could knuckle defeat maram knuckle is of course one of the very few characters in Hunter Hunter with a nen ability that could technically bring down the ant king I'm not saying that it's at all likely but I want to know if it's possible and this matchup is sponsored by Squarespace the platform that provides you with the tools to create your own custom websites and online stores to engage with your audience on your terms but more about them later and knuckle is a very fun candidate to analyze because his inability despite it being quite complex is actually very straightforward and completely unambiguous because it's all matths as opposed to other potential maram Killers like say thinkx whose rip a cyclotron could maybe technically if given enough time produce enough power to kill marowan but the problem is we have no way of measuring that power and therefore no way of knowing how many times it is that FX would need to rotate his armed charge it and therefore how long it would take to do all of the rotations with knuckle however we can calculate his ability to defeat marow right down to the second so we're going to ask what is Knuckles an N ability hakar how much Aura does maram have and how long would it take for knuckle to bankrupt the ant king let's begin knuckle is a very simple boy and Hunter Hunter he's a natural emitter with one hatu called hakari which has one known function being bankruptcy Chapter 7 here knuckle owns a portion of his Aura usually delivered via rolence and punch consisting of anywhere between 2 to 300 units of Aura Aura which the opponent is in free to use however they'd like yes this hatu actually makes the opponent stronger however there is a however at some stage during fight the opponent must pay back the aura loaned which by itself isn't too difficult of a task however every 10 seconds the loaned Aura acrs interest at a rate of 10% rapidly making the aura payment amount bigger and bigger all of which is kept track of by this delightsome little mascot called APR which stands for amortizing power redirector knuckle has effectively weaponized the concept of compound interest but the intention is that the number grows out of control so quickly that the opponent becomes physically incapable of repaying it thus defaulting on their debt and going bankrupt and once bankrupt APR transforms into IRS the individual Ren suppressor and forces the user into a state of zetsu for 30 days making them completely nude no Aura control no abilities able to be used and just leaving them very very vulnerable and hakara has no maximum debt limit so there is no creature on this planet or whatever the hunter hunter world is no creature on the that can outdo hakara in a strict Battle of attrition and that includes maram there are some caveat though for interest to a crew knuckle must be within 50 m of his opponent which is confusing because hunt Hunter itself is very inconsistent about this in chapter 235 the radius was initially stated to be 100 m but then in chapter 308 it appears to be Recons to 50 m on the bright side neither knuckle nor the opponent are able to physically hurt each other whilst hakara is active all of the punch fighting back and forth just equates to loaring more Aura and repaying Aura however the ability will cease as soon as the loan repayment is made in full to knuckle AKA if knuckle was to punch you you with 200 units of Aura and then you immediately smacked him back with a 200 AA punch then you've paid him back and hakara deactivates but obviously that becomes much more difficult if you're unable to hit knuckle within even a minute of the ability activating because again interest URS every 10 seconds so now all we need to figure out is how many units of Aura maram has and we have our answer that's much less simple though we need to start with maro's royal guard UPI it's very commonly stated on the internet that up has an approximate Aura quantity of 700,000 units and this is because knuckle himself stated that Up's Ora could be about 10 times out of moral who had 70,000 units I want to stress that this is far from an exact measurement though in the manga knuckle manages to just suck a punch up activate hakara and then knuckle simply says I can't see the limit of his Aura and then the narat went on to describe knuckle as a veteran over 5,000 battles no was able to quantify his opponent's power based on past experiences and Instinct and coming across a foe with unprecedented Powers was not even a rare event but up was a monster with such a Titanic amount of aura that he was on an entirely different scale than even the most powerful opponents knuckle had ever fought so here's a common misconception kno's hatu doesn't give him the ability to strictly quantify Aura that's just an extra sense that he sort of developed as a result of using this ability in over 5,000 battles which is that it's a lot of battles by the way knuckle isn't all that old maybe mid to late 20s and to have already fought 5,000 battles is something like a fight every 2 days since he was born but the aura quantification is something that knle has developed as a vague Instinct it's not a precise number and because knuckle had never faced an opponent on Up's level before knuckle was left completely in the dark like trying