Forum:The only useful division?

For me I think practically every squad is utterly useless since they always get their posteriors kicked easily (sugar coating for any young readers) except for the fourth division who even though never fight are the only ones with abilities that are useful enough, where as the 11th (except for the obvious ones) were depicted as tools who have barely any skills aside from weak swordsmanship, the rest may be less tough but they're not that much different. by the way I am only referring to the lower seated and non seated soldiers.--SalmanH 15:24, November 2, 2009 (UTC)

Well for any serious enemy only high seated officers and captains are capable of dealing with them, so yes the lower ranked squad members are useless in that sense, but there's more to being a soul reaper than the big fights, hollows pop up in the real world and in rukongai quite often, and the captains and high ranked officers are too busy to deal with every single hollow occurence, and that's where the unranked squad members come in. Patrolling and so forth. Also remember that almost every single shinigami captain, vice captain or 3rd-5th seat, who are the only 'useful' people in the squads according to you, were originally unranked shinigami who had to rise through the ranks by advancing their skills. Who knows how many future officers are still unranked in some random squad? BollyW 20:52, November 2, 2009 (UTC)