User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 560 - Rages at Ringside/@comment-7079377-20131204201204/@comment-9096222-20131205204652

Dudes, power levels don't have shiz to do with bankai... Ok they kinda do, cause if you have a bankai you are obviously captain level, but you don't need a bankai to be captain level

Sicarius, you mean the time when there ware only 23 captian levels(including Chojiro, Isshin, Urahara, Yoruichi, Tessai, Visored, Ginjo...) but yeah.

And wasn't it obvious that a couple lieutenants ware captain level at the beginning of arrancar arc(Renji and Ikkaku) and later on we saw that Hisagi is a bomb plus he killed Tōsen, and Yumichika was said to be on the same level as Ikkaku... I mean it was always: The older captains High Lvl Caps, the newer captains Mid lvl Caps and the prodigy lieutenants low lvl caps, right?