two sisters, taking Akame specifically under his wing, because she was the stronger of the two, and so she made her enter in his little team-family of assassins: The Elite Seven, becoming Akame's new dad.

 

After a decade of training in Mount Rousei and working for the Elite Seven, Akame had to see her brothers, sister and mom figures die, some of them she even had to kill them herself under task of the Empire, and because of that, even when reunited with her beloved sister Kurome, Akame was dissatisfied, in pain, and suspecting about the Empire being corrupt. Those suspicions were confirmed once Akame talked with Najenda, an ex-general turned revolutionary. And so, after killing Gozuki and after being saved by Leone, Akame decided to defect from the Empire, joining Night Raid. Sadly, this sparkled a deadly rivalry between Akame and her sister Kurome, where they want to kill each other.

 

From there, lots of stuff happened. Akame and her friends had to take on lots of missions and adventures for defeating the Empire, like killing various villains, fighting the Jeagers, a group made by the Empire appositely for hunting down Night Raid, travelling all around the Empire's continent for various goals, helping out the new recruited member Tatsumi into becoming a true fighter, and even killing the strongest of the Empire herself: Esdeath. But Akame did manage to complete all those missions, and even made peace with Kurome! (unless you watch the anime). 

The kingdom became a peaceful place after the war, just like Akame dreamed of, though through many sacrifices. Akame's friends are all dead, including Leone, Tatsumi was stuck in his dragon Tyrant form after overusing his Incursio to take down the imperial Shikoutazer mech, and the curse inside Akame that came with the acceptance of the demonic killer within, that let her kill Esdeath, was consuming her. So, Akame decided to sail on a ship to go find the cure for her curse, and also a way to turn Tatsumi a human again. Akame will keep surviving for her friends fallen in battle, and maybe, find a new path to grow... well there's still Hinowa ga Crush! but eh, who gives a shit about that? Only good thing about it is that Akame is in it.

Killua

 

The world of Hunter x Hunter is a dangerous place, filled with misteries, and Hunters exist in it to... hunt all that stuff. One of the many renowned and worldwide known dangers of this planet is the Zoldyck Family, a clan of assassins residing in the 3000+km tall Mountain Kukuroo with all their members being wanted for milions, and Killua Zoldyck, is their rebellious middle child.

 

 Since he was 3, the young Zoldyck trained and painfully tortured in the art of assassination by his parents, especially his father Silva, in order to one day be the main hair of his family. But as Killua grew up, he had enough of how his family decides for his life, not letting him to be free or have friends like a normal kid has, heck, sometimes they made him even kill people that could have been his friends no problem. He felt that block, that once he reached age 12, he broke by rebelling against his family. After stabbing his mother, he ran away, in the search for a better life. 

 

Eventually, Killua decided to take part at the Hunter Exam, for fun, but he didn't know he just made the best choice of his life, because there he finally met a friend, no, his best friend, another kid of his age: Gon Freecs. Thanks to Gon's friendly personality, Killua also revealed part of his true mischievous and fun loving personality, which he's usual to hide with a cold and indifferent attitude. So, Killua helped Gon, and his two friends Kurapika and Leorio in completing the exam, which mainly consisted of tests inside forests with beasts, but once they were all close to finishing the exam, something horrible happened...

 

Killua killed an exam partecipant, he got disqualified, all because of his big brother: Illumi. He saw how Killua was making friends, and he didn't like that, as he said to him that killers can't have friends. So, after that brutal event happened because of Illumi's manipulation over him, Killua returned home, and got tortured. But as Gon came to his save him, Killua has already talked with his Silva, who decided to let his son go. And so, Killua could finally travel around the world alongside Gon and feel free, helping his best friend in the search of his father, and also retrying the exam and actually becoming a Hunter along the way! 

 

Gon and Killua, sometimes with also Kurapika and Leorio and other groups, went in all sorts of places: The Heaven's Arena's tournament, Yorknew City, to fight against the infamous criminal group of the Phantom Troupe,  Greed Island, a videogame, and then, the NGL to fight alongside Kite and the Extermination Team a full-on war against the supernatural Chimera Ants, which will be te hardest challenge the two boys will ever face, even because of Kite's death. In the end, the war was won by the Hunter Association, and Killua's rejection of the killer within him finally set him free from Illumi's brain-controlling needle, but sacrifices were made. Many people died, and Gon was in a come after he went all in a downspiral to self-destruction to kill the Royal Guard Pitou, the same Chimera Ant who killed Kite. 

But thanks to him retrning briefly at the Zoldyck mansion to reunite with Alluka, Killua's beloved little sister that was long separated from him by his family, he managed to bring back Gon to normality thanks to Alluka's wish powers. Although the two best friends will separe later, Killua ended up being satisfied of the person he became. He finally found the right path to growth, thanks to the time spent with his friend, which he wouldn't trade for anything. And now, he'll travel the world with Alluka, protecting both him and her from the clutches of Illumi, which means more adventures will come for the Godspeed Hunter assassin... or maybe not because TOGASHI IS A LAZY FUCK.

Experience, Intelligence and Skill

Akame

 

Akame's considered the most dangerous assassin for a variety of reasons. Since she was a child, she lived in a place full of Danger Beasts, while she trained in lots of weapon and hand to hand pressure point combat, but her main fighting style is swinging a katana, which she's really good at. She can swing her Murasame so well she can seemingly increase her sword reach for a few metres, which can be also used for deflecting bullet-like attacks. Thanks to her skill, things like say, dozens of soldiers, are just fodder.

