User blog comment:Nick D Wolfwood/Shinji's Potential/@comment-1752519-20091225045804

the reason why kyoraku won without his bankai is simple his shikai ability made starrks reiatsu useless wich is his main weapon by far, his great energy based attacks were his top card, and with the rules kyorakus zanpakto puts it made reiatsu almost useless if he would of had almost anybody elses shikai he would have needed the bankai to win even with his abilities, any one that disagrees comment it to me, by the way and like some here have mentioned, the vizard arent weak theyre all captain level fighters and above (in the case of kensei and even more in shinjis)altough i agree they didnt dispplay the fight i was expecting and shinji will lose altough he will show that he is around as powerful as the captain commander if the fight isnt interrupted before that and kensei probably will win but have a hard time against margera wich probably is the true strongest arrancar above even yammi and starrk