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Instead of giving my usual theory mumbo jumbo I'm gonna look at each power every Espada has and rate them based on how creative they are, how effective, and the effort it took to overcome that power. The list of Espada is (hopefully obviously) counting down from their series rank, not my power rank. I am also not including my personal opinions on the Espada themselves.

10/0. Yammy Llargo

Yammy's power arguably complements him the greatest of all the Espada. The guy gets angry a lot, so having a power that feeds on anger is really effective for him. I love his enlarged form and the increased abilities it bestows, even if all it does is increase his physical power by >9000%. There was no trick to taking him down, it just takes wearing down brute force by brute force. The one downside was that we never got to see the full potential of this power and the struggle to overcome it, as Kubo unfortunately decided to skip it.

9. Aaroniero Arrurerie

Oh boy, this one gives me chills. Kaien served as a great psychological weapon which none of the other Espada had. Then there's his final form, which is all sorts of creepy. The fact that he can use the differing abilities of each Hollow he absorbs is cool, although we only got to see him use Nejibana for a bit. The one downside to the whole thing is that Rukia's battle with him was rather short, and his power didn't really factor into his defeat, a humiliating one-shot through the head. However, I am going to mostly look over that due to the battle, as I said before, being mostly psychological (and effective at it, too). Rukia's struggle to overcome his transformation into Kaien really showed how scary his power is, even more so than the Hollow mashup. This is probably my second favorite power, second only to a certain other which is down below.

8. Szayelaporro Granz

Possibly the only power rivaling Aaroniero's in creepiness is Szayelaporro's. His powers are varied and all dangerous, from carbon copies, making voodoo body parts, controlling people, and using people to give birth to him. I like all those things, and they make Szayel an effective fighter. However, the main issue I have with it is the fact that none of these powers are strongly related to one another, unless you go with the broad category of manipulating the human body. Without a real theme to his powers, I wasn't really able to invest in Szayel's fights and what he would pull out next. However, I still thought these were interesting powers.

7. Zommari Rureaux