Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24382631-20140124224808/@comment-6007020-20140226231352

Starrk's wolves are pieces of he and Lilynette's soul, go where he tells them to, and can't be destroyed, so the First Espada's suicide doggies aren't gotten rid of easily. Also, we don't know if Starrk can fire Cero Mentralleta while the wolves are out, so dodging one won't save you from the other.

Starrk is noted to pay extreme attention to details, so I'm more than certain he could figure out when Ulqiorra's about to lay down a trap or such and counter it easily. Cero Mentralleta is a massive barrage of Ceros, so the Fourth Espada would need a large Lanzo del Relampego to properly block it, on top of the fact that it's a continous stream of Ceros, so after throwing one Lanzo, it would only break apart the first chunk of Ceros, allowing plenty more of the blue blasts to power through.

Close-range combat, you say? Well, Starrk has a Hierro so thick he can take the full brunt of a Melee-type Shikai to the face and barely get a scratch.

Hallibel's also had never seen Toshiro's bankai, but she was able to parry with it and gain an advantage after a while, no?