Bungo Stray Dogs tier list

All 65 Bungo Stray Dogs characters ranked S to D. Each tier was researched from canon feats, official databooks and power-scaling sources, not popularity, and only compares characters within Bungo Stray Dogs. Within a tier, characters are listed by popularity.

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Who is the strongest in Bungo Stray Dogs?

The strongest Bungo Stray Dogs characters in this tier list are Osamu Dazai, Chuya Nakahara, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Ochi Fukuchi, the S tier. Tiers are ranked within Bungo Stray Dogs only, from canon feats, official databooks and power-scaling sources rather than popularity.

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Bungo Stray Dogs tier list

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D

* Fans argue about this one's tier: Osamu Dazai, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Atsushi Nakajima, Yukichi Fukuzawa, Kyusaku Yumeno, Howard Lovecraft, Sakunosuke Oda, Soseki Natsume and Agatha Christie.

Why each character got their tier

The reasoning behind every placement: the feats, wins and losses that decided it, and the rankings and databooks it was checked against. "Disputed" means fans and sources split on it, so we picked a side and say why. "VSB" is the VS Battles wiki's power tier, and "#3 Looper" means third in that site's ranking. More on how we rank characters.

S tier

Osamu Dazai S · disputed
S as a planner, not a fighter: youngest Mafia leader on record; helped beat Rimbaud; beat Fyodor at Meursault and deduced his body-stealing ability; his plan finally ended Fyodor; only one who can stop Corruption; #2 Sportskeeda; disputed: #10 Otaku's Notes and 9-B on VS Battles, since nullification needs skin contact and he wins few fights himself
Chuya Nakahara S
Port Mafia executive and vessel of Arahabaki; Corruption finished Lovecraft after Dazai's bomb, and he won alone against the Red Dragon in Dead Apple; pressed the Hunting Dogs from a helicopter; 7-C with Corruption; #1 on Sportskeeda and Otaku's Notes; the form rampages until Dazai stops it, and Ranpo's novel trap stopped him by trick
Fyodor Dostoyevsky S · disputed
Series mastermind: fooled Fukuchi into a 36-year plot, caused the Cannibalism crisis, built Ame-no-Gozen and nearly wiped out the Agency; his killer becomes him, so he outlived ages of enemies; #4 Otaku's Notes, 'the most dangerous man in the room' (Geekiary); no fighter, weak body (str 1); disputed: the lists predate the final arc, and Dazai's plan ended him
Ochi Fukuchi S
Hunting Dogs captain and hidden Decay of the Angel leader; his hundredfold ability plus a sword that cuts through space and time killed Akutagawa and beat Atsushi, Tachihara, Jouno and Fukuzawa; earlier severed and enslaved Bram; #3 Sportskeeda, #1 GamesHorizon Hunting Dogs; only finished when Fukuzawa took the sword as he had wanted

