User blog comment:Morgan silve/Tia Harribel vs Nelliel/@comment-957629-20110316222305

I'm tending to agree with Salubri on this one!! To try and judge would be entire speculation!! Are we talking about Nel pre-getting mask crushed or Nel POST-getting mask crushed?? This is something that can only be nswered by Kubo and something we absolutely cannot decide for sure!! There are variables in both cases that need to be considered at all times!!

Nel - we don't know exactly how far she was affected by that Nnoitra's ambush affected her, for all we know, when she was fighing Nnoitra#5 she could have only fighting at a certain percentage of her true potential!! We all know how important a mask is to a Hollow, say like a human brain, nobody comes away from an injury like that at full power!! Sure, she didn't kill Nnoitra, so what?? She's never killed him before and clearly had beaten him many times before so it's nothing new!! All we saw was Nnoitra getting his butt handed to him, like Nnoitra#8 did in their previous encounters!!

Harribel - Well yeah she's pretty damn strong but we don't know what would have happened had good old Big Eye not shown up!! Sure she wasn't harmed but its ice, it kills you slowly!! Anyone I've seen frozen to death look relatively unscathed except they're frozen!! Yup, she's a great swordsman but so is Nel and Nel showed great skill in hand-to-hand combat as well, it fact, Nel's weapon looked A LOT more versatile to use in combat, especially at close quarters!! Of course that's just talking about their unreleased forms!! Was Harribel confirmed to be a Vasto Lorde in the Manga too?? And her fight with a captain and vizard was pretty off-putting to be honest!! The visoreds were still VC-class and Hitsugaya was no longer in Bankai mode and we've seen time and again that someone of Bankai-level can easily defeat Shikai-level despite more of them!! We saw hardly anything of that fight to judge, we saw one multiple attack of shikais and that was it!!

So yeah, we don't know enough to judge completely, though I'm not sure Nel should be counted out as badly as she appears to be!! We saw nobody ever land a hit on her except once when she became emotional and was fooled by a crack-pot!! So verdict: Impossible to decide given limited manga info on their histories/powers!!

agree with Salubri!!