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I still believe that only now in this final arc, we're gonna get to know, Ichigo's true Shikai and Bankai. If Kubo is to be taken into account for everything he did to Ichigo, what he made him to be, then Ichigo up until the point he for the first time got his own Asauchi he never really had a Shikai or a Bankai.

After all Old Man quincy can't say that he was suppressing most of Ichigo true shinigami/hollow powers allowing but a fraction to manifest because he simply couldn't contain it all. And still believe that from that moment on things were gonna be the same.

It might turn out that Ichigo real bankai is much, much larger than what we've seen so far. Even if not in size then at least in terms of sheer magnitude of power.

Which at this point, for Ichigo to stand any chance to beat Yhwach, his Shikai would've to have a power surpassing that of Yamamoto bankai, and his Bankai would've to go way past that. And who knows... Maybe throw a Resurrección/Letzt Stil combination his way.