Thank you all so much for helping the channel reach 250,000 subscribers! Let's celebrate with a...difficult ranking, shall we? Yeah, this was a tough one, and I'm still not totally happy. In the video, I try to separate the Schrift from the Sternritter as best as possible, but I'm not content with the placement of certain powers, like The X-Axis. What do you think? Let me know your thoughts on the ranking in the comments, and how you might change it up - thanks everyone!
Congratzzz. Now, about Antithesis vs Ballance placement, while fight between 2 is one eternal uno reverse, overal, Anti is better, and that is if we exclude connection with shield and sword (even tho, i'm almost sure that shield and sword are necesery for ballance, as one absorb and one redistribute) Reasons why it's better is that user of Ballance can be 1 shotted, there is nothing to redirect if user is not alive to do it, afaik, there is no post mortem Ballance. On the other hand, Anti user reverse events between 2 points, but it's never said you have to experience end result of that event, just to be in event ocural, basicly, if someone shot on a Anti user, anti user can reverse even that event, be it possitions with bullet, or shooter, or even bullet back, who knows, so tehnicly, killing Anti user should be impossible, if he realy wish it. Other reason is, we saw, in 100% of situations that Ballance turn good fortune in to damage, and just damage, be it person (Cang, Uryu) or object (cage of life). Anti however, can pritty much reverse anything, as long as there is target for it.
I've always been a believer in the theory that if yawach gave Ichigo a schrift it would be H- The hollow given the nature between his Quincy and shinigami/hollow powers. It would be interesting to see how it would work and manifest.
I think the Y - yourself does have 1 caveat. Power storage bankai, like Yamamotos burning skeleton power, probably wouldn't work. Or mimicking that shrift that pinpoints weakness by time. Kinda like monoma in my hero.
When you think about it, Aizen could’ve been a good matchup against the Visionary. If Kyoka Suigetsu can alter your perception of what is real or not, wouldn’t the Visionary accidentally make all the negative experiences Aizen is making the Visonary user real?
Yup. So long as Gremmy thinks it, it will become reality. So if Aizen can trick Gremmy into think something happening to Gremmy, it will become Grammy's reality.
Ahh! Jugram Haschwalth, Sternritter "B" The ImBalance. If he's winning, he's winning. If you're losing, he's winning. If he's losing, he's winning. And if you're losing, then you're losing. I love this character. So cool and so balanced! xD
I liked how faux Yhwach did not indulge Zaraki in the slightest and had him by the throat and defeated. That's one way to get him. Seeing Gotei 13's best fall early on was quite the event in the war even if they rebounded.
Gremmy could straight up create life, including quincys with their own powerful schriffts. Plus he can create more of himself, which while they may require some concentration to maintain, there shouldn't really be a limit to their number (since the copies can create copies).Even assuming he can't just imagine his enemy dead for some reason, he could literally create an opponent or even an army that would be the perfect counter to them. If I were him, I'd put Zaraki against some kind of hydra or something that doubles whenever they are cut
@@TheVofR Exactly my point. Gremmy having a child’s mind is a classic dummy nerf. Kubo really didn’t have a choice though, since the visionary would make an adult basically GOD.
Keep in mind that Grammy does not have the ability to create what he wants, imaginary is an ability that let he create what he THINKS, even back handed thougths that could affect him negatively could became the reality.
The visionary is limited to spiritual power and how many thoughts the user can hold, and he needed to directly touch his victims in order to perform a fatal attack so he can't randomly just erase characters he hasn't created himself. This is why he promised to challenge kenpachi without using his own hands and only his mind, where he needed to clone himself in order to increase his shrift power to get the comet or the space warp. How many clones he can make is based on how many thoughts he can keep up, I belive Kubo tried to make a philosophical standpoint that imagination is limited (by the user) and it plays so well in to the power system of bleach that despite how broken one ability are it needs spiritual power to be effective. This is the whole reason why Soifon can't go around and double tap anyone if they are immensely strong (like hogyoku Aizen or Gerard) and they needed a hard counter (bg9) focused on just keeping her at bay. Otherwise you are correct if gremmy had grown more mature and stronger he would be almost unstoppable.
About The Glutton, I'm pretty sure the novel states that Liltotto does not permanently gain the powers of who or what she devours. Instead, said powers are only available for as long as who or what she ate aren't fully digested. I think this should be worth mentioning
I mean, she can use PePe's Schrift, only refusing to do so because she found him repulsive, at the time of CFYOW, which took place 6 months after the end of TYBW, does she digest things extremely slowly?
@@herpderp5727 The novel states the digestion part, at least. But what you're proposing is not out of the realm of possibility. Maybe something like, the greater the reiatsu, the longer it takes to digest? EDIT: The novel doesn't state that she *currently has* the ability to use The Love. Only that she ate PePe and at some time (the novel specifies this time to be the battle against Yhwach) she could've used his powers, but refused to do so. It states that at the end she only ate PePe out of retribuition and for replenishing Reiryoku. Since the novel takes place six months later, I'd say that by this time PePe would've already been digested (and I can't believe this to be an actual sentence I just wrote)
@@nerdragon2649 I see, so it's a temporary albeit less specialized version of Aaroniero's Glotonería. Heck, the name is the same since Glotonería is Spanish for Gluttony. I see Zommari isn't the only Espada Kubo copy pasted onto the Sternritters.
@@nerdragon2649 I don't think the novel implies in any way that acquisition of these abilities is temporary, especially since Liltotto is clear that she won't ever use the Love, as if it's stuck with her. I mean, if her abilities were temporary based on digestion, she should lose them extremely quickly given how she has hypermetabolism.
Kubo really went hard on how OP and creative a lot of the Schrifts were. They certainly helped in making some of the battles against the Sternritters, be among the most memorable and iconic fights in the series!
Ah yes, very memorable and creative. Miracle "you can't beat me so Auswählen randomly kills me" X-Axis "you can't touch me also can't block me and nothing works except that one random sword by this side character that was never talked about or foreshadowed in the slightest" Deathdealing "I become immune to everything and can make you dead immediately but Grimmjow can just kill me in my Vollständig even though I shrugged off way worse things before with zero damage" Visionary "I can imagine anything but all I did was give the guy who can cut stuff to cut and the backwater hick then shittalked me to death" The more OP a Schrift was, the more boring imo was the fight because it was "bullshit happens until protagonists draw out bigger bullshit because Kubo wrote himself into a corner".
@@youtube-kit9450yeah it was hype but it was clear he was going against the clock to end bleach and didn’t foreshadow nanao’s role enough and she’s been around since the beginning lmao
Honorable mention to NaNaNa, we didn’t see enough of the Underbelly but the fact he has the ability to incapacitate people of Aizen’s reiatsu should give him a nod. Byakuya got lucky in the anime with the Ouken clothing.
I will forever say that NaNaNa was one of the Sternritters who got done really dirty. Gets an offscreen fight with Rose that has no visible damage with either, bailed out by Bazz B against Yama's flames. Gets wrecked by Byakuya due to Ouken, first time we get a proper explanation of his Schrift is against Aizen and he gets sneaked by Bazz B. Mayuri also turns him into a zombie in CFYOW apparently and keeps him
The way I see James and Mask, James is Masks true identity and the fan James is a representation of James' fascination with the ideal super hero. Mask/James is playing out his fantasy through his schrift, which manifests as his weaker self's belief in a heroes invulnerability.
One could argue in theory, that whoever has the Visionary can get around the weaknesses of the schrift as well. For example, you could rewire your brain so that you couldn’t think such bad intrusive thoughts or imagine that you are unable to be affected by your imagination in a negative way.
@@gremmythoumeaux2393 Also, another weakness is that you have to actively imagine something into existence and the moment the thought is lost, the construct doesn't exist anymore.
@@MrGksarathythat’s not true. He literally created a whole sternritter who he had forgotten existed before he murdered him. I am pretty sure he wasn’t “concentrating then. I think this only probably applies in the heat of a battle situation because Gremmy was imagining so many that things that likely he couldn’t mentally keep up. Also I think being with reishi can try to fight off his imagination which would explain why yachiru bones went back to normal when Gremmy wasn’t actively using the imagination on her.
The reason Uryu doesn't use Antithesis again versus haschwalth is bc of his shield. Not only haschwalth can simply transfer the damage / Misfortune to It, but he also explains he can inflict even more misfortune back to uryu, so everytime uryu used antithesis he would only end up more wounded than before untill at some point that "extra" misfortune killed him or something.
"There's no limits, no shackles" In regards to The Visionary this simply cannot be true. In order to summon a meteor, Gremmy has to create a duplicate of himself to double his imagination (whatever that means). It seems incredibly unlikely that Gremmy is simply incapable of imagining a meteor by himself, so it only follows that there's some kind of arbitrary "brainpower" component which does function as a limit (albeit a limit that can seemingly be bypassed by cloning yourself lol).
@@MrGksarathywrong wrong wrong this is just caused by battle inexperience because Gremmy had spent his whole life locked up and nobody challenged him because of his power but things Gremmy images like his own form or guenael lee who he had forgotten kept their shapes even when he wasn’t concentrating. I think his whole battle with kenpachi was just highlighting how badly undeveloped Gremmy was. Bro had no volstandig, no arrows and bows, couldn’t manipulate reishi, and he also had no blut vene. It’s clearly ywach stunted him. Also he could bypass this weakness by simply imagining he didn’t have it to begin with. Gremmys own weakness is himself so if he believed he needed to concentrate to create things in his battle with kenpachi his power would actually make it that way.
