How to play Role Draft

1 to 8 players · online or one phone · about 5 to 10 minutes

Role Draft is the anime draft from YouTube Shorts and TikTok, made playable. You pull a character you can't see coming and decide on the spot which job on your team they get. You can't take it back, and the next pull might have fit that role better. That gamble is the whole game.

Play Role Draft

The rules

Pick the anime: one anime, All Anime, a mix of your own, or a theme like Villains or Mentors.
Everyone gets the same set of empty roles. Players take turns in snake order (1, 2, 3, then 3, 2, 1), so whoever picks last in one round picks first in the next.
On your turn you pull a random character and put it into one of your empty roles. It stays there for the rest of the game.
Once per game you can skip a pull you don't want. The card goes away and you pull again.
When every role is filled, everyone votes for the best team. You may vote for your own. If the vote is split, Kida settles it on paper: the team with more power wins.

Every anime has its own roles

A single-anime draft uses roles from that anime's own world, so you're arguing about the right things:

Anime	Roles
Naruto	Shinobi, Ninjutsu, Taijutsu, Dojutsu (Eye Powers), Chakra Nature, Kekkei Genkai, Speed
One Piece	Pirate, Devil Fruit Powers, Haki, Fighting Style, Physical Abilities, Weapons, Speed
Jujutsu Kaisen	Sorcerer, Cursed Technique, Domain and Barrier Techniques, Cursed Energy, Physical Abilities, Special Traits, Speed
Demon Slayer	Slayer, Breathing Style, Demon Blood Art, Swordsmanship, Physical Abilities, Stamina and Recovery, Speed
Death Note	Mastermind, Intellect, Deduction, Deception, Manipulation, Influence, Strategy, Nerve

All Anime and custom mixes use eight roles that work across every series: Captain, Vice Captain, Tank, Healer, Support, Duelist, Technique and Aura. A theme brings its own roles too. The host can shorten the game to as few as 3 roles.

Fair fight or Chaos

Fair fight (the default) locks one tier for each round, so everyone pulls from the same tier at the same time. If you pull an S tier in round two, so does everyone else. Good drafting decides the game, not luck.

Chaos pulls from every character left in the pool, any tier. One player can land three S tiers while another gets nothing but D tiers. It's louder and less fair, which is sometimes the point.

Beat the Boss

Pick Beat the Boss as the goal and the anime's final boss sits out of the draft: Madara in Naruto, Blackbeard in One Piece, Sukuna in Jujutsu Kaisen. Instead of voting, each team needs enough combined power to take them down. The target is about two thirds of the boss's own power in every role, added up across the team. A team of A tiers gets there, a team of B tiers is a coin flip, and a team of C tiers falls short.

Playing alone

With one player there's no vote. Your team gets a score: each character's power times the role's weight. The first role counts ×3, the second ×2 and the rest ×1, so a strong pull belongs in the first role. The game also works out the best score those same pulls could have made, so you can see how close you got. The Daily Draft works the same way, with the same 9 cards for everyone in the world that day.

A round, step by step

Three friends draft Naruto. Aya pulls first and gets Itachi Uchiha. He's an obvious fit for Dojutsu, but Ninjutsu is also open. She puts him in Dojutsu.

Ben pulls Rock Lee. Taijutsu is a perfect home, so he takes it.

Cal pulls Iruka Umino, a C tier. He uses his one skip and pulls Tsunade instead. She goes into Ninjutsu.

Round two runs backwards: Cal pulls first this time. Later Aya pulls Kakashi, with his Sharingan, but her Dojutsu slot is already taken. That is the trade-off you make in every round.

Tips that actually help

Don't spend your skip early. A C tier in round one hurts less than a D tier stuck in your best role in the last round, when you have nowhere else to put it.
Fill the narrow roles first. Almost anyone can fill Speed or Physical Abilities. Only a few characters fit Dojutsu or Domain and Barrier Techniques. Take those characters when they come.
Argue the fit, not just the tier. The vote is people, not a calculator. A B tier who really belongs in a role often beats an S tier squeezed into the wrong one.
In Fair fight, watch the round. Everyone pulls from the same tier, so the round where you place your pull matters more than the pull itself.

Common questions

How are the tiers decided?

Every character's tier (S to D) is researched within their own anime from canon feats and official databooks, not popularity. The full method is on how we rank characters, and every tier is on the tier lists.

Can more than one person get the same character?

No. Each character can be pulled once per game.

Can everyone pull at the same time?

Online, yes: All at once has everyone pull and place together each round, so nobody waits for a turn. The timer places a card for anyone who runs out of time.

More guides

Strongest anime characters · Popular tier lists: JJK tier list · MHA tier list · Naruto tier list · One Piece tier list · Solo Leveling tier list · Edgerunners tier list

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