Look at him, bro's Khaenri'ahn.
And look at Pierro, bros the director even though he's not from Snezhnaya.
Being hailed from Snezhnaya doesn't make you above someones from other regions.
Khaenri'ahns is just that special on Tsaritsa's eyes.
So its just about contribution when you said so because how is an angry woman (Signora) more important than the richest man alive? A mistreating woman (Cruca) more important than the major of the city your building the Fatuis with and a god's creation?
That's just recent events, but how about the moment he got recruited in the past like 500 or 400 years ago? What makes bro number 2 at that moment
In recent time it would be harder to maintain an ranking since there would be more competition and in any case he would had been weaker since, unless proven otherwise a character would always grew in strength has time pass, like its common sense a baby is weaker than a young adult (Yeah, im making that comparasion, because it is stated Omega, the only alive fragment of Dottore, it at the prime of his life)
Talking about combat capabilities, even Arlecchino stated herself can deal with Dottore
She would get low diffed by Shouki no Kami ngl "Hoyo lend me the moon powers, this is weakend Hydro Traveler", lets not even talk about the fact that she isnt top 3 because she aint even God lvl, and when i say god im talking about important strong god, not god damn Havria, by this reasoning Arle should be Archon lvl because of this voice line
ll I can say is this... If we are forced to be at odds one day, I will raise my weapon against her without hesitation (Arle about the Tsarita)
Like i can guarantee you, that if Dottore doesn't exist, Arlecchino would be the number 2.
So your saying either the Moon Goddess or an Archon's equals are weaker than Arle? weak used to be belieable
Capitano also getting weakened overtime
He still had the rank 1 status because he is the only Harbinger equal to an archon, even when weakend, so yeah, this just means weakend capi > Prime Dottore
Columbina will get stronger
I dout Columbina would come back to the fatui anyways, making the rankign system in her invalid (Like Wanderer case) and rank 1 is untouched because of respect
Also imo pirro is ranked 10th, there are total 11 harbingers including pierro, and 11 ranks
There a theory saying there was no 10th harbinger in the rankings to begin, like in early stages of the game the CN version said "The 11th Harbingers" like the numbers of fatuis in that group, but probably got recotnned or idk, probably was Creepus