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they maybe individually stronger, if you look at senjumaru's comment in the last chapter. also he says no one in the last 1000 years was born more powerful than him, but to be honest if you look at comparison wise, a transcended aizen is stronger than him, before he transcended he said yama was the stronger but post transformation and transcending the boundary of hollows and shinigami aizen is stronger. an indicator of that was as he said shinigami could not sense him unless he let them, when kenpachi arrived to fight gremmy no one could sense him and he still has the eye patch on, which by relation puts him on the same level as that. we dont know when kenpachi was born for sure, he fought unohana as a boy and i do believe she was part of the original gotei 13 and the 2nd oldest captain after yamamoto in the gotei 13 we were introduced to.

also he cancelled kenpachi's kendo practice after a day fearing his strength and that was with kenpachi's inner limits in existence. even now you hear shunsui say they have no guarantee that if kenpachi rebels against the gotei 13 that they can stop him. the reason i stated all this was a reference there are characters stronger than him and its not far fetched that these more experienced and versed people that make up the royal guards are in fact individually stronger, cuz think of it oetsu and ichibei would have to be his teachers and would have come before him, to teach him his zanpakutos real name and to forge it, so chronologically they came before him hence his claim to being the strongest shinigami born in the last 1000 years can hold up while these 2 are stronger as we know for sure they came before.