Strongest Shonen anime characters

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Goku – Dragon Ball1538

The worldwide ranking generated by 29.1k votes

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Goku – Dragon Ball1538

Saitama – One Punch Man1471

Naruto Uzumaki – Naruto1292

Ichigo Kurosaki – Bleach1286

Monkey D. Luffy – One Piece1199

Meliodas – Seven Deadly Sins1182

Izuku Midoriya – My Hero Academia1123

Koro Sensei – Assassination Classroom1121

Asta – Black Clover1120

#10

Yuji Itadori – Jujutsu Kaisen1097

#11

Gon – Hunter X Hunter1097

#12

Natsu Dragneel – Fairy Tail1096

#13

Toriko – Toriko957

What the community says

Goku – Dragon Ball leads with an ELO of 1,538, ahead of Saitama – One Punch Man (1,471) and Naruto Uzumaki – Naruto (1,292). Ranked over 29,115 duels between 13 contenders, last updated October 6, 2026.

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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.