You're absolutely right, though that is specifically pertaining to Gremmy as The Visionary's user - I feel like as a standalone ability The Visionary can technically do and achieve anything.
@Just_Red_ your long comment is just about gremmy's incompetence but you forgot or didn't understand that Mr.tommo is ranking this, separating the user and the shrift that's why The visionary is rank no.1 and not gremmy. Lol😂
I hope he mentions Nianzol Weizol's W - The "Wind" as at least a honourable mention because that ability is so OP and useful in so many ways. That and Quilge's J - The "Jail". These two are very broken and underrated.
Honestly, I don't know why Nianzol wasn't sent to deal with Kenpachi in the first invasion. Or the second, for that matter. He's a hard counter to Kenpachi
@@corruptangel6793 Depends. Kenpachi during the second invasion demonstrated the ability to cut space so he probably could've cut Nianzol, but the first invasion makes sense. I think Yhwach didn't account for Kenny's ability to grow stronger mid battle when he sent Lloyd to go with 2 others to jump him. Nianzol was probably always inside Yhwach's shadow, even in his sleep as his only protector. He was likely with Yhwach when he visited Aizen, so he couldn't find the time to go hunt Zaraki. I think that's probably the best excuse for his absence throughout the invasions.
@@revenantronin8377 Cutting space is nothing in Bleach. Any Soul Reaper "stabs" space in order to open a Senkaimon Gate and Hollows have been able to rip open space to create dimensional rifts (garganta) with their bare claws since chapter 3. Not to mention Grimmjow rending space with his Gran Ray Cero. Gremmy's mistake was thinking that wrapping Kenpachi in the fabric of space would do anything and is a testimont to his inexperience. A result of him being locked away all his life. Technically speaking, any Soul Reaper or hollow (at the very least Base Grimmjow's level and above) would be able to do the same and break out of that. Nianzol doesn't merely twist space. The construct itself is what twists and bends around him. Anything he instinctively perceives can not touch him and will even split apart to avoid him. If not even the 0 Division can do anything about that power, then it stands to reason Kenpachi couldn't either. Kenpachi's only chance would be to blitz him so utterly that he is cut down because he can even instinctively become aware of Kenpachi. Which is basically how Shutara killed him. That's a fair excuse. I could see him wearing Nianzol like a suit of armor until he was ready to let loose. I imagine they messed up the order. The only way they make sense is if Loyd was supposed to go first and hold off Kenpachi while Berenice applied his question, and Kenpachi gradually lost himself to that question. I don't know how Jermome fits in, though. He shouldn't be anywhere near Berenice. Honestly, though, it just doesn't make any sense to send any of them. There are so many others that would have destroyed Kenpachi. Pernida, for example. Besides, Loyd can perfectly copy the enemy's power and abilities. Why the hell wasn't he sent to copy Unohana? Or Yamamoto?
As far as Kubos answer regarding the Superstar..... As we saw with the Jail is very much possible for the effects or objects created by a schrift to exist after the users death. So Mask still being alive after James dies fits with what the story already established. James is also the one who actually invokes the effect of the Superstar; Mask is just the avatar that its channeled through. And as soon as James died Mask couldn't do anything more to increase his abilities as he was not the wielder of the power.
17:17 Look, deny it all you want, but even in the source material, Kubo made it clear James was the actual Stërnritter. Ywach outright praised James when he sensed Mask had died, and why couldn't the Superstar transform James into something that could always support his imagined superstar?
One thing that stands out about these Sternritter abilities in Bleach is just how varied and conceptually extreme they are. Abilities like Le's "X-Axis" aren't just powerful-they bend the fabric of reality itself. I mean, the fact that he erases everything in his line of sight rather than just shooting a bullet is almost absurdly overpowered, not to mention becoming intangible at the same time. On the other hand, abilities like Gizelle's "The Zombie" are pure nightmare fuel. The idea of using her own blood to enslave both living and dead beings, even Shinigami, is chilling. It's a gruesome, manipulative power that adds a horror element to the series, which makes her one of the more unsettling characters in the Sternritter. To be honest, the power scaling in Bleach is wild at times-abilities like these make you wonder how any of the Shinigami even stood a chance without pulling off near-impossible feats of their own. It's this constant one-upmanship in abilities that gives Bleach its intensity, but also sometimes leaves you questioning how balanced these powers really are.
Haschwalth vs Gerrod goes like this, literally nothing happens bc every miracle creates good fortune, that good fortune turns to bad but then there’s the impossible chance that it just doesn’t work or smth and then literally nothing happens in the end
The thing that bothers me about Haschwalth is that we’ve seen his fight against Tenjiro, and he doesn't fare well against speedsters. Once Tenjiro removed the shield, Haschwalth got one-shotted. So, if you're faster than him and take the shield away, he's practically a goner he can't reverse the damage back 100% on to you using his balance without the sheild
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I'd personally have put the Yourself as an honorary mention due to its power directly relating to those within its presence. Other than that I'd say the rest are a fairly good ranking
Another point for The Zombie being in this list that I don’t see people realise is that it worked on the Vizard; that on it’s own means that Giselle’s power - at least to some degree - also works on Hollows as it isn’t just instantly negated. With the Corpse Unit Arrancar, it’s unclear if their immunity to zombification is due to them already being dead, or due to being more Hollow than Shinigami, so it’s an interesting asterisk at the end of her abilities.
@MrTommo2304 If you were to be a character in Bleach you'll be a Sternritter. Sternritter N to be exact .The Narrator. Your narration has the power to captivate people and direct how a battle will go in real time which is usually to your advantage 😅
@37:55. I’m pretty sure uryu doesn’t spam his Shrift because Haswalth has that shield that counters uryu’s powers. The shield reflects the effect back to him with x2 the damage when combined with The Balanced (I always thought that’s why Yhwach gave him the shield, so he could counter Uryu if necessary).
That, or sometime offscreen, Uryuu had used it a few more times on Haschwalth to the same effect. This was just a horrendous matchup, and he couldn't do much.
The Miracles description you gave kinda explains why he got so insanely huge and strong vs kenpachi. Kenpachi can basically cut ANYTHING,so the miracle had to keep up with the idea that something that shouldn’t be cut, IS. So realistically the only person who even could have killed him WAS kenpachi in *spoiler*.
Liltotto Is the scariest long-term. She has the greatest snowball ability, and even just gaining L the Love puts her in a scary position of power. Yet, she seemingly has no desire to use her power in that way, or at least, hasn't yet. Given enough time, she will become a full hybrid. All she needs to do is eat a fullbringer. Of all the characters we see at the end of the series, she has the highest ceiling. Who knows just how many abilities she has, from zanpaktou abilites, hollow abilities, surely every quincy ability, most if not all kido, three of the four movement techniques, etc. And as long as she doesn't show her hand, she'll keep growing in power without anyone knowing what she is truly capable of.
Considering Yhwach only acknowledged James after their death, I think it’s pretty certain he’s the Sternritter. Also I like the concept of a conscious schrift getting out of control and killing the owner.
The Vanishing Point never gets any respect but is more broken than most other abilities. It gives the user invisibility, intangibility and imperceptibility that can only be detected by animal instincts which only two characters have. Totally Busted and underrated.
Love the vid ! The schrift powers feel very personal and dynamic, like everyone bestowed with one gets their own unique Quincy skill tree. Wanted to throw out a small point regarding The Glutton’s CFYOW appearance- it’s specified in the official English version that Liltotto loses the amalgamated powers once the victim is digested fully. There’s no info on exactly how long that takes, but I think it’s a pretty tasteful offset to how grossly broken the ability absorption would otherwise be
I mean the strongest is obviously Robert Acutron. His shrift was so powerful Kubo couldn’t even bring himself to reveal it in the manga or the anime. Good thing he never used it or this arc would have ended early!
Broken to me in regards to power/power scaling is breaking the metaphysical barrier. That is attacks that have little to no interaction or abilities that have little to not interaction including most importantly physics, time, space, range etc. etc. And the Royal Guard tend to fit this criterion except for Pernaida. It's why Death Dealing hugs that line. It is a pretty physical ability that deals with tangible concepts like lethal dose but then it throws that away into a pit of "F you" because what the hell is a lethal dose of reiatsu. Or worse how does he control the lethality of your own blood simply by ingesting his own. There's no physical correlation which I guess the premise of "barrier of entry"
The Superstar possibilities: - Mask's real name is James, and the little guy is the power externalized; whether that's him shedding weakness or just using the bare minimum to set up a cheerleader - James was originally a normal guy, but whenever Mask revives him he gets smaller, weaker, and weirder - They're the same person split into multiple reishi bodies; each is The Superstar and each can use reishi manipulation to boost the other's power; this version would theoretically allow James to gain power on par with Mask's for a surprise attack
Yeah like a Stark and Lilynette situation. Still, I personally prefer the idea that James was the little guy, Mask is his ideal hero projected into the real world, and he is in turn transformed into the perfect fan.
