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Cant remember if they explained it or not. So a Nen abilities power is some combination of how powerful the person using it is, whether that ability aligns with their specialty, and the scope of where/when/how the ability can be used (I.e. only targeting specific people, enhanced power due to an RNG element, etc).

whats stopping people from making 1 million abilities, all very specific, so they are all very OP? But theres so many that they always have multiple answers to every scenario. Or creating a new ability mid combat, something like Insta kill this person, but if I use it on anyone else then Im the one who dies and then just making a new one of those for everyone they fight

You can only use techniques affiliated to you which are a few. And stronger techniques come with a price.

Only Chrollo seems to be exception because his ability is to steal others but the price is it ia difficult to setup and he has to hold his book.

Nen rules stopped mattering a long time ago

Generally speaking the amount of time, effort, and feeling you put into the ability is also a major factor. This means that if you don't have an ability that is a bit special in this regard you can potentially make a large number of abilities but because you are spreading yourself thin you will end up weakening your average ability every time you add in a new one. Thus if you tried to do a "Well now I have the ability to just instantly kill you!" your emotions might be there but you definitely do not have it somewhat ingrained into you in the same sort of way that someone who had spent significant time on having a power that did just that would have and thus the ability would almost assuredly fail. This also happens on the Nen level where you are stretching your Nen out to the point that the average skill might suffer sheerly because of just throwing on a new ability. This is why most characters will take a basic ability and then try and figure out a way to make it specifically be the gas behind everything as one 100% powered ability is stronger than two 50% powered ones. Specialties are, really, a bit more of a hand wave in most respects as they are more of a personality test than anything else. While they are obviously not played as such there is no character that I'm aware of that doesn't follow an archetype that would be considered average for their specialty, so it really does boil down to a "life lessons" bit.

And Chrollo is basically the person you are thinking of as far as the whole "million abilities" thing, but taken into the context of the universe in question. As he steals abilities he essentially has an overwhelming number compared to everyone else, and he gets around the restrictions by having effectively one actual ability: stealing other people's abilities. Kurapika is the other major character in terms of having notably more than the average abilities (and not just off-shoots from the same ability) but he largely gets around it by having both a bit of a special bloodline as well as amping his resolve by having his relevant abilities literally killing him if he uses them against a non-Spider individual. In that vein it really wouldn't make sense for someone to be able to really replicate this in the way that you are talking about as Kurapika has almost his entire character motivation based around his hatred for the spiders so where he can leverage that fervor into more abilities without losing power, the average person is not really going to have such an emotional attachment to everything to the point that they could get such a violent reaction every time that they could ever make a specialized ability.

Whats the deal with that guy with long black hair and completely BLACK eyes. He's weird.

Mr_hulk88 posted...

Whats the deal with that guy with long black hair and completely BLACK eyes. He's weird.

He is an assassin