Best Dragon Ball Super arcs

Future Trunks Arc leads the Dragon Ball Super ranking with 1436 ELO points over 97 duels, ahead of Tournament of Power Arc and Galactic Patrol Prisoner Arc.

The podium reveals a clear hierarchy among Dragon Ball Super's arcs. Future Trunks Arc dominates with a 76% win rate and 1436 ELO points, while Tournament of Power Arc follows at rank 2 with 1319 ELO points across 122 duels. The sharpest divide appears between ranks 3 and 4, where 198 ELO points separate Galactic Patrol Prisoner Arc from Battle of Gods Arc. This gap suggests a split between arcs fans embrace and those they tolerate. Battle of Gods Arc, despite introducing Super Saiyan God and launching the entire series, lands at rank 4 with only a 40% win rate. At the bottom, Universe 6 Arc sits at rank 6 with 1028 ELO points and a 32% win rate, indicating the community's cooler reception to the arc's tournament premise compared to the time-travel stakes or multiversal spectacle above it.

This ranking draws from 1292 duels involving 139 players across 6 contenders, updated on 10 October 2026. The data reflects how Dragon Ball Super's narrative experiments resonate differently: the Future Trunks Arc's return to a darker, more personal conflict wins decisively, while the franchise's film adaptations and smaller-scale tournaments struggle to match that appeal. Cast your vote to shape how these arcs stand against each other.

Updated on October 10, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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