Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27458826-20180127131846/@comment-27458826-20180406230537

I'm going to try and give my opinions to all of your points but don't think I'm trying to be a dick or anything. 1. Yes Ichigo is an idiot 2. He spent the majority of the series without using a zanpakuto ( or at the very least a soul reaper zanpakuto) 3. It is hard to say whether or not his zanpakuto has a special ability as his inner Quincy ( lack of a better term) was actively supressing his soul reaper/hollow power. We know that white had the ability of soul infiltration but we don't know how that could carry over. While Quincy powers are hereditary soul reaper powers are not. It is difficult to say if the power would be like his dad's or not. What we do know is that Kaien Shiba's zanpakuto was a water element. 4. Hollow powers/ soul reaper powers it is again difficult to say. As far as the cero part a cero isn't a special ability all hollow are theoretically capable of using them and his getsuga tensho is essentially a cero( Ulquiorra says this) and while details were omitted Ichigo accepting both his inner hollow/soul reaper powers and his Quincy powers as being Zangetsu implied that he should be able to obtain the full potential of his Quincy powers as well 5. If we accept his zanpakuto as being more like an arrancar zanpakuto than a soul reaper's terms like shikai and bankai aren't relevant. I'd compare it to nnoitora's zanpakuto even sealed it isn't a sword arrancar zanpakuto aren't limited in form like soul reaper zanpakuto are( in their sealed state) 6. Ichigo is a fool lol we are back at the beginning? (Just joking) no he definitely doesn't know how his powers are supposed to work. In his defense a normal soul reaper only has one being in their inner world their zanpakuto. Ichigo has 2. His Quincy power (old man Zangetsu) who introduced himself as his zanpakuto and his actual zanpakuto/inner hollow who is being suppressed by his Quincy powers. Basically instead of dealing with one person who wants to help he has 2 one who wants to be in control and one who doesn't want the other to be in control. And while Ichigo is one of the strongest characters I feel like like none of his accomplishments really belong to him. He was born into them. As far as not having techniques kenpachi has shown that one can be absurdly powerful without having such techniques. 7. Melee type weapon. Again very difficult to say because even in the end he hadn't reached his full potential. Most Quincy are ranged fighters but not all. Getsuga tensho is essentially a cero though and doesn't have an element and finally filler. None of the filler is cannon as interesting as it may be it isn't relevant as far as this conversation but since you have been so kind as to take an interest in and contribute to my post I'll entertain it as best I can. Truthfully I've not watched most of the filler so I don't know the specifics of his ability but if it specifically targets bakai we can compare it to the Quincy medallions. The medallion were supposed to help steal bankai and allow it to be used by the Quincy and the medallion don't work on Ichigo's "bankai" we also know it can't be used to steal arrancar resurrection. Mayuri says resurrection is comparable to bankai and the fact that they don't use them to steal resurrection must mean it would be detrimental to them. That being said one of the sternritter tried unsuccessfully to steal Ichigo's "bankai" but we don't know why he failed