Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10786787-20130613005503/@comment-8986886-20140405041915

Thunderstudent wrote: It was a joke dude, but yeah, Kenpachi doesn't need one. But just for argument sakes for if I was serious, the fact that you would need such a boost *in the eyes of someone like Kenpachi* means you can't rely on your own power to see you through a battle. Therefore you are weak.

Telling his opponents that using their Bankai proves them weak, is just part of Kenny's trash talk. Besides, Kenny is still borrowing power from his Zanpakuto's Shikai. If he really wanted to rely on his own strength, he'd use a regular katana instead. Kenny just wants a good fight, and if the only way to achieve that were to learn Bankai, he wouldn't hesitate to do so. For example, when Kenny's fight with Ichigo ended in a draw, he realized that maybe learning his Zanpakuto's name, wasn't such a bad idea after all.