Discussion Power Unpopular opinion: Despite ranking Ulquiora was the strongest Espada

Light D Lamperouge

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#21
Aizen created the espada they’re not like Gin who was just a follower. The espada were his invention. Aizen knowing about the second release was hinted at when he was talking to Ichigo. And again neither stated Aizen didn’t know, just that Ulqiorra never showed Aizen. And even after Ulquiorra used it on ichigo, he still never showed it to Aizen but even you are saying Aizen witnessed it.

Not showing =/= not knowing. Ulquiorra is the number 4 espada. He himself acknowledged his place among them.

All in all it’s like Aizen said, all of Ichigos battle, even Ulquiorra took place in the palm of aizens hand.
Because Aizen was following Ichigo and his movements, him witnessing it at the moment of the battle with Ulqui does not mean he knew beforehand.


We clearly won't see eye to eye on this topic, so agree to disagree. Cheers.
 
#22
Barragan/Ulqui/Stark are all in the same tier imo, the anime nerfed Stark with his wolves while he could just make them forever without sacrifing parts of his soul

Then you have characters like Hallibel who is still ranked 3rd for a reason, she's underrated because she fought Toshiro lmao who was the perfect counter for her powers

Then the rest, and yes Grimmjow is weaker than Hallibel and Nnoitora, of course we are talking about an arrancar arc ranking
 

ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
#23
Barragan/Ulqui/Stark are all in the same tier imo, the anime nerfed Stark with his wolves while he could just make them forever without sacrifing parts of his soul

Then you have characters like Hallibel who is still ranked 3rd for a reason, she's underrated because she fought Toshiro lmao who was the perfect counter for her powers

Then the rest, and yes Grimmjow is weaker than Hallibel and Nnoitora, of course we are talking about an arrancar arc ranking
Nah Hallibel isn't that good in combat. I would say Grimmjow is a stronger fighter but she has the raw reiatsu over him.

She might beat him due to this but there's no doubt Grimmjow would not even need resurreccion to low diff Toshiro, he would maul him with his raw speed and CQC either way, matchup isn't a good enough excuse for her struggling with Toshiro for someone of her lvl.
 
#24
Barragan/Ulqui/Stark are all in the same tier imo, the anime nerfed Stark with his wolves while he could just make them forever without sacrifing parts of his soul
In the anime shunsui did something to the wolves and they disappeared. In manga starrk is not able to summon them after using them twice which suggest it is limited one time attack. Imo that makes starrk weaker.

Also this is my opinion but bankai ichigo with mastered hollow mask shouldn't be that much below vaizard captains like rose or love sans banaki. Yet even in R1 ulquiorra was too fast for ichigo and one cero oscurus did ichigo in for most part. In contrast starrk admitted his ceros are too weak to put permanently put love and rose down and even his wolf attacks were failing to put them down.
 
#25


For that matter wounded one armed grimmjow was still able to hold his own against vizard masked shinji. A healthy resurrection grimmjow should at least be on par with a vizard captain not taking bankai into account and bankai ichigo witth hollow mask was more or less comparable to ressurection grimmjow.

Even R1 ulquiorra has better feats than starrk when it comes to attack speed and AP.
 

ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
#26


For that matter wounded one armed grimmjow was still able to hold his own against vizard masked shinji. A healthy resurrection grimmjow should at least be on par with a vizard captain not taking bankai into account and bankai ichigo witth hollow mask was more or less comparable to ressurection grimmjow.

Even R1 ulquiorra has better feats than starrk when it comes to attack speed and AP.
Lmao Grimmjow would destroy those vizards, like absolutely stomp most of them, why are you even entertaining them?
 
#32
R1 Ulquiorra vs Bankai Masked Ichigo --









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Released starrk vs Base/Masked love and rose with only shikai






















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What R1 ulquiorra achieved in one attack , released starrk couldn't achieve in multiple wolf attacks. Love and rose didn't even had their mask on when they took wolf attacks second time.
 
