ClassCThe One Punch Man power ranking

God#Permanent link to God

Has been fought once, by Blast, in the middle of a different fight — and the encounter is summarised rather than drawn, with only the aftermath on the page: an S-class hero upright, bleeding heavily, carrying a new scar between his eyes. Everything else it is shown doing to people runs one way only. Refusing to rank it is not a claim that nothing has ever pushed back. It is a refusal to build a placement out of a fight no reader saw.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 178, pp. 20-21

  Blast is said to have met "God" during his fight with Elder Centipede, refused the offer of power, and survived, with the encounter itself left off the page.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 178, pp. 20-21

  Blast is drawn afterwards with heavy bleeding and a scar across his face he did not have beforehand.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 178

  Sitch convenes an emergency briefing whose subject is "God", and the heroes present are instructed to keep it secret.

Saitama#Permanent link to SaitamaCaped Baldy — Hero Association register

• C-class 388Where the register admits him — the floor of the lowest class, on a written paper.
• The Caped BaldyNo transformation, no power-up state, no second gear — the one named style he has is improvised mid-fight. That is the joke and the argument.
• Serious SeriesNamed attacks for the rare fight that has held his attention.

Aced every physical test at the certification exam and scored 71 out of a pass mark of 70, which put him at the bottom of the lowest class in the organisation. Punched apart the meteor falling on Z-City, killed the Deep Sea King in one blow in front of the heroes it had already gone through, and met a beam aimed at the Earth's surface with a Serious Punch whose shockwave parted cloud cover across the planet.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 16, pp. 1-8

  The certification exam awards him 71 points against a pass mark of 70 and a C-class designation.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 16, pp. 1-8

  Takes the physical tests at the exam centre in front of examiners and rival candidates.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 17

  Genos, reading the registry, says the two of them have been placed at the lowest rank of S-class and of C-class respectively.

Garou#Permanent link to GarouHero Hunter

• The Hero HunterA human with no enhancement at all, beating S-class heroes on technique.
• Awakened GarouMonster traits arriving without anyone offering him a cell.
• Cosmic Fear ModeManga only, reached through contact with "God" at ch. 169. The webcomic has no equivalent state.

Put down the S-class hero Tanktop Master, and had Metal Bat bleeding and broken and about to be finished when the hero's sister walked in and stopped it — both while still an unenhanced human, having been thrown out of his master's dojo months earlier for hospitalising the rest of the students. After contact with "God" he copied Saitama's striking power outright, and the pair of them had to be moved off the planet before their fists met, with the released energy pushed away from Earth by four people afterwards.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 47, pp. 11-14

  Beats the S-class hero Tanktop Master after a barrage of punches.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 58, pp. 32-40

  Dodges and deflects everything the S-class hero Metal Bat throws, moving faster than Metal Bat can follow.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 30, p. 5

  Bang says he beat Garou and expelled him from the dojo after Garou disabled the other students.

Lord Boros#Permanent link to Lord Boros

• The sealed armourWorn to hold his own output down, and broken open by the first punch that connected.
• Meteoric BurstEverything he had, spent in one sitting, ending in the beam aimed at the Earth.

Crossed space on a prophecy that promised him somebody worth fighting, then absorbed three ordinary punches, a run of Consecutive Normal Punches that pulled him into pieces, and last the shockwave off a Serious Punch. He regenerated from all of it bar the last. Ranked on what he took rather than anything he landed. The webcomic does not kill him, which is the one place on this ladder where the two versions disagree about an outcome rather than about a cast list.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 34, pp. 12-13

  Survives Saitama's first punch, to Saitama's visible surprise, and his sealing armour breaks apart.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 36, pp. 7-25

  Knees Saitama off the ship to the Moon, and Saitama jumps back and lands on the ship again.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 36

  Is torn apart by Consecutive Normal Punches and re-forms almost at once.

