"It's been so long that I forgot the pain of not having a name. Everyone had a name that friends use to call them, but I didn't. That pain." — Kenpachi Zaraki in "THE UNDEAD" |
"Consume everything, demon of the blood-thirsty sword." - Tite Kubo
Kenpachi Zaraki (更木 剣八, Zaraki Kenpachi) is the current captain of the 11th Division in the Gotei 13. He is the eleventh Kenpachi to hold the position.
Strength/Striking Power
Kenpachi is really strong. His main power is his immense striking power.
Brake through a wall while patched while his real power is still limited.
Takes his eye-patch out and can cut down buildings with indirect attacks.
Destroy multiple buildings in a last attack/confrontation with Ichigo.
Knock Yammy off his feet with a indirect attack while still eye-patched.
Kenpachi creates a earthquake
Lift a mountain size rock with his reiatsu and cut it in half
Can carry 3 Sternritter (two humans and a Gorilla-man) in his shoulders without braking a sweat.
Destroy multiple buildings with a single attack against Yhwach (yeah it was the real one as said in the dagger).
Destroys half a fortress-like mountain with a indirect attack.
Opens himself a way on what it looks like... well... reality (if anyone has another explanation please share it with me, cause how the hell do you explain that).
Speed
While he possesses no known skill in Shunpo, Kenpachi is deceptively fast for his size and build.
Thanks to his tremendous raw power, Kenpachi's leg strength allows him to more than make up for his lack of Shunpo, allowing him to move fast enough to instantly close a huge gap of space between him and his opponent, and even seemingly disappear from sight.
Ichigo lost complete sight of him even though at that time Ichigo had FTL reflexes (he reacted to a cero):
He has good reflexes:
Reacts casually to a Cero from Nnoitra (Cero travel to the speed of light)
No one see him approach when he step between Tesla and Ichigo:
Keep up with Byakuya when fighting Yammy,
Keep up with Ichigo when attacking stark,
Speed Blitz Giriko
Cut in half a missile shot to him:
Keep up with Candice in speed while wounded:
Endurance
His physical strength and speed is matched by his resilience.
Kenpachi often ignores most of the injuries he sustains in battle (much like a berserker), not suffering any debilitation despite having multiple slash wounds in his body.
During his battle with Tousen and Komamura he received attacks from both captain's shikai and he was fine
He allowed himself to be stabbed during his fight with Tōsen just to grab Tōsen's blade to dispel his Bankai's effect.
In his battle with Nnoitra after receiven a lot of damage he was fighting without problem
Even after receiving grievous injuries which left him in a comatose state, he recovered only days later, well enough to resume training.
After his arm was completely twisted he was still perfectly fine and he didn't even drop his sword.
Durability
As resilient as Kenpachi is, he is just as hard to damage.
During his battle against Yammy, while Kenpachi was focusing his attention on Ichigo, Yammy delivered a powerful blow with his massive fist, launching Kenpachi several meters and smashing him into a large pillar. Despite the impact, Kenpachi quickly emerged unfazed, claiming it was only a "decent punch" and Yammy needed to "put some effort in it".
Something that people hasn't appear to notice yet is that Kenpachi was close when Yamamoto used his bankai who had a temperature of 15 millions grades. During his battle with Gremmy, slice lava aside as a annoyance
Kenpachi escaped from being trapped under water, under the mountain-like fortress without being able to breathe really easy.
Smashed under rocks and a giant arm,
fired upon by dozens of firearms and having missiles thrown at him,
withstood the vacuum of space where it only destroy one of his organs,
having several clones of Gremmy self-destruct at point-blank range with only moderate injuries.
Received two lightning bolts and a punch from Candice "The Thunderbolt" and Meninas "The Power"
now you are surely wondering why is this impressive? well this is impressive because he was nerfed in every single way, he was half deaf and one of his organs was destroyed, plus remember the sternrittern could decided how much power she was using in a lightning, normal lightnings can start a direct fire because the temperature is 90,032°F which is 9 times hotter than the surface of the sun. It is fast too, at 186,000 miles per second- the speed of light, it can reach distances of over 40 land miles in fractions of a second. Lightning Damage Consulting | Electro-Mechanical Recertifiers, Inc.
