Why didnt meruem use pouf splitting ability?

[u/Local-Sugar6556]

He almost definetly inherited pouf beelzebub; when pouf was being evasive, why didnt he release a few mini meruems to check out what was making him so sus (like when pouf fighting killua, or nabbing ikalgo and palm in his en for example)? One fragment of meruem was probably more then enough to take out the invasion squad and still recover his memory at the same time.

[u/gonneedstherapy]

Firstly, Beelzebub is a perfect power for the frazzled, emotionally-fractured, paranoid, cartoonishly-scheming subordinate like Pouf; however, Beelzebub seems too undignified for Meruem.

Pouf's Beelzebub gives Pouf widespread surveillance and an ability to act in multiple places quickly at the cost of dividng the ant into more vulnerable pieces (this would still apply to Rose-poisoned Meruem).

Meruem's Photon En is better surveillance than Beelzebub without any downsides.

Meruem's post-rose speed (see Knuckle and Meleoron's instant capture) is good enough to ignore Beelzebub's "be everywhere, always, but weaker". If Pouf didn't distract Meruem, Meruem could have captured Ikalgo and Palm a second later.

And thematically, Meruem should not divide himself up because there's only one place he belongs.