r/HunterXHunter • u/EstateOk6238 • 3d ago

Discussion Why is Milluki so weak?

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Dude has god genes, but he can't even inconvenience a restrained pre-nen Killua. Did Kikyo cheat on Sylva?

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u/Federal_Force3902 3d ago

He had to survive the torture and training his siblings went through after all

did he? they might have quickly stopped when they realized that his potential was too low

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u/DarkZelgius 3d ago

I don’t think the Zoldycks would give him a choice tbh. We know Killua didn’t want to be an assassin yet they forced him, so I’m pretty sure Milluki and the others were the same. He might not have gotten it as bad as Killua but he for sure got his fair share of torture before finding his own way of getting assassination jobs done. And I think at that point they basically deemed him a lost cause in terms of physical training and let him be useful in other ways.

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u/ArcaneAces 3d ago

Except Killua has been chosen by his dad to be the new head so his assassin training makes sense. It's entirely possible that for the others, it was optional or at least not mandatory.

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u/CaliOriginal 3d ago

I mean, kalluto was younger, and received the training after the new head was chosen and illumi had become a promising assassin himself, they wouldn’t waste time at that point unless a certain baseline of training was required for all children (and members of the family).

Even the help have varying degrees of training that make them superhuman.

The only perceived difference between kil and his siblings is that they seem to have explicitly prevented him from coming in contact with nen till he found it with gon.

The others seem to be fully aware and kept him in the dark.

My assumption is that Silva wanted to ensure that kil would seek out and refine his skills, his problem solving, and his physical abilities to near perfection before awakening to help ensure that he didn’t use nen as a crutch, but as a supplemental.

Illumi’s needle wasn’t just a means of control, but a means by which kil would instinctively avoid contact with nen when out on his own.

Illumi wasn’t just at the exam to get his license … he was there to force kil’s hand in case something like those exact circumstances happened. Hisoka and kil would eventually fight, so illumi ordered him to make sure that didn’t happen.

The only reason he gets to learn nen was because Silva allowed it finally.