Shangetsu said:
Arashi89 said:
So, according to this chapter, the stronger Shinigami that ever existed beside Ichigo had his techniques canceled by this Quincy scrub? Fuck that shit, I knew I was wrong expecting something good from Kubo.
There's a lot things that factored into this, I don't think it's fair to do like they do not exist.
-They were blasted away by one of Yamamoto's strike, and a weak one at that.
-He didn't have to overpower Yamamoto's flame to survive, he simply had to diverge them. To diverge a force, a much smaller force can easily do the trick.
-He didn't came out of it unscathed unlike what he's actually sounding like.
-The sword doesn't make the swordman.
A zanpakuto have a strength on it's own and do not reflect it's user's strength. Once it's bring up at it's maximum potential by a Shinigami, a zanpakutou will not get stronger no matter in who's hand it is and it'd be up to the Shinigami's skill to make a difference.
For a Shinigami like Hitsugaya this is actually a blessing since he got the strongest ice-type zanpakutou so he can fight in a league beyond his real power (It's like equipping Excalibur on a level 10 warrior). For someone like Yamamoto who is the opposite, this means that once he mastered his ''zanpakutou arts'', he couldn't bring up more power from his zanpakutou.
Yamamoto's zanpakutou is nothing to laugh at, it's pretty much one of the strongest zanpakutou in existence but it isn't representative of Yamamoto's strength.. Yamamoto is much more than that. He's the Shinigami that mastered almost all the ways in which a Shinigami can train, so much that his mastery of kido, martial arts and his reiatsu pressure are at the very least at the same level of his zanpakutou's mastery.
It doesn't matter if that scrub managed to survive a small sword swip from Yamamoto when he had all the perfect conditions in the world to actually do it. If they were to face each other Yamamoto would destroy him with pure raw spec, he wouldn't even need to use his zan or kido to make that guy regret ever picking a fight with him.
1) Final getsuga tenshou(by both Kurosakis), butterfly Aizen, this weapon from Rukia's arc and probably something more than I forgot.
2) His(&his zanpakuto's strength): check "Aizen arc"(afair, he doesn't have clue about Aizen true power; his fight in fake Karakura) , next he got 1hit KO by Bach. His 12432984237 of skeletons is like 100 skeletons.
I don't know if he is stronger than Yamamoto, but he CAN at least put a decent fight.
ps. I will laugh because: read 2)