Hunter x Hunter: 10 Nen Abilities More Broken Than Yhwach’s The Almighty, Ranked

Even though Yhwach’s The Almighty might be one of the most broken abilities in the world of shonen anime, the Hunter x Hunter series does not back down from its set of broken Nen abilities. Yes, Yoshihiro Togashi’s series has more than a handful of abilities that are on par – if not more broken – than future manipulation.

Without further ado, here are some of the most broken Hunter x Hunter Nen abilities that we feel are more broken than the Quincy King’s The Almighty. Furthermore, we also ranked them by how broken each ability is. It’s worth noting here that the word “broken” doesn’t imply strength but the unfair nature of the power. To put it in simple terms: broken here implies the kind of abilities that break the rules of fair play or create brutal, unwashable traps for anyone caught in them.

TITLE	Hunter X Hunter
STUDIO	Madhouse
RELEASE DATE	October 2, 2011
IMDb RATING (as of July 30, 2026)	9/10
WHERE TO WATCH	Crunchyroll

10 Blinky’s Bottomless Vacuum Cleaner Erases Any Trace of Evidence

Shizuku Murasaki’s conjured vacuum cleaner, Blinky, can suck up an unlimited amount of non-living matter and make it disappear for good, no size cap, no time limit. It has erased entire crime scenes, drained a rival’s blood in seconds, and even removed a parasite planted inside Uvogin.

The Almighty only shows Yhwach what’s coming; Blinky just deletes the problem outright, no vision required, so its brokenness is blunt-force practical rather than cosmic. Ranked last because it’s devastatingly useful but strictly physical, with none of the precognitive or reality-bending scope that defines the abilities above it.

9 God’s Accomplice Deletes Meleoron From Existence Completely

Already one of the most unique Nen abilities, Meleoron’s God’s Accomplice goes past ordinary invisibility. It strips him of sight, sound, smell, touch, and even his aura signature, so nothing detects him, not even an expert’s En. He can extend the effect to allies too, turning a whole team into ghosts mid-fight.

Yhwach’s Almighty lets him dodge the future; Meleoron simply isn’t part of the present anymore. It’s a quieter kind of broken, built for the perfect opening strike rather than godlike control. It sits above Blinky because erasing your own existence from every sense is a harder trick than erasing objects, though it still can’t touch fate itself.

8 Possession Arrow Steals an Enemy’s Body With a Single Shot

Halkenburg Hui Guo Rou’s Possession Arrow is basically an instant-win button. Fired from aura drawn off his sworn followers, the arrow pierces any defense, and on contact it swaps the target’s will for one of Halkenburg’s men, who now fully controls that body while the original just sleeps.

Nen mastery, armor, raw strength – none of it matters once the arrow lands. Unlike The Almighty, it can’t preview the fight, but landing the shot ends it just as surely. It edges past invisibility and vacuuming because it doesn’t just remove a threat; it hijacks the person entirely, which is a scarier finish line.

7 Parallel Future Previews Ten Seconds Before They Even Happen

Tserriednich Hui Guo Rou’s Parallel Future from the HxH manga lets him sit in Zetsu and watch the next ten seconds play out exactly as they will, then reset back to the present with all that knowledge intact. It’s the closest thing in Hunter x Hunter to Yhwach’s precognition, just on a much shorter leash.

Ten seconds sounds small until you realize it’s enough to dodge a killing blow or set up the perfect counter before your opponent even commits to the swing. This ranks higher than pure combat tricks because it’s genuine foresight, the exact concept The Almighty is built on, even if the window is far narrower.

6 Hide and Seek Opens an Instant Escape to a Pocket Dimension

Knov’s Hide and Seek conjures a private pocket dimension full of rooms and hallways that only he can enter, and getting there takes zero travel time. That means instant repositioning across a battlefield, a safe place to stash wounded allies, and a hidden armory nobody else can ever find.

It doesn’t touch fate the way The Almighty does, but a get-out-of-danger button with no cooldown and no distance limit is its own kind of unfair advantage. It beats Tserriednich’s ability here because it isn’t just information; it’s a fully usable escape hatch that changes the geometry of a fight in real time.