And he was still fine though he couldn't move at the time a few hours later he was perfectly fine.
Skills
Kenpachi did not attend the Shin'ō Academy, cannot use Bankai, and has no apparent skill (or interest) in Kidō. However, he more than makes up for his faults with his sheer power and endurance, easily making him one of the strongest Shinigami in Soul Society.
Master Swordsman: Due to the lawlessness of the Zaraki district, Kenpachi's skill with his sword has been honed to a masterful level, letting him strike multiple times with changes of attack type (from slash to pierce) without any difficulty. While still a child, his prowess was great enough to single-handedly produce a huge pile of adult corpses and wound Retsu Unohana, the 1st Kenpachi, in battle. His unpolished skills, but immense might with his sword allow him to always fight with one hand free, only using both hands when facing opponents he feels will beat him otherwise, as shown with Nnoitra and momentarily Ichigo. As the captain of the 11th Division, which specializes in sword fighting, he is among the most, if not the most, proficient swordsmen in all of Soul Society.
Kendō: Kenpachi possesses considerable knowledge and skill in Kendō, which Yamamoto forced him to learn before officially joining the Gotei 13, though the training only lasted a day out of fear that Zaraki would become too powerful.
However, Kenpachi, who despises using skills and techniques learned from another source, only uses Kendō as a last resort.
- Ryōdan (両断, Bisection): A technique which Kenpachi uses when he is gripping his sword with two hands. It allows one to split an opponent down the middle
Hand-to-Hand Combat Expert: While preferring to use his blade in battle, Kenpachi has proven several times to be very dangerous while barehanded. He can easily catch an opponent's attack with a single hand, perform powerful punches and kicks, and easily subdue opponents with throws and take-downs. Kenpachi easily overwhelmed several members of the Onmitsukidō, a corp of Hakuda-specialists, despite being battle-worn.
Personality
After killing Unohana and finally learning the name of his Zanpakutō, Kenpachi has become somewhat calmer and more focused. Though he retains his desire to battle and is not overly interested in the details of his missions beyond fighting people, he is more willing to listen to reason, having backed down from searching for his missing lieutenant on his own when Nanao Ise explained to him why it would be more practical to have his division conduct the search instead. He also takes his position as Kenpachi seriously, telling Gremmy Thoumeaux that there is nothing the latter can create that he cannot cut because the power his title implies is not to be taken lightly. Additionally, he is far more willing to show his concern for Yachiru than he was in the past; when he discovers she is missing, Kenpachi frantically orders his men to begin looking for her in a rare case of him exercising his authority as a captain.
Equipment
Eyepatch Power Seal: Kenpachi wears an eyepatch, created by the Shinigami Research and Development Institute just for him, which seals the bulk of his Reiryoku. Since he has so much power, however, it does not noticeably hinder him in battle; in fact, he remains just ahead of most other captains. His reason for wearing it is since he loves fighting so much, he cannot fight most opponents at full strength without defeating them quickly. Seventeen months after Aizen's defeat, Kenpachi wears a new eyepatch.
Reiatsu/Reiryoku
Immense Spiritual Power: Even by a captain's standards, his Reiryoku is absolutely monstrous. Kenpachi has fought on par with two other captain-level opponents while still wearing his energy-sealing eye patch and his opponents releasing their Zanpakutō's Bankai. Ganju Shiba estimated his sealed power to be close or at the same level as Byakuya Kuchiki's Reiatsu.
Similar to Ichigo, when unleashing a strong enough surge of energy, it becomes visible and yellow in color, sometimes with the appearance of a skull.
After his battle with Unohana, Kenpachi possesses much more control over his Reiryoku, and can use it to stand in midair like other Shinigami.
