User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 680 - THE END 2/@comment-28826800-20160630125552

At this rate, Uryū will be the only one who can even confront, lest defeat Yhwach.

Uryū might be the one true hero of the arc. Everybody else will just get killed the moment Yhwach sees them. Nobody else even comes close.

Ichigo's time as a hero has ended.