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During the battle against Aizen, Yamamoto says "Why, precisely, do you think I have served as Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13 for a thousand years? Because in all those thousand years, no Shinigami was born to rival me in strength", my guess is that there could be stronger Shinigamis before those thousand years and Ichibe may be one of them. So Yamamoto is really stronger than every Shinigami who borned after him, but Ichibe is stronger yet.