Her intelligence in battle is definetly high too! She can easily spot traps, deduce her opponent's patterns enough to cause lethal counter attacks, find weak spots, use the enviroment to her advantage, and even counter supernatural abilities by analyzing them, like Weneg's regeneration/attack reflection, Yomihime's fire control in Hinowa ga Crush!, and Esdeath's time stopping Mahapdama (i don't want to find the actual scene so here's this fucking peak AMV instead that shows it anyways). Yeah, guess you could say that fighting super-powered fighters with just a stick is kinda where she really shines.

 

Since Akame lacks a proper finisher, she learned to never waste any attack. The speedblitzing attack she throws, will be game-ending one, which is fitting given her katana's powers. Also, Akame can deduce how strong an opponent is, and even if the enemy is way stronger, she one-shots their asses anyways! Goated.

 Killua 

During his childhood in the Zoldyck household, which is full of dangerous beasts (one of them is his pet dog lol), Killua grew up being trained in how to kill a person as fast as possible, and for that he also knows pressure point martial arts and weapon combat, as like, any other Hunter x Hunter character, uses unusual stuff for weapons (his Yo-Yos). Thanks to his combat knowledge, he can do things like taking out a horde of Chimera Ants easily.

He already surpassed Heaven's Arena's 200th floor at only 6 years old, to then do it again 6 years later with Gon, and his talent is exceptional, literally 1 case in 10 million, both pure skill and Nen wise. He can analyze his opponents patterns to then try counter them by making their own weapon/way of fighting turn against them, notice very small details subconciously, notice weak spots, and powerscale opponents. Before, he used to avoid fighting too much stronger opponents because of Illumi's mind controlling, but now he'll just try to speedblitz them all! Also goated.

 

Nen wise skills speaking, Killua was able to learn Ten right in the moment his Nen nodes were released forcibly, he overall learned all the basics and almost all the advanced principles of Nen in a matter of months, and used his experties with Nen (and also some knowledge he had about darts) to deduce where a istantly teletrasporting dart will appear.

Equipment

Akame

The One-Cut Killer: Murasame

 

 

Originally belonged to Gozuki, who then died to Akame's hands, Murasame is the weapon that gave our red-eyed killer her reputation of, pretty much, the one-cut girl. Forged in Wakoku, Murasame is one of the OG Teigus, as it contains a dark magical cursed poison infused in the blade, that can enter inside the targets bloodstream by shutting down their heart, as long there is even just a scratch that draws blood. The curse does all this in a matter of seconds, not even a resistance to hundreds types of poisons can save you. Not even being a Extra Class Dragon Danger Beast that got that Mahoraga ahh adaption can survive it. That's because there's no antidote to a curse.

Teigus in general are sentient, as they are all actually made 1000 years ago by the best metalsmiths under task of the first emperor of the Empire, who made them because he feared his kingdom would one day fall. These powerful relics aren't just made from normal materials, but of Oricalcum, and also of the strongest Danger Beasts' remains, which explains their sentiences. And Murasame is no exception. It can emit something that looks similiar to a dark aura, which can turn useful to impose paralysis on those who try to steal the weapon from Akame, the weilder. That's because of the user's judgment on the weapon, and if the weapon feels an affinity to the weilder. Also, Murasame can target specific lifeforces, as shown when Akame had to kill Tyrant inside Tatsumi's body.

Kiriichimonji

Akame's blade that she used in the Akame ga Kill! ZERO prequel. As a Shingu, Kiriichimonji was created to rival the powers of the Teigu by the emperor of 400 years ago, it ended up not even being close to a Teigu, but it still has a really cool ability: causing wounds that cannot be healed, bypassing regeneration. There's no antidothe even for that.

Perfector Pill

 

A stat boosting drug, made from many other drugs synthetizes into a perfected one to let Akame have the necessary strenght to fight Esdeath. When Akame consumes it, she has her veins pulsing. Probably because of the much power increase.

 

Kunai

 

 

In Hinowa ga Crush! Akame has shown to pack some kunai, Naruto ahh.

Enji Drugs

 

In Hinowa ga Crush!, Akame has shown to use pills to make her body return to peak condition after the curse of Murasame permanently made her body more heavy and sluggish in her movements. They are useful, as they completely rid off her curse marks, although for a limited time.

Meihou Sword

 

While also made with the remains of Danger Beast, Meihous are, for the most part... just... normal stronger weapons... and Akame's Meihou is just... a sword. At least is the more durable one she has, even more than Murasame itself.

Killua

Metal Alloy Yo-Yos

 

These two Yo-Yos are very durable. Constructed with an unnamed metal alloy, Killua's Yo-yos each weigh 50 kg, perfect to smash down trees, or for being used as electrical conductors.

Skateboard

 

It's... just a skateboard. That's it.

 

Knife

 A knife. It knifes!

Taser

Killua used this only for transmuting his Nen with electricity, but he can probably also use it as a mean to recharge his electricity reserves, like with basically everything that has electricity.

Bombs

 

Yeah, in the 7th episode of the 1999 anime, Killua used bombs. The more the power system is complex, the funnier is when someone just bombards people, they say. 

Abilities/Powers

Akame

Acrobatics

Akame's not only known for her speed, she's also known for her acrobatics, which let her aura farm even more. She can dodge attacks while falling/in air, stand on strings easily, jump to sky-scraper heights, wall-jump rapidly, leap over rooftoops, dodge attacks from beasts much bigger than her, run on trees, and much more.

