Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-14337944-20131025130629/@comment-26420452-20131026170738

You should take into account that Ichigo has been a Shinigami for less than 3 years and has managed people with much more experience. He has no received no proper instruction apart from playing swords with Urahara. So let me make a list (it's a bit messy, because I ordered them according to the time of the first encounter):

- Defeated by Renji => developed a "proper" Zanpakutō, defeated him.

- Defeated by Gin => the first time because he was not prepared for what a captain could do, as for the second battle, we can't say whether he lost or won, he just wasn't focusing on his opponent.

- Scored a draw with Kenpachi (do you understand that this 3-month only Shinigami Substitute managed to draw with Kenpachi?)

- Defeated by Byakuya because of his mastery of Shunpo => learnt a bit of Shunpo and Bankai, managed to defeat him.

- Defeated by Aizen => Aizen was so overpowered he wanted to become God, so Ichigo became even more overpowered and defeated him.

- Defeated by Yammy => he didn't lose because he was weak, he was trying to restrain his Hollow self

- Defeated by Grimmjow => same thing, and managed to defeat him by mastering his Hollow mask

- Defeated by Ulquiorra => Ulquiorra killed him twice in less than 24 hours, the first time he was resurrected by outside help and the second time just by HIMSELF, he turned into a Hollow of never-before-seen power and got to mop the floor with Ulquiorra. If he didn't manage to kill Ulquiorra instantaneously, it was because of his lack of reasoning (unlike Ulquiorra).

Defeated by Nnoitra => he had just finished battling Grimmjow

Defeated by Yhwach => he managed to get almost unharmed from the man who killed Yamamoto in less than a minute!

In general, he gets himself defeated and then learns a technique in how to overpower them, which is of the same nature as that of his enemy.

Yet, I have to acknowledge that Ichigo beat all this people by just slightly ovepowering them.