User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 670 - The Perfect Crimson/@comment-24574959-20160414230229/@comment-3423279-20160416023955

There are only like 3 or 4 Sternritter I can think of who displayed actual skill when fighting and not solely relying on power, like you said Bamby is one of them and so is Hulk Hogan- I mean Mask.

Candice could put up a decent effort against Ichigo, but his training kinda made it moot, and Quilge was also a skilled individual.

Almost everyone else relied on their Schrift to win. Cang Du even just got outright owned by a half dead Toshiro...

The Elite Sternritter seem to be the guys who hold unique and difficult to overcome powers while also being ridiculously tough to kill, if they were just stronger versions of Quincy without this it wouldn't seem reasonable to have them be the Elite.