Intelligence: Genius combatant (Hisoka is easily one of the most devious and intelligent characters in the entire series. Hisoka is an expert tactician and schemer with excellent analytical abilities. Though at high personal risk, he succeeded in manipulating the Spiders into staying in Yorknew so he could fight Chrollo and to forge a fake prophecy in minutes, if not seconds, after receiving the original, perfectly replicating its style. While on Greed Island, he managed to trick Killua, although both he and Biscuit remained suspicious of him. His aptitude for reading others' character and finding common traits allowed him to create a personality-based system to determine Nen types. Although he admits it is unreliable, he has been correct every time he was seen resorting to it. Hisoka is also an exceptional strategist who can formulate winning plans at the very start of a confrontation. He frequently puts up an outlandish or even arrogant act to fool his opponents into believing he is careless, but he is laying traps in actuality. He excels not only at planning but also at picking apart enemy strategies, compiling all the available information, coming up with multiple hypotheses in mere seconds and the heat of battle, and rapidly adapting to new developments. He is a master hand-to-hand combatant, quickly making his way up to the 200th floor without a single use of Nen. He frequently defeats his foes with trickery, reflecting Gotoh's coins at him as a mere distraction before appearing from above and slicing his throat. He is also sadistic and ruthless in combat, never relenting unless he feels that he has something to gain from his target or if they have the potential to grow further. He even devised a successful plan to revive himself from the dead when he was cornered by Chrollo Lucifer, with the latter being one of the few characters in the series to make a fool of him.)