Just imagine Uryu could revers Jugram's balance :D. That would be some awesome scenario, basically Uryu could get his good fortune when lands hit and Jugram would be given negative fortun
This was a great video and definitely a tricky list. The real only one ranking that I activity disagree with here is the placement of the X-axis. I would personally put it at 4. And if you think that the balance & antithesis can’t reflect the actual power of the X-axis back at the user, it’s number 2 for me. It’s truly broken and outside of the Almighty, Visionary, & like I said before MAYBE the balance/antithesis, and Lisa’s sword it has no counters and no downsides whatsoever. Immortality, invulnerability, and attacks that can not be blocked/dodged is stupid overpowered. Even if the balance & antithesis can reflect the X-axis back at the user, the user has multiple possibilities to one shot opponents and it’s overall more versatile and broken as a power
I'm actually surprised to see Gerard 4th, since he's usually seen as the strongest Sternritter with his Miracle being so ridiculous. I agree with Visionary being first though.
He didn't put Gerard at 4th, he put The Miracle at 4th. The list doesn't include the actual sternritter itself (as Mr. Tommo himself points out when talking about Gerard's Miracle)
@@kingofafrica7015 I know, but that's essentially the same thing in most cases. It's only relevant for someone like Gremmy who was dumbed down so Kenpachi could win.
@@SeiyaTempest I personally believe that if Gremmy was smarter, he’d end up accidentally killing himself and/or other sternritters. The visionary is such a double edged sword that Gremmy NEEDED to be dumb in order to use it safely and that’s why he was quarantined so hard by Yhwach.
@@kingofafrica7015that’s not true. The fact that everything he “imagines” actually happening and having to “concentrate” to upkeep his imagination is a weakness created to make it more balanced. It’s also another mental weakness because if Gremmy had imagined that he wasn’t limited by these mental blocks then he wouldn’t be. I just think it’s something ywach probably made Gremmy believe to keep his power in control until his almighty activated. But in the truth the writers made a way too overpowered ability and tried to make it believable on how kenpachi defeated him.
@@bornstar481 Think about it though, if you really had such a power where anything you imagine is made real, that would fuck with your head, and you would need to impose mental blocks upon yourself like having to actively concentrate on your visions to not just go insane. Honestly, I don't think it's possible for anyone to have the ability and not end up something like Gremmy. Considering it's likely his innate ability, he's likely the BEST case scenario for a user.
Visionary is arguably the strongest power in the whole series, one can just imagine themselves with the almighty, or the miracle, or anything. They could also just imagine these powers not working anymore. Imagine Yhwach’s power just poofing out of existence in the middle of their fight 😂😂😂
I would love to see a video compiling a list of Hollow's/Arrancar both alive and now dead who could have united to put up the best fight against the Quincy invasion of Hueco Mundo.
Mr Tommo drinking game. Drink when he says "source material". Drink when he gives the full Japanese name of a bankai. Drink when he says "light novel". Finish your drink if he says that "anything but the rain" has the best writing in all of bleach.
Sternritter W is so intriguing and underrated. I wish we could have gotten a backstory. Like maybe he was bullied in the past because of his lisp or two tongues and he had to developed a technique out of instinct in order to defeat his enemies. 💨
I imagine that the Super Star was given to James and Mask De Masculine became the new body for the Quincy, so James was the original body. Uryu was pretty new to the power so he probably wasn’t in the habit of using it.
The super star ⭐️ Reminds me of how characters that were originally meant to die but brought back by the fans of the show complaining about it or showing how much the character was liked by fans.
I knew I wasn't crazy about the, Yourself shrift. Or the Loyd, Royd Brothers having their powers from birth. As well as both of them having the ability to copy both memories and powers. I can never remember the exact chapter to site it, but when I see the panel of those doctors I know It's not a false memory.
@@daacoboys7154 Yeah, they had the power, but I feel somehow Ywach's ceremony powered it up and refined it. Before, they could mostly swap appearances with each other and maybe copy others' features, but the power and memories part might be exclusive to the Schrift.
The visionary is definitely second to the almighty, and if you say but what if you think about doing damage to yourself etc, well as soon as you attain the visonary you imagine a button which pops up everytime you have a thought and if a thought would harm the user if would ask you to confirm the thought. Easy way to never lose
oh- i hav an idea! make the balanc'e enemy fall in lov with him using the love ability JUST as they've already used a killin blow. losing their love would be misfortune, so he dies!
You can really feel Tommo’s struggle trying to rang these abilities. Personally, when ranking The Compulsory or The Miracle alone, I’d rank them based on anyone else having the arm or heart.
A potential weakness of the Sigma is if you can obliterate Shazz’s entire body in 1 hit so he has nothing to heal like say being struck by some sort of heaven piercing energy attack by a pissed off kid with orange hair but naw being crushed by a gravity fish hook makes much more sense
I think the point of the putting miracle against antithesis and the balance is that it would be a never ending loop. The miracle deals in luck which is the bread and butter of the balance. Which would make it almost impossible to defeat the balance but those impossibilities will make a mircle to occur to defeat it but that means better luck which means better balancing and decreases the odds but miracle...but balance...but miracle and so on
The X-Axis is my favorite Schrift in the series. Lille’s Reishi weapon, Diagramm is a reference to diagrams on xy-coordinate planes. The holes formed in an object are a point “drawn” along the x-axis. Not only that, but it also represents Lille’s zealotry. His ultimate attack Trumpet, is a possible reference to how the Day of Resurrection shall begin according to the Islamic Faith, an angel blowing a trumpet that signals the end of this world and our arrival in the next.
If Liltotto could have gotten a bite of Squad Zero, Aizen or Yhwach when they got hurt she has potential to be one of the strongest for sure Could potentially be another soul king candidate if she ate too much I wasn't even thinking she could have just ate Gremmy's brain after he lost since she was there to jump Kenny soon after
With the death dealing I find it interesting how the powers rules seem to have changed at first it was he ingests something and then he makes it toxic for his opponent for example if he drinks blood then blood becomes toxic to his opponents it doesn't even have to be his opponent's blood he drinks but later it becomes he becomes immune to the things he devours but he doesn't seem to necessarily be making that thing he ingested toxic to his opponents and instead this seems to create a generic zone of toxicity Where anyone within range is gonna start dying other than himself Also on just a little side note I found it is interesting that the character had a change in design slightly from its first appearance which had a much more of a fat Elvis Like appearance before later becoming a much slimmer face On his character I also notice that he was one of the only sternritter Who didn't try to Backstab And compete over who would get to kill Ichigo Because everyone was trying to get promoted to the Royal Guard or otherwise Rewarded Which I always found interesting the idea that anyone would expect to be promoted to a royal guard by performing any action that involves backstabbing one's own teammates i'm pretty sure their king doesn't want royal guards who backstab each other for personal glory he wants individuals who are going to work as a unit and work only for him not themselves which ironically out of all the remaining sternritter he was the only one who didn't participate in that fight and thus was the only one promoted because the showed loyalty
The Antithesis is broken in terms of story logic. If it can really exchange between people and objects at will as suggested with what anime shows then someone inteligent like Uryu would just cut some rock in half and make it happen to Haschwalth killing him immidietly. Beside that it is really broken holden back immensly by being attached to Uryu similar to Gremmy - without taking it into an acount Uryu is just not strong enough to not be killed in one shot by many of strong characters either immidietly or after using anthihesis once on them and then failing to finish them before they manage to focus enough to kill him.
That's why i believe Uryu won't have a big role in potential Hell arc since his power is way too broken for anyone who isn't his perfect counter like Balance (and CFYOW confirmed that he kept both his Schrift and Vollstandig after Yhwach death)
Do a video on Aizen and his Espada army vs Yhwach and his sternritters. I think the quincy are definitely the better group but with the type advantage aizens crew has it might be closer than we think. It was only til after the war that the remaining quincy are immune to hollow powers. With aizen trancending himself with some hollow like powes on top of his kyoka suigetsu he can probably challenge yhwach before the soul king absorption. So this hypothetical battle would be there is no ichigo and aizen just wins against the shinigami, lets just thanos them for the sake of this battle. Aizen returns to soul society with his oken and tries to go up to the palace and face the zero division but right before hand yhwach returns and invades. Aizen group vs ywach group on soul society grounds.
It seems to me that gerards sword and hashwalth's shield are both the same class of ability as basically any sternritter's attacks or named techniques. They arent inherent parts of the schrift ability, but innovations and applications of the ability that, while not necessarily unique to that sternritter, do not automatically come with the power.
I think the Visionary had two major downsides you didn't mention that were linked together. 1. The Visionary is highly prone to backfiring, if the user so much as imagines themselves being hurt they will be hurt making it hard to imagine themselves healthy again. 2. This removes the normal human ability to plan ahead and make contingencies against possible failures because even considering those possibilities causes them to come true. Gremmy is, in my opinion, such an idiot because he had to be completely isolated from harmful ideas or else he would have killed himself before he even made it to the battlefield.
@@robertbrown5974 Exactly. He cannot really consider hypotheticals, and intrusive thoughts are extremely deadly. That, and the knowledge that your thoughts can be manifest at any point will absolutely fuck with your head and make it very difficult to actually control your thoughts.
I like how some of them get incredibly broken abilities that make them almost unbeatable and then some of them get garbage like the roar or the overkill
"Weird alien-like creature" is an apt description of most of the Sternritter. The Quincy's were always supposed to represent humans, but a lot of them just...aren't. They had been sympathetic (hunted by the Soul Reapers and all), but this arc made most of them into monsters. I didn't care much for it overall. The anime is good though.
