His shikai is kind of a one trick pony though. It feels like the equivalent to a chokehold. Devastatingly effective once you set it up, but you have to grab the opponent first, and what if they have a way to cut their way out of it? Actually come to think of it, I don't think either of Yumichika's opponents were currently using blades at the time he was siphoning them.

@@wolfgod6443 he fought shuhei

@@bicevipribicevipri7240 Shuhei wasn't using his shikai at the time though. I can't remember whether he had his zanpakto at all or not though.

His spiritual pressure is far too low against anyone higher than him for it to take effect. It also requires a significant set-up play, which is another huge drawback. Yumichika also doesn’t get along with his Zanpakuto, so that puts a hinder on what kinds of abilities they could learn together.

@@wolfgod6443 u said a blade. If he could cut it, he would have done so. I feel like the durability of the vibes are based on rieatsu. Someone with low or relative rieatsu as him will find it difficult to cut ruri'iro kujaku's vines

Kyoraku releasing his Shikai: it's time to d-d-d-d, d-d-d-d-dual blade zanpakuto

Oh god, that’s terrifying…

​@@RickyUzumaki993 Exactly . One shot kill 2😮

Though, Shinso may be decently fast, but not always fast enough to be decisive against high level opponents, as we see Hitsugaya dodge a surprise point-blank attack in the Soul Society arc. But...that could apply to many techniques and abilities

Still my favorite moment in Bleach him blasting through Jidanbo and ichigo. As the gate closes he says "bye bye"

@@rossadams1897 gin didn’t want to kill him trust me and toshiro was preparing for gin for years as he never ever trusted him , toshiro studied gin’s zanpaktou that’s why gin was surprised when gin was actually giving him a run for his money

Thank you for pointing that out. Seems poetic

Or drink your fill of battle

@@windmirror7083 boo

@@windmirror7083 almost makes no sense

@@vincentsanabria drink your fill is an old saying. it could also be like blood drunk, drunk on battle or something. though i don't doubt at all that its a nod to unohana like pink said.

Indeed. And it becomes tragic when such training is made instantly redundant by an enemy that wipes them out in one strike either due to stronger power or using different unorthodox tactics that they're not used to.

And then there is ichigo...

Two People we saw having This level are Also Genryusai and Kyoraku, not to mention Aizen Who is obviusly on This level. All of them are absolute monsters that can kill armys just with their shikai and a lot of characters even with Bankai are not even close to their power level.

That makes sense or she reconstructs herself in Shikai and others in Bankai. As a Shikai and Bankai have to have a corresponding theme

Reconstruction as the theme of his bankai sounds very fitting for a scientist

After seeing the Bankai and giving thought to it, I also got to that conclusion. The Shikai ability is to reconstruct Urahara's Reiatsu into different forms: A shield, "bullets", an exploding net, energy cut, and the Bankai just makes it stronger by letting Urahara reconstruct phisycal stuff instead of only his Reiatsu

He's a freaking alchemist 😂 I love it.

So his shikai is like a green lantern ring

or in other words reality vs fantasy perfect for the two smartest beings in bleach

but Benihime also is Urahara's zanpaktou due to his researcher nature which analyzes and creates things

@@nicolaemihai3581 Benihime is a zankaputo that's as versatile as Urahara is. It's perfect for him really xD

Not sure how much the poison aspect from his bankai is included in the shikai. If none, aside from it turning into a powder when elongating, then I would put it in the same boat as other tricky melee shikai weapons similar to Renji, Ikkaku, and Lisa and Hiyori

@@windmirror7083 its still one of the fastest without the poison. Plus he essentially just has to point it at you

@@saundersjordan21 In short it's a scuffed projectile attack, because it's not a true ranged attack. It doesn't make this hands move any faster, so as long as you assume you have to hold your weapon in blocking stance when it's pointing towards you, you're all good. Get to melee range and that ability is completely useless.

@@spugelo359it’s faster to move the wrist an inch than it is to move your arm halfway across your body

@@joshuadrinkwater4391 How about you go back and watch how it originally happened? He requires a proper stance to use it. Even when completely off guard Ichigo managed to block it. It doesn't even extend unreasonably fast anyway.

Imagine Kenpachi with a 2x heavy strike. Nobody be living that

@@williamclay190 imagine what a crackhead Zaraki would be about it. He’d just stalk Izuru 24/7 and demand that he double the weight again.

DOUBLE IT AGAIN!!!!! AGAIINN!!!!!!... KEEEP GOING!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!! YOULL NEVER BE FINISHED!!!!!

