Nen Type Quiz: What Is Your Nen Type?

In Hunter x Hunter nobody chooses a Nen type. You are born with one of six, and the only reliable way to find out which is Water Divination — a glass of water, a leaf, and your aura. That is hard to arrange through a browser.

So this quiz uses the other method the series offers: Hisoka’s theory that each Nen type goes with a personality. He lays it out during his fight with Gon at Heavens Arena, and it is the only personality-to-type mapping in the story. Each of the 12 questions is built around the traits he names — an Enhancer’s single-mindedness, a Transmuter’s fickleness, a Conjurer’s nerves — and your answers are scored onto all six types at once.

You get your strongest type and the share of your answers that went to each of the others. Most people are a blend, and in the series that is true of Nen too: every user can use the types next to their own, just less efficiently.

Wing introduces Water Divination in Chapter 60 of the manga, adapted in Episode 35 of the 2011 anime. A leaf floats on a glass of water, the user holds their hands around the glass and performs Ren, and what happens to the water or the leaf reveals the type.

It is the only sure method shown in the series. Three Specialist results have appeared so far and no two are alike: Neferpitou’s leaf dries out and crumbles, Tserriednich’s water boils and gives off a foul smell, and Kurapika’s — as a Specialist — changes colour while the leaf spins.

The idea that personality predicts Nen type comes from Hisoka, during his fight with Gon at Heavens Arena in Chapter 62 (Episode 36 of the 2011 anime). He describes Enhancers as simple and determined, and his own type, Transmutation, as whimsical and prone to deceit.

He also undercuts it immediately. Hisoka says the theory is not science and compares it to judging someone’s character by blood type. So treat your result the way the story does: a good guess that is fun to argue with, not a measurement. This quiz is built on that theory, and it inherits the same limit.

A Nen user is not restricted to their own category. The six types sit on a hexagon, and efficiency falls off with distance: 100% in your own type, 80% in the two next to it, 60% in the next two, and 40% in the one directly opposite.

Chapter 83 gives a worked example. As a Conjurer, Kurapika has 100% efficiency in Conjuration, 80% in Transmutation, 60% in Enhancement and Manipulation, and 40% in Emission. Specialization sits between Conjuration and Manipulation on the chart, which is why a Conjurer gets only 60% in Manipulation rather than 80% — and it is the one type that cannot be partly used. For anyone who is not a Specialist it is simply 0%.

Kurapika is also the one character listed under two types. He is a Conjurer by birth and becomes a Specialist only while his Scarlet Eyes are active, when his ability Emperor Time gives him 100% efficiency in every category — at the cost of an hour of his lifespan for each second he uses it.