Stealth

 

As an assassin, you'd obviously expect Akame to strike her victims while being unnoticed. She sneaked away from Mera to buy weapons, captured an Empire's doctor and nurse to kill them before they transfomed, remained undetected in a heavily guarded enemy camp, and generally being able to conceal her "aura" or killing intent, which catches even Imperial Generals like Esdeath off guard.

Enhanched Senses + Extrasensory Perception

 

By just believing her istincts, Akame can fight with her eyes closed, percieve attacks from an Invisible Incursio, and also sense the presence of people that can be alerted of nearby danger and murderous intents from attackers, even if they are invisible. More impressively, Akame has shown to sense enemies hiding underground, sense bloodlust, and, as shown above, accurately deduce the number of ninjas preparing an ambush by just putting her ear close to the ground.

Accelerated Development

 

 Mera stated that Akame had learned a lot from her in a short period of time, and it shows, since Akame can adapt and react to her opponents attacks even when before she was barely able to do so.

Subconcious Limit Break

 

 In the manga of Akame ga Kill! ZERO, Akame unconciously removed her mental limiter when facing oncoming death, a technique part of the Oarburgh clan, to obtain that extra physical boost. She did that in her battle against one of the members of that clan, Merraid. She also shown this when she was almost going to die strangled, but got that bit more of strenght thanks to seeing her sister Kurome.

Afterimages

 

She can create multiple afterimages by moving really fast, which she does mainly in her fight against Bols, and in her final fight against Esdeath in the anime. They are either made by speed alone, or are made out of an illusionistic hax that lets her use the bloodlust of anyone against them, by making her opponent believe she was in a certain spot, but then she wasn't! What?! (look the fight against Esdeath in the anime)

Shockwave & Air Slashes Creation

Apparently, by just looking at you hard, Akame can cause a shockwave. Pretty simple.

Killua

Enhanched Senses + Extrasensory Perception

 

Killua has shown to have excellent senses, regardless if it's only through natural talent or Nen. He can sense bloodlust, like the time he sensed Netero’s, can see in the dark, knows when he’s observed even from miles away, and also sense the presence of Melereon, an Invisible Chimera Ant.

Accelerated Development

  

Killua's a quick study, as he learned Ten in one night, whereas Zushi, who was already talented, took around months.

Finger Claws

Thanks to his assassin training, Killua can manipulate his body in almost any way he pleases, more notoriously, he strengthen and sharpen his fingers at will to form piercing claws, which are sharp as blades.

Joint & Muscle Control

Killua is also capable of dislocating his joints at will, like he did when he had to escape from being trapped in Machi's strings. 

Silent Gaits

 

An assassination technique where Killua's movement cannot be heared in anyway. Melody, a hunter known for having an excellent hearing, she hardly heard Killua's footsteps when he was running. 

Rhythm Echo

A better version of Silent Gaits. Rhythm Echo allows the user to create a series of afterimages by moving continuously with rythmic footsteps. It completely masks the user’s sound completely while the afterimages disorients a target, and it can counter extrasensory perceptions, as shown with his fight against Sub and Netero.

Snake Awakens

When he's in his Assassin Mode, Killua can move his arms so fluidly, they move like snakes, and hit like whips, cutting like swords, giving him more range. Looks like a Snake Awakened...

Nen

 

Aaaahhhh yes, Dragon Ball's Ki if it was unnecessarily categoric. Nen is the good ol'spiritual energy residing in all living beings, which can be controlled and weaponized through training. The training to learn Nen consists in unlocking your Nen Nodes inside your body, that contain the energy in you, to then block them back for not passing out. From there, you can learn and utilize your aura trough various applications, to basic ones and advanced ones. Killua mastered all of these, except the advanced one, "In".

    Basic Nen Applications 

 

• Ten: The Shield. The most important aspect of Nen, as it keeps your aura nodes open through your body. It reduces aging, and grants defense to physical and mental attacks thanks to an aura barrier;
• Ren: The Booster. It makes your aura flow through your body stronger, giving you more power;
•  Zetsu: The Holder. The opposite of Zetsu, as instead of opening your Nen Nodes, it closes them, masking your presence and making you relieve fatigue; 
• Hatsu: The Expression. As Nen derives from a person’s life energy, their feelings, will and desires are able to mold their aura to suit whatever fighting style fits them the best.

Hatsu Types

 

Each Nen user has an affinity to a different aura type category, based off the personality of the user. This is usually discovered after the Water Divination test, where you put a leaf on a glass, force your aura on it, and depending on how the leaf reacts, you discover your affinity. There are six aura types: Enhancement, Transmutation, Emission, Manipulation, Conjuration, and Specialization, and some users are an inbetween two categories. Or outright have them all, lmao. Killua is placed in the Transmutation-Enhancher category, meaning that he can change the properties and replicate specific attributes of basically anything he wants... and make water taste sweet.

Hatsu Abilities

 

 With what we said before, we have a transmuter, who is also someone who got tortured with electricity. What happens if you combine them? An electric assassin! Thanks to using a Taser, Killua transmuter it's electricity to be a living one, basically. Killua's electricity will soon come in handy as he'll develop some nifty abilities.

 

• Lightning Palm: Killua uses his electricity upclose to stun and paralyze you; 
• Lightning Bolt: Killua charges electricity into his hand and fires a large thunderbolt, which also paralyzes his enemies, even if they are 10x stronger;
• Metal Objects Conduction: Since Killua's lightning is actual lightning, as it is transmuted, it can burn cells/tissue (also proved by how Killua burned off the cells of a clone of Shaiapouf) of anything they hit for weakening what they strike, which lets Killua conduct it easily in metallic surfaces, like in elevators to stop them, or his Yo-Yo's.