​@@bry8105lol I can imagine izaru just scared but nonchalantly doing it like " umm okay just leave me alone "

I wanted to see him use it on Komamura's bankai blade at some point.

Indeed, It's the philosophy behind it. His cold dead eyed expression didn't help. How ironic then that the next enemy did not even give him the chance both discussing his views and using his ability, leaving him essentially a zombie after simply blitzing him. Wonder if being put near death himself shook his views or reinforced them?

i guess anyone of his level yeah, since hes so weak. But someone captain level who can lift things 200x their own body weight with ease? yeah nah Kira aint cutting them that much.

@@RyanYoxo Not to mention blades/abilities like Byakuya's or Matsumoto's can completely counter Wabisuke

​@@chavaspada how would those counteract him? Just having many doesn't negate it's ability completely.

Remember when Wabisuke was trapped under its own power in Reggai Arc? Stuck underneath something heavy that it keeps continuously scraping & because it was an enhanced 10x Version it was quickly doomed. How fast does Wabisuke double the weight? 8 cuts is x256, that reggai was dealing with x100,000,000 by that point & the weight just keeps increasing.

But DOES he have a Bankai though? He used his illusions to trick the Gotei into thinking he had a Water Zanpakuto. We've never heard a hint that he even has a real Bankai. It's natural to assume somebody as strong as him must have one, but Kenpachi proves that's not always the case seeing as he was stronger than Unohana before he even awakened Shikai. Whether or not Aizen has Bankai is totally up in the air, and he could very easily simply not have one. He could have just never seen a use to train for it, since he was already so overwhelmingly strong plus his Shikai is busted af. Or he does have one and never uses it because the ability is deemed worse, perhaps. But we don't know, so anything that can be said is conjecture. Anyway, point is, you can't use the argument of "and that since he has a bankai he doesn't need to call his sword name nor use the command to release his shikai" is just as much conjecture. Perhaps I am wrong, I don't remember everything after all, but I think every time he's used his Shikai he's said the release command. So there isn't even evidence of him not saying the release to imply he must have Bankai. Please correct me if I'm wrong about that.

@@jaykay6222 kubo himself explained and also it was mentioned in a novel that Aizen bankai can be used only against the ones who have already seen his shikai.

@@Kal911 Alright, fair enough, I haven't read any of the novels yet. That does beg the question tho. Why didn't he use it on Ywach at the end, since he had been caught in KS? What does Aizen's Bankai do, or is that part not stated?

@@jaykay6222 nobody knows yet what it does, anyway it’s possible he didn’t use it because he was caught and absorbed by Yhwach before he could make it. Maybe in Hell saga we will see it, who knows.

@@Kal911 You just delayed it by another month by name dropping it, it's never coming out at this rate.

I agree about Kira and wabisuke.. very cool and underrated. I wish he wasn’t trashed in TYBW right off the bat.

@@thomascoolidge2161 does he know?

Huh, never thought of this. Food for analysis for sure.

@walidtaguemount6179 first of all,scientists aren't even sure what count as "senses" but the ones they are sure of is a sense of time,Vestibular ie balance, proprioception (you feel your limb positions even if you don't see them), internal organs and a sense of pain (there can be sorts of pain that aren't related to feeling). Also some scientists count a sense of heat/cold as separate from skin feeling since you can feel heat where no skin is found (most likely in the throat)

That's not it. Azien can control the 5 basic senses, the senses Shinji's shikai can control & wateva other senses there are. This is proven by Azien controlling Yw, don't know how to spell his name, the quincy leader perception of time

I thought shinzi sakanade is only an optical illusion

@@flareinc7413 Sounds like you require a reminder for what a sense is. "a faculty by which the body perceives an EXTERNAL stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch." For time there is no stimulus at all, but rather brain just rationalizing what is happening around us to makes it make sense. Pain is completely internal although it is often indirectly caused external stimulus. Syringe piercing the skin doesn't cause the pain, but your body reacting to that damage causes you to feel pain. Merely meant to be a warning system to let you know that your body is getting damaged, do something about it. To give you another example to make it easier to understand, a bomber flying towards a city doesn't cause sirens to go off. It is defenders that chose to react to that plane that way.

"We have Kyoka Suigetsu at home, kids!"

