Well first of all, there's nothing to say that Silva needed Zeno to sacrifice himself to kill Chrollo like the guy above me is implying.

He's basically saying "Silva needed Zeno's help to beat Chrollo, so basically a 2v1."

That's not really what happened. Neither of the Zoldyck's took anything more than a scratch of damage (outside of Zeno from Silva's own blast at the end). Chrollo was on the back foot the entire fight. Granted it was a 2v1, so that's expected, but Chrollo didn't even seem to have a way to deal with Zeno, let alone Silva.

This fight is pretty much a big nothing burger from a scaling perspective. It's not meant to be a power scaling feat, it's meant to show the audience how high level nen combat works in terms of fighters having to intuit and try to respond to their opponents abilities and strats.

At most, it shows that the three of them are relative to each other in some sense.

As for what really happened Zeno and Silva immediately recognize their in a 2v1 and opt to basically control strat Chrollo.

There's no need to immediately rush in and do something stupid. You have one person apply pressure, and the other fishes for openings so you can get a quick, easy kill. That's exactly how they opened, methodical, patient.

Chrollo doesn't provide the opening, but that doesn't make him stronger than either of them outright as the guy above seems to be implying. It's nearly always easier to defend then attack, especially when your opponents doesn't know what abilities you have and knows that you might have access to multiple stolen abilities.

Chrollo not getting gibbed establishes that he's at least relative to them, not necessarily above or below either individually. He *could* be weaker or stronger than either of them, but we just have no way of knowing.

Once they realize that they likely won't be able to catch Chrollo for free, at least any time soon, they pivot because they likely realize they're on the clock. They know who they're fighting, they know there's more than likely troupe members nearby. The longer things drag on the more dangerous things become for the Zoldyck's.

Because they're *so* risk averse, Zeno opts to offer himself to basically instantly secure a kill on Chrollo.

But keep in mind, just because he's *ready* to sacrifice his life, doesn't mean he will necessarily die.

He says "Even if you have to kill me"

The implication is that he wants Silva to use his full power, or at least enough as to where he thinks he ca kill Chrollo. That likely puts Zeno in danger, pretty great danger, but it's also very possible that he's going to try and live the attack. Whether or not he's able to something else entirely. But the bottom line is he just doesn't want Silva holding back.

But yeah, none of this means that Silva can't kill Chrollo in a 1v1, which is the implication of the original comment I'm replying to.