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How we rank characters

3,857 characters from 50 anime, each with a tier and seven ratings

Every character in Draft Party has a tier from S to D and seven ratings from 1 to 5. Those numbers decide a lot: what a character is worth in a Role Draft, what they cost in Build a Character, and who wins a split vote. So they have to be right, and when fans argue about one, we say why we picked our side. This page explains how the rankings are made.

The rules we follow

A tier is only within its own anime. An S tier in Haikyuu!! is the best of Haikyuu!!, not someone who beats Goku. Comparing across anime is a different argument.
Peak canon versions. We rank the strongest version the story actually shows, the same way for everyone in that anime.
Never popularity. How many fans a character has only decides who is in the game. It never decides their tier.
S has to be earned. S is for the very top of an anime, not everyone strong. Every S is checked against the other S tiers in the same anime: could they really stand beside them?
Who beat whom. If X beat Y on screen, X can't be ranked below Y unless the reason says why (a trick, a handicap, a later power-up).

Where a rank can come from, strongest first

The story itself: fights, stated ranks and hierarchies (the Hokage, the Espada numbers, the Hashira, the Hero rankings).
Official material: databooks, guidebooks and official stat sheets.
Official sites and publishers: Crunchyroll News, Viz, Shueisha and the studios.
The anime's own fan wiki, for feats and the sources it cites.
VS Battles, only as a sanity check. It measures destructive power and can miss what an ability actually does.
Fan rankings (CBR, Looper, Epicdope and similar), only to cross-check.

S and A tiers, and any tier fans argue about, need at least two independent sources.

Every character gets a reason

Each placement has a written reason: the feat, the win, the canon rank or the databook number behind it. Those reasons are on every tier list, under "Why each character got their tier". Two examples from the game's data:

Guts (Berserk), A tier: "Strongest human. Drew with Zodd's released form at the Hill of Swords, killed the Sea God from inside, and overpowered Grunbeld in the Berserker Armor. A, not S, because he can't touch the God Hand…"

Tobi (Naruto tier list), S tier, disputed: "Tobi = Obito Uchiha. Peak = Ten-Tails Jinchuriki, 'Second Sage of Six Paths'. … Disputed: Kamui-only Obito is A."

When fans disagree

Some placements will always be argued about. When the sources split, the character is marked disputed and the reason says what the disagreement is. On the tier lists they get an asterisk. We still pick one tier, because a game can't use "it depends".

The seven ratings

Strength, Speed, Intelligence, Durability, Fighting Skill, Charisma and Luck are each rated 1 to 5 within the character's own anime. They have to fit the tier, and an odd one gets explained: Alluka in Hunter x Hunter is S tier through Nanika but has no strength of her own. These ratings set the prices in Build a Character, so a $5 Speed pick really is one of the fastest.

Power

For drafting, each character also has a power number from 1 to 100. It starts from the tier (S tiers start highest, D tiers lowest) and adds up to 16 from five combat ratings: strength, speed, durability, fighting skill and intelligence. So a fast, clever A tier can come close to a slow S tier, but never pass them.

Found a wrong one?

Tell us. Use the feedback button after a game, or email play@draftparty.me with the feat or source.

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