Tbf, not half, a third of it, The other parts are shinigami and quincy

Nah Yama

Haha, that would've been hilarious

After thinking about it for a while, I believe it gets in her way. Her one finger loses all ability to move, so any acrobatics that rely on that hand get needlessly difficult. She loses reach when compared to the sealed form too. The sting cannot protect her finger from a direct hit and her other fingers are not well defended by the gauntlet. Meaning she loses all ability to block attacks when she uses shikai. Plus, it demands too much precision amidst the chaos of extremely close range combat. I think the reason its a bad shikai for her is deliberate. Soifon wants to present herself as an assassin, but she doesn't have the composure or pragmatism to be one. Probably because she was raised that way, she wants to be pointed at a target and then direct her passion towards eliminating them, which her bankai reflects. I theorize that the more attuned a shinigami is to their zanpakutou, the closer their shikai (how they present themselves) and their bankai (who they are) will become. Soifon's is close enough that we see a pattern, but I think the shikai might morph again if she has more character growth.

@@KaiserAfini True. In that same context for all her admiration of Yoruichi it's clear she only does so on a superficial basis. If she truly understood Yoruichi she would've acknowledged and respected her decision to abandon Soul Society to rescue her friends from injustice. Instead she became a vindictive tyrant who led her troops by force instead of true respect and caring like Yoruichi did.

@@KaiserAfini i honestly think Suzamebachi is one of the best designed zankaptou. It's lethal withot being broken, and i like that Soifon designed her fighting style in harmony with using it (focus on speed & hakuda so she's able to get in close as much as possible without worrying about being countered). As a pure zankaptou though Gin's shinso is honestly the perfect zankpatou for an assassin. Why bother getting in close when you can snipe people with insta kill poison from 13km away at ridiculous speed? lol

@@KaiserAfini The zanpakutou's shikai & bankai abilities are usually related in some way, and for Suzumebachi it seems like the connective thread could well be "Excessive Force". Anyone Soifon can catch with the two-hit kill ability, she can almost certainly kill some other way, even just using the sealed zanpakutou as a conventional dagger, but the shikai will very extremely ensure the target is dead and obliterates their entire body in the process. The bankai is a missile that launches so hard it blows her off her feet if she doesn't anchor herself. personality

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Good list, but for me both Zangetsu and Engetsu gets pretty overrated here. Their users are obviously super strong, but the the Shikais themselves aren't that impressive. Super vanilla and not versatile, just a strong attack that can easily be dodged. Much more versatile Shikais like Senbon zakura and Hyorimaru deserves a spot on this list before them IMO.

Shinso is good but I don't it's top 10 and Engetsu isn't that special.

1 - Ichimonji - low key reality warper/metaphor for the artist paintbrush in a work about an author making art into a story. It literally hard counters everything that isn't a higher tier of reality warper. Better by far than most bankai, really only matched by other setting breaking things like the Hogyoku or the Almighty. 2 - Ryuujin Jakka - Has the destructive power of a whole damn bankai in a shikai package. It's pretty damn ridiculous. May actually not be worth ranking this high, depending on how much of it's power is because of old man yama, and how much is because of that's just what Ryuujin Jakka does. 3 - Suzumebachi - Hilariously deadly weapon that's held back by having a shitty wielder. Put this in the hands of, say, Shunsui instead of Soi Fon and watch almost every villain in the series just flat *die* full stop. 4 - Haineko - Haineko is literally Senbonzakura Kageyoshi's first form, but wielded by someone too weak to take advantage of what it can actually do. In the hands of someone actually strong and not freaking Matsumoto, Haineko is genuinely ridiculously broken. 5 - Benihime - Pretty much has enough powers that it's not unreasonable to think of it as a 'powers as the plot demands it' type of weapon. 6 - Zangetsu - ONLY if we're counting the hybridization factors (horn of salvation, hollow powers, regen, etc.) as part of the zanpakutou abilities, and not something separate that's unique to Ichigo. Basically if you slapped Zangetsu into the hands of a random shinigami and they got that whole package, this is where it ranks. Otherwise it's not even in the top 10. 7 - Ashisogi Jizo - Full paralysis of any biological lifeform with just a scratch. Honestly, you could make the argument of this being directly better than 4 5 and 6 as long as you're facing down things that can be poisoned. 8 - Kyoka Suigetsu - A very strong ability, yes, but the way Aizen used it as part of a century long scheme that allowed him to literally get *everyone* that could have opposed him under it's effects before launching his rebellion makes it seem better than it really is, in a neutral scenario, that is. Without Aizen's careful use of it's power, it isn't nearly *as* effective, though it's still scary good. 9 - Sakanade - Actually about as good as Kyoka Suigetsu in a straight fight, it suffers from the same problem as Suzumebachi however - Shinji is freaking terrible at fighting and makes Sakanade seem FAR worse than it really is. Put this in Aizen's hands, and put Kyoka Suigetsu in Shinji's hands, and the result of the fight would still be exactly the same. 10 - Katen Kyokotsu - Honestly, there were a lot of Zanpakutou that I kind of wanted to place here, but none of them really stood heads and shoulders above the others. I place Katen Kyokotsu here because frankly, if *everything* about it decides to work perfectly, it's *very* dangerous. The problem is that the zanpakutou isn't necessarily going to cooperate and do what it's wielder needs it to do, thus resulting in a lower ranking.

