Grades,DiscontinuedThe Naruto power ranking

Hagoromo OtsutsukiThe Sage of Six Paths — shippuden

Every other name on this page can be watched doing something. He cannot. The acts attributed to him are enormous — separating the Ten-Tails from Kaguya, sealing her inside a body he put in the sky, founding the system of techniques the rest of the cast uses — and all of them reach the reader as flashback and narration rather than as a fight. In the present tense he is a vision who arrives, confers an ability on somebody else, and leaves. That is not a small record, but it is not a record of the same kind, and ranking it against depicted combat would mean pretending the two are interchangeable.

• Naruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc · shown

  Appears to Naruto and Sasuke and grants them his power directly. — 2014

• Naruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc · stated

  Recounted as having sealed Kaguya and created the moon around her. — 2014

Isshiki OtsutsukiJigen — boruto

He handles the two strongest shinobi alive at once and is not seriously troubled by it, which nothing else in the franchise manages. What finally works against him is not better fighting but a form that runs on its user's remaining life: inside Baryon Mode, Naruto does outpace and outhit him — and then the mode expires on schedule, having shortened Isshiki's lifespan enough for somebody else to land the last blow. First place here belongs to the opponent nobody beat with a technique they could use twice.

• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations · Isshiki arc · shown

  Overwhelms Naruto and Sasuke together before Baryon Mode is used. — 2021

• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations · Isshiki arc · shown

  Outfought by Baryon Mode, which expires before it can finish him. — 2021

Kaguya OtsutsukiThe Rabbit Goddess — shippuden

Four people fight her at once — two of them carrying power handed down from the sage who sealed her the first time — and the result is a stalemate broken by sealing rather than by defeat. She moves between worlds mid-exchange, which makes her the only opponent here that cannot reliably be cornered. Second rather than first because much of what is claimed for her elsewhere is inference: the dimensional travel and the bone technique are on screen, the cosmic arithmetic built on top of them is not.

• Naruto · Kaguya arc · shown

  Fights Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi together to a standstill. — 2014

• Naruto · Kaguya arc · shown

  Shifts between separate dimensions during combat. — 2014

Momoshiki Otsutsukiboruto

He absorbs techniques and returns them larger, which turns the strongest attack an opponent has into his own best option — a mechanic that gets worse the stronger the person facing him is. Against a Naruto in Six Paths Sage Mode and a Sasuke with the Rinnegan, working together, he comes close enough to killing both that the outcome turns on outside help.

• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations · Momoshiki arc · shown

  Fights Six Paths Naruto and Rinnegan Sasuke together and nearly wins. — 2016

Madara Uchihashippuden

Five Kage at once, then the allied army, then the two protagonists together — the war arc keeps escalating what it puts in front of him and he keeps going through it. The only reason he is not first is that he is removed from the story by betrayal rather than by any of it, which is a statement about Kaguya and not about the people who could not stop him.

• Naruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc · shown

  Fights the assembled Five Kage simultaneously and defeats them. — 2013

• Naruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc · shown

  Becomes the Ten-Tails jinchuriki and engages the allied forces. — 2014

Naruto UzumakiThe Seventh Hokage — shippuden

Inside Baryon Mode he outfights the strongest thing the sequel has produced, and the argument for fifth rather than first is what that costs: the form burns his own life to run, expires on a clock, and leaves somebody else to strike last. He also spent the entire series formally ranked genin — the lowest grade the system issues — and then became Hokage, the top of the same ladder, without passing the examination in between.

• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations · Isshiki arc · shown

  Enters Baryon Mode and outfights Isshiki at the cost of his own lifespan. — 2021

• Naruto · Konoha Crush arc · shown

  His promotion ceremony is interrupted and never rescheduled. — 2002

• Naruto · Kaguya arc · shown

  Fights Kaguya alongside Sasuke in Six Paths Sage Mode. — 2014

Sasuke Uchihashippuden

The other half of every fight in the tier above him, and the half that brings the tools rather than the volume — the Rinnegan lets him move between the same dimensions Kaguya uses to escape, which is what turns those fights from unwinnable into merely desperate. Carries the identical paperwork problem to Naruto: never promoted past the entry grade, having left the village before any retest could happen.

• Naruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc · shown

  Fights Madara with the Rinnegan and a complete Susanoo. — 2014

• Boruto: Naruto Next Generations · Momoshiki arc · shown

  Fights Momoshiki alongside Naruto. — 2016

Obito Uchihashippuden

For a stretch of the war he holds the same power Madara later takes, and his own technique is arguably the more difficult problem: he can decline to be in the path of an attack, which makes the ordinary business of hitting him a puzzle rather than a matter of force. Seventh because the period during which he was the strongest thing on the field is measured in chapters rather than arcs.

• Naruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc · shown

  Becomes the Ten-Tails jinchuriki and fights the allied forces. — 2013

• Naruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc · shown

  Passes attacks through his body using Kamui. — 2013

Itachi Uchihaclassic · shippuden

Joint holder of the largest figure the books ever issued, and he does not survive to meet anything in the tier above him. The record supports the number as far as it goes — a complete Susanoo, a genjutsu nobody counters honestly, and a fight against his own brother that he loses on purpose while dying of an illness. What it cannot do is compare him to opponents who arrived after the book went to print.