to measure the length of a city when all you have is one of those wooden 30 cm rulers from primary school so knuckle is forced to make a guess he initially posits that up Zora is five times more than moral but then corrects himself to 10 times but but also ominously adds more he has no idea however for the sake of coming up with a practical plan knle decides to use the 10 times number and calculate how long it would take for up to go bankrupt and I'd say it wasn't all that bad a guess considering that later on during the palace Invasion the narrator blatantly states that up has less than 500,000 AA units remaining the problem being we don't know how much AA up spent before that point given his tremendously overwhelming abilities it was likely quite a bit and he would continue to spend big because the final number we see on APR for up is 37,6 184 which was displayed less than 5 seconds before up was set to go bankrupt so according to that really helpful clock that pops up all over the palace Invasion according to that up spent about 100,000 Aura in the space of about 3 and 1/2 minutes so if up was forced to go through the energy rating system then he would get zero probably even minus stars but with that in mind I think that 700,000 units Vora might even be conservative for up he could even be approaching the million mark but fair play to knuckle because he was in the right General range of unattainability but then we have marow and look knuckle can feasibly hit marm the same way he did with up via collaborating with meeron and his perfect plan hatsu which makes them both nice and seemingly non-existent but in the same way that up was completely off the scale for the most above average of human n users maram is completely off the scale for the Royal Guards the only way that maram could possibly make his presence more dominant would be with the sponsor of this video Squarespace through squ space you can sell anything through an exceptionally easy to set up online store be it physical digital or service products in my case I sell physical shirts and mate you would be surprised just how much of a pain doing something as simple as that can be which is why I genuinely use and love Squarespace because they make it merely simple yet somehow still really good Squarespace offers an incredible amount of ready too website templates that are customizable to your heart's content through the fluid engine a Next Generation website design system to further unlock and cultivate your creativity so you can can and should check out Squarespace through my link in the description which will save you 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain and thank you so much again to Squarespace because it's sponsors like this that make producing our fictional Hunter content possible on a regular basis so please do check them out but for now it's back to you me so if we go with knuckles's original scale which again turned out to be somewhat Accura is you might be able to assume that maram aura is conservatively 10 times out of up so if we wanted to use the popular knuckle calculation then we're looking at at least seven million units of Aura honestly it could be a lot more but I'm going to use this conservative number to demonstrate just how absurd the situation is so let's say that knuckle lands a really hard punch we're talking like 300 units of aura that kind of punch with that and that alone at that rate it would take almost 17 minutes for marow to go bankrupt but look knuckle he's a very resourceful boy for example in the fight against gone he actually loaned gon some more Aura what what a generous guy which took gon's debt to just over 500 Ora so let's use that let's say he's able to land two punches on maram these punches totaling 500 Ora if that was to be the case then that would cut Knuckles overall Time by not even a single minute with 500 units of Aura compounding by 10% interest every 10 seconds maram would go bankrupt at 16 minutes on the dot which I bring up because look you can definitely see knuckle being able to hit marowan once so long as he and Mell are on a using God's accomplice that is but it's very very difficult to see knuckle being able to hit maram a second time and what's worse is that the reward for hitting him a second time is almost meaningless in the grand scheme of things because remember that knuckle needs to stay within 50 MERS of maram for 16 whole minutes and also remember that in the final Clash of netro versus maram they exchanged over a th000 blows in less than a minute it was a rough ask for even Isaac Neto to survive 16 minutes with marijam in fact their whole fight was probably less than that so you know what we we need to be super generous here if no's going to have any chance that's just what we going to have to do let's say that knuckle has a plan like a really good plan and he gets in a flurry of hits they're not going to be as powerful as one concentrated hit but each punch has say 250 units of or backing it and maybe knuckle is good enough to hit maram 10 times so that's an initial investment of 2,500 units that marijam needs to repay and in this absolutely outrageously lucky case to start with such a huge Advantage it would still take just over 13 minutes to bankrupt marijam that's the