I don't think that's necessarily the case. I believe those Shikai are just undeveloped. The zanpakuto changes with the user. For instance, Shuhei becomes essentially immortal with his Shikai in the novels, whereas in the manga, it's only a scythe. Even Shinji and Byakuya were able to develop new abilities for his Shikai. So, while yes, the power difference is there, I'm sure a shinigami can aspire to more through training and meditation and through simply living their lives as they grow into different people. But what do you think? Personally, it would be pretty cool to see Isane develop her abilities later on, for instance.

@@MichaelisBLee Shuhei’s Bankai is what makes him and his enemy immortal, not his shikai. But yeah, I’d love to see some of the lieutenants develop their abilities further. Isane in particular could be interesting to watch. Her zanpakuto is apparently an ice-type if we go by the name(Itegumo means Frozen Cloud), but we have no idea if it currently does anything other than sprout two extra blades.

@@CaptainKotetsu You're thinking of that ball of chain that wraps around his and his opponent's neck, right? Yes, that's his Bankai. It pools their spiritual energy together to heal both, while depleting their pooled spiritual energy to heal them until both collapse and die or until Hisagi deactivates it. But his Shikai grants him regeneration. When his head or arm or anything else is severed from him, chains will sprout from his body to link the severed piece back together. And yes, I'd love to see everyone's Shikai abilities developed further too. In particular, I would want melee Shikai to become more versatile. So, Renji, Iba and Isane are the two characters that come to mind. Isane's Itegumo could be ice related, but unlike Hitsugaya and Rukia, has more focus on evasion and blizzards. Perhaps she could become an ice phantom, intangible to physical attacks, so she's able to heal comrades without fear of danger. Or perhaps, she can generate blizzards to act as diversions as slips inside to assassinate the targets inside - essentially, staying out of direct or confrontational combat and staying focused on guerilla style tactics.

@@CaptainKotetsu i think the difference between his bankai and shikai is just that it also uses the reitsu of the enemy but makes them also immortal. While the shikai makes just him immortal but just uses his reitsu so it becomes useless when he runs out ( he dosnt have a lot in compare to captains)

@@MichaelisBLee Your idea of Isane’s shikai turning her into an intangible ghost that heals people is really cool tbh, and very in character for her. The only caveat would be the inability to deal damage to enemies while in that form.

Eh, just as likely it plays into the idea of the Hogyoku granting one's heart's desire. Aizen didn't want to win, not really, he wanted someone to be as powerful as him, to stand as tall as he did. So I'd even give the personality change a pass, because deep down he was tired of hiding.

​@@LupineShadowOmega can't really stand on that being the "sole" answer. Especially when aizen immediately fuses with his zanpakto because he seeked for the power that defeated him. Also, aizen never wanted to be defeated, he only felt lonely that noone could understand his ideals, but his intent to be defeated wasn't one. The loneliness ichigo felt could very well also be seen as KS's loneliness as aizen completely disregarded it. Urahara already shows a discontent to ichigo's summary of aizen's defeat anyways. Though, it's left ambiguous, but, at the very least, we can see aizen actually having intentions and wish to thrive and win or else he would have never evolved after the monster form.

It looks more like, aizen got blinded by his bruteness. He didn't want to stay and fight in delusions and wanted to show his own rising power which had entered the "realm of God".

@@Hellos2372 kinda right, kinda not. Just like a sword is an extension of a swordsman's arm, a zanpakto spirit are extensions of shinigami, and inturn a part of the shinigamis. So, yes you are correct on that regard completely. But to almost all shinigamis, despite zanpakto being an extension, it is also seen/treated as a separate being. In case of aizen, KS was a separate being until aizen fused with KS. After the fusion, yes, Aizen is KS, and KS is aizen. And that's because of the sword fusion. So, yes, that point of yours is correct, but it only applies after his sword fusion.