        Advanced Nen Applications

 

•  Gyo: It lets the user force the Ren in their eyes, to detect an aura that would otherwise be too faint or invisible to spot normally;
• Ken: A mix of Ten and Ren to create a even better defense while raising your power in all directions;
• Ryu: After mixing Ten and Gyo, the user can distribuite different percentages of the aura across the body;
• Shu: An advanced form of Ten, it makes everything that the user touches sharper;
• En: Mixing Ten and Ren, you can extend your aura for have a better range of action, sensing everything that even grazes your Nen barrier. Killua's maximum range with it is about 57cm;
• Ko: The most powerful, yet dangerous application. It forces all your aura in a single point for a devastating blow, at the cost of your body being open. Normally, there's 10% of aura in every part of our body, but with Ko, you focalize 100% of it on your fist, making you technically 10 times stronger.

Nen Crush

  

 When Ren is applied with hostility or bloodlust, it's exposure can cause the one caught in it's range to have paralysis, hallucinations and fear, as shown when Killua scared Rammot, or mental breakdowns, as shown when Pitou terrorized Knov. That's Nen Crush, or Nen Baptism. In Killua's case, his Nen Crush hallucination materializes as a big scary snake. If your opponent hasn't learn how to control Nen by opening the nodes, Nen Crush can supposedly lead to kill your opponent.

Post-Mortem Nen

 

A generally powerful Nen phenomenon where a Nen User's abilities continue or even intensify in a near-death or death state, fueled by strong emotions or specific conditions, creating incredibly potent lingering auras or revivals, as seen with Hisoka restarting his heart with Bungee Gum and Neferpitou's corpse attacking Adult Gon.

Mental States

Akame

Kill Switch

 

A mental state she got taught by her father Gozuki as part of her assassin training, where she completely locks in, gets rid of every emotion, and only focuses on killing.

   Killua

    Assassin Mode

 

Literally the same thing as Akame's mental state. Like yeah these two are indeed that similiar. 

Forms

Akame

Little War Horn (Ennoodzuno)

 

Every Teigu has a "Trump Card" which the user themselves can create. Akame interprets the art of killing something that can be truly done right if the killer accepts the demon inside. And so, wherether it's done by accepting her killer istincts, or cut herself with Murasame, Akame can utilize her Trump Card, a demonic form with fearsome and impossible power: The Little War Horn!

 

As Murasame remembers everyone it's weilder has killed, and absorbs the pain and agony of it's victims, Akame gets a massive boost in the main trinity of stats, especially speed, where she can continuosly blitz the opponent and move as a red energy beam! This form let her beat Esdeath in a 1v1 fight fair and square in the anime, and made her win in a very close fight in the manga. 

Killua

Godspeed (Kanmuru)

 

 Since he removed Illumi's brain, we notice he became way faster than he usually is. When he fought the Ortho Brothers, he strangely blocked an absurdly fast attack? But how? That's because of his new Hatsu ability, which will soon become an outright form: Godspeed. By sending a surge of electricity throughout his body, Killua activates the lightning-fast form, which actually allows him to automatically react to threats, making his reaction speed aument monstrously. To be more specific, instead of nerves giving signals to the brain, which is what normally happens, Killua's electricity takes role of those nerves, controlling his brain as an autopilot to react involountarly to attacks, which is much faster than thinking normally. In this form, Killua can use two new overpowered Hatsu abilities:

•  Speed Of Lightning: This allows Killua to move, run and jump at his max speeds at all times, to the point he can even fluctuate for a bit;
• Whirlwind: Meanwhile, this is the ability that lets Killua to attack automatically, with his electricity boosting his reaction and attack speed, letting him beat the shit out of his opponent before they can even react, even if they are just a little slower or in par with him in speed. 

Resistances

Akame

 

• Poisons: Due to her training as an elite assassin, Akame developed a resistance to a large amount of poisons.
• Telepathy: Akame is able to empty her mind to neutralize Zank the Executioner's Teigu, Spectator, which can read the minds of opponents to predict their moves. 
• Temperature Manipulation (Little War Horn): Esdeath noted that LWH Akame's movements haven't slowed in the cold.

Killua 

 

• Electricity: As part of his assassin training, he was subjected routinely to electric currents.  For him, 1 million volts of electricity are just a mere annoyance.
• Poison: He is immune to most poisons, including from genetically enhanced insects.
• Organ Manipulation (Godspeed): Godspeed uses his Nen to exert precise control over his neural networks and muscles. Hisoka, another Nen User who could make his Nen act on his muscles, restarted his own heart while unconcious. 

Feats

Akame

General

 

• She and Kurome survived the deadly Empire forest exam; 
• Fought the Empire war on both imperial and revolutionary sides for around 14 years in total at most;
• Along with Mine, Najenda, Susanoo and Leone, she saved Tatsumi from being publicly executed; 
• Killed Esdeath, who was confident that not even 1.000.000 soldiers can beat her;
• Fortunately didn't kill her little sister Kurome;
•  Saved Tatsumi by killing Tyrant inside of him with Murasame’s Curse;
• Defeated: Tyrant, Tsukushi, Gozuki, Zank the Executioner, Dr.Stylish, Ibara, Izou, Merraid Oarberg, Weneg, Taeko, Kurome, Yohihime, Esdeath; 

Strength

 

• Snaps necks with her thighs (DO IT TO ME TOO.) 
• Cuts through a stone pillar with a sword swing
• Kicks the ground so hard she jumps to skyscraper heights
•  Cuts a danger beast in half
• Punched through a soldier and his helmet 
• With Murasame, causes a fracture in Grand Chairot's Armor Teigu by hitting it 6 times.
• (Little War Horn) Destroys Esdeath's ice.  

