Best Naruto Hokage

Minato Namikaze, 4th Hokage leads the Naruto ranking with 1346 ELO points over 330 duels, ahead of Naruto Uzumaki, 7th Hokage and Kakashi Hatake, 6th Hokage.

The Yellow Flash edges out the series protagonist by 17 ELO points, a slim margin that reflects the community's tight assessment of these two legendary leaders. Naruto Uzumaki sits at 1329 points with a 61% win rate across 310 duels, while Kakashi Hatake claims third place at 1261 points after 360 duels. The sharpest divide appears between ranks 4 and 5, where 70 ELO points separate Hashirama Senju, 1st Hokage from his younger brother Tobirama Senju, 2nd Hokage. This gap suggests voters see a clear threshold between the founding Hokage and his successor. At the bottom, Hiruzen Sarutobi, 3rd Hokage ranks last at 1004 points with a 32% win rate despite his status as the longest-serving Hokage in the series, indicating that longevity in office does not translate to iconic status among voters. Tsunade Senju, 5th Hokage sits just above him at 1108 points.

This ranking draws on 1075 duels submitted by 91 players across 7 contenders, updated on 11 October 2026. The vote remains open: head to the Naruto TopList and cast your own duels to shape the hierarchy of Konoha's most iconic leaders.

Updated on October 11, 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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