If villains are ever actually addressed and defeated, the majority of the time it will be done without any kind of fight in a blatant cop out. Most of the arcs have little to no continuity between each other as they get rid of early side protagonists, and any instances of recurring villains such as Hisoka and the Phantom Troupe are irrelevant to the plot.
The only constant characters available to follow are Gon and Killua. Gon is largely just generic while Killua gets most of the characterization. His character consists of being incredibly edgy due to his upbringing who wins practically every fight effortlessly, while still trying to appeal to viewers as an arbitrary "cute" kid interacting with Gon. It takes over 30 episodes for Killua to even be hit by any kind of attack, and over 40 for him to actually lose.
Only in the Chimera Ant arc, which starts in episode 76, does the series actually begin to resemble a traditional Shonen and manage to build up some good and interesting characters. Almost all of these characters are completely new or had very little appearances, with the only real carryovers being Gon and Killua who aren't particularly relevant to the plot anymore, with the best episodes being ones where they barely appear. This arc has actual good fights and interesting abilities used in clever ways, after the series has been doing its best to avoid them for the past 75 episodes.
While I could recommend this series for the first half of this arc, at the point where the heroes invade the villain's palace the series slows to a crawl. From this point on, the series has terrible pacing issues with an obnoxious narrator going over everything in grating detail, and regularly cuts to irrelevant characters such as Ikalgo and Welfin. The series has a highly subverted anticlimax after hours upon hours of great build up, so shocking that I stopped watching the series before the final epilogue episodes in disgust.
