User blog comment:TVthePunisher/Chapter 415 - Deicide 17...and Kubo trolled again.../@comment-1982694-20100808003635

@Avolling well, to be fair, he has the potential to grow to Aizen's state of power. I just don't think he'll do it in this arc. My prediction is that, after Ichigo leaves the Dangai to go after Aizen, they have a big battle, to which Aizen is the victor. Aizen then does one of two things: He either tries to consume Ichigo, but Ichigo is too powerful to consume as he puts up a fight and Aizen discards him and then creates the Ouken from RKT, or he just does the second part after Discarding Ichigo. Either way, with the Ouken now created, he will go into the spirit kings world, defeat the 0 Squad, kill the spirit king, become the new spirit king, then the time line skips a couple of years into the next arc, where Ichigo has trained his ass off to grow as powerful as Aizen. Then, after defeating the 0 squad for himself, Ichigo fights Aizen one last time and comes out the winner. Or Aizen wins and kills Ichigo this time.

Yeah, I know. Not very well thought out and not very good(Again Blaze, your theory's way better). But it's better than not having a theory at all, as far as my personality goes.