Blast#Permanent link to Blast

First on the register and, for most of the story, absent from it — one of the Association's own executives explains that the man works to his own schedule, and only a handful of staff hold any means of reaching him. When he does turn up it is to trade blows with Cosmic Fear Mode Garou over a field of unconscious S-class heroes, be told he is not worth the attention, and then move both fighters off the planet a moment before their fists meet.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 86, pp. 4-5

  Named as the S-class rank 1 hero while the Association's staff discuss whether to call him in.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 86, pp. 4-5

  Sitch tells the staff that Blast acts on his own.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 123, p. 20

  Only a few selected Hero Association staff hold the means to communicate with him.

Tatsumaki#Permanent link to TatsumakiTornado of Terror

Pulled the Monster Association's headquarters bodily out of the ground while shielding the heroes still inside it, then finished Monster King Orochi — Psykos had split off the fusion and fled by then — by shredding the body and destroying the heart, the organ Saitama's punch had left beating. Almost nothing else here moves that much mass without touching it.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 134

  Raises the whole Monster Association headquarters out of the earth while shielding several heroes inside the facility.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 137, pp. 6-8

  Pulls meteor-sized rock formations out of the ocean and throws them at the fusion.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 138, pp. 11-13

  Stops one of the fusion's energy attacks dead in the air and tosses it aside.

Bang#Permanent link to BangSilver Fang

Two Dragon-level monsters took heavy damage in short order — a hole kicked through Gums, Fuhrer Ugly knocked down — several fights into a raid he was too old to be in. Then fought the disciple he had expelled from his dojo, lost, filed his retirement from the Association, and took the disciple back as a student.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 149, pp. 8-9

  Kicks a hole through the Dragon-level monster Gums to get Tanktop Master clear.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 149, pp. 20-21

  Knocks down the Dragon-level monster Fuhrer Ugly in moments, doing heavy damage.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 34

  Takes a direct hit from Melzargard without apparent injury — a blow of the kind that took an A-class hero's arm off earlier in the fight.

Watchdog Man#Permanent link to Watchdog ManGuardian of Q-City

Went through thirty Monster Association monsters at once in the street and came out of it unmarked, with Garou arriving to find him sitting on the pile. When the two of them fought later, Garou could not account for the speed. Holds one city and does nothing else. He sat at C-class rank 301 and is S-class now — moved up when the S-class was formed, a reclassification on the day the top of the ladder came into existence rather than a climb through it.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 67, pp. 25-28

  Tears apart thirty Monster Association monsters that surround him and finishes without a scratch.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 77, pp. 17-20

  Blocks everything Garou throws, wounds him severely while holding back, and drives him out of the city.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 77, pp. 17-20

  Garou says the speed far exceeded what he had expected.

Genos#Permanent link to GenosDemon Cyborg

Was admitted at the floor of S-class off a perfect hundred at the certification exam, and has been dismantled in itemised ways ever since: an arm off to the Deep Sea King, the left side of his face to Carnage Kabuto, an arm off to Garou — and, in a future Saitama then unwound, his core torn out by Garou as well. The damage log is the point — it is a running measurement of several other entries here. He also took a Dragon-level threat down alone.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 16, pp. 14-16

  Scores a hundred points at the certification exam and is designated S-class.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 17

  Reads the registry aloud and reports that he has been given the lowest position in S-class.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 21, pp. 1-4

  Tells Saitama he has not been moved off S-class rank 17, but is now sixth in popularity.

Monster King Orochi#Permanent link to Monster King Orochi

Head of the Monster Association and the thing its sacrifices were feeding. Blown apart underground and still conscious afterwards, he dragged himself back together out of other monsters' blood, tried to swallow the woman who had made him, and came out of that merger holding a share of "God's" power. Twenty-nine chapters passed between the punch and the body finally stopping.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 74, p. 10

  Gouketsu calls him the strongest monster on Earth.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 114, p. 13

  Psykos says she cannot gauge his power and calls him a real monster.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 115, p. 7

  Already knowing Saitama beat Overgrown Rover, and sensing the pressure off him, works out that he also beat Gouketsu and Elder Centipede.