@@sladew9788 To be fair to your points, he actually wasn't defeated. At least not lastingly. He was definitely regenerating from that last attack when he got sealed, so actually fair enough.

Oh yeah For sure 100% Aizen without Bankai or not his shikai gets the job done

Only if u have the iq to use it to it's fullest if u have a IQ of 60 aizen shikai is useless to u .

I think someone like zaraki would get through it. He seems to go on pure Instinct a lot of the time. But not guaranteed.

Arguably the strongest ability full stop besides all mighty, heck it beats all mighty so who knows. He could trap Gerald making him fight an invisible enemy forever, and could make lille kill himself with his own attacks. It’s up there with V the visionary

And yet despite that he still feared Yamamotos power

I think that is a testament to his spiritual pressure...since Aizen wasn't able to just totally negate his ability. However, like Aizen said, it's simply an optical illusion and if you know how it works it's definitely possible to fight against it and win. As he did

@@Hellos2372 I 100% agree you have to consciously raise and lower your spiritual energy to negate someone's ability and Aizen definitely is the arrogant type to allow Shinji's shikai to effect him just so he can ruin his day when he reveals it was all what he wanted. I just believe that Aizen's natural spiritual is just that much higher than most that it by default negs abilities without him raising it like soifon I don't think he raised his spiritual pressure for her at all when she tried her double stab. Same with people like Hitsugaya he knows these people very well, arguably better than they know themselves. So he would just leave his power at normal levels when they attack. Whereas Shinji now being a vizard who hopefully has been training somewhat since his exile instead of being complacent after controlling his hollow mask he did in fact manage to actually land a hit on Aizen. Which seemed to make Aizen turn up just enough that he needed to shut Shinji down after Shinji started getting to confident. But I could be incredibly wrong and your right that Aizen was just toying with him the whole time. I just would like to believe Shinji is just that strong for his shikai to be able to at the very least effect Aizen. Since we did after all see people like Isshin and Kisuke manage to "hurt" Aizen and that's after the hogyoku evolving him once so with him being that strong then I feel like he would have to actively be suppressing his reiatsu then where as if he wasn't i feel that his base spiritual pressure in that state would've negged all their hits. Not that any of them really did anything to him anyways. I say all that just to say I believe there were captains that were in fact very slightly in Aizen's league whether he was suppressing his spiritual power or not

It was probably the only good thing about that fight, to be honest.

Yes, and Yama arguably indirect proved that even earlier by stating that he had no doubt about the energy of a Zanpakuto cutting his flesh.

@asellape92 To me, it's only because this isn't a well known fact it makes his shikai that high on the list. Honestly I think it's comparable to Tousen's shikai.

@@anthonywilson9759 Mm. I wouldn’t go that far myself, but it does have an exploitable weakness, yes.

Aizen : y'all don't have complete hypnosis?

Hisagi:Mine’s make me Immortal Kenpachi:”Use him like a training machine”

Which one can cut through space?

Ichigo could give it a shot.

is this a reference to the tfs cell games hahaha

Agreed. I find ilusion to be an awesome power, but Kyouka Suigetsu just fails at being interesting because it has no relevant weaknesses or limitations.

Kazeshini's BANKAI can to that. To my knowledge the shikai is mainly a combat type

@@uraharakisuke1329 Nope. The immortality is Shikai too.

@@mustafaozdemiroglu5853 you're right I just looked it up. I haven't finished cfyow that's where I messed up

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Honestly, I just thought of this, but Gin's shikai might have poision too. We can't know for sure because Gin would never have said if it did.

​@@luciussakura5031 if it isn't said then it doesn't exist.

Gin isn't the best example, since he wanted to keep his true powers secret. Maybe his bankai is just the poison and his shikai already has all of that length and speed (possibly even more), but he lies to everyone saying it only extends 100x the original length so when he uses his bankai and gets a massive length boost no one questions what it can do We can't really say. Though maybe we'll get this answered during the hell arc someday

Nah. His is situational. He had to set it up first before he can use it effectively. Which was his genius.

She should not get interesting fight imo, she should troll people. Imagine kenny and byakuya are fighting released yammy, very hard and even fight and suddenly yammy start turning to dust. Captains look at each other not knowing what just took place, and when cloud of dust dissapear Soi Fon reveal herself with her shikai. While yammy was focused on them she niggeki kessatsu his arse. She is as assassin. She should sweep distracted, tired targets all over battleffield with her hax shikai and high mobility, and never try to fight face to face or 1 on 1.