Speed

 

• Can dodge bullets, as shown above.
• Wave stated that Akame can run and move at Mach speeds, which she has shown to do casually before (Mach 1 to 5).
• Blocks Taeko's Whirlwind;
•  Shitblitzed an attack from three simultaneous directions;
• Avoids a Pumpkin blast;
• Dodged a surprise lightning bolt from Budou (Mach 924)
•  (Little War Horn) Made an illusionistic afterimage in Esdeath's Mahapdama

Durability

 

•  Took hits from Esdeath as seen above;
• Alongside Leone, survived to an atomic bomb to the face (271 tons of TNT);
• Stung by Mera's wasps;
• Survives being shot in the stomach;
• Gets sent flying by Gozuki;
• Gets sent crashing through various trees from a punch from Wave, yet she still gets up.
• Took hits from Weneg's attack reflection ability; 

Stamina

  

• Despite being all sliced up by Weneg's attack reflection, Akame still pushes through until she kills him.
•  Her Little War Horn form lasted about almost 4 minutes in the anime fight against Esdeath. (6:50 to 11:00)

Killua

General

 

• Passed the Hunter Exam by defeating over 1000 participants;
• Learned and mastered the four basic principles of Nen in only a few months (when normally it would take years);
• Made it to floor 200 in Heaven’s Arena twice;
• Escaped the clutches of the Phantom Troupe despite being outmatched/outnumbered;
• Beat Greed Island;
• A key member in winning a war against the Chimera Ants;
• Truly is a good friend. 
• Defeated Johness, the Amori Brothers, Zushi, Riehlvelt, Binolt, Bopobo, Sub, Mosquito, Rhino, Rammot, Ortho Siblings, and an Illumi doll in Phantom Rouge; 

   Strength

 

• Opened 4 gates of his house's door (64 tons) 
• Kicked through a building’s wall;
• Broke Pakunoda’s arm;
• Held the weight of a large boulder over his head in his sleep while training with Bisky;
• Pierced through Rhino’s body;
• Oneshot Gon;
• Damaged Youpi with his electric-charged punches and kicks.

  Speed

  

• Dodged bullets from point blank range;
• Speed blitzed Johness and stole his heart before he could even process what was going on;
• Casually outmaneuvered all of Zushi’s attacks in their fight at Heaven’s Arena, despite nor having learned Nen at the time;
• Moved in tandem with his own lightning attacks (Mach 18.6);
• Capable of reacting to the Greed Island card Accompany, which can travel between; continents in a very short timespan (Mach 1185.862);
• (Godspeed) Was consistently shown blitzing and tagging Youpi;
• (Godspeed) While holding Alluka, ran so fast that he appeared as a blur of electricity;
• (Godspeed) Reacted to a dart which required “light-speed” reflexes to react to (3,3% SoL);

   Durability

 

• Survived being injected with a lethal poison from Mosquito’s poison sting, despite Mosquito’s poison being one of the most potent in the world;
• Survived an explosive fart from Carabid Beetle (1.5 – 3.3 Kilotons of TNT)
• Survived being constantly pelted by fish darts that were created by the Ortho Siblings; 
• Blocked multiple blows from Palm, who could casually punch craters into the ground
• Blocked punches from Uvogin;
•  Unaffected by a kick to the stomach that sends him flying; 

    Stamina

 

• Was relatively fine after getting tortured for days; 
• Even after maintaining his Ren for 3 hours and exhausted, still put up a fight against Knuckle;
• A full charged Godspeed can last for a whole night; 

Scaling

Akame

With Little War Horn Akame legit winning a 1v1 fight against Esdeath in the anime, and having beat her physically also in the manga, is the confirmation that she's the deadliest Night Raid member, as she killed the Strongest of the Empire basically. This garantuees her at least  a Top 2 position in the Verse Scaling overall.

Night Raid & Revolutionary Army

 

• Tatsumi kills an Earth Dragon Danger Beast that burrowed through the ground (4.98 - 43.01 tons of TNT);
• Tatsumi dodges Budo's Lightning (Mach 1196);
• (Little War Horn scaling only) Tatsumi then fights and actually defeats Shikoutazer, who was going to destroy the entire Empire (results vary from 550 Gigatons to 22.58 Teratons of TNT);
• Mine's Pumpkin rifle created a massive trench with its shot (896.23 kilotons);
• Some Teigu Revolutionary Soldiers were capable of stopping at least 15 of Shikoutazer’s missiles (35 Megatons);

Jeagers & The Empire

  

• Early Esdeath froze a lake (128 Kilotons of TNT);
• Kurome’s Skeleton Dragon Puppet made a huge crater (520 Kilotons of TNT);
• Budo summons a storm around the Empire’s colosseum and another storm above Night Raid’s Danger Beast (21.92 megatons);
• Esdeath dodged lightning that was summoned by Budo during her fight with Akame (Mach 680.6);
• While in Commander in Chief, created a storm that covered a large part of the planet (250 petatons of TNT); 

Killua

 As Killua held his own against Youpi and Shaiapouf in his Godspeed form, severely damaging both, the silver haired assassin gets a solid Mid-possibly High Tier Verse scaling overall.

