User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 654 - Deadman Standing/@comment-26091912-20151204015106/@comment-26091912-20151204025103

Not quite. That power boost seemed to be a temporary measure. Pernida became as strong as Kenpachi due to its Schrift which allowed it to overcome just about everything Mayuri threw at it. Lille survived Shunsui's Bankai because, reasons. And as Demotivator said, we haven't seen any basic Quincy techniques since ages (apart from Heilig Pfeil.)

And in regards to the lieutenants one-shotting them. Well, to be fair, Nemu did so at the cost of her life-force, and even then, it didn't work out in the end. So yeah, I'm hoping that the next fights won't go down like the last two. (Actually, just Lille's. I quite liked the Pernida fight.)