5 Emperor Time Turns Kurapika Into a Truly Flawless Nen User

Kurapika’s Emperor Time strips away the natural inefficiency every Nen user suffers when they step outside their native category. Nen is already one of the most complicated power systems in shonen. While it’s active, he gets full proficiency across every single one: enhancement, conjuration, manipulation, transmutation, and emission, all at once.

Add his already lethal chains into that mix, and he becomes something closer to a perfected Nen user than anyone else in the cast, briefly matching the “no weakness” energy Yhwach carries permanently. It outranks Knov’s dimension because it doesn’t just help him escape or hide; it fundamentally removes his limitations while it lasts.

4 Terpsichora Keeps Fighting Long After Its Owner Has Already Died

Neferpitou’s Terpsichora isn’t a spell so much as an autonomous puppet riding shotgun in Pitou’s own body, pushing muscles past what fear or hesitation would normally allow. The genuinely disturbing part is that it doesn’t need a living mind to keep functioning; after Pitou was killed with one of anime’s most satisfying punches, Terpsichora still launched one last attack on Gon at full combat capability.

A weapon that outlives its own wielder edges toward the kind of unkillable persistence The Almighty gives Yhwach. It ranks above Emperor Time because a boost is still tied to its user’s life, while Terpsichora proved it can operate without one at all.

3 Aura Synthesis Lets Meruem Absorb Every Power He Encounters

HxH‘s best written character, Meruem‘s own ability, Aura Synthesis, lets him absorb, study, and permanently fold another Nen user’s aura and techniques into himself, coming out stronger, faster, and more versatile every single time. Most abilities are stuck with whatever ceiling they were born with; this one has no ceiling, since every new opponent becomes fuel for the next fight instead of a threat.

Its most striking use came after the Poor Man’s Rose poisoned him, when he devoured two Royal Guards and inherited their techniques outright. It beats Terpsichora because it isn’t a one-time trick; it’s a permanent multiplier that compounds with every fight Meruem survives.

2 Skill Hunter Turns Every Rival’s Ability Into Free Ammunition

Chrollo Lucilfer’s Skill Hunter needs him to witness a technique, question its owner, and get a handprint on his conjured book Bandit’s Secret, all inside one hour, but once those boxes are checked, the ability is his and the original owner can’t use it anymore. He can even hold two stolen techniques ready at once.

Where The Almighty rewrites Yhwach’s own future, Skill Hunter rewrites who gets to have power at all, turning every strong enemy into a future weapon for Chrollo instead. It sits at second because it doesn’t just boost Chrollo; it actively subtracts strength from everyone he steals from, compounding across an entire fight.

1 Nanika’s Wish-Granting Can Rewrite Reality With No Real Limit

Nanika, the entity sharing Alluka’s body, can grant almost any wish handed to it, healing fatal wounds, killing a target outright, whatever is asked, with no clear ceiling on scale. It can even wipe out Satoru Gojo from JJK. The only check on it is brutal: after a wish, Alluka must complete a set of increasingly hard requests, and failing enough of them gets people killed.

Even Yhwach’s Almighty only lets him pick between futures that could exist; Nanika can just manifest an outcome that wasn’t possible in the first place. It tops the list because The Almighty is still bound by causality and existing possibility, while Nanika’s wishes answer to nothing but their own cruel cost.

RANKING	NEN ABILITY	USER
1	Wish Granting	Nanika
2	Skill Hunter	Chrollo Lucilfer
3	Aura Synthesis	Meruem
4	Terpsichora	Neferpitou
5	Emperor Time	Kurapika
6	Hide and Seek	Knov
7	Parallel Future	Tserriednich Hui Guo Rou
8	Possession Arrow	Halkenburg Hui Guo Rou
9	God’s Accomplice	Meleoron
10	Blinky	Shizuku Murasaki

What are your thoughts on our ranked list of Nen abilities from Hunter x Hunter that potentially are more broken than Yhwach’s The Almighty? We’d love to know your top picks and opinions in the comments below.

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