User blog comment:Godisme/THE SQUAD ZERO/@comment-3987368-20121114163404/@comment-3987368-20121115091116

I wasn't flipping out, just wanted to get that out there.

Seemed a rather strange thing to me since they're all former captains. I suspect that rather than each one being individually stronger than Yamamoto, they have some ability that allows them to become stronger as a whole.