Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5693502-20140410203934/@comment-5693502-20140413200606

Arrancar dont really gain Shinigami powers, thats the tag line but in reality not so much true. Well if they don't really gain Shinigami powers of any sort, then my question is null and void hahaha. So really, apart from their obvious power boost, it's all aesthetic. Sucks to be an Arrancar.

Fact is Kido is a ability that requires reiryoku control and training to even be capable of. That implies that Arrancar are incapable of controlling their reiryoku, which I disagree with (oh, and since this is hypothetical thinking, one would assume that the training part is a successful given). Also, if that is all it takes to perform Kido, there's quite a few species that should be able to do it.

If the opposite of them are the Visored then they got the good side of the situation proving far more versatile then the arrancar. All the perks of being shinigami plus mutually exclusive powers of the hollow that are mostly instinctual aside from the hollow mask. That's exactly what I find weird. The Visored got all the good skills and perks of being a Hollow while the Arrancar got squat in comparison (which is why I have always been under the impression that the Visored could have quite easily eliminated the Espada by themselves if the two groups were to ever have clashed). Sorry Arrancar, no Shinigami skills for you.