Cheetu

No one talks about this stupid annoying speedster.

Cheetu's ability and personality make a really really interesting point about nen types that I haven't seen anyone really bring up.

First, lets establish a few things.

When Gon is training with Bisky, and surpises her with his emission ability, she comments that he must be an enhancer closer to an emitter than transmuter. This indicates that nen type is not a single solid type with no bleed over, and people have different kinds of predisposition even within their own type. I would assume that this also means Gon is better at conjuration than manipulation.

While testing for traps and figuring out the Hei-Ly family, the spiders mention that teleportation is generally an emissive ability.

Hisoka mentions as part of his type guide that emitters tend towards ranged abilities.

Furykov has some guidelines for identifying nen users and their types, and he explains that conjurors tend to leave their dominent hand free because their abilities will use it.

Okay. Establishing out of the way. Lets talk about Cheetu's abilities.

Cheetu's primary ability we're going to call Tag. When he touches a target, they teleport with him to a mini-savannah. Cheetu then explains that the target must touch him before time is up, and start the 8-hour timer. We do not know what happens if they don't catch Cheetu, but we know that if they do, he loses use of the ability.

Cheetu's second ability, we're going to call Emergency Crossbow, is him conjuring a claw+crossbow on his hand.

Okay, established nen stuff and Cheetu's ability. Where the fuck is this going?

My hypothesis is that Cheetu is a mix of a conjuror and an emitter.

Bisky's comment proves that even with a primary type, nen users can be caught between two type: but my theory goes further, that these types do not have to be next to each other (like emission and enhancement are)

Hisoka's personality test says that conjurors tend to plan and emitters tend to be impatient. This is a perfect description of Cheetu. He has a plan- trap you and make you play tag, but its hastily made, he clearly didn't think his own ability through.

Finally, Emergency Crossbow includes key elements from common conujuror and emissive abilities; its a ranged ability [emitter] involving his dominent hand [conjuror]. Additionally, like Tag, this ability is an impatient plan, Morel makes a great point asking why he has an ability that's slower than him, and closing the distance to use its claws also ends up being a mistake.

Now, to earn that spoiler tag.

The value of scientific theories is determined by their predictive power.

So lets run an experiment.

This is Matvere.

He is one of Morena's "players" and is focused, at present, on killing Hinrigh. He is, like many of Morena's crew, kind of an insane person. He is level 21 with morena's ability and has gained nen.

When two members return from fighting hinrigh and ask for an emitter, he immidiately volunteers even though he is a conjuror. He explains he was hoping to be an emitter.

My hypothesis is thus: Matvere, like cheetu, is a Conjuror/Emitter and his ability will feature several of the follow:

- use of Dominent Hand

- Ranged

- Mostly a conjuror ability with small emitter elements

- Solve the problem directly in front of him

I believe that mixed nen types are a thing evem across the nen chart