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Originally Posted by itachi-san314
true but the same can be said about shunsui and ukitake. they are even on record as saying shunsui's bankai is dangerous to use so the shitritters might not want it depending on what it is. also same as kisuke and yoruichi in terms of hiding their bankais thus far.
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I think you might've misinterpreted my point. I wasn't merely implying that Unohana should be a potential because her bankai could be unknown to the Sternritters like Shunsui and Ukitake. I was trying to imply that her overall strength and combat skills without bankai could be a complete mystery to the Sternritters unlike Shunsui and Ukitake who seem to engage in battle more often than her. So their strength and combat capabilities (without Bankai) are more likely to have been gauged and analyzed to a greater extent in comparison to Unohana.
Truth be told, if they're able to gather enough intel to predict the strength of a captain without bankai, that could be all the intel they need on them. Because regardless of whether the sternritters know what a bankai does or not beforehand, they have the option of stealing it without using it. This means there should be no need to gamble outcomes on unknown bankai's for as long as their own strength proves enough to finish the job.
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Originally Posted by itachi-san314
i think you're reasoning is good to put her as a possibility but i dont see it. i'm more inclined to think the other 3 potentials are aizen, ishida and grimmjow basically because they are something different and not just all soul reapers like other lists i've seen. but who knows? kubo has switched power rankings around so much that it's impossible to guess anything based on the lack of logic in the story.
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Like I said above, I'm not about to argue against anyones personal picks because your guess's are as good as mine. But I don't mind defending my own choices for the sake of conversation.
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Originally Posted by itachi-san314
just look at the kenpachi, byakuya dynamic. byakuya was better as seen in their first fights vs ichigo, byakuya stood up to ichigo's bankai whereas kenpachi fell before he even had it. then in HM they were about equal in power as seen in the yami fight. now byakuya dies to 1 shitritter and kenpachi can easily beat 3 of them... all this power rank changing when neither of them even displayed any major training or powering up...  |
I get the impression you were kind of implying that all the Sternritters (minus Juha Bach of course) are all roughly of the same strength. However, that might not be the case at all. We really haven't had much opportunity to grasp how strong each member is in comparison to the next. All we know so far is that some of them have gotten beaten quickly, some are holding their own, and one of them has taken out a captain. So its possible that Byakuya's opponent was a fair deal stronger than the fodder Ken took down. It doesn't necessarily have to mean Kenpachi was stronger than Byakuya in the end. Kubo's also not above using abilities to determine outcomes. Having said that, Byakuya may have just happened to be matched up with the wrong opponent this time as Nodt's fear inducing abilities were just too much to handle. It might not have much to do with power ranking inconsistencies at all (this time).