Erika Upgrade 1

» Name Of Character: Erika Masamune.
» Link To Character: Here.

» Upgrading:
Tier: 2-3 -> 2-1.
Willpower from Advanced to Elite.

» High Reiryoku Reserves and Control: A long serving vice-captain of the Gotei Thirteen, serving as vice-captain of the fifth division after Aizen's defection and the conclusion of the Winter War. Erika possesses quite a large pool of reiryoku to make use of. While the pool itself is impressive, Erika's control over her reiryoku is far more impressive by her ability to apply it in ways to compensate or apply it to enhance her battle capacity.

» Damage Mitigation: By focusing her reiatsu into herself she can create a thick barrier of energy which reduces incoming damage to her person. By further focusing her reiatsu around a specific region rather than her entire body she can gain a greater defensive value but leaving the rest of herself exposed - using it in such a way requires her to be focused and be able to anticipate her opponent correctly.

» Power Augmentation: By focusing her reiatsu and concentrating it, she is capable of bypassing the reiatsu of another who might be stronger than her. The caveat being that they must not be applying their greater reiatsu protectively and so it is mostly effective against those who are not as adept with control over their reiryoku and reiatsu.

» Psychological Attacks: Against those of weak mental they can be dazed when exposed to her reiatsu, instilling a feeling of fear or dread. At extreme cases it can have the effect of making an individual feel as if they've already been struck down or that the situation is hopeless though a strong-willed individual won't find this as impactful.

» Physical Attacks: Releasing her reiatsu she is able to generate shockwaves or launch it as plain energy attacks, often from swings of her sword rather than waste time by performing kido.

» Kido Expert: As the basis of her Katanakaji can be found within the realm of kido, Erika is quite proficient otherwise with the way of applying reiryoku into the formation of spells. She is able to apply kido spells and intergrate them into her swordplay which gave rise to her Yōkujakuryū, through usage of them she is able to greatly bolster her fighting capabilities and utilise techniques such as two-fold incantation and incantation abandonment.

» Why: Promotion to Vice-Captain and facing two captain-class opponents: Murasaki and Shaoling, was able to hold her own against Murasaki before she got serious and able to take Shaoling to a stalemate. Some of it is just expansion/revision of what's already on her application in the case of her reiatsu and kido.

» Extra:
Vs. Murasaki.
Vs. Shaoling.