Friday, 26 August 2016

rewatching bleach

and one of my favourite discussion topics... RANKINGS!

Yes, i rank everything. i l.o.v.e doing it. 

Captain/Vizard rankings:
Anyone who even compares junior captains to senior captains are not worthy to be debated with. There is no reason someone who was at captain level for 100 years can be caught up to by a kid, no matter how much of a prodigy they are. Especially a vizard who was literally training 100 years for war. We know that Gin and Byakuya are genii, but they never quite reached that level. Hitsugaya wasn't even close (but then again, he was alot younger than both Gin and Byakuya). The only one was Aizen, and aizen is freakin aizen the main antagonist of the whole show, he's different. And he was at least vice capt level 100 years ago, not some snotty kid. Also, he was definitely at captain level or higher at that time, he was just hiding it to stay low profile and plot against the shinigami.
In a world where age actually increases your power and not decreases it, seniority is king.

1) Aizen 
2) Yama
Regardless of what Aizen claimed about Yama being the only one stronger than himself, the one who wins is the stronger one. Whether by tricks or traps. Intellect is part of power too. Aizen > Yama, he's just being polite.
3) Unohana
4) Shunsui 
5) Ukitake
The senior captains are king. No matter how much the vizards have been training for war, these 3 have been around too long to be surpassed. Unohana is just a badass, with aizen and shinji level-intellect. She is also senior to both Shunsui and Ukitake. Shunsui is the next in line for Head captain. Ukitake is the weakest of the trio because of his health issues but he's still a senior captain and shitstomps the rest.
6) Yoruichi
7) Shinji
8) Kensei
9) Love
10) Rose
11) Urahara
Urahara is a genius, but in the end he was still at a similar level to aizen 100 years ago, and he doesn't have mainantagonist-hax. Yoruichi is senior captain level, but we can't quite decipher the case of her missing zanpaktou. This ranking is assuming that she does have a zanpaktou with bankai, as she should. But even if she was senior captain level like i'm guessing, she was obviously the youngest of them.
The vizards were not quite senior captain level but they were the closest to senior captain level in the entire bleach series, and they had more hardcore training than anyone else after they were banished, as they were the only ones aside from aizen who were preparing for war in earnest, and they have hollowfication.
Shinji is the leader of the vizards, and a genius to boot. Aside from Aizen, he is the only one with illusion zanpaktou abilities and illusion zanpaktou abilities are hax beyond belief. Also, he was the only one amongst the vizard captains that managed to keep fighting after being forcibly hollowfied by aizen. He actually completely overpowered Tosen who already had his bankai, while fighting the hollowfication effects.
Kensei,, Rose and Love are all pretty close and can be reshuffled in any order, but Rose was the most junior of the 3, and latest to become a captain. Urahara might have surpassed those 3 given that he is a genius as well, and those 3 are not. Kensei, Rose and Love are very normal captains at Tosen and Komamuro level (except that they were already at that level 100 years ago AND had 100 years of war preparation training). Also, Urahara trained regularly with Yoruichi. However, he was the latest to become captain, and was only captain for a short while before being banished from soul society. But Rose was only captain for slightly longer than Urahara (but he does have the 100 years of war training benefit, and hollowfication).
HUGE gap between 11 and 12, as there is a rough 30-50 years between the two)
12) Kenpachi
13) Byakuya
14) Ichimaru Gin
The genii/naturally talented captains of the new age. While these guys are all reasonably junior compared to the senior captains (They were all kids aside from kenpachi who was a young adult when the senior captains were already captain level), they are naturally blessed with raw power (kenpachi) or geniuses (Byakuya and Gin). 
Kenny gets to be the top dog because he is the only one who shitstomped 2 captains at the same time. Byakuya probably tops Gin because he trained all the way while Gin spent a ton of energy and effort plotting aizen's death. Its close though, since they are both nearly exactly the same age and both genius-level. Although according to Ukitake and Kaien, Gin was more talented than Byakuya, and was strong enough to kill a 3rd seat while still in school (Gin also graduated faster than Byakuya from school), Byakuya had a sickass gramps who was senior to even Yoruichi and probably trained him himself. Aizen doesn't seem like the nurturing type so Gin probably had to learn most of what he knew himself.
Not a massive gap between 12-14 and 15-20, as they are all around the same age (except for hitsugaya). However, 12-14 should beat 15-20 9 times out of 10 in a fight due to their superior talent.
15) Hitsugaya
The only true genius remaining, but he is way junior to the previous 3 and everyone remaining, being of the rukia and renji age group (Yes, i do not think the fella was a toddler when renji and the rest were teens, Hitsugaya is just that short.). However, he is supposedly the child prodigy of a millenium and supposed to be even more gifted than Byakuya and Gin. Should be the only shinigami in bleach history who became a captain while still in his teens. Also, he beat the 3rd espada with minimal help. That IS impressive. Soifon beat the 2nd espada but she had Hachigen as help, and to be honest Hachigen was the main dog in that fight, Soifon didn't really do anything. Hitsugaya was definitely the main dog in his fight. Lisa and Hiyori are awesome and probably as close to captain level as they could be without bankai, probably even stronger than renji, but in the end they were vice captains, with or without 100 years of war training. 
16) Mayuri
17) Soifon
Soifon, Mayuri and Hitsugaya are pretty much interchangeable. But Soifon didn't do much against the 2nd espada; although Mayuri only defeated the 8th espada, he did it himself and pretty easily.
Finally, the bottom feeders. The lowest of the low. I think Renji could have a good fight with these 2 fools. Tosen should be in the 15-17 category but he got defeated by Komamura and that is just a joke so send him to the bottom of the pack. As always, the stronger one is the one who wins.
19) Komamura
20) Tosen
Also, these two jokers got buttstomped by kenpachi using their bankais while kenny wasn't even using his shikai. Yes, Kenpachi is awesome, but getting destroyed 2v1 shows a huge power gap and is just embarrassing. 

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