Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-13237238-20130724132657/@comment-13237238-20130726131020

Anything I come up with always turns out a bit overpowered, but I have a few ideas

The first one is a sword that, in its shikai maintains the shape of a katana, but it turns completely invisible. This would make it difficult for opponents to judge my swords reach or even tell what it looks like, as it could be an axe or a spear for all they know. However if I was fighting someone smart like Kuchiki Byakuya, someone like him could easily figure out my reach. In that situation that's when I would use my sword's only other ability, and that's to extend my reach by a full 2 meters, to catch my opponents off guard, and I can keep changing the length of my sword back and forth to maintain the confusion.

Another idea, is a zanpakutou that I can only release once I start bleeding heavily. Using the blood that I've lost, I would shape it into the shape of a generic sword. This zanpakutou, can harden and turn back into a liquid whenever i want, allowing it, right before it clashes with my opponents sword as they guard, to pass straight through their weapon and then harden again allowing an easy strike. Because my sword has made contact with my opponents blood that has spilt on the ground, I can manipulate their blood to harden and form large spikes to rise from the ground and stab them

That's about it, I had other ideas but they've already been taken :/