The basic combat methods in Bleach: Blade, Fist, Walk, Ghost.
Those were the most basic things in the Bleach world, weren't they?
Swordsmanship, White Strike, and Flash Step were all basics.
The basics of Kido were perhaps the first few, or first dozen or so, Destructive Arts and Binding Arts...
I won't go into Kido.
Getting to the point, I saw readers saying that even with swordsmanship proficiency at 100, the protagonist was still suppressed by Hawk Eye. Did that mean swordsmanship in the Bleach world was too weak?
Let me explain: the protagonist's swordsmanship, White Strike, and Flash Step were all merely the most basic forms.
A proficiency of 100 meant using those basics to their absolute peak, but they were still basics!
Among the Blade branch, aside from the swordsmanship skill, there were no other skills.
The Fist branch had White Strike and the Original Style Combat Method. That was Old Man Yamamoto's Ikkotsu and Sōkotsu. I made up a name and gave it a skill slot, and it played a major role in the early stages. Later, it developed into the Evening Elephant move, which counted as creating his own style. However, it had no skill name; like Haki and physique, it was an innate ability not linked to the System Panel.
The Walk branch only had Flash Step. The reason it could later match Kizaru's extreme speed was also because Flash God had been activated, boosting speed.
From this, it wasn't hard to see that, by design, swordsmanship, White Strike, and Flash Step were all the most basic skills!
They had upper limits. It was just that as the protagonist grew stronger, those limits increased.
So when fighting Hawk Eye, his pure swordsmanship could not compare to Hawk Eye, a swordsman who had immersed himself in