A tier

Ranpo Edogawa A
A on results, not fighting: no ability, yet no deduction of his has been wrong; trapped Chuuya with Poe's novel, turned Bram's vampires against Fyodor and steered the final airport plan; called the Agency's linchpin; lower than Dazai because Fukuchi saw through his trump card; 10-B, a pure non-fighter
Ryunosuke Akutagawa A
Port Mafia's most feared fighter; Rashomon cuts space; beat Hawthorne and Goncharov's side, beat Fitzgerald with Atsushi, and as a vampire fought Ame-no-Gozen evenly for a time; killed by Fukuchi; 7-C, possibly higher; #12 Otaku's Notes, pre-final arc; early losses to Oda and Kunikida came at 16
Atsushi Nakajima A · disputed
Top of A and the closest call for S: with Akutagawa beat Fitzgerald and struck down Fyodor, and with Akinari destroyed Ame-no-Gozen from inside; tied to the Book as its bookmark; 7-C, possibly higher; disputed: #11 Otaku's Notes is pre-final arc, every big win was assisted, and he lost to Fukuchi, Gogol and Kouyou
Nikolai Gogol A
Decay of the Angel member; his portal coat reaches 30 metres, works on living bodies and severed Atsushi's leg in a clean win; fooled the police in disguise; listed by Sportskeeda, position unknown
Yukichi Fukuzawa A · disputed
Agency president; rank comes from his record, not his support ability: one of the Goken, the government's five best swordsmen; took down Fukuchi with the sword still in his chest; beaten by Mori's trick and first by Fukuchi himself; disputed: Sportskeeda shows him only as a caption
Ogai Mori A
Port Mafia boss and game theory expert; beat Fukuzawa at the mansion with a verbal trick and a scalpel, with Natsume halting the kill; Elise fights for him; ran the city's underworld for years; lower than S because Fyodor's virus plot drove him into that duel and no plan of his decided a top contest; Sportskeeda caption only
Teccho Suehiro A
Hunting Dogs' greatest swordsman and physically strongest; halved a moving car, cut down Kunikida, Kenji and Tanizaki; #4 GamesHorizon Hunting Dogs; lost the rematch to Kenji, and both collapsed
Saigiku Jono A
Hunting Dog; turns to particles that guns and swords can't touch, blocked Kenji's punch and tracked the Agency; his tip exposed Fukuchi's secret; beaten only when Fukuchi attacked him from multiple futures; #3 GamesHorizon Hunting Dogs
Francis Fitzgerald A
Guild leader; spending money raises his strength; beat Atsushi and Kyouka, later Hawthorne; he outlasted Atsushi and Akutagawa's combined blow and fell only because his money ran out; 9-B up to 7-C with spending
Kyusaku Yumeno A · disputed
A child with no body strength (str 1) but a curse that only Dazai can stop; caused mass Mafia casualties and, with Steinbeck, the Guild's city-wide plan; #2 Otaku's Notes; disputed: the curse needs its target to hurt them first, and they were kept locked up
Bram Stoker A
Listed among the Top Ten Calamities able to destroy the world; his bite drives the vampire outbreak and controls all it turns, and it revived Akutagawa; still lost to Fukuchi and was absorbed by Fyodor, so he stays below S
Teruko Okura A
Hunting Dogs vice captain; alters age by touch; overpowered Sigma and Atsushi; #2 GamesHorizon Hunting Dogs, #1 on its female list; she gave Fukuchi the final stab after he asked for death
Howard Lovecraft A · disputed
His monster form isn't an ability, so Dazai can't nullify it; regenerates and can only be hurt from inside; took Corruption and Dazai's bomb to beat; #3 Otaku's Notes, possibly 7-C in true form; disputed: lazy and low on fighting spirit
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa A
Dead Apple villain; his mist strips abilities and turns them on their users, and he hoarded the results as gems; took Atsushi, Akutagawa and Kyouka together to beat, and Chuuya to end his revived dragon form; 7-C, possibly higher; Atsushi's tiger killed him six years before
Arthur Rimbaud A
A Transcendent; his hyperspace ignored Chuuya's gravity and partly beat Dazai's nullification; turned corpses into abilities; it took Chuuya and Dazai together, and their win was narrow