Unruly Reiatsu Control: His spiritual energy can affect entire areas to the point of disrupting energy attacks from enemies, and cause others from seemingly miles away to enter a state of paralysis and confusion. Kenpachi can exert enough Reiatsu to repel the poison of Konjiki Ashisogi Jizō.
- Damage Resistance: He can use it as a sort of armor, making it impossible for him to be harmed by anyone not at his level of power. This is first demonstrated when Ichigo tries to cut Kenpachi at the start of their fight. Kenpachi allows Ichigo to strike him, yet not only does he fail to cut him, but Ichigo's hands start to bleed because of it. This can be compared to an Arrancar's Hierro.
- Shock Wave: He possesses enough control to focus and unleash his spiritual pressure in the form of a powerful shock wave. When using both hands, his shock wave can have a huge radius of destruction.
- Energy Wave: By striking at the ground, Kenpachi can create an overflowing wave of yellow spiritual energy, which surges forward before crashing into Kenpachi's target.
Also in the Novel: Spirits are Forever with You, it take place in the time skip time of the 17 months of Bleach. It was revealed some very interesting things about Post Time Skip Kenpachi's reiatsu.
相手の强さに合わせて自分のレベルを调整する。、 爱染が崩玉を覚醒させて不灭の肉体を持つまでは 戦うべきではないと判断して隔离作をとったほどの强さ。 また、痣城の更木に対する胜率は1割だと予测する。
To match the strong of the opponent to adjustment your own levels. , Strong enough 爱染 took 隔离 work it is determined that should not fight until with a body of non-Flashing aroused the Kuzure-dama. In addition, 胜率 against Saraki of Aza-jo I to 予测's 10%.
シエンは自分と戦っているこの剣八なら バラガンの呪いを切り裂りさくこともできるし スタークの牙も臓腑に届くこともないと断言。 事実、シエンが无数の剣八のミニチュアを作り 内蔵の远隔破壊をしようとするも ミニチュアの内蔵自体が异常に硬くて伤一つつかなかった。
Assistance assert that not even that Stark Fang also reach the internal organs and can either be fence 裂Ri cut the curse of Barragan if this sword bees are fighting with myself. In fact, the assistance is a miniature of the built-in itself, even to try sword eight of creating a miniature built-in 远隔 destruction of 无数 wrote a stick one wound is hard to abnormal.
终盘の痣城戦では数百にも及ぶ多重一刀火葬を受けても たいしたダメージは与えられないレベルとなった。 ついには空気と融合しているはずの痣城を 空気ごと切ってダメージを与え、 刳屋敷を倒した生体融合をも霊圧のみで打ち破った。
Much damage even under a multi-cut with a sword cremation, which also extends to several hundred in Aza-jo game of 终盘 it became not given level. Eventually damage the Aza-jo that should have been fused to the air and cut each air, we have Uchiyabu only Rei圧 also a biological fusion defeated mansion clock.
痣城が瀞霊邸との融合を解除して双极を遥かに上回る矛をつくり出し、 剣八がそれを両手で迎え撃ったとき、 一般队士たちは両者の霊圧をまったく感じられなくなっていた。
Aza-jo is create a pike exceeding much a bi-pole to release the fusion of the Toro Spirit House, when the sword bees were Mukaeu~tsu it with both hands, general 队士 we have no longer felt any spiritual pressure of both It was.
现在のオサレ眼帯は昔の10倍の霊圧吸引力。
Osare eyepatch the old days of the 10 times the spirit pressure suction attraction of now.
The translation is really bad if anyone has a better translation i will post it here.
Tite Kubo's postscript about the Novel:
part of the Novel you can read it here and the rest you can buy it in amazon.
Bleach: Spirits Are Forever With You I &II by Zanpakuto-Leader on DeviantArt
The manga actually follows a continuation of the Novel.
His actual Reiatsu lv while still patched make him so powerful that his subordinates, can't feel it.
and Mayuri doesn't even feel his presence.