Yeah I feel like the quincy should have been less ruthless and psychotic, like bambietta and the female sternritters were way too crazy imo, most of the quincy should have been like jugram or uryu in design and personality
@@seanc7990 They're psychotic because they've been indoctrinated into a fascist death cult, aka the Wandenreich. I feel a good way to resolve this would have been spotlighting Souken's faction and introducing a few survivors who don't buy into Ywach's BS. I hope the anime at least gives Uryuu and Ryuuken larger roles in all of this to at least partially do that.
13:30 Was it really that a Quincy can't be turned to a zombie by the Schrift? I remember it as: "I'm not allowed to turn Quincys unless they are dead."
As soon as you said, you're gonna separate the character from the shrift. I knew Grammy was gonna be #1. I would also put the antithesis lower because if he gets one shot, buy the x-axis, then he can't use it.
Here's a simple question. Why didn't Kubo write Zaraki to use two hands during the TYBW? One more. Why didn't he write Zaraki to listen to Unohana and use proper zanjutsu or, at the very least, kendo? Seems like he pulled a Madara nerf like Kishimoto to help the story continue. Fruit for thought.
@@kanoreese1253 That's one. Trust us when we say we're not being disingenuous when we say good job on including the chapter AND page. We say this because, EVERYONE else decided to use measures they usually didn't outside of their Shikai and Bankai. AND, we are sure Kubo didn't include Unohana using her full zanjutsu for nothing. But, please, give us another page. Continue
@@studiofzd There isn't another time unless you're counting the anime where Zaraki uses two hands against Unohana but it's probably before unsealing his true power.
@@kanoreese1253 even better! So....hear us out...Kubo decided to start showcasing Zaraki's use of his sword, skill, and reiatsu against THOUSAND HAND UNOHANA who is known to be SECOND in power to Yamamoto. Kubo even has Ywach acknowledge that Yamamoto and Unohana are from the strongest Gotei era there was before the current one, and EVERYONE in the current Gotei, including Aizen, is terrified of this woman. They FORCED Yamamoto to stop training Zaraki after ONE DAY of kendo training, yet, after defeating the greatest swordsman there was.....Kubo then makes a complete 180 and runs from showing Zaraki using any real swordsmanship, but hands us his Shikai and Bankai.
@@kanoreese1253he used 2 hands only to block Gerard's attack. Not to use his 2 hands as attack as in the same chapter next page you can see him swinging the sword with a single hand.
Strongest schrift is obviously N. A word so powerful, Kubo could not put it to paper, lest its power be fully realized. RIP Bobby, you will be looked over.
My theorie why Uryu didn't use the Antithesis again is because he couldn't, the Balance prevented that. Sure it is just a theorie but it makes sence and would explain a lot. What do you think?
A common misunderstanding about Gremmy's Visionary is that it isn't as OP as it sounds on paper. Don't get me wrong it's still ridiculously strong and has the biggest potential to fodderize most enemies, but that's almost all it can do. It's biggest flaw is it's actual limitations. His ACTUAL power isn''t unrestricted imagination like most would believe but requires focus and concentration for it's effects to apply. Where it starts to scale off hard is how those limitations can be bypassed by higher tier characters in the story. (Like how Zaraki can shrug off most of his imagination through sheer brute force and Yachiru's cookie bones got undone by breaking Gremmy's concentration) He isn't capable of power-nulling or instant death (maybe to fodder characters), and the literal reason why he died was because his power isn't completely limitless. He gets off-scaled pretty hard by the higher tiered sternritters because the Elite-SS's powers have no restrictions unlike Gremmy's, even if they are less diverse and destructive. For example you can get around Gremmy through sheer force and breaking his focus, but their is absolutely no way to get through Gerald or Haschwalth's abilities. That being said tho, it's still one of the absolute strongest hax abilities in Bleach, it's just that it isn't some kind of deus ex machina reality warping ability most would like to believe.
I don't think your reasoning regarding Mask and James holds up. The Zombie grants the user more abilities than just controlling others, and The Jail remains after the user's death, so James CAN be the true user, despite having a weird body and Mask remaining after his death. Either way, great video!
If you don't count the Stern Ritter and solely focus on the scrift itself then the Visionary is by far the #1. Unless you count Haschwalt's almighty as well. The Schutzstaffels are strong but the visionary can imagine everything that defeated them such as the god killing sword that killed Lillie. If used by someone as devious as Aizen I can see the Visionary even competing with Yhwach.
#Suggestion Do a Top 5 most broken Fullbrings, I'd like to see where you rank certain Fullbrings, and even though technically Aura Michibane doesn't necessarily have a "power", her mastery of "basic" Fullbringer abilities is basically a Fullbring in itself... So I'd like to see where her Fullbring places in the top 5. My List; >Shun Shun Rikka >Book Of The End >Aura Fullbring >Digital Radial Invaders/Invaders Must Die >Cross of Scaffold. By the way, we are only ranking the Fullbrings and not the Fullbringers (NOTE).
I'm pausing after the Honorable Mentions to make an arguement against The Glutton. In theory, Liltotto would not absorb the Zanpakuto abilities of the devoured 11th Division Squad unless she also devoured the swords, assuming those swords have evolved from base Asauchi. Even if the Shikai are reflections of the Shinigami's soul, the catalyst is still the Zanpakuto itself.
I honestly feel like people are underestamating the Glutton. Sure it's a bit unsettling, but it can potentially become the most powerful ability of all.
I think my own headcanon for James being the true sternritter is that James is the true identity of Mask de Masculine given that he’s based off of luchador fighters that use aliases when they put on their masks. Possibly then, the James we see is how Mask either sees himself when he’s not wearing the mask or it might be reminiscent of how he looked before becoming a sternritter.
The strongest schrift is the Antithesis lol. It's the only power which can challenge and SURPASS the almighty. And the V for me should not even be top 5 schrift but well It's okay.
For the Prison Ywhach said that only a quincy can break out of the prison and that must be why Ichigo was able to escape. But if you look at how Ichigo breaks out of rhe Prison. He doesnt use Quincy/Ywhach powers. He uses Fullbringer/Soul king powers. You can tell because Fullbringer powers glow green. So this just means Escaping the Jail is EVEN HARDER THAN YOUD THINK.
With gluttony how much of her victim does she need to ear to gain their power? She nibbled on ichigos drip which was made from the hair and bones of the royal guard….
James and the superstar are both the superstar... they both are 1 person split into 2 beings. James proved he can do that and it makes so much more sense. So James is the superstar and the fan
Thank you all so much for helping the channel reach 250,000 subscribers! Let's celebrate with a...difficult ranking, shall we? Yeah, this was a tough one, and I'm still not totally happy. In the video, I try to separate the Schrift from the Sternritter as best as possible, but I'm not content with the placement of certain powers, like The X-Axis. What do you think? Let me know your thoughts on the ranking in the comments, and how you might change it up - thanks everyone!
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
The Visionary should always be directly under the Almighty as the second most powerful schrift.
Congratzzz.
Now, about Antithesis vs Ballance placement, while fight between 2 is one eternal uno reverse, overal, Anti is better, and that is if we exclude connection with shield and sword (even tho, i'm almost sure that shield and sword are necesery for ballance, as one absorb and one redistribute)
Reasons why it's better is that user of Ballance can be 1 shotted, there is nothing to redirect if user is not alive to do it, afaik, there is no post mortem Ballance. On the other hand, Anti user reverse events between 2 points, but it's never said you have to experience end result of that event, just to be in event ocural, basicly, if someone shot on a Anti user, anti user can reverse even that event, be it possitions with bullet, or shooter, or even bullet back, who knows, so tehnicly, killing Anti user should be impossible, if he realy wish it.
Other reason is, we saw, in 100% of situations that Ballance turn good fortune in to damage, and just damage, be it person (Cang, Uryu) or object (cage of life). Anti however, can pritty much reverse anything, as long as there is target for it.
I've always been a believer in the theory that if yawach gave Ichigo a schrift it would be H- The hollow given the nature between his Quincy and shinigami/hollow powers. It would be interesting to see how it would work and manifest.
I think the Y - yourself does have 1 caveat. Power storage bankai, like Yamamotos burning skeleton power, probably wouldn't work. Or mimicking that shrift that pinpoints weakness by time.
Kinda like monoma in my hero.
When you think about it, Aizen could’ve been a good matchup against the Visionary. If Kyoka Suigetsu can alter your perception of what is real or not, wouldn’t the Visionary accidentally make all the negative experiences Aizen is making the Visonary user real?
That’s really that actually might be true. Grammy has a bad matchup.
Based theory
@@paige2783very probable however
Yup. So long as Gremmy thinks it, it will become reality. So if Aizen can trick Gremmy into think something happening to Gremmy, it will become Grammy's reality.
@@misterOrca4 probably
Ahh! Jugram Haschwalth, Sternritter "B" The ImBalance. If he's winning, he's winning. If you're losing, he's winning. If he's losing, he's winning. And if you're losing, then you're losing. I love this character. So cool and so balanced! xD
Best description of jugram and the balance I've seen🤣
Good one
When Jugram enters the Battlefield, Can‘t be Touched starts playing
@@bling0holic Tenjiro when he killed Haschwalth: "Just consider me the Balance Patch, kid"
Enemy: *exists*
Jugram: how fortunate that you are still breathing
you have been single handedly keeping me interested in Bleach for the best part of four years, great channel
I liked how faux Yhwach did not indulge Zaraki in the slightest and had him by the throat and defeated. That's one way to get him. Seeing Gotei 13's best fall early on was quite the event in the war even if they rebounded.
