Have you ever been in a real fight before? I'm not talking about you & your friend getting pissed at each other & throwing out some devastating shoves. I mean a real fight. Where crazy shit happens & nothing can be completely controlled.

What I'm tryna say is, violence isn't as simple enough where there can be a strongest. There are situations where someone who is seemingly stronger (which I'll admit, Meruem might be overall stronger. MIGHT BE). But someone like that can be defeated & killed by someone seemingly weaker.

Take this scenario for example, of course if you shoot Mike Tyson, he'll die. But don't look at a japanese cartoon fight to the death as a regulated boxing or mma match cause it's not. Because then yes killing mike tyson that way would be ridiculous.

In a fight to kill, a real fight, it'd be fine to shoot someone dead over boxing them. Especially if they're someone like mike tyson who would box anyone under the table in real life. But a real fight isn't held to the same standards, like I said in my post. What kind of dumbass tries to beat someone at their own game when their opponent is a master in comparison?

At the end of the day Meruem was killed by Netero, because much like nen, the nuke was a tool. Meruem only made use of his nen, maybe if he hadn't he woulda survived. But I don't really care much for the maybe situations you're suggesting cause what actually happened is Netero killed the ant king & 2 of his royal guards.