The Hunters & Hunter Association

 

• Speedblitzed a man at the beginning of Greed Island (Mach 7.2); 
• Gon punches a Chimera Ant on NGL (0.5 Tons of TNT);
• An unknown person powers up Greed Island’s NPC’s (7 megatons);
• (Godspeed scaling only) (Godspeed Morel blocked Youpi’s Rage Blast at 35% (Death Battle said in a black box on Killua VS Misaka that’d be 51 megatons);
•  Kite does a 360 spin (Mach 21);

The Phantom Troupe

 

• Uvogin’s Big Bang impact could create a massive crater in the ground (Manga: 96.23 tons of TNT) (Anime: 973.1 tons – 137.7 kilotons of TNT);
• Machi was stated to be able to make a string which could wrap around the globe (2.1 megatons of TNT for strength, Mach 2715.1 for speed); 

Chimera Ants 

 

• (Godspeed scaling only) With his Rage Blast technique, Youpi created a massive crater (132.3 kilotons – 15.63 megatons of TNT);
• (Godspeed scaling only) Survived being hit by Meruem’s tail, same hit that could punch a large hole into the Ant Nest (36.04 – 965.6 kilotons of TNT);

Weaknesses

Akame

  

In order to work, Akame's Murasame must pierce the actual flesh of her opponent, and draw blood to to apply its curse. This means that, normally, someone who has a blade-hard skin, armors, barriers, or anything that covers the skin, or hasn't blood or anything that makes a living being live, won't get one-shotted. All her buffs are temporary, and when they finish, they have serious drawbacks, like making her body feels sluggish, weakening her by a lot, or even dulling her senses, and if someone has a strong will, they can slow down Murasame's curse.

Killua

 

 Killua's Nen isn't limitless, and generally speaking it's kind of a double edged sword, as for example with Ko, it's true that he becomes 10x stronger, but has to leave all the rest of his body Nenless and vulnerable to being one-shotted. While it's true that Nen Crush has shown to, well, crush the opponents of the user, it... only works on people weaker than you. If your opponent has a stronger aura, strong willpower, and they can solidify their energy nodes with something similiar to Ten, Nen Crush isn't going to work. Also, Godspeed has a limitied time, and using specifically Whirlwind makes the form last from a potentially whole night, to only about 2 minutes at best, and if his Nen runs out, he'll die.

Verdict

Stats

At first, these two speedster assassin look evenly matched. After all, they both visually have shown to fight in the same scale of things, and both are known for moving very very fast. But what do the numbers themselves say?

 

Let's start with strenght, and by listing what Akame in her base form can do. She can definetly scale to her sister Kurome, as she beat her in battle, the same Kurome who commanded a Skeleton Danger Beast that unleashed an energy blast worth of  520 kilotons of TNT, and also to Mine physically, who with her Pumpkin, casually destroyed a massive trench of trees at almost 900 kilotons of TNT. If you want to go higher though, you can even scale Akame to some Revolutionary Teigu Users that have deflected some minor Shikoutazer beams, which pack a power of 32 megatons of TNT. By all this, Akame is City Level in base. And she can boost herself with Perfector Pill and what not to become stronger.

 

Killua is actually in a similiar case of power level in his base form. Alongside pushing a 64-ton door, Killua has also shown to physically scale to some of his friends, other members of the Hunter Association, and especially Phantom Troupe members, like Machi, who can create Nen Threads that can possibly surround the globe at 2.1 megatons of TNT, and an unknown user powering Greed Island's million of NCPs with an energy of 7 megatons of TNT. Killua did even damage Youpi with his own punches and kicks, who created a crater that ranges from 15 to 51 megatons of TNT!

 

Q: Didn't Killua beat up Youpi while being in Godspeed? His base form shoulnd't scale, right?

 

A: It is true that Killua damaged Youpi in Godspeed, but that superform doesn't increase Killua's strenght, only his speed. His level of power is implied to be the same in both forms. That's why we are giving him the scaling in base anyways, because it wouldn't change anything. 

 

 With that said, Killua can possibly outstat Akame in base, especially thanks to a 10 times boost in power thanks to Ko, which would make Killua's maximum possible attack potency (highballed) about 510 megatons of TNT! That'd be 5 times Mountain Level! But just in the specific part of the body where ALL his aura is focused on, which would leave him open and one-shottable elsewhere. Regardless, that level of power is certainly enough to one-shot Akame in her base form...

 

...but Little War Horn Akame? Hahaha, no. Thanks to Akame having 1v1'd Esdeath and beat her, she can basically scale to anything in her series, like Shikoutazer's more powerful energy blasts that reach up to gigatons/teratons levels of power, and Esdeath's Ice Storm, which is usually considered to reach petatons level of power. Regardless of what scaling you take, she's either Island to Multi-Continental! Let alone cursed poison, Akame only needs to bonk Killua's head to fucking reduce him into a bloodstain.

 

But what does speed say? Let's start by Akame again. In her base form, Akame has shown to move solidly at Mach speeds on multiple occasions, and react to Budou's lightning, which nearly clocks at Mach 925. Massively Hypersonic levels of speed. And in her Little War Horn form, or Perfector Pill form, she can highly upscale to Stage 2 Incusrio Tatsumi, who did the same thing, but with faster speeds at Mach 1192. Akame's scaling is impressive...