• Naruto Databook 3 · 2008 · stated

  Rated 35.5 of a possible 40, the joint highest total published.

• Naruto · Sasuke and Itachi arc · shown

  Fights Sasuke using Susanoo and dies at the end of the encounter. — 2008

JiraiyaThe Toad Sage — shippuden

The other 35.5, and the more instructive of the pair. He goes alone into an enemy village against six bodies operating as one opponent, works out the mechanism that makes them dangerous, and dies getting the answer out rather than dies losing. A grading system that puts him level with Itachi and above everyone else then has nothing to say about the twenty or so chapters in which the story stops resembling the one it scored.

• Naruto Databook 3 · 2008 · stated

  Rated 35.5 of a possible 40, joint highest with Itachi.

• Naruto · Pain's Assault arc · shown

  Fights all six Paths of Pain alone and transmits intelligence before dying. — 2008

Orochimaruclassic · shippuden

Graded 35 of 40, half a point off the top, with an on-page record of losing — to Hiruzen at a cost, to Itachi immediately, to Sasuke from the inside. What keeps him this high is that none of the defeats stuck: the man's actual technique is not winning fights but declining to stay dead, and he is still present and operating long after most of the names above him are gone.

• Naruto Databook 3 · 2008 · stated

  Rated 35 of a possible 40.

• Naruto · Konoha Crush arc · shown

  Fights Hiruzen Sarutobi and survives at the cost of his arms. — 2001

Tsunade SenjuThe Fifth Hokage — shippuden

The same 35 as Orochimaru and an entirely different shape of career, which is the most useful comparison the scorecard accidentally sets up. Her seal converts stored effort into recovery fast enough that ordinary damage stops being a limit, and she holds a village together through an invasion that removes most of its leadership. Equal numbers, opposite records, and the number does not distinguish them.

• Naruto Databook 3 · 2008 · stated

  Rated 35 of a possible 40, level with Orochimaru.

• Naruto · Pain's Assault arc · shown

  Sustains a village-wide barrier and healing effort until collapse. — 2009

Minato NamikazeThe Fourth Hokage — classic

His technique is positional rather than destructive: he marks a place and is then already at it, which converts every exchange into one he chose. Against the masked man on the night of the attack he wins a fight nobody else in the village could have started, and he ends it by sealing half a tailed beast into himself and dying of it.

• Naruto · Nine-Tails Attack flashback · shown

  Defeats the masked attacker and seals half the Nine-Tails into himself. — 2009

Hashirama SenjuThe First Hokage — shippuden

Called the God of Shinobi for a century of story before anything he does is put on the page, and when it finally is — reanimated, against a reanimated Madara — the wood forest he raises is the largest single construction anyone here produces. He is marked contested over the ratio: a century of reputation resting on a handful of late appearances in which he is already dead.

• Naruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc · shown

  Fights the reanimated Madara using large-scale Wood Release. — 2013

• Naruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc · stated

  Referred to as the God of Shinobi. — 2013

Kakashi HatakeThe Sixth Hokage — classic

The rank ladder's other broken end. He clears genin as a small child and is a jonin while his eventual students are toddlers, which makes him the fastest promotion in the setting and the exact mirror of the protagonist who never got one at all. Two people, one system, opposite failures. He is also in the room for the Kaguya fight, which very few of the graded names above him can say.

• Naruto · Kakashi Gaiden · shown

  Holds jonin rank as a child, years ahead of his contemporaries. — 2005

• Naruto · Kaguya arc · shown

  Fights Kaguya alongside Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura. — 2014

GaaraThe Fifth Kazekage — classic

Made Kage of his village at an age when the protagonist is still failing to be promoted out of the bottom grade, which is the rank system producing two opposite verdicts on people of the same age in the same year. His sand defends without instruction from him, and by the war he is moving enough of it to shield an army rather than a person.

• Naruto · Chunin Exam arc · shown

  His sand intercepts attacks automatically, without conscious effort. — 2001

• Naruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc · shown

  Commands and shields allied divisions with large-scale sand. — 2013

Sakura Harunoshippuden

She lands a blow in the war that opens the ground, and she is one of the four people present for Kaguya — an attendance record most of the graded tier cannot match. The contested mark is for the assessments written around her rather than the feats: the material claims a parity with her two teammates that the depicted fights, once those teammates are carrying sage power and the Rinnegan, do not support.

• Naruto · Fourth Shinobi World War arc · shown

  Releases the Hundred Healings seal and strikes with enough force to break terrain. — 2014

• Naruto · Kaguya arc · shown

  Present and fighting through the Kaguya encounter. — 2014

Rock Leeclassic

The purest demonstration that a total out of forty is the wrong shape of measurement. He cannot use two of the three disciplines the setting is built on, so any score that sums categories will place him beneath people he would beat — and then he opens the inner gates against Gaara and produces the most alarming thing in that entire tournament. An average of eight numbers describes a generalist. Nothing here is a generalist.

• Naruto · Chunin Exam arc · shown

  Opens multiple inner gates against Gaara and overwhelms his defence. — 2001

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