And while he was a kid Unohana couldn't feel his presence either.
The reason of this is bc his reiatsu is so strong that it affect the abilities of perception and disrupt everyone's reiatsu and abilities at a determined range, similar to what Ichigo did to Rukia at the beginning of the series but in a much more larger scale.
Stats
Kenpachi's Battle Data, clockwise. Top: Offense (100), Top Right: Defense (80), Bottom Right: Mobility (60), Bottom: Kidō (0), Bottom Left: Intelligence (50), Top Left: Physical Strength (100). Total: 390/600.
Zanpakutou
Shikai: Norazashi
Kenpachi's shikai increase his striking power way beyond the charts to the point that he blow up a meteor that was going to destroy the whole Seireitei with a single blow.
Now what makes this so impressive?
Fan calc coming up, here i'm calculating the max possible area/circumference of the seireitei with data given in the movie and manga.
Now If you don't like to believe in the movie we can take the manga
But if you are not into that bc scale which it doesn't actually matter cause Kubo don't actually draw to scale
Now that makes Gremmy's meteor which is close to the size of seireitei that large. Then you have to factor in density and the fact it was moving at subsonic to supersonic (Meteors enter the atmosphere at speeds ranging from 11 km/sec(25,000 mph), to 72 km/sec (160,000 mph!).) speeds given it's flames.
Now what would be his destructive power?
If a 23 miles in diameter minimum meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs was country level then something close to 720 miles (probably less) is easily continental to multi continental.
If You Think That Dino-Killing Asteroid Was Big, Wait Till You Hear About This Whopper
In other words if that thing hits the ground there wasn't going to be seireitei, rukongai or anything in there.
Making Kenpachi's feat really impressive since when he attacked there wasn't nothing left of it.
Bankai:
Not yet archieved/revealed. Tite Kubo says he will archive bankai in this new saga.
Early 2012 interview with Tite Kubo (SPOILERS) - AnimeNation Forums
Intelligence
Highly Perceptive Combatant: Despite his seeming disregard for any strategy in his fights and his self-admitted aversion to thinking during battle, Kenpachi is a very insightful man, regularly showing more understanding than one would expect. Even Byakuya was impressed by Kenpachi's ability to understand things he has no personal experience with. While he admits to having no sanity or common sense, Kenpachi is very perceptive, noticing traits in people others would not notice, and seeing what drives a person's actions. He correctly singles out Kaname Tōsen and Gin Ichimaru as the only captains who are afraid to die.
He is very adept at finding and exploiting weaknesses in his opponents' techniques, such as in his battle with Kaname Tōsen, where he subdued the latter's Bankai while armed only with a Zanpakutō and the one sense left accessible by Tōsen's Bankai at the time - touch. He is adept at adjusting to his opponent's attack patterns and battle methods to better counter them. He possesses sharp intuition towards incoming danger, as shown by his ability to repeatedly dodge Tōsen's assault while still affected by his Bankai.
Zaraki also theorized during his battle with Gremmy Thoumeaux that if the concentration of his "The Visionary" shifts towards himself instead of others, the effects that his ability had on Yachiru, making her bones into cookies, would disappear.
Others thing that you didn't know:
- Kenpachi has limiters in his Reiatsu that he block and unlock during a fight to actually have more fun with them, as it happen first with Ichigo when he lowered a little bit his Reiatsu to fight him and ended up in a draw, or increase his reiatsu strong enough to fight Nnoitra. In other words this guy is a walking Power Lv increasing and decreasing unconsciously. Thanks to @princearagorn1 for remember it me.
- Kenpachi though he has a really bad sense of direction he can locate a person's reiatsu and track him down without problems. Thanks to @princearagorn1 for remember it me.
- Is the second person that Aizen didn't wanted to have a direct confrontation without having a immortal body (being Yamamoto the first one) as Tite and Norita stated in the Bleach novel "May The Spirits Be With You"
This is on-going. If you had another feat for Kenpachi tag me and I post it here.
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