User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/The State of the War/@comment-24153155-20150921184843

I guess I am fine with the aforementioned battles (except I guess for Inoue...I simply can't see her truly taking on an enemy just like Rukia or Yoruichi or so), but for the longest time I have been a bit baffled about the strengths of the (remaining) characters.

Honestly, with the Royal Guard being wiped out in the fashion they were- they were/are elite of the elite shinigami and known to have a higher reiatsu than "average" Gotei 13 Taicho, I really can't think a way of any of Ichigo's Karakura friends being physically (!) strong enough to take on any of the Schutztaffel. Unless Urahara of course had things his way.

The thing is: how do you really plan on taking on an Yhwach who is more than just beyond OP? We still don't know so much about SS history and what exactly happened to Yhwach or the SK before. What if the "unwritten plan" is to attack Yhwach in a similar fashion, but that Yhwach's "luck" is that he simply has more protection (Schutztaffel) than before? Of course, there is still the question of what the SK essentially is. The previous died somehow after Yhwach took over his -euhm- torso, but what happened to his other limbs? Is that what Pernida meant? Just because Yhwach now is the (partial) SK, the limbs automatically identify themselves as Quincy? Or is it just because of Yhwach's own ability of being able to give away a piece of his soul? Ichigo embodies all different species. A "simple" Getsuga wouldn't obviously do, but what if he was able to slash through different dimensions in a released state (by being none of the species or superior)?