Quote Originally Posted by Kraco View Post
Uvo was much more of a genuine fighter than most of the others (not counting Hisoka, naturally, and maybe the swordsman). His fight with Kurapika was a perfect duel they agreed on earlier when they met. There's absolutely nothing wrong about a fighter dying in a duel. After all, out of two, one must die, and they had nothing else going on (Kurapika's was a mission of slaying Spiders or die trying). I'm sure Uvo died as a happy man in that sense, even if the fight might have been a bit unsatisfactory; he was in chains unable to do much for the latter half of it, after all. But that's what nen fights are like. It's vastly different from Kite vs Pitou, because that was a fight with no meaning for Kite. Kite's goal was to slay the Queen before the King was born, or, I'd guess, slay both the Queen and the first and only King if it had been born already. The rest of the ants could and should have waited, being sterile.
You really are applying quite the double standard here. Is the purpose of the duel not to win it? Uvo failed at it, and made quite a few mistakes during the fight to lead him down that path. Further more, he walked squarely into a trap laid out by Kurapika due to his damaged pride of being caught by him in the first place. Kite set out to kill the queen but was stopped in his tracks by someone stronger than him that he had no way of predicting would show up. Even the omniscient audience is left confused by how someone as strong as Neferpitou was born in the first place, given that the queen hasn't really fed on a decent supply of nen users. Kite's mission had as much of a probability of failure as Uvo's duel with Kurapika. Both played the odds and failed, and somehow I am to believe that this demonstrates that Uvo is a better fighter than Kite?

Also, do you believe that Kite's death was somehow preventable if he had been alone? I don't think it would have turned out any differently. He still would have died at Pitou's hands since she was dead set on trying to kill him to test her strength. The only reason Gon and Killua escaped is because killing them would not have served that purpose.