Why should we assume Pariston is weak?

Ging implied that pariston was physically weak.

Extremely intelligent & strong characters in hxh are known to be playful with their words. Sometimes they’re known to outright lie. At some point in the story Netero and Zeno have also implied similar things about their own strength in their encounters with pitou and chrollo. Both are definitely stronger later in the story then we’re led to believe at first.

I can think of three reasons for this:

• The unpredictable nature of Nen battles

• Making them unreliable on purpose to add more substance to their character

• Inconsistent writing from Togashi

Either way, by the time we see pariston in action I don’t think gings statement will even matter anymore.

Also do we even need pariston to be strong? What do you guys think.