User blog comment:Eduardovongola/Renji Overpower/@comment-24107489-20140101135545/@comment-3177945-20140103194535

Disagree, it was always hinted that Hirako was quite strong, always on the lead, fighting top tier, smart enought to be suspicious about Aizen. Although we have seen nothing much from him, his Bankai is quite promessing and it just seems as his early defeat was meant to save his fight for a more oportune time. But yeh, Hachi has already been shown as bad ass, not many could take Barragan on