User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 567 (Rukia be like "I ain't even scared though")/@comment-6657474-20140209001137

Since the theme of this arc seems to be discovering the extent of one's true power, then I wonder what we'll see when Chad and Orihime finally get their chance to fight. Based on the dialogue between the two when we last saw them, they were obviously training in Hueco Mundo specifically for this final battle, and also being main characters, it would be silly for them to enter the battle field and not have had enough of a power up to fight a Stern Ritter on an even footing.