#34
By basic scaling, no, they were doing well against Starrk who is many, many times stronger than Grimmjow.
Base wounded one handed grimmjow was able to react to masked shinji's attacks. Released grimmjow definitely should put a better fight and was shown to be more or less comparable to masked bankai ichigo. R1 ulquiorra with one attack destroyed half of ichigo's bankai where as starrk had to use multiple wolf attacks to do so to masked love and rose. Also starrk never managed to use wolf against shunsui so there also seem to be limit in summoning of wolves.
 
#35
Base wounded one handed grimmjow was able to react to masked shinji's attacks. Released grimmjow definitely should put a better fight and was shown to be more or less comparable to masked bankai ichigo. R1 ulquiorra with one attack destroyed half of ichigo's bankai where as starrk had to use multiple wolf attacks to do so to masked love and rose. Also starrk never managed to use wolf against shunsui so there also seem to be limit in summoning of wolves.
Base Grimmjow was being utterly dominated and toyed with by base Zanpakuto Shinji.

Shikai Shinji without his mask could fight Aizen and actually damage him, Grimmjow literally gets look diffed by Aizen and that's canon.


Masked Bankai Ichigo is an ant to Starrk... he gets pooped on by base Ulquiorra after beating Grimmjow and Ulquiorra is three ranks below Starrk. Like, Grimmjow is legitimately far closer to fucking Szayelaporro than he is to Starrk.
 
#37
Where? Shinji only dominated grimmjow with his mask same way unmaster hollow masked ichigo did.

As for aizen , shinji was always a fodder lol. He played with shinji to show how he was nothing to him. I admit shinji's shikai is broken but we are talking about stats here.
Base Zanpakuto, as in, no Shikai or Bankai. He destroyed Grimmjow badly, there was nothing Grimmjow could do.

No, Aizen did not play with Shinji. He was put on the backfoot by Shinji and only after a prolonged fight did Aizen IQ diff his Shikai, which is cool and all but Grimmjow may as well be braindead compared to Aizen, we're comparing an intellectual god to a brawling moron, he is helpless to the Shikai. Not sure where you got the idea that this was about stats, I said Shinji shits on Grimmjow, which he did and does, terribly.
 

ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
#38
R1 Ulquiorra vs Bankai Masked Ichigo --









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Released starrk vs Base/Masked love and rose with only shikai






















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What R1 ulquiorra achieved in one attack , released starrk couldn't achieve in multiple wolf attacks. Love and rose didn't even had their mask on when they took wolf attacks second time.
My God the top 3 Espada were duds.

Kubo should be in prison for lying to the fandom with fake hype like this. Ulquiorra low diffs those two combined in base.
 
#39
Base Zanpakuto, as in, no Shikai or Bankai. He destroyed Grimmjow badly, there was nothing Grimmjow could do.

No, Aizen did not play with Shinji. He was put on the backfoot by Shinji and only after a prolonged fight did Aizen IQ diff his Shikai, which is cool and all but Grimmjow may as well be braindead compared to Aizen, we're comparing an intellectual god to a brawling moron, he is helpless to the Shikai. Not sure where you got the idea that this was about stats, I said Shinji shits on Grimmjow, which he did and does, terribly.
Where did base shikai without hollow mask destroyed grimmjow? Show me the panels?

He did played with shinji and even gave him a lecture about what is meant to be a god. He literally showed how his hax is far far superior to shinji's and negged him in a group fight.
 
#40
My God the top 3 Espada were duds.

Kubo should be in prison for lying to the fandom with fake hype like this. Ulquiorra low diffs those two combined in base.
Oda did halibel and starrk dirty. They looked way too weak than what they should have been. And yammy the supposedly strongest espada was made to be a complete joke. Even nnoitra seemingly gave Kenpachi tougher more entertaining fight.

Only barragan was OP. His hax was very broken.
 
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