Zaraki Kenpachi

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## Summary

**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. His lieutenant is Yachiru Kusajishi.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier:** **6-C**

**Name:** Zaraki Kenpachi

**Origin:** [[1]]

**Gender:** Male

**Age:** Hundreds of years old

**Classification:** Shinigami Captain of 11th Division, Swordsman

**Powers and Abilities:**
 Superhuman strength, speed, durability, endurance, agility, Zanjutsu
master (art of the sword), Hakuda expert (hand-to-hand combat), the
ability to use Reiryoku and exert it as Reiatsu (used to increase the
user's offensive power and defensive abilities), can sense beings with
Reiatsu, the ability to use Shikai (upgrades that increase his Reiatsu)

**Destructive Capacity:** At least **Small Town level+** (Able to fight back Komamura's Bankai without apparently releasing his eyepatch), **Town Level+** with Kendō (Nearly one-shotted released Nnoitra with a single Kendō strike) | At least **Town level+** (Defeated
 three Sternritter, created a huge shock wave by slashing the Fake
Yhwach, both without releasing his eyepatch) | **Large Island level** (Slashed apart a huge meteorite without releasing his eyepatch), likely higher

**Speed:** **Hypersonic+** (he can keep up with Byakuya, and fought evenly with Nnoitra) | **High Hypersonic** | **High Hypersonic+**

**Lifting Strength:** **Superhuman**

**Striking Strength:** **[Strength|Class TJ+]** | At least **Class TJ** | **Class EJ+**

**Durability:** **Town level+** (Survived an attack from Komamura’s Shikai and Tosen's attack with
little injuries, was also able to deflect a Cero from Nnoitra with his
bare hand) | At least **Town level+**,possibly higher | **Large Island level**

**Stamina:** Extremely high, as he can continue fighting even after being grievously wounded

**Range:** Extended human melee range with sword

**Intelligence:** Highly adept fighter with decades of feral battle experience

**Standard Equipment:** His Zanpakutō, Nozaarashi, and a limiter eye patch, bells on his hair to allow his opponents to anticipate his movements

**Weaknesses:**
Kenpachi is dangerously overconfident, he holds back extremely,
willingly limits himself by using an energy stealing eye patch,
initially braiding bells into his hair, using his sword one-handed, etc.

## Notable Attacks/Techniques:

Kenpachi did not attend the Shin'ō Academy, cannot use
Bankai, and has no apparent skill (or interest) in Kidō and Shunpo. 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.

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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

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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.
Retsu Unohana, one of the most powerful captains of the Gotei 13, stated she
was weaker than him even while he was still a child. 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.
However, after his battle with Unohana, Kenpachi gains considerable control
over his Reiatsu; prior to Gremmy Thoumeaux creating a structure for he and
Kenpachi to fight on, Shinigami in the nearby area were completely unable to
detect his Reiatsu.

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.

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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.

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. 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. 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 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

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Immense Strength: Kenpachi possesses a very large degree of
physical strength, most commonly displayed by his ability to fight back his
opponent's attacks with a single arm. He has repeatedly displayed his strength
with acts like kicking Tōsen through a building and slamming Komamura over his
shoulder with one hand during their battle, as well as when he grabbed Ichigo's
giant sword barehanded and reeled both him and the sword in for an attack.
While fighting Ichigo Kurosaki, he rammed his sword through a building. With
just his bare hand, Kenpachi deflected the Cero of the fifth Espada, Nnoitra
Gilga. His sword attacks can cut through Yammy Llargo's released state Hierro,
removing his limbs in a single strike and knocking the giant Arrancar off his
feet. He can fend off an opponent's gigantic sword with a single hand. His
extreme cutting strength is evident in his ability to easily cut through an
Espada's Hierro, which is harder than steel, as well as slice apart a
skyscraper with a mere flick of his wrist; he even claims that Gremmy's
imagination powers cannot come up with anything that he cannot cut, proving so
by slicing through Gremmy's self-proclaimed harder-than-steel body. He can
carry three corpses on his shoulders without any apparent effort.

Immense 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. In
battle, he can strike with incredible speed in rapid succession, making it
highly difficult for his opponents to find an opening and counterattack. During
his short battle with Byakuya, Kenpachi manages to keep up with his opponent's
incredibly fast Shunpo, a feat which shocked and impressed Byakuya.

Immense 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. He allowed himself to be
stabbed during his fight with Tōsen just to grab Tōsen's blade to dispel his
Bankai's effect. During his battle with Nnoitra, he suffered numerous slash
wounds and was even impaled and almost beheaded with no visual impairment of his
fighting abilities, Nnoitra noting most people would have already been dead by
then. Even after receiving grievous injuries which left him in a comatose
state, he recovered only days later, well enough to resume training.

Immense 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".During
his battle with Gremmy, Kenpachi remained unharmed after being fired upon by
dozens of firearms and having missiles thrown at him, and later withstood the
cold vacuum of space and having several clones of Gremmy self-destruct at
point-blank range with only moderate injuries.

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### Zanpakutō

Nozarashi (野晒, Weather-Beaten One): Kenpachi did not originally know
the name of his Zanpakutō, and is the only captain of the Gotei 13 who cannot
perform Bankai. After his fight with Ichigo, Kenpachi wished to learn more
about his Zanpakutō because he wanted to become stronger, and could identify
with the pain of not having a name to be called by. Zangetsu noted Kenpachi's
disharmony with his sword caused the two to damage each other's powers;
consequently, Kenpachi could not hear the cry of his sword. Later, upon
defeating Retsu Unohana in battle and awakening his true strength, Kenpachi
finally was able to hear his Zanpakutō's voice call out to him.

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Shikai: Its release command is Drink (呑め,
nome). Even before Kenpachi knew its name, Nozarashi was constantly in its
released state, due instead to Kenpachi's overwhelming Reiatsu forcing the
release. He obtained this state while still a child. The blade is much
longer than a standard Zanpakutō's, roughly the size of a nodachi, with a guard
which extends inward from its center, similar to a shinai. The hilt is white,
though most of it is wrapped in bandages, as is his sword's sheath. Despite
constantly being in Shikai, Nozarashi did not initially grant Kenpachi any
additional abilities or possess any additional power of its own, due to their
lack of communication. Their disharmony left Nozarashi with little spiritual
energy and let it become easier to damage; it is a chipped and seemingly
worn-down blade. Despite its appearance, Nozarashi can easily cut through most
objects: with it, Kenpachi stabs straight through Ichigo's Zanpakutō, and later
slices a building in half with no apparent effort after releasing his full
power. However when Kenpachi calls out its release command, Nozarashi
transforms into a huge axe with a long, cloth-wrapped handle and a tassel
attached to the top.

Shikai Special Ability: In its fully released state,
Nozarashi possesses tremendous attack power, easily destroying a huge meteorite
with a single attack. Its cutting power is also greatly enhanced, allowing
Kenpachi to effortlessly cut through the bodies of his opponents and even
through space itself.

Bankai: Not Yet Achieved.

## Others

**Notable Victories:**

Jonathan Joestar (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) Jonathan Joestar Profile

Roronoa Zoro ([Piece|One Piece]) [Zoro|Zoro Profile]

Dracule Mihawk ([Piece|One Piece]) [Mihawk|Mihawk Profile]

**Notable Losses:**

Augus (Asura's Wrath) Augus Profile

**Inconclusive Matches:**

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