Quote (Niteriche @ Fri, Jul 25 2008, 12:44am)
let's see then...
zaraki lost to ichigo, ichigo didn't even know bankai
next part seen is ichigo flying around and about to rescue rukia, with ukitake and byakuya standing there, of which ukitake says specifically that his reitsu is that of a captains, and that was in shinkai form before he learned bankai.
next is against byakuya, where he does almost keep up with byakuya's bankai in only his shinkai form. and last i checked, byakuya was registered as one of the top captains.
granted, aizen is obviously more powerful than the average captain, but i think it's pretty obviously that ichigo could rape the normal captain. if anything, he could keep up with normal captains bankai's in his shinkai form. so which captain besides aizen would ichigo have trouble with? the rest of them we can't really tell since we haven't really seen anyones full extents except for byakuya, soi fon, zaraki, tousin, hitsugaya, komamoru,and mayuri. i think it's safe to say that ichigo can beat any one of these pretty easilly, since zaraki beat both tousin and komamoru at the same time, and ichigo beat zaraki. soi fon and mayuri can't be directly associated with him being they haven't faced him yet (not counting ep181 since he wasn't trying ofc), but i think we can register as ichigo is stronger than uyuu, who beat mayuri, and it would be up in the air again'st soi fon until ichigo hits hollow.
tl;dr
It was a draw with zaraki even if zaraki said that ichigo won; ichigo would have most likely died if he wasn't healed. This is irrelevant anyway ; you can't compare 2 fighters indirectly. If a beats b and c beats a then that doesn't necesarely mean c can beat b as well. It's all about matchups , who can cope better against an oponents abilities.
In the fight with byakuya , they both underestimated eachother; ichigo got cocky when he wouldn't stand a chance against bankai , byakuya didn't want to believe ichigo had bankai , byakuya didn't expect ichigo to turn to a hollow just before the finishing blow etc
My guess is shunsui(the lazy captain) is of similar strenght and of course the commander general.
Quote (Vicc @ Fri, Jul 25 2008, 02:06am)
teaching newbies huh?
heheh
newbie to what
This post was edited by Shadow_lad on Jul 24 2008 09:49pm