B tier

Lucy Montgomery B
Ex-Guild; Anne's Room jails anyone caught, and she still holds Hawthorne there; lost to Atsushi and Tanizaki, then helped Atsushi beat Hawthorne; #5 GamesHorizon female list
Akiko Yosano B
Agency doctor who heals the nearly dead, which keeps the Agency alive through its wars; beat Kajii; feared in the Great War as the Angel of Death; 9-B; #7 Otaku's Notes against #7 on the GamesHorizon female list
Sakunosuke Oda B · disputed
Former hit man who stopped killing; sees 5 to 6 seconds ahead; beat 16-year-old Akutagawa, then he and Gide killed each other; 9-B; disputed: #5 Otaku's Notes rates him higher, but young Akutagawa also lost to Kunikida, so that win doesn't reach A
Kyoka Izumi B
Ex-Mafia assassin known for thirty-five murders; Demon Snow fights for her; saved Yokohama by crashing an aircraft into Moby Dick; often beaten, but helped defeat Shibusawa; #3 GamesHorizon female list, #9 Otaku's Notes
Doppo Kunikida B
Agency mainstay; makes notebook-sized objects real; beat young Akutagawa and, with Tanizaki, Steinbeck and Lovecraft; blew up Tecchou's chase with a hand grenade; at least 9-B, #14 Otaku's Notes
Edgar Poe B
Guild architect; traps readers inside murder mystery novels, which held Chuuya; spent six years plotting to beat Ranpo; a non-fighter rated on that trap
Kenji Miyazawa B
Agency's powerhouse; super strength and durability work only on an empty stomach; ripped out a bank vault door and beat Tecchou in their rematch, though both collapsed; Jouno blocked his punch easily; 9-B, #13 Otaku's Notes
Gin Akutagawa B
Black Lizard leader with no ability; elite stealth assassin, trained by Paul Verlaine, who got behind Higuchi unseen; lost to the Agency side; #15 Otaku's Notes, #10 GamesHorizon female list
Junichiro Tanizaki B
Agency illusionist; his snow hid wins over Lucy (with Atsushi), Steinbeck and Lovecraft (with Kunikida) and the three Black Lizard leaders; no fight won alone against an A; loses his restraint when his sister is threatened
Michizo Tachihara B
Hunting Dog undercover in the Mafia, then double spy; moves metal; fooled Yosano and the Mafia, but Fukuchi beat him; ranked weakest Hunting Dog by GamesHorizon, so B against the others' A
Ango Sakaguchi B
Special Division agent who spied on the Mafia; reads memories in objects; rescued Atsushi, ran the final airport effort against Fyodor; no real fights, rated on those operations
Koyo Ozaki B
Port Mafia executive; a phantom swordswoman under full control; beat early Atsushi and Kyouka; no win above that, so B despite her rank; #2 GamesHorizon female list, #8 Otaku's Notes
Mushitaro Oguri B
Calls himself the detective killer; his ability wipes evidence and can stump even Ranpo; aided the Rats' Cannibalism plot; no fight record
Ryuro Hirotsu B
Commander of the Black Lizard; his touch launches targets and breaks bones; served the Mafia before the previous boss; held back young Chuuya (the wiki's records disagree on the result) but lost to the Agency
Motojiro Kajii B
Mafia bomber wanted for 28 deaths in the Maruzen Building Bombing; immune to his lemon bombs; lost to Yosano, but his arrival won the Mafia's clash with Yosano, Kenji and Tanizaki
Elise B
Mori's ability given form; flies fast and fights with superhuman strength, and she can't truly die; Fukuzawa cut her down, so she sits below Mori
Loisa May Alcott B
B on results: Guild's strategist; thinking time runs at 1/8000 speed alone in a room; predicted the Agency and Mafia unseen, and guided the airport rescue; Fitzgerald rates her among the Guild's strongest; #4 GamesHorizon female list; can't fight
Soseki Natsume B · disputed
Built the Tripartite Framework, mentored Fukuzawa and Mori and stopped their duel; disputed: the wiki says he's commonly called the strongest ability user, but his shown ability is turning into a cat and he has no fight, so reputation alone can't lift him; wiki only
Mizuki Tsujimura B
Special Division agent; the Shadow Child inherited from her mother murders anyone she tries to kill; minder to Ayatsuji; #9 GamesHorizon female list; mostly a Gaiden character
Nathaniel Hawthorne B
Ex-Guild priest; turns his blood into bullets and shields; lost to Akutagawa, Fitzgerald, and Atsushi with Lucy; Dazai suspects his blood bullet helped Fyodor hide his true ability
John Steinbeck B
Guild member; his vines turn all plants nearby into his body; linked with Q for the Guild's emergency plan; lost twice alongside Lovecraft; later led the Guild's survivors
Agatha Christie B · disputed
Knight Commander of the Order of the Clock Tower, tied to Mimic's fall and a plan to burn Yokohama; disputed: her ability is unknown and she has no fight, so this B rests on rank alone; #8 GamesHorizon female list
Herman Melville B
Former Guild leader; Moby Dick, a living flying whale turned into a fortress, carried the Guild and threatened to crash into Yokohama; no personal fight; rated on that fortress
Andre Gide B
Mimic leader with the same precognition as Oda; beat young Akutagawa, once took a walled city of 600 with 40 men; only Oda matched him and they killed each other; #6 Otaku's Notes
Ivan Goncharov B
Rats member; his rock withstood repeated hits from Atsushi and Akutagawa, and he infected both with the virus; they still overpowered him; he also knew Fyodor's fake hideout plan

