Bleach Chapter 201

[Yukimura]

Rukia's Shikai just plain owns, I put it in a class with the other "your pretty well screwed if it happens to you" powers.

it's not always about who has more 'power' in fights.

Take Yumichika, he's probobly not as strong as Hisagi...8th squad Vice...I think thats his name, but he put him on the floor and came out unscathed. Rukia's Shikai has a power like that or Tousen's or Aizens, it doesn't really matter who you are or how much power you can spit out your ass, you would need extremely specific skills to beat them.

To beat Yumichika, maybe have way more power than he can suck, (which does require power from the ass...)
To beat Tousen, be Ken, or piss Tousen off so he becomes an idiot and doesn't cut your head off immediately
To beat Aizen........................join him, since you don't have too much choice in the matter.

In Rukia's case, maybe you can stay out of the circle, though i'm sure another dance throws the circle at you. But basically if your caught by surprise then you die, assuming you can't survive insta-freezing.

That said, IF Deroi needs to survive, then it's very possible that spirit power can melt ice.

[Nin10doman]

Rukia's shikai is probably so strong because it's a one-time use type thing. It's only going to work on an opponent if they don't know what it is. Anyone who has seen it before will step/flash step out of the circle.

So it seems balanced enough.

[Kensee]

Originally posted by: Yukimura
Rukia's Shikai just plain owns, I put it in a class with the other "your pretty well screwed if it happens to you" powers.

For some reason that made me laugh. =P
I agree with how many of you said that Deiroy's arrogance pretty much got him killed. Plus I believe he was one of the weaker of the group. He had a high number (hopefully higher the number = weaker the dude or maybe it just means the order they were created -_- which in case he could be new =P).

Edit: This leads me to believe that if Rukia could do Bankai it's going to be one of three things.

1. A HUGE arse circle instead of a small one.
2. MANY circles around a ridicuously large radius.
3. A creatrue/entity of ice who creates circles =p.

No F this, TRIANGLES! and he/she/it slows them down too!

[Assassin]

Originally posted by: Kensee

Originally posted by: Yukimura
Rukia's Shikai just plain owns, I put it in a class with the other "your pretty well screwed if it happens to you" powers.

For some reason that made me laugh. =P
I agree with how many of you said that Deiroy's arrogance pretty much got him killed. Plus I believe he was one of the weaker of the group. He had a high number (hopefully higher the number = weaker the dude or maybe it just means the order they were created -_- which in case he could be new =P).

Edit: This leads me to believe that if Rukia could do Bankai it's going to be one of three things.

1. A HUGE arse circle instead of a small one.
2. MANY circles around a ridicuously large radius.
3. A creatrue/entity of ice who creates circles =p.

No F this, TRIANGLES! and he/she/it slows them down too!

Or it could be a sphere. that would make more sense. a giant sphere that freezes everyhting within it.

@DDBen: At the start of the show, rukia had no powers. When she made Ichigo into a shinigami, her powers were completely depleted, which is why her sword disappeared. she even says somethign along the lines of 'i must have given him more then i wanted to' when she see's ichigo's sword. Normally, her powers would have returned after some time, but due to urahara's special element, she as slowly becoming human. Thats why she couldn't do anyhting about the menos bac then. And everyone made a huge deal out of the fact that ichigo could hurt the menos only because it required atleast a vice-captain level to do such a thing.

[Splash!]

I wanna point something about how hitsugaya mentioned those three ranks in Aizen's army. He said they were the three types of menos, not Allankar. Hmm, does that mean that there is a certain kind of Allankaar made from each kind of menos. Makes you wonder what a Gilian Allankaar looks.