User blog comment:Godisme/Come Around Our Turn/@comment-1747976-20110825034032/@comment-44061-20110826002613

I would question that though we have talked countless times about Ichigo and his power level and one thing that keeps coming back is that for all the lofty talk of being above and beyond in power there is no consistency. Ichigo's power is something like a gun that only works sometimes. Its entirely unpredictable, its hight and then extremely high and then not so much. Though we talk about him as though he is the messiah or that he has achieved something. He has raw talent and has inherited tremendous reiatsu, yet still barely no real skill in effectively using it. At time he cant fight on high level terms with bankai and hollowfication, hollow ichigo takes over and utterly dominates the 4th most powerful of espada. He is no match for the overpowered Aizen (then it becomes who is) and then all the sudden he is far more powerful then 4 transformations worth of overpower. Then he is powerless completely. Gets his power back amped up and still in a hard spot. The point is the lofty words of transcendence are nice but arent ever consistent and therefore come off meaningless as you have pointed out. Though when they do work the story is interesting.