User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 569 (You've been hit by / You've been struck by / Senbonzakura~)/@comment-24113610-20140223232155/@comment-26420452-20140224092900

Well I said "Rukia isn't the epitome of power", that means she's not powerful, but neither is she weak.

The events of Hueco Mundo showed that Rukia was on par with lieutenants at the time. People say she got lucky in killing Aaroniero, but that's absurd. If Aaroniero hadn't pretended he was Kaien, would she have hesitated so much? No, she'd immediately go for the kill and not do silly things like "I needed to prove myself you weren't Kaien". [I copy-pasted it from another comment of mine.]