thing about com pound interest with the principal amount it can often feel like it's doing nothing nothing at all for years and years on end then it just hits a point where it quite rapidly snowballs it's all about patience and that's not something we can really afford with marijam because at this point even doing the impossible has only managed to shave three minutes of an almost 17-minute battle against a God so it's looking pretty bad but we do still have one option let's take knuckle's absolute best case scenario because the ant king marowan he's always down for a game so if knuckle strolls in and says yep yo ant bro let me hit you with 100% of my aura it'll be fun marowan would likely respond with sure thing mate so is knuckle's maximum amount of Aura enough to bring down marow as quickly as we need to be well weirdly knuckle has never revealed how much Aura he has he's very good at exposing everyone else whil keeping his own Secrets but in theory he doesn't need all that much hakara is a very low AA hatu and other than that all knuckle really uses AA for is basic enhancement as well as the basic and advanced principles of nen knuckle's Max output probably isn't all that much higher than gonz which is 21,500 when it comes to the hand-to-hand enhancer style fighting that were pretty evenly matched which is great for knuckle he he's not an enhancer he's a natural emitter so to think he could take on a natural enhancer in pure hand-to-hand n combat speaks to both his experience and his quantities of Aura gone himself even knew that he would be at a disadvantage if he fought knuckle in a battle of attrition and that's why gone was always dipping into his D junkan series he couldn't beat knuckle straight up so his only option was to try andate create an opening for one big old punch whatever the case knuckle was a clear Step Above gone in terms of Aura quantity I'd put him anywhere between 30 to 40,000 units just due to how comfortable he was keeping Pace with gone and keeping in mind that there's definitely a big gap between knuckle and moral as well for the sake of argument let's be generous we're going to go on the upper end let's say that knuckle has a maximum Aura output of 40,000 units and that marow agrees to let knuckle hit him with all 40,000 units surely surely surely with that much debt marowan would have but seconds to pay it off before going bankrupt and losing n himself well again prepared to be very disappointed by maths because with a very generously estimated maximum potential of Knuckles full power maram would go bankrupt in about 8 and 1 half minutes and against marow that may as well be 16 minutes it may as well be an hour it may as well be a day the only way for this to work would be to somehow invest an amount of aura that would send marowan bankrupt faster then melon's perfect plan deactivates aka before melon needs to breathe which actually the dude can hold his breath for a pretty long time a maximum of 2 minutes so with that in mind how much Aura would we need to make maram go bankrupt in 2 minutes well in order to accomplish this with perfect plan you would need to hit maram with an initial investment of just over 3 million units of Aura which is the equivalent of 139 full power guns striking maram with 100% of everything they have simultaneously now let's say we find a way for that impossible situation to occur maram is bankrupt within 2 minutes knu comes out he says haha you fell for my for the thing I did even after all of that does it even matter one of the most terrifying things about maram is that despite being the most powerful living thing in a world full of nen users he himself barely uses nen at all in fact almost every application we saw of nen from maram had nothing to do with offensive abilities we saw him use go which he could do from birth we also saw him use n to a degree that I don't think any living thing will ever match and he did also use Ren but that's more of a psychological attack a violent projection of Ora like a big old nen peacock and with Ora synthesis he does have the ability to Devour the aura and even n ability of others which only enhanced his reserves further and did show us an extremely rare case of maram using Aura offensively when he fired one of Up's rage blasts into a mountain range and wiped it out with a single casual hit I know this seems absurd but I say all of this just to point out that maram doesn't even really use the power system that he was born into as an effective God even against netro you could make the argument that maram never went beyond the very basic principles he really only used 10 and Ren so what I'm getting at is that even if knuckle manages to reduce maram to a state of zetsu even then I think that maram is so naturally strong and fast that knuckle still wouldn't be able to beat him and that's after we've stacked Miracle on Miracle to get knuckle to this point so could knuckle beat maram maybe but he would need to hit the ant king with an aura investment totaling almost four whole royal gods and that's at the conservative end so we'll change that maybe to a no he just isn't capable of generating the principal amount necessary but you let me know in the comments who do you think has a better chance of beating maram than knuckle
