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Notes
- The list is primarily based on overall combat ability, so even if someone can’t defeat a character below them due to matchup (e.g. it’s debatable whether Ashura Avatar Naruto/Indra Susanoo Sasuke have a wincon against Base Kaguya), if they’re clearly superior, then they’ll still rank above
- Specific matchups are taken into account only when characters are close enough in ability that it’s hard to say who’s stronger overall
- Edo characters’ immortality isn’t taken into account, but their regenerating chakra is, as it’s hard to tell how some of their fighting styles would change otherwise
- When a character is shown in their general state (e.g. BoS Guy), it’s taking into account all their techniques in that version (so even though the image is Base Guy, his ability to use the Gates is considered in his placement), as well as their stamina with these techniques
- If a character is named in a specific form (e.g. Sage Mode Minato), their power in that form is what’s considered, and not how long they can maintain it; the only exceptions to this is are the two versions of 7th Gate Guy, and those keys are just meant to represent Countdown/Late WA Guy holistically
- Kaguya fight Team 7 doesn’t factor in the Ashura Avatar since Naruto didn’t use it in the fight and he might not even have been able to, its source being natural energy that might not exist in the same quantity/at all in Kaguya’s dimensions
- Edo Nagato could realistically be anywhere from top of Savior tier to just below OM Obito
- Teen Minato could be a few spots higher or a lot lower; his AP is excellent, but his speed is pretty hard to gauge
- 9 Tails Attack Hiruzen could similarly be higher or lower, as the only concrete information about his scaling is that he’s below Jonin Minato and above P1 Orochimaru. He did hold off Kurama alongside the rest of Konoha, but the battle was off-panel
- A lot of characters in High Kage level could hypothetically be a tier higher due to fighting KCM Naruto/KCM clones, but his power was decreased from splitting chakra 14 ways (whether this is a 14x stat nerf isn’t really the point, as having such a small portion of his chakra would make him weaker regardless). His only real quantifiable scaling in that nerfed state is being above PA SM Naruto based on his statement to Nagato, so characters that fought Nerfed KCM Naruto/KCM clones downscale from PA SM Naruto rather than KCM Naruto
- A lot of characters in High Kage level are fairly close in strength, and is the tier with the most wiggle room. Only the top 7 are pretty concrete
- The version of Sasuke called “FKS Sasuke” is him with the MS and access to Amaterasu/Kagatsuchi, but not Susanoo. Without Amaterasu, he'd be somewhere between Base WA Bee and Gyuki
- Kakuzu could be much higher, as Yuugito might be comparable to Roshi/Han, and there are definitely ways to reinterpret his antifeats/statements
- Sick Kimimaro, and consequently SRA Gaara/Lee, are some of the hardest characters to concretely rank, as Kimimaro’s metas are all over the place (you could place Base Kimimaro anywhere from Special Jonin to the top of Elite Jonin, and with some generosity, you could even argue CM2 Kimimaro>Post-Training Kakashi), but for the sake of simplicity, I’m using the meta that Base Kimimaro is portrayed to be more of a threat than any of the Sound 4
- Top-Class Genin is another tier with very comparable and interchangeable characters all throughout
I'm not talking about Kakashi DMS, but about A Late Kakashi.
And about Kakashi DMS, I mean, he has no reason to be on top. Sasuke and Naruto, in the end, already Sasuke. Even after seeing DMS, Kakashi still believed that the only threat was Naruto.
