Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27606805-20160114003153/@comment-27565137-20160130031051

CInderz wrote: Remember how the former espada said they were the last generation of natural arrancar? That the hogyoku was used to "improve that evolutionary process" or something?

In Starrk's backstory he looked identical to how he did In the war. He had already become an arrancar, and was killing what appeared to be adjuchas just by being in thier general radius.

He split his soul in two, and his ressureccion is just to turn back into the same being he was. He was so powerful aizen randomly walked through the desert to figure out what he was, and when starrk said he was lonely, Aizen wanted him to join his army quite badly.

His main abilities (other then his master of sonido, and impressive cero abilities) were his soul splitting wolves/swords.

With his "Pistols" he was able to fight evenly with shunsui with neither of them sustaining any heavy damage, but both of them dodging/blocking/deflecting more then one fatal blow.

When he activated his most advanced/unique cero metralla, ukitake felt the need to step in.

He was able to dodge around 4 consecutive attempts to behead him, as well as (in my opinion) Outspeed kyoraku, who is arguably the second fastest shunpo user alive. (distance wise, he doesn't have any special shunpo techniques)

He wasn't.. Super durable compared to other arrancar. He didn't show really any hierro feats, however he WAS against kyoraku, whose offence would've easily been able to slash through nnoitra (and probably one hit kill him if he used irooni. black since nnoitras hollow hole is quite small, if he were to remove his captains haori.

(tiny target, with huge openings all over kyoraku means his damage would be insanely amplified, it's how he killed starrk)

I've always thought that SInce starrk is (as far as I can tell) a 100% natural arrancar, he was.. the pinnacle of hollow evolution.

Other arrancar were also able to feel more "human" emotions. It actually broke my heart when kyoraku backstabbed starrk as he was offering the two vizards (who could barely stand) Mercy, saying if they ran he wouldn't chase them, basically asking them to not make him kill them.

His soul is similar to kyorakus in a way that they both have extremely unique abilities. Katen Kyokotsu being based on kyorakus soul, and starrk being able to alter His soul and reiatsu and make them one.

I'm not so sure that Starrk was the pinnacle of hollow evolution seeing we never got the Vasto Lords uniqueness explored.

Only by comparing him to Barragan, Harribel and Ulquiora, do we get a clearer picture. And from this four, Starrk seems to had been the only Vasto Lord able to become an Arrancar on his own. In fact I doubt Aizen even had to use the Hougyokou on him, seeing he was already quite powerful.

Starrk basically joined Aizen because he was tired of being surrounded by weaker beings than him, that even by being close to him, they'd die off. He wanted other has powerful or more powerful than him, to end his loneliness.

But this is all we know. We know Barragan, Harribel and Ulquiora, only became a Arrancars because of Aizen, has did Grimmjow and Zommari. With the exception of Nnoitra, Szayelaporro and Aaroniero. Who were already Arrancars when Aizen arrived at Hueco Mundo. With the exception of Szayelaporro if I'm not mistaken. He was a Arrancar if memory serves me well but he wasn't even among the rank of the Espadas.

The difference was that those three, more specifically Nnoitra were much weaker. And it was through the use of the Hougyokou that supposedly they became stronger.

That's why when Nelliel fought against Nnoitra he said that the number 3 on her back was meaningless.

Has for Starrk, all we know is that supposedly of all the Espadas of Vasto Lord level, he was the only one that became a Arrancar on his own. And that his resurreccion was also unique.

Does this make him the most powerful Vasto Lord of all?! Who knows!? We don't even know what Yammy was. We don't know if he was an Adjucha with a special power that set him apart from the others, just like Aaroniero (Espada number 9) was also the only Gillian among the Espadas because of his special ability. Or if Yammy was also a Vasto Lord. Although if he was, he clearly didn't fit the description of a Vasto Lord.