Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-32617252-20170927011705/@comment-27392440-20170929052910

TheDS(A) 7 wrote: Absence of evidence is not evidence of abscence. Reiatsu mechanics have been concretely explained, for Aizen him desintigrating things in his surrounding was a byproduct caused by the intensity/amount of power he had reached. Thus since reiatsu is a scale in Bleach, anyone with a reiatsu of similar or higher potency would be able to produce similar results. Factuality isnt determined solely by visual evidence, but by a compendium of general evidence producing a conclusion, in this case the series itself providing sufficient evidence for a factual conclusion to be reached.

True, but the whole premise of critical reasoning is taking certainty you can observe and building a theory from that. In this case I think you are wrong because besides hollows, elemental aspected shinigami, and transcendent powered people, shinigami have never shown direct destructive capacity with reiatsu alone. They have messed with the mind, bolstered physical capabilities and created elaborate abilities but never caused raw destruction with reiatsu. Aizen was a bad example because he wasn't a shinigami anymore and seeing how there are many things shinigami can do that hollows cannot it is not unreasonable to assume that what reiatsu can do is highly determined by their species, basically the amount of reiatsu is less important than the quality/type that they have. I am open to being wrong so if you can show me a statement from Kubo or canon evidence that you are right I will gladly except your opinion (though I may discount it if you have examples with the irregulars Kenpachi or Ichigo, since they break the rules in many ways).

Also, to answer the last post, they killed hollows after they split and very likely before too (though I am a bit of a stickler in saying that lilynette and starrk are technically one being so her reiatsu likely contributed as well...I have no real evidence to back it up but my thought has always been that she just does not have the control to properly use her power for her own benefit so she seems much weaker than she actually is, I mean it seems unrealistic to me that starrk would get such a power boost in ressureccion if she wasn't strong too)