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N-e-ls wrote: Stefan (Shikai - "Rust & Shatter") wrote: On a side note: Ikkaku is the only member of the taskforce, who is able to defeat his opponent with the Gentei Reiin power restriction still in place. Both Toshiro and Renji were losing their respective fights, despite having released their Bankai. Ikkaku is definitely not all talk, but has the skill and power to back it up. The Gentei Reiin is put only on captains and lieutenants, so Ikkaku was fighting with his maximum power.

Well, in ch.210, it says that all captains and lieutenants of the Gotei 13, have limiters placed on them when they visit the world of the living. However, that doesn't exclude other powerful Shinigami from having limiters as well. Especially someone like Ikkaku; a Third Seat who has achieved Bankai. That alone would make him more powerful than, for example Rangiku, a Lieutenant who has not achieved Bankai.