User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 572 (inb4 "Kenpachi doesn't have Shikai")/@comment-10554972-20140314050210/@comment-11051098-20140314214238

"Running out of Sternritters", I wouldn't say we're at that point yet. Out of 27, there's 9 dead, 1 apparently dead and 2 unknown. Still 15 to go, + Yhwach, so we're not half-way yet.

But the question is how quickly the remaining Ritters will fall.