Best Golden Kamuy characters

Tsukishima Hajime leads the Golden Kamuy ranking with 1307 ELO points over 85 duels, ahead of Koito Otonoshin and Tsurumi Tokushirou.

The top of the ranking clusters tightly, with just 14 points separating first from third place. Koito Otonoshin sits second with 1293 points, while Tsurumi Tokushirou holds third at 1290 points. The sharpest ELO gap appears lower down: 17 points split Asirpa in fourth position from Sugimoto Saichi in fifth. Tsukishima Hajime wins 61% of his duels, but Tsurumi Tokushirou edges ahead with a 63% win rate despite sitting third. The protagonist Sugimoto Saichi lands in fifth place with 1272 points and a 57% win rate over 74 duels, while Asirpa holds fourth with 1289 points and 59% over 68 duels. At the bottom, Shiraishi Yoshitake ranks twelfth with 1127 points, Ushiyama Tatsuma thirteenth with 1104 points, and Cikapasi trails in fourteenth with 969 ELO points and a 15% win rate over 46 duels.

This Golden Kamuy character ranking draws on 1053 duels cast by 29 players across 14 contenders, updated on 12 October 2026. The tight margins at the top suggest the community values multiple characters nearly equally, while the spread toward the bottom identifies clear outsiders. Head to VAINKEURZ to cast your own duels and shift the standings.

Updated on October 12, 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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