Royd was probably kinda pissed seeing his brother killed
That wasn't Yhwach lol Kenpachi got beat by an imposter using some of Yhwach's power.
Kubo made the visionary so broken that it had to be wielded by an actual 12 year-old.
Otherwise the arc would’ve been over in seconds.
Gremmy could straight up create life, including quincys with their own powerful schriffts. Plus he can create more of himself, which while they may require some concentration to maintain, there shouldn't really be a limit to their number (since the copies can create copies).Even assuming he can't just imagine his enemy dead for some reason, he could literally create an opponent or even an army that would be the perfect counter to them. If I were him, I'd put Zaraki against some kind of hydra or something that doubles whenever they are cut
@@TheVofR Exactly my point. Gremmy having a child’s mind is a classic dummy nerf.
Kubo really didn’t have a choice though, since the visionary would make an adult basically GOD.
@@TheVofR The weakness it that whatever he imagines become reality, not just what he wants. So every intrusive thought is a problem
Keep in mind that Grammy does not have the ability to create what he wants, imaginary is an ability that let he create what he THINKS, even back handed thougths that could affect him negatively could became the reality.
The visionary is limited to spiritual power and how many thoughts the user can hold, and he needed to directly touch his victims in order to perform a fatal attack so he can't randomly just erase characters he hasn't created himself. This is why he promised to challenge kenpachi without using his own hands and only his mind, where he needed to clone himself in order to increase his shrift power to get the comet or the space warp. How many clones he can make is based on how many thoughts he can keep up, I belive Kubo tried to make a philosophical standpoint that imagination is limited (by the user) and it plays so well in to the power system of bleach that despite how broken one ability are it needs spiritual power to be effective. This is the whole reason why Soifon can't go around and double tap anyone if they are immensely strong (like hogyoku Aizen or Gerard) and they needed a hard counter (bg9) focused on just keeping her at bay. Otherwise you are correct if gremmy had grown more mature and stronger he would be almost unstoppable.
About The Glutton, I'm pretty sure the novel states that Liltotto does not permanently gain the powers of who or what she devours. Instead, said powers are only available for as long as who or what she ate aren't fully digested. I think this should be worth mentioning
I mean, she can use PePe's Schrift, only refusing to do so because she found him repulsive, at the time of CFYOW, which took place 6 months after the end of TYBW, does she digest things extremely slowly?
@@herpderp5727 The novel states the digestion part, at least. But what you're proposing is not out of the realm of possibility. Maybe something like, the greater the reiatsu, the longer it takes to digest?
EDIT: The novel doesn't state that she *currently has* the ability to use The Love. Only that she ate PePe and at some time (the novel specifies this time to be the battle against Yhwach) she could've used his powers, but refused to do so. It states that at the end she only ate PePe out of retribuition and for replenishing Reiryoku. Since the novel takes place six months later, I'd say that by this time PePe would've already been digested (and I can't believe this to be an actual sentence I just wrote)
@@nerdragon2649
I see, so it's a temporary albeit less specialized version of Aaroniero's Glotonería. Heck, the name is the same since Glotonería is Spanish for Gluttony.
I see Zommari isn't the only Espada Kubo copy pasted onto the Sternritters.
@@herpderp5727 Pretty much, yes
@@nerdragon2649 I don't think the novel implies in any way that acquisition of these abilities is temporary, especially since Liltotto is clear that she won't ever use the Love, as if it's stuck with her.
I mean, if her abilities were temporary based on digestion, she should lose them extremely quickly given how she has hypermetabolism.
Kubo really went hard on how OP and creative a lot of the Schrifts were. They certainly helped in making some of the battles against the Sternritters, be among the most memorable and iconic fights in the series!
Ah yes, very memorable and creative.
Miracle "you can't beat me so Auswählen randomly kills me"
X-Axis "you can't touch me also can't block me and nothing works except that one random sword by this side character that was never talked about or foreshadowed in the slightest"
Deathdealing "I become immune to everything and can make you dead immediately but Grimmjow can just kill me in my Vollständig even though I shrugged off way worse things before with zero damage"
Visionary "I can imagine anything but all I did was give the guy who can cut stuff to cut and the backwater hick then shittalked me to death"
The more OP a Schrift was, the more boring imo was the fight because it was "bullshit happens until protagonists draw out bigger bullshit because Kubo wrote himself into a corner".
@@youtube-kit9450yeah it was hype but it was clear he was going against the clock to end bleach and didn’t foreshadow nanao’s role enough and she’s been around since the beginning lmao
Honorable mention to NaNaNa, we didn’t see enough of the Underbelly but the fact he has the ability to incapacitate people of Aizen’s reiatsu should give him a nod. Byakuya got lucky in the anime with the Ouken clothing.
Cour 3 might expand NaNaNa’s battle in cour 3 if we’re lucky.
@@gammafrost if we are going off the anime and Kubo’s Twitter, I think they killed him off during the Auswhalin
I will forever say that NaNaNa was one of the Sternritters who got done really dirty.
Gets an offscreen fight with Rose that has no visible damage with either, bailed out by Bazz B against Yama's flames. Gets wrecked by Byakuya due to Ouken, first time we get a proper explanation of his Schrift is against Aizen and he gets sneaked by Bazz B.
Mayuri also turns him into a zombie in CFYOW apparently and keeps him
He's still alive and kicking
@@demetriussinclair4952 bro the only surviving male Sternritter
The way I see James and Mask, James is Masks true identity and the fan James is a representation of James' fascination with the ideal super hero. Mask/James is playing out his fantasy through his schrift, which manifests as his weaker self's belief in a heroes invulnerability.
Yeah, and the Schrift likely turned him into this immortal fan goblin to really cement that fantasy. He's always holding out for a hero.
@@MrGksarathy does he have to be strong, fast, and fresh from the fight?
@@ShinDSER He's also gotta be sure, it's gotta be soon, and he's gotta be larger than life.
That… actually makes sense…
@@MrGksarathyBut Why isnt he F - The Fan ?
One could argue in theory, that whoever has the Visionary can get around the weaknesses of the schrift as well. For example, you could rewire your brain so that you couldn’t think such bad intrusive thoughts or imagine that you are unable to be affected by your imagination in a negative way.
@@gremmythoumeaux2393 But how easy is it for most people to imagine that?
@@gremmythoumeaux2393 Also, another weakness is that you have to actively imagine something into existence and the moment the thought is lost, the construct doesn't exist anymore.
@@MrGksarathythat’s not true. He literally created a whole sternritter who he had forgotten existed before he murdered him. I am pretty sure he wasn’t “concentrating then. I think this only probably applies in the heat of a battle situation because Gremmy was imagining so many that things that likely he couldn’t mentally keep up. Also I think being with reishi can try to fight off his imagination which would explain why yachiru bones went back to normal when Gremmy wasn’t actively using the imagination on her.
"I simply imagined that those weaknesses wouldn't affect me" - Gremmy Thoumeaux
@@bornstar481 Forgetting Gwenael was how he murdered him, and that was a deliberate act.
Hence why Yhawch didn't want Gremmy outside and kept him locked up. His imagination would have been bonkers
The reason Uryu doesn't use Antithesis again versus haschwalth is bc of his shield.
Not only haschwalth can simply transfer the damage / Misfortune to It, but he also explains he can inflict even more misfortune back to uryu, so everytime uryu used antithesis he would only end up more wounded than before untill at some point that "extra" misfortune killed him or something.
This was a really cool premise for a video, separating the schrift from the quincy. Great idea!
"There's no limits, no shackles" In regards to The Visionary this simply cannot be true. In order to summon a meteor, Gremmy has to create a duplicate of himself to double his imagination (whatever that means). It seems incredibly unlikely that Gremmy is simply incapable of imagining a meteor by himself, so it only follows that there's some kind of arbitrary "brainpower" component which does function as a limit (albeit a limit that can seemingly be bypassed by cloning yourself lol).
@@Just_Red_ Also, Gremmy had to actively imagine everything he conjured, so if he got rattled or distracted, his creations could disappear.
@@MrGksarathywrong wrong wrong this is just caused by battle inexperience because Gremmy had spent his whole life locked up and nobody challenged him because of his power but things Gremmy images like his own form or guenael lee who he had forgotten kept their shapes even when he wasn’t concentrating. I think his whole battle with kenpachi was just highlighting how badly undeveloped Gremmy was. Bro had no volstandig, no arrows and bows, couldn’t manipulate reishi, and he also had no blut vene. It’s clearly ywach stunted him. Also he could bypass this weakness by simply imagining he didn’t have it to begin with. Gremmys own weakness is himself so if he believed he needed to concentrate to create things in his battle with kenpachi his power would actually make it that way.
You're absolutely right, though that is specifically pertaining to Gremmy as The Visionary's user - I feel like as a standalone ability The Visionary can technically do and achieve anything.
the almighty can also do anything so if that's the case then bleach has two powers which can do anything 😅
@Just_Red_ your long comment is just about gremmy's incompetence but you forgot or didn't understand that Mr.tommo is ranking this, separating the user and the shrift that's why The visionary is rank no.1 and not gremmy. Lol😂
I hope he mentions Nianzol Weizol's W - The "Wind" as at least a honourable mention because that ability is so OP and useful in so many ways. That and Quilge's J - The "Jail".
