User blog comment:TotalDrama22121/Carbon Copies/@comment-1268838-20100913204015/@comment-2231803-20100913211520

I'm sorry but Rukia is not stronger than Ichigo or Uryu. I think it's even a stretch to say she's as strong as Renji. If your referring to Dondochakka and Pesche, than yeah she is stronger than them, but those two did nothing in their fights except spit on Cirucci and that weird cero against Szayelaporro, so we can't really gauge their strength.

And in concerns to Grimmjow, I sayed it in the blog. He was Ichigo's personal obstacle AT THAT TIME. Besides, Grimmjow is basically an antagonistic version of Ichigo. Their both hot heads, both have authority issues and both are sort of rebels.

Everyone was too conviniently matched up IMO.