zeebee1 said:
Rukia better hope that Zangetsu will shrink. Not that she will be able to call him for a while. But this would cause a massive change to her fighting style. She used zanjetsu and lost to a regular hollow. Zagetsu is all about zanjetsu and power. Rukia has neither.
Actually that's not true. Rukia
does have power. It's just that she's normally surrounded by what amount to freaks, monsters, and mutants and she's simply a highly trained and talented normal so she comes off looking weak. From what we've seen
and been told, Rukia is both more powerful and more skilled than something like 80 to 90% of the Gotei 13.
As for getting owned by a normal hollow, that's corrupted data because she made a conscious decision to take the hit for Ichigo. Sure, she didn't count on it doing as much damage as it did, but she could have let Ichigo get killed and likely would have won the fight with the hollow without too much more trouble.