These two are very broken and underrated.
Honestly, I don't know why Nianzol wasn't sent to deal with Kenpachi in the first invasion. Or the second, for that matter. He's a hard counter to Kenpachi
@@corruptangel6793 Depends.
Kenpachi during the second invasion demonstrated the ability to cut space so he probably could've cut Nianzol, but the first invasion makes sense.
I think Yhwach didn't account for Kenny's ability to grow stronger mid battle when he sent Lloyd to go with 2 others to jump him.
Nianzol was probably always inside Yhwach's shadow, even in his sleep as his only protector. He was likely with Yhwach when he visited Aizen, so he couldn't find the time to go hunt Zaraki.
I think that's probably the best excuse for his absence throughout the invasions.
@@revenantronin8377 Cutting space is nothing in Bleach. Any Soul Reaper "stabs" space in order to open a Senkaimon Gate and Hollows have been able to rip open space to create dimensional rifts (garganta) with their bare claws since chapter 3. Not to mention Grimmjow rending space with his Gran Ray Cero. Gremmy's mistake was thinking that wrapping Kenpachi in the fabric of space would do anything and is a testimont to his inexperience. A result of him being locked away all his life. Technically speaking, any Soul Reaper or hollow (at the very least Base Grimmjow's level and above) would be able to do the same and break out of that.
Nianzol doesn't merely twist space. The construct itself is what twists and bends around him. Anything he instinctively perceives can not touch him and will even split apart to avoid him. If not even the 0 Division can do anything about that power, then it stands to reason Kenpachi couldn't either. Kenpachi's only chance would be to blitz him so utterly that he is cut down because he can even instinctively become aware of Kenpachi. Which is basically how Shutara killed him.
That's a fair excuse. I could see him wearing Nianzol like a suit of armor until he was ready to let loose.
I imagine they messed up the order. The only way they make sense is if Loyd was supposed to go first and hold off Kenpachi while Berenice applied his question, and Kenpachi gradually lost himself to that question. I don't know how Jermome fits in, though. He shouldn't be anywhere near Berenice. Honestly, though, it just doesn't make any sense to send any of them. There are so many others that would have destroyed Kenpachi. Pernida, for example. Besides, Loyd can perfectly copy the enemy's power and abilities. Why the hell wasn't he sent to copy Unohana? Or Yamamoto?
@@corruptangel6793 Nianzol will just get blitzed by Zaraki.
As far as Kubos answer regarding the Superstar.....
As we saw with the Jail is very much possible for the effects or objects created by a schrift to exist after the users death. So Mask still being alive after James dies fits with what the story already established. James is also the one who actually invokes the effect of the Superstar; Mask is just the avatar that its channeled through. And as soon as James died Mask couldn't do anything more to increase his abilities as he was not the wielder of the power.
James *is* the Sternritter. Mask is *James power*
@@ihateithere9298 I agree.
@@xxcagedriotxx Kubo confirmed it long ago in an interview that James was the Sternritter and Mask was the Scrift
@@ihateithere9298 that's what I said. Glad we agree.
Stand Name: Mask de Masculine
Stand Master: James
17:17 Look, deny it all you want, but even in the source material, Kubo made it clear James was the actual Stërnritter. Ywach outright praised James when he sensed Mask had died, and why couldn't the Superstar transform James into something that could always support his imagined superstar?
I’m genuinely impressed by how much content you can make out of a manga that has already ended for a good while. Props to you
Thanks for keeping Bleach relevant throughout the years
One thing that stands out about these Sternritter abilities in Bleach is just how varied and conceptually extreme they are. Abilities like Le's "X-Axis" aren't just powerful-they bend the fabric of reality itself. I mean, the fact that he erases everything in his line of sight rather than just shooting a bullet is almost absurdly overpowered, not to mention becoming intangible at the same time.
On the other hand, abilities like Gizelle's "The Zombie" are pure nightmare fuel. The idea of using her own blood to enslave both living and dead beings, even Shinigami, is chilling. It's a gruesome, manipulative power that adds a horror element to the series, which makes her one of the more unsettling characters in the Sternritter.
To be honest, the power scaling in Bleach is wild at times-abilities like these make you wonder how any of the Shinigami even stood a chance without pulling off near-impossible feats of their own. It's this constant one-upmanship in abilities that gives Bleach its intensity, but also sometimes leaves you questioning how balanced these powers really are.
Can u make a video about the Volstandig that werent revealed? I love ur videos abouts the bankais theories, also u are a great draftsman!
Haschwalth vs Gerrod goes like this, literally nothing happens bc every miracle creates good fortune, that good fortune turns to bad but then there’s the impossible chance that it just doesn’t work or smth and then literally nothing happens in the end
Uryu, Haschwalth and Gremmy's Schrifts being the top three just feels right to me.
The thing that bothers me about Haschwalth is that we’ve seen his fight against Tenjiro, and he doesn't fare well against speedsters. Once Tenjiro removed the shield, Haschwalth got one-shotted. So, if you're faster than him and take the shield away, he's practically a goner he can't reverse the damage back 100% on to you using his balance without the sheild
This channel made me read the manga again and again several times. It keeps me entertaining about bleach, and it was a gem to found. Not to mention that it helps me practice my English skills. Tks my friend, I really appreciate the work.
I'd personally have put the Yourself as an honorary mention due to its power directly relating to those within its presence. Other than that I'd say the rest are a fairly good ranking
I want Uryu's ability to be the past version of The Almighty.
Another point for The Zombie being in this list that I don’t see people realise is that it worked on the Vizard; that on it’s own means that Giselle’s power - at least to some degree - also works on Hollows as it isn’t just instantly negated.
With the Corpse Unit Arrancar, it’s unclear if their immunity to zombification is due to them already being dead, or due to being more Hollow than Shinigami, so it’s an interesting asterisk at the end of her abilities.
@MrTommo2304 If you were to be a character in Bleach you'll be a Sternritter. Sternritter N to be exact .The Narrator. Your narration has the power to captivate people and direct how a battle will go in real time which is usually to your advantage 😅
Sounds awesome ngl could be an actual power in the series
@37:55. I’m pretty sure uryu doesn’t spam his Shrift because Haswalth has that shield that counters uryu’s powers. The shield reflects the effect back to him with x2 the damage when combined with The Balanced (I always thought that’s why Yhwach gave him the shield, so he could counter Uryu if necessary).
That, or sometime offscreen, Uryuu had used it a few more times on Haschwalth to the same effect.
This was just a horrendous matchup, and he couldn't do much.
The Miracles description you gave kinda explains why he got so insanely huge and strong vs kenpachi. Kenpachi can basically cut ANYTHING,so the miracle had to keep up with the idea that something that shouldn’t be cut, IS. So realistically the only person who even could have killed him WAS kenpachi in *spoiler*.
Liltotto Is the scariest long-term. She has the greatest snowball ability, and even just gaining L the Love puts her in a scary position of power.
Yet, she seemingly has no desire to use her power in that way, or at least, hasn't yet. Given enough time, she will become a full hybrid. All she needs to do is eat a fullbringer.
Of all the characters we see at the end of the series, she has the highest ceiling. Who knows just how many abilities she has, from zanpaktou abilites, hollow abilities, surely every quincy ability, most if not all kido, three of the four movement techniques, etc. And as long as she doesn't show her hand, she'll keep growing in power without anyone knowing what she is truly capable of.
Yeah, thank god she's so incredibly disciplined.
Considering Yhwach only acknowledged James after their death, I think it’s pretty certain he’s the Sternritter. Also I like the concept of a conscious schrift getting out of control and killing the owner.
The Vanishing Point never gets any respect but is more broken than most other abilities. It gives the user invisibility, intangibility and imperceptibility that can only be detected by animal instincts which only two characters have. Totally Busted and underrated.
Yeah, if you give it to someone who's a better fighter than Lee you will basically have an unbeatable warrior
@@user-be9gw9je3h There was nothing wrong with Lee's fighting ability. It's just that Yachiru could counter his abilities and she had a cheat shikai.
@@user-be9gw9je3h give it to soi fon with shikai and it's GG
Love the vid ! The schrift powers feel very personal and dynamic, like everyone bestowed with one gets their own unique Quincy skill tree.
Wanted to throw out a small point regarding The Glutton’s CFYOW appearance- it’s specified in the official English version that Liltotto loses the amalgamated powers once the victim is digested fully. There’s no info on exactly how long that takes, but I think it’s a pretty tasteful offset to how grossly broken the ability absorption would otherwise be
I mean the strongest is obviously Robert Acutron. His shrift was so powerful Kubo couldn’t even bring himself to reveal it in the manga or the anime. Good thing he never used it or this arc would have ended early!
Another absolute banger of a video, enjoyable to watch! made nearly 50 minutes fly by!
Broken to me in regards to power/power scaling is breaking the metaphysical barrier. That is attacks that have little to no interaction or abilities that have little to not interaction including most importantly physics, time, space, range etc. etc.
And the Royal Guard tend to fit this criterion except for Pernaida. It's why Death Dealing hugs that line. It is a pretty physical ability that deals with tangible concepts like lethal dose but then it throws that away into a pit of "F you" because what the hell is a lethal dose of reiatsu. Or worse how does he control the lethality of your own blood simply by ingesting his own. There's no physical correlation which I guess the premise of "barrier of entry"
I really hope if the Hell arc occurs, that Kubo will give us a qhole new cast of enemies with insanely broken and unique abilities.