Gouketsu#Permanent link to Gouketsu

Won the first Super Fight tournament as an ordinary human eleven years before the story opens, was beaten by Orochi some time after that, and swallowed a cell instead of dying. Came back to the stadium that had made him and put the same offer to the field: eat one or be killed. Five of them ate. He was the demonstration of what the bargain costs, and it cost him his head on the road out of town.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 72, pp. 8-12

  Won the first Super Fight tournament as a human, lost to Orochi, and accepted a monster cell in exchange for his life.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 66, p. 24

  Smashes Genos into the pavement with a single blow on his way to the stadium.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 71, pp. 40-42

  Orders every martial artist in the stadium to eat a monster cell and become a Mysterious Being.

Deep Sea King#Permanent link to Deep Sea King

One afternoon, and in no order the register would recognise: Stinger and Lightning Max out of A-class, then the S-class Puri-Puri Prisoner, then Sonic, who is on no register at all, then the four heroes at the shelter door, then Genos out of S-class again, and last of all the C-class Mumen Rider, beaten down twice and still the last man there to stand up. The story stops to draw every one of them losing. That sequence, rather than the single punch that ended it, is the clearest measure on this ladder of what the middle of the Association is actually worth.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 23

  Comes out of the sea and downs the hero Stinger with one punch.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 24

  Punches the A-class hero Lightning Max out of a building and into the street.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 25

  Beats the S-class hero Puri-Puri Prisoner with a combination ending in a kick that sends him through a building.

Carnage Kabuto#Permanent link to Carnage Kabuto

Broke the left side of Genos's face with one punch, then blew the cyborg's own fire blast back into him to finish his part in the fight — and became the first thing in the series to read Saitama correctly, leaping the width of the room rather than swinging, and asking him where the strength came from. Went into Carnage Mode on hearing the answer, which he took for mockery.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 10, p. 14

  Puts Genos into the tunnel wall, then breaks apart the left side of his face with a single punch.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 10, pp. 9-20

  Blows Genos's own fire blast back into him with his breath, ending the cyborg's part in the fight.

• shownOne Punch Man · ch. 10, pp. 25-31

  Senses Saitama's strength mid-charge, leaps back across the room, and says he would have died attacking.

Fubuki#Permanent link to FubukiBlizzard of Hell

Holds the top of B-class deliberately, and defends it by recruiting the strong and attacking the ones who decline — Saitama included. She says herself she could make the upper end of A-class and never its summit, because the man at A-class rank 1 is standing in the doorway to keep weaker heroes out of S-class. Her rank is a strategy rather than a measurement, and she says as much out loud.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 29, p. 10

  A hero ranked first in a class may stay there or move up and restart at the bottom of the class above.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 45, p. 5

  Says she is capable of reaching an upper rank of A-class.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 45, pp. 4-7

  Says she can never reach the top of A-class or S-class while Sweet Mask holds A-class rank 1 and blocks advancement.

Mumen Rider#Permanent link to Mumen RiderSatoru

Has held the top of C-class for more than half a year without taking the promotion he is eligible for, and said mid-fight that he is too weak to be a B-class hero, which is the register being told the truth by somebody inside it and left holding a number that fits. Why he never moved up is not something the story says. Rode at the Deep Sea King after it had gone through everyone in front of him, and got back up twice.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 27, p. 20

  Says mid-fight that he is too weak to be a B-class hero, and does not back down.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 23, p. 16

  Has kept the top position in C-class for more than half a year.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 27, pp. 22-25

  Tells the Deep Sea King that whether or not he stands a chance is beside the point.

King#Permanent link to King

Has a seat in S-class, a title, a theme sound and no fight. The wins on his file were Saitama's, landed while he stood nearby looking grim; the rumbling everyone hears as bloodlust is his own heart going from fear; and the three scars over his eye came from a Tiger-level monster that turned up in the city while he happened to be standing nearby. Bottom of this ladder and high on the register, which is the distance the page is about.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 38, p. 20

  Introduces himself to G4 as the strongest man on earth and the S-class rank 7 hero.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 38, p. 27

  Admits he has never fought anybody in his life and is a coward and a weak person.

• statedOne Punch Man · ch. 38, p. 27

  The Association's impression of his strength came from finding him standing beside monsters somebody else had beaten.