 

...but compared to Killua, it's inferior. Like her, in base form, Killua has solidly shown to move at baseline Mach speeds, but this time, his base form has an already impressive scaling, as he could react to Greed Island's accompany card, which makes beams that travel between continents at Mach 1185. The speed value gets duplicated with Machi's Nen String statement scaling reaching Mach 2715, and then aumented by a lot in Godspeed thanks to Killua's dart feat, which, by the most reasonable high end which i personally count, is about 3,3% The Speed Of Light, almost Mach 30.000. Although that's only his reaction speed, his lightning attack speed is something Akame has shown to react. But regardless, even if you want to multiply Akame's speed because of her stat boosts, she isn't surpassing Killua's reaction speed, as Whirlwind will also help him dodge automatically every attack as long he has the advantage in speed gap, or he's equal in speed.

 

So, we can say the picture is now clear. Considering both characters peak, Akame is one-shotting Killua, and resist or dodge every attack Killua will throw at her, but she's never going to catch him because Whirlwind and Dart scaling are annoying as hell, and also thanks to his better mobility thanks to skateboard and Speed of Lightning making him almost fluctuate for some seconds. This would technically make the Stats category a draw, as both these stats advantages neutralize the others'.

 

Abilities & Arsenal

This is complicated. On one hand, we are sure that Akame has better weaponry overall, but Killua has way more haxes and shit to throw at Akame. Yet, remember, Akame's adaption is insane, which would definetly let her keep up with the Zoldyck assassin, but will there be a winner for this category?

 

 Let's start by saying that both have very similiar things in their abilities set: after-images that can possibly counter both extrasensory perceptions that can detect visible beings, same perceptions that can theoretically let counter each other's stealth, making stealth a non factor (but... it's an assassin themed MU... come on...), and a final subconcious activating stat boost for when they are almost going to die. Both also have similiar levels of enhanched bloodlust sensing, being able to percieve it from even miles away, Assassin Mode and Kill Switch are the same thing, and both have ways to recover or boost energy thanks to Killua's taser and Akame's Perfector Pill.

 

And while Akame doesn't have a perfect counter against Killua's ranged options, like lightning bolts or bombs, and has a clear way to match on equal footing Snake Awakens and Killua's Yo Yo fighting style, thanks to her high swordswomanship range, and Killua's Nen Barriers do halt Akame's blade into scratching and one-shotting him (even if he'll still get damaged because of the sheer force impact, but without having to worry about the curse).

 

Speaking of, how can Killua even know that Akame's sword is cursed? Murasame's curse has been shown to possess a sentient aura, which is usually never shown unless something external stimulates the blade to make his aura leak out. Killua can see the weird aura with Gyo, and since he isn't stupid, prepare to clang against the sword without getting istantly killed (Nen, Yo-Yo's, Claws, objects that he can get infused with Shu, and so on).

 

But here's another question: Can Nen Crush work here? Well, for resisting Nen Crush, someone should be able to manipulate their own aura by making a strong enough Ten barrier, while having a lot of mental willpower and physical streght. Akame in her Little War Horn has shown to have the two latter things, but while Murasame has an aura, she never shown to control it. So, while Murasame's aura could paralyze Killua by the mere exposure, especially because of the much bigger power, Akame will also get paralyzed... or maybe not? Let's remember, when Akame is in her Little War Horn, she remembers and resists all the pain and agony of her past victims, and pull through that shit, you must have lots of willpower. So, It's likely she'll get past Killua's bloodlusted Nen exposure anyways.

 

Could Killua actually weaken Akame with his lightning? If we are talking about base Akame, then sure, he could, as she'd technically be weaker, but Little War Horn Akame? No, he'd literally have to attack her with strong lightning bolts thousands of times over to even just make her downgrade to his level of power, and since Akame can dodge his attacks thanks to her superb agility... it's not the best strategy. At best, he's paralyzing her a bit of times, but she will likely adapt to the paralyzing effects of his lightning. 

 

 And now, the top 1 question of this MU: what is Killua going to do if Murasame actually scratches him? He dies. Not istantly though. Murasame's curse specifically targets to shut down the heart, an organ, from which Killua could try to use the elctricity and body control to trying to slow down the curse, and Post-Mortem Nen could also help for a bit... but it would be worthless, as Murasame curse doesn't only mess up with your physical body, but also your spiritual energy, so even Killua's Nen would get annalihated, but thanks to Post Mortem Nen being alimented by the user's willpower, which is also how someone in AGK Zero resisted Murasame for a bit, we'd have to wait a bit for Killua to kick the bucket.

 

But still, to do allat, Akame has to hit him. Which it's unlikely that it will happen, because again, Whirlwind is annoying as hell. Killua is dodging all her attacks, ranged or close combat ones, because her attack speed is lower than Killua's reaction speed at his peak. If we wanted to treat this matchup as a Equal Stats debate, then Killua could most likely win because of his versatilty that just doesn't let Murasame one-shot him, but considering also stats, even this category is a draw... because again, Akame can OHK Killua, but his speed + Whirlwind just won't let her touch him.

 

 

Tertiary Factors

Tertiary Factors are things like Experience and IQ. Both series aren't just about the physical or the abilities, but are especially about strategy, which let you take on way stronger/faster opponents, A single error can be fatal here, so, let's see, who's got the better mental capabilities to win?