The Almighty is a power that does not only allow me to see the future, but alter it- King of the Ants
Epic. Always Epic to have a new vod from Head captain Tommo
The Superstar possibilities:
- Mask's real name is James, and the little guy is the power externalized; whether that's him shedding weakness or just using the bare minimum to set up a cheerleader
- James was originally a normal guy, but whenever Mask revives him he gets smaller, weaker, and weirder
- They're the same person split into multiple reishi bodies; each is The Superstar and each can use reishi manipulation to boost the other's power; this version would theoretically allow James to gain power on par with Mask's for a surprise attack
Yeah like a Stark and Lilynette situation. Still, I personally prefer the idea that James was the little guy, Mask is his ideal hero projected into the real world, and he is in turn transformed into the perfect fan.
Just imagine Uryu could revers Jugram's balance :D. That would be some awesome scenario, basically Uryu could get his good fortune when lands hit and Jugram would be given negative fortun
This was a great video and definitely a tricky list. The real only one ranking that I activity disagree with here is the placement of the X-axis. I would personally put it at 4. And if you think that the balance & antithesis can’t reflect the actual power of the X-axis back at the user, it’s number 2 for me. It’s truly broken and outside of the Almighty, Visionary, & like I said before MAYBE the balance/antithesis, and Lisa’s sword it has no counters and no downsides whatsoever. Immortality, invulnerability, and attacks that can not be blocked/dodged is stupid overpowered. Even if the balance & antithesis can reflect the X-axis back at the user, the user has multiple possibilities to one shot opponents and it’s overall more versatile and broken as a power
I'm actually surprised to see Gerard 4th, since he's usually seen as the strongest Sternritter with his Miracle being so ridiculous. I agree with Visionary being first though.
He didn't put Gerard at 4th, he put The Miracle at 4th. The list doesn't include the actual sternritter itself (as Mr. Tommo himself points out when talking about Gerard's Miracle)
@@kingofafrica7015 I know, but that's essentially the same thing in most cases. It's only relevant for someone like Gremmy who was dumbed down so Kenpachi could win.
@@SeiyaTempest I personally believe that if Gremmy was smarter, he’d end up accidentally killing himself and/or other sternritters. The visionary is such a double edged sword that Gremmy NEEDED to be dumb in order to use it safely and that’s why he was quarantined so hard by Yhwach.
@@kingofafrica7015that’s not true. The fact that everything he “imagines” actually happening and having to “concentrate” to upkeep his imagination is a weakness created to make it more balanced. It’s also another mental weakness because if Gremmy had imagined that he wasn’t limited by these mental blocks then he wouldn’t be. I just think it’s something ywach probably made Gremmy believe to keep his power in control until his almighty activated. But in the truth the writers made a way too overpowered ability and tried to make it believable on how kenpachi defeated him.
@@bornstar481 Think about it though, if you really had such a power where anything you imagine is made real, that would fuck with your head, and you would need to impose mental blocks upon yourself like having to actively concentrate on your visions to not just go insane. Honestly, I don't think it's possible for anyone to have the ability and not end up something like Gremmy. Considering it's likely his innate ability, he's likely the BEST case scenario for a user.
Visionary is arguably the strongest power in the whole series, one can just imagine themselves with the almighty, or the miracle, or anything. They could also just imagine these powers not working anymore. Imagine Yhwach’s power just poofing out of existence in the middle of their fight 😂😂😂
😂the love is just an upgraded version of zomari amor
I noticed that a lot of the Sternritter's schrifts are just upgraded versions of Soul Reaper and Hollow powers we've already seen.
I would love to see a video compiling a list of Hollow's/Arrancar both alive and now dead who could have united to put up the best fight against the Quincy invasion of Hueco Mundo.
Mr Tommo drinking game.
Drink when he says "source material".
Drink when he gives the full Japanese name of a bankai.
Drink when he says "light novel".
Finish your drink if he says that "anything but the rain" has the best writing in all of bleach.
I absolutely love the Sternritters and their powers, they all remind me of something Jojos Bizarre would incorporate
Sternritter W is so intriguing and underrated. I wish we could have gotten a backstory. Like maybe he was bullied in the past because of his lisp or two tongues and he had to developed a technique out of instinct in order to defeat his enemies. 💨
I imagine that the Super Star was given to James and Mask De Masculine became the new body for the Quincy, so James was the original body.
Uryu was pretty new to the power so he probably wasn’t in the habit of using it.
The super star ⭐️
Reminds me of how characters that were originally meant to die but brought back by the fans of the show complaining about it or showing how much the character was liked by fans.
I knew I wasn't crazy about the, Yourself shrift. Or the Loyd, Royd Brothers having their powers from birth. As well as both of them having the ability to copy both memories and powers. I can never remember the exact chapter to site it, but when I see the panel of those doctors I know It's not a false memory.
@@daacoboys7154 Yeah, they had the power, but I feel somehow Ywach's ceremony powered it up and refined it. Before, they could mostly swap appearances with each other and maybe copy others' features, but the power and memories part might be exclusive to the Schrift.
The visionary is definitely second to the almighty, and if you say but what if you think about doing damage to yourself etc, well as soon as you attain the visonary you imagine a button which pops up everytime you have a thought and if a thought would harm the user if would ask you to confirm the thought. Easy way to never lose
oh- i hav an idea! make the balanc'e enemy fall in lov with him using the love ability JUST as they've already used a killin blow. losing their love would be misfortune, so he dies!
Let’s go 🔥 it’s always a good day when we get another 40+ minute bleach video from the goat himself 🐐🔥
ishida's shriff is basically terrorblade's ultimate in dota
You can really feel Tommo’s struggle trying to rang these abilities. Personally, when ranking The Compulsory or The Miracle alone, I’d rank them based on anyone else having the arm or heart.
jaymes is the true stern ritter dont argue with kubo tommo
I think Uryuu realized that it would be a pointless back and forth just swapping their conditions which is why he didnt continue to use it.
A potential weakness of the Sigma is if you can obliterate Shazz’s entire body in 1 hit so he has nothing to heal like say being struck by some sort of heaven piercing energy attack by a pissed off kid with orange hair but naw being crushed by a gravity fish hook makes much more sense
Honestly antithesis > balance it was just a bad match up but antithesis can oppose the almighty
I think the point of the putting miracle against antithesis and the balance is that it would be a never ending loop. The miracle deals in luck which is the bread and butter of the balance. Which would make it almost impossible to defeat the balance but those impossibilities will make a mircle to occur to defeat it but that means better luck which means better balancing and decreases the odds but miracle...but balance...but miracle and so on
The X-Axis is my favorite Schrift in the series.
Lille’s Reishi weapon, Diagramm is a reference to diagrams on xy-coordinate planes. The holes formed in an object are a point “drawn” along the x-axis.
Not only that, but it also represents Lille’s zealotry. His ultimate attack Trumpet, is a possible reference to how the Day of Resurrection shall begin according to the Islamic Faith, an angel blowing a trumpet that signals the end of this world and our arrival in the next.
Nah. The day of trumpets have already happened 2k+ years ago with the end of the old covenant, and the transition into the new over those 40 years.
@@liberalistbat6352That’s not what I was referring to.
If Liltotto could have gotten a bite of Squad Zero, Aizen or Yhwach when they got hurt she has potential to be one of the strongest for sure
Could potentially be another soul king candidate if she ate too much
I wasn't even thinking she could have just ate Gremmy's brain after he lost since she was there to jump Kenny soon after
With the death dealing I find it interesting how the powers rules seem to have changed
at first it was he ingests something and then he makes it toxic for his opponent for example if he drinks blood then blood becomes toxic to his opponents it doesn't even have to be his opponent's blood he drinks
but later it becomes he becomes immune to the things he devours but he doesn't seem to necessarily be making that thing he ingested toxic to his opponents and instead this seems to create a generic zone of toxicity Where anyone within range is gonna start dying other than himself
Also on just a little side note I found it is interesting that the character had a change in design slightly from its first appearance which had a much more of a fat Elvis Like appearance before later becoming a much slimmer face
On his character I also notice that he was one of the only sternritter Who didn't try to Backstab And compete over who would get to kill Ichigo Because everyone was trying to get promoted to the Royal Guard or otherwise Rewarded
Which I always found interesting the idea that anyone would expect to be promoted to a royal guard by performing any action that involves backstabbing one's own teammates i'm pretty sure their king doesn't want royal guards who backstab each other for personal glory he wants individuals who are going to work as a unit and work only for him not themselves
which ironically out of all the remaining sternritter he was the only one who didn't participate in that fight and thus was the only one promoted because the showed loyalty
The Antithesis is broken in terms of story logic. If it can really exchange between people and objects at will as suggested with what anime shows then someone inteligent like Uryu would just cut some rock in half and make it happen to Haschwalth killing him immidietly. Beside that it is really broken holden back immensly by being attached to Uryu similar to Gremmy - without taking it into an acount Uryu is just not strong enough to not be killed in one shot by many of strong characters either immidietly or after using anthihesis once on them and then failing to finish them before they manage to focus enough to kill him.
