Strongest Kage in Naruto Shippuden

Kazekage Gaara leads the Naruto Shippuden ranking with 1287 ELO points over 119 duels, ahead of Tsuchikage Ōnoki and Hokage Tsunade Senju.

The top three contenders cluster within 42 ELO points of each other, with Gaara edging out Ōnoki by 38 points and Tsunade by just 42 points. Ōnoki boasts the highest win rate at 61%, yet sits at rank 2, while Gaara wins 57% of his duels to claim the top spot. Raikage A holds rank 4 with 1202 ELO points and a 52% win rate across 118 duels. The sharpest divide in the ranking appears between Raikage A and Mizukage Mei Terumi: 186 ELO points separate rank 4 from rank 5, revealing a clear performance gap. Mei Terumi, despite participating in 91 duels, wins only 22% of them and sits at the bottom with 1016 ELO points. The community has drawn a firm line between the top four Kage and the fifth.

This ranking reflects 1214 duels submitted by 177 players across 5 contenders, last updated on 10 October 2026. The tight race at the top and the pronounced gap at the bottom show how the community weighs raw power, tactical skill and wartime performance differently for each Kage. Cast your own vote on VAINKEURZ to shape the debate and see if Gaara can hold his lead or if Ōnoki's superior win rate will push him to the top.

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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