 

First, experience. Akame is older, by just a few years, and she only started training when she probably was about 4 years old, going by how old she is and how much time passed between her being sold by the empire, her training for 8 years, then the AGK Zero to normal AGK time skip, and the year between the Empire war and the Wakoku Island one. Meanwhile, Killua has been trained since he was 3, and currently he's 15. Pretty simple. Akame might have trained and fought for a longer time, but it was mostly against humans and Danger Beast. Meanwhile, Killua had to not only fight those, but also all kind of various and disgusting Chimera Ants. You can make good arguments for both for Experience, therefore i consider this a draw. But what about IQ? That category is straight up also a draw. Both do kinda have the same tactics, and form strategies that could counter each others, their Assassin Mode & Kill Switch mental states do have the same mindset, and both can counter space/time based abilities. Yep, this category is also a draw.

 

Stamina 

So. How did we get here? Akame is thousands of times stronger, she can one shot Killua, but she isn't hitting him because of Whirlwind istant dodging application and better mobility in Godspeed. Their abilities have ultimately been influenced by their stats, making also that category equal, and their skill, experience and IQ are comparable to the point nothing really changes. But let's remember. Both Little War Horn and Godspeed have a time limit. Both these assassins are really fast speedsters, but even the fastest of them all knows that without high stamina, that speed isn't lasting long.

 

 While Akame is stronger than Killua in Little War Horn, she'll become weaker than him when she returns in base, especially because of her curse making her body weaker, and by that moment, she couldn't pull out the Enji Drugs, because Killua would have already shit blitzed her. But if Killua runs out of his time for using Godspeed first, then he's done. He'd loose the speed advantage, he'd lose Whirlwind, and will soon rest in pieces. Therefore, this is one of those MU's where the winner is decided by a single, important category: Stamina.

 

Now, at first you may assume Killua takes this. Sure, Akame can fight in Little War Horn for like 4 minutes, but Killua's Godspeed lasts a whole night! Well, there's a problem with that. When Killua fought Youpi, he costantly used Whirlwhind to dodge his attacks, on top of also having shot a lightning bolt, which is a specific attack that made him loose a lot of energy. Costantly using those two specific techniques, especially the former, is a lot taxing on Killua's body, which made his form last about 2 minutes at best. 

 

Meanwhile, Akame fought a prolonged fight against Esdeath with her cursed form for almost 4 minutes, and she never stopped moving, reacting, attacking, and such. That's because nothing in her moveset of attacks actually makes her waste energy. And if Killua only limited himself to utilize Speed of Lightning, which is what he could use to last hours, he'd just couldn't use the specific ability that makes him have Sub-Rela reaction speeds, which would have meant that it was only a matter of time that Akame eventually catches up to him, and kills him. And what i said about Akame's Enji Drugs also go for Killua recharging with his taser. So, because Whirlwhind costs energy, which Killua has to costantly use to 100% escape from Akame's attacks, so he'll ultimately get outlasted, giving the currently ex-Night Raid assassin the win in this category.

  

Summary 

Akame

 

ADVANTAGES:

•  Way, WAAAY stronger in Little War Horn, to the point she can one-shot Killua;
• Her Murasame's curse like poison-like curse can 100% kill Killua if she hits him, both physically and also his Nen spirit energy;
• Way better weaponry;
• Resists Killua's Nen Crush;
• She can react to anything Killua throws at her; 
•  Better stamina that lets her outlast Godspeed;
• I wanna fuck her;

EQUAL: 

•  Akame can counter Killua's stealth attempts, but he can do the same to her;
• Same IQ and comparable experience;
• Comparable travel speeds;
• Abilities and arsenal ultimately didn't mean much since it still is a "hit Killua or get outlasted" situation for Akame, and a "avoid Akame's attacks or die" for Killua; 

DISADVANTAGES:

•  Weaker in base, and if her Little War Horn does finish, the curse will remain in her body, making her even weaker than normal, while Killua has no such drawbacks; 
• Slower, especially because of Whirlwind;
• Worse mobility and outranged;
• Less versatile;
• Killua's Nen barriers don't let Murasame one shot him right off the bat;
• The anime fumbled (PLEASE MAPPA MAKE AN ACTUAL GOOD ADAPTION);

Killua

 

 

 

ADVANTAGES:

•  Faster, especially because of Whirlwind;
• Way better mobility and range
• Killua's Nen barriers don't let Akame's Murasame one-shot him right off the bat;
• A much more variety of powers;
• If Godspeed expires, he doesn't become weaker;
• Drip and funni catboy;

EQUAL: 

•  Akame can counter Killua's stealth attempts, but he can do the same to her;
• Same IQ and comparable experience;
• Comparable travel speeds;
• Abilities and arsenal ultimately didn't mean much since it still is a "hit Killua or get outlasted" situation for Akame, and a "avoid Akame's attacks or die" for Killua; 

 

DISADVANTAGES:

•  "hAhA SpEeDbLiTz!1!1!" the faster mfer when the stronger mfer catches them;
• Less stamina, and his Godspeed is likely to get outlasted;
• Isn't surviving Murasame's curse, at most he can slow it down;
• Worse weaponry;
• Killua might have superior reaction speed, but his attack speed is something Akame can perfectly react to;
• No Nen Crush;
• Togashi pleeeasseeeeee.

 

Soo yeah. This MU was close, contrary to popular belief (no Patrick, just because someone is millions of time stronger doesn't mean they'll automatically win). Technically, this matchup winner was ultimately decided by stamina, which Akame took. Depending on how you interpret it, this MU can be considered either a low-mid diff win at lowest for Akame, or a high-extreme diff win for both at most. Killua had really good advantages, but the poor boy just coulnd't keep using them. 

 

Welp, Killua thought he was going to Hunt-her, but in the end, Akame ga Killua;

 

  

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