That's why i believe Uryu won't have a big role in potential Hell arc since his power is way too broken for anyone who isn't his perfect counter like Balance (and CFYOW confirmed that he kept both his Schrift and Vollstandig after Yhwach death)
@@user-be9gw9je3h yea I literally think with his ability he can teleport like he did with yuha his ability is too broken
Always excited to see your new video Tom!! Ready for the next season in October!!!
Do a video on Aizen and his Espada army vs Yhwach and his sternritters. I think the quincy are definitely the better group but with the type advantage aizens crew has it might be closer than we think. It was only til after the war that the remaining quincy are immune to hollow powers. With aizen trancending himself with some hollow like powes on top of his kyoka suigetsu he can probably challenge yhwach before the soul king absorption. So this hypothetical battle would be there is no ichigo and aizen just wins against the shinigami, lets just thanos them for the sake of this battle. Aizen returns to soul society with his oken and tries to go up to the palace and face the zero division but right before hand yhwach returns and invades. Aizen group vs ywach group on soul society grounds.
It seems to me that gerards sword and hashwalth's shield are both the same class of ability as basically any sternritter's attacks or named techniques. They arent inherent parts of the schrift ability, but innovations and applications of the ability that, while not necessarily unique to that sternritter, do not automatically come with the power.
I think the Visionary had two major downsides you didn't mention that were linked together.
1. The Visionary is highly prone to backfiring, if the user so much as imagines themselves being hurt they will be hurt making it hard to imagine themselves healthy again.
2. This removes the normal human ability to plan ahead and make contingencies against possible failures because even considering those possibilities causes them to come true.
Gremmy is, in my opinion, such an idiot because he had to be completely isolated from harmful ideas or else he would have killed himself before he even made it to the battlefield.
@@robertbrown5974 Exactly. He cannot really consider hypotheticals, and intrusive thoughts are extremely deadly. That, and the knowledge that your thoughts can be manifest at any point will absolutely fuck with your head and make it very difficult to actually control your thoughts.
I like how some of them get incredibly broken abilities that make them almost unbeatable
and then some of them get garbage like the roar or the overkill
"Weird alien-like creature" is an apt description of most of the Sternritter. The Quincy's were always supposed to represent humans, but a lot of them just...aren't. They had been sympathetic (hunted by the Soul Reapers and all), but this arc made most of them into monsters. I didn't care much for it overall. The anime is good though.
Yeah I feel like the quincy should have been less ruthless and psychotic, like bambietta and the female sternritters were way too crazy imo, most of the quincy should have been like jugram or uryu in design and personality
Well, they're angels, and angels are monstrous.
@@seanc7990 They're psychotic because they've been indoctrinated into a fascist death cult, aka the Wandenreich. I feel a good way to resolve this would have been spotlighting Souken's faction and introducing a few survivors who don't buy into Ywach's BS. I hope the anime at least gives Uryuu and Ryuuken larger roles in all of this to at least partially do that.
13:30 Was it really that a Quincy can't be turned to a zombie by the Schrift? I remember it as: "I'm not allowed to turn Quincys unless they are dead."
@@Rafaela_S. Yeah, a Quincy target cannot be zombified by Giselle's blood directly, but can be once they're dead.
As soon as you said, you're gonna separate the character from the shrift. I knew Grammy was gonna be #1. I would also put the antithesis lower because if he gets one shot, buy the x-axis, then he can't use it.
Here's a simple question. Why didn't Kubo write Zaraki to use two hands during the TYBW? One more. Why didn't he write Zaraki to listen to Unohana and use proper zanjutsu or, at the very least, kendo? Seems like he pulled a Madara nerf like Kishimoto to help the story continue. Fruit for thought.
@@studiofzd Zaraki did use two hands against Gerard in ch.667 pg.17.
@@kanoreese1253 That's one.
Trust us when we say we're not being disingenuous when we say good job on including the chapter AND page.
We say this because, EVERYONE else decided to use measures they usually didn't outside of their Shikai and Bankai. AND, we are sure Kubo didn't include Unohana using her full zanjutsu for nothing. But, please, give us another page. Continue
@@studiofzd There isn't another time unless you're counting the anime where Zaraki uses two hands against Unohana but it's probably before unsealing his true power.
@@kanoreese1253 even better!
So....hear us out...Kubo decided to start showcasing Zaraki's use of his sword, skill, and reiatsu against THOUSAND HAND UNOHANA who is known to be SECOND in power to Yamamoto. Kubo even has Ywach acknowledge that Yamamoto and Unohana are from the strongest Gotei era there was before the current one, and EVERYONE in the current Gotei, including Aizen, is terrified of this woman. They FORCED Yamamoto to stop training Zaraki after ONE DAY of kendo training, yet, after defeating the greatest swordsman there was.....Kubo then makes a complete 180 and runs from showing Zaraki using any real swordsmanship, but hands us his Shikai and Bankai.
@@kanoreese1253he used 2 hands only to block Gerard's attack. Not to use his 2 hands as attack as in the same chapter next page you can see him swinging the sword with a single hand.
Strongest schrift is obviously N. A word so powerful, Kubo could not put it to paper, lest its power be fully realized.
RIP Bobby, you will be looked over.
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the superstar is so under-rated it basically functions like the visionary
I love the quincies the most of all in the series always love seeing you talk about them great video as always
Still waiting for Liltotto to be added to BBS...
My theorie why Uryu didn't use the Antithesis again is because he couldn't, the Balance prevented that.
Sure it is just a theorie but it makes sence and would explain a lot.
What do you think?
@MrTommo2304
A common misunderstanding about Gremmy's Visionary is that it isn't as OP as it sounds on paper. Don't get me wrong it's still ridiculously strong and has the biggest potential to fodderize most enemies, but that's almost all it can do. It's biggest flaw is it's actual limitations. His ACTUAL power isn''t unrestricted imagination like most would believe but requires focus and concentration for it's effects to apply. Where it starts to scale off hard is how those limitations can be bypassed by higher tier characters in the story. (Like how Zaraki can shrug off most of his imagination through sheer brute force and Yachiru's cookie bones got undone by breaking Gremmy's concentration)
He isn't capable of power-nulling or instant death (maybe to fodder characters), and the literal reason why he died was because his power isn't completely limitless. He gets off-scaled pretty hard by the higher tiered sternritters because the Elite-SS's powers have no restrictions unlike Gremmy's, even if they are less diverse and destructive. For example you can get around Gremmy through sheer force and breaking his focus, but their is absolutely no way to get through Gerald or Haschwalth's abilities.
That being said tho, it's still one of the absolute strongest hax abilities in Bleach, it's just that it isn't some kind of deus ex machina reality warping ability most would like to believe.
I don't think your reasoning regarding Mask and James holds up. The Zombie grants the user more abilities than just controlling others, and The Jail remains after the user's death, so James CAN be the true user, despite having a weird body and Mask remaining after his death.
Either way, great video!
If you don't count the Stern Ritter and solely focus on the scrift itself then the Visionary is by far the #1. Unless you count Haschwalt's almighty as well. The Schutzstaffels are strong but the visionary can imagine everything that defeated them such as the god killing sword that killed Lillie. If used by someone as devious as Aizen I can see the Visionary even competing with Yhwach.
#Suggestion
Do a Top 5 most broken Fullbrings, I'd like to see where you rank certain Fullbrings, and even though technically Aura Michibane doesn't necessarily have a "power", her mastery of "basic" Fullbringer abilities is basically a Fullbring in itself... So I'd like to see where her Fullbring places in the top 5.
My List;
>Shun Shun Rikka
>Book Of The End
>Aura Fullbring
>Digital Radial Invaders/Invaders Must Die
>Cross of Scaffold.
By the way, we are only ranking the Fullbrings and not the Fullbringers (NOTE).
This is the earliest ive ever been to a video
I'm pausing after the Honorable Mentions to make an arguement against The Glutton. In theory, Liltotto would not absorb the Zanpakuto abilities of the devoured 11th Division Squad unless she also devoured the swords, assuming those swords have evolved from base Asauchi.
Even if the Shikai are reflections of the Shinigami's soul, the catalyst is still the Zanpakuto itself.
I honestly feel like people are underestamating the Glutton. Sure it's a bit unsettling, but it can potentially become the most powerful ability of all.
I think my own headcanon for James being the true sternritter is that James is the true identity of Mask de Masculine given that he’s based off of luchador fighters that use aliases when they put on their masks. Possibly then, the James we see is how Mask either sees himself when he’s not wearing the mask or it might be reminiscent of how he looked before becoming a sternritter.
Deathdealing is a super unique ability and I'm glad my boy Askin got it
It's a toss up between the Miracle and the Visionary
The strongest schrift is the Antithesis lol. It's the only power which can challenge and SURPASS the almighty.
And the V for me should not even be top 5 schrift but well It's okay.
For the Prison
Ywhach said that only a quincy can break out of the prison and that must be why Ichigo was able to escape. But if you look at how Ichigo breaks out of rhe Prison.
He doesnt use Quincy/Ywhach powers. He uses Fullbringer/Soul king powers. You can tell because Fullbringer powers glow green. So this just means Escaping the Jail is EVEN HARDER THAN YOUD THINK.
With gluttony how much of her victim does she need to ear to gain their power?
She nibbled on ichigos drip which was made from the hair and bones of the royal guard….
I like that scene with Rukia and Byakuya because it’s like as long as her big brother is around, she has no fears
James and the superstar are both the superstar... they both are 1 person split into 2 beings. James proved he can do that and it makes so much more sense. So James is the superstar and the fan