Best Buffy the Vampire Slayer characters

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Buffy Summers1437

The worldwide ranking generated by 2k votes

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Buffy Summers1437

Willow Rosenberg1390

Spike1377

Rupert Giles1246

Alexander Harris1234

Anya Jenkins1225

Cordelia Chase1176

Tara Maclay1152

Dawn Summers1137

#10

Daniel Osbourne1092

#11

Andrew Wells978

#12

Riley Finn956

What the community says

Buffy Summers leads with an ELO of 1,437, ahead of Willow Rosenberg (1,390) and Spike (1,377). Ranked over 2,024 duels between 12 contenders, last updated August 18, 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.