C tier

Sigma C
Sky Casino manager; touch-based information trade helped expose Fukuchi and later took Fyodor's memories; lost to Teruko; important to the plot, weak in a fight
Ichiyo Higuchi C
Akutagawa's assistant and bodyguard; good with guns but her ability is unrevealed; lost to Tanizaki and to mercenaries and needed rescue both times; #11 GamesHorizon female list
Aya Koda C
A ten-year-old with no ability; C on impact: dislodged the Holy Sword from Bram, which broke Fukuchi's hold, and helped trap Fyodor; #14 GamesHorizon female list
Mark Twain C
Guild sniper; his dolls guide bullets and spy; ambushed Atsushi and Kyouka and punctured a parachute, but lost head to head to Atsushi; skl 4 for his aim
Katai Tayama C
Former Agency member; controls electronics in sight, mainly from his bedding; found the Rats' hideout in the Cannibalism crisis; never fights
Nobuko Sasaki C
Criminology lecturer who secretly arranged the Azure King's attacks, then tried to ruin the Agency as the Azure Apostle; killed in that case; no ability; #13 GamesHorizon female list
Shosaku Katsura C
Bomber with no ability who tied up Kunikida with a hostage bomb and tested his ideals; Kunikida beat him with a stun grenade
Margaret Mitchell C
Guild apprentice whose wind breaks down cloth, paper and wood; survived Akutagawa's attacks but fell into a coma, healed much later by Yosano; #6 GamesHorizon female list
Ace C
Mafia executive who bought his rank with bribes; his collars turn subordinates' lives into jewels; held Fyodor prisoner, then lost to him without a fight
Santoka Taneda C
Director of the Special Division; instantly sees through any ability used near him; issued the Mafia's permit and helped Dazai join the Agency; a non-fighter, hurt by Sigma

D tier

Karl D
Poe's pet raccoon; his one real act was retrieving the novel that held Ranpo and Chuuya
Naomi Tanizaki D
Agency clerk with no ability; used Dazai's lesson to mislead Steinbeck and Lovecraft for a while; #12 GamesHorizon female list
Karma D
Ace's collared subordinate who pitied Fyodor and was killed by him; no ability
Rokuzo Taguchi D
Teenage hacker and information broker for the Agency; no ability; shot by Sasaki, and he shot her back as he died
Kirako Haruno D
Agency office staff; stayed calm enough to drive during Steinbeck and Lovecraft's chase; no ability or fight; #15 GamesHorizon female list
Shirase Buichiro D
Sheep member who took Chuuya in, then used him as a weapon; no ability, relies on others
Minora D
Police detective who looked down on Ranpo until the case was solved; no ability or fight
Junsa Sugimoto D
Rookie officer who accidentally shot Yamagiwa for a corrupt politician, exposed by Ranpo; no ability
Yamagiwa D
Police officer murdered while investigating a corrupt politician; matters as the victim in a case Ranpo solved
James L D
Fitzgerald's senior secretary; carried the money to the Agency and died attacking the Mafia, and Kajii used his body as a trap; no ability shown
Tokio Murakami D
Lead actor who staged his own onstage death for an ultimate performance; Fukuzawa took the case before the Agency existed; a civilian

Best at each trait

Every rating

Each trait is rated 1 to 5 within Bungo Stray Dogs. These ratings set the prices in Build a Character, so a $5 Speed pick really is one of the fastest.

CharacterTierStrSpdIntDurSkillCha
Osamu DazaiS225245
Chuya NakaharaS543554
Fyodor DostoyevskyS125355
Ochi FukuchiS454355
Ranpo EdogawaA115134
Ryunosuke AkutagawaA343354
Atsushi NakajimaA452444
Nikolai GogolA234343
Yukichi FukuzawaA344455
Ogai MoriA235245
Teccho SuehiroA442453
Saigiku JonoA344343
Francis FitzgeraldA444434
Kyusaku YumenoA112243
Bram StokerA433533
Teruko OkuraA443444
Howard LovecraftA422532
Tatsuhiko ShibusawaA234344
Arthur RimbaudA234353
Lucy MontgomeryB123233
Akiko YosanoB223334
Sakunosuke OdaB233354
Kyoka IzumiB233243
Doppo KunikidaB334344
Edgar PoeB114132
Kenji MiyazawaB431423
Gin AkutagawaB242242
Junichiro TanizakiB233233
Michizo TachiharaB333333
Ango SakaguchiB124233
Koyo OzakiB233344
Mushitaro OguriB124232
Ryuro HirotsuB323243
Motojiro KajiiB123332
EliseB342333
Loisa May AlcottB115122
Soseki NatsumeB124235
Mizuki TsujimuraB233233
Nathaniel HawthorneB233343
John SteinbeckB223333
Agatha ChristieB114124
Herman MelvilleB113233
Andre GideB233353
Ivan GoncharovB323432
SigmaC223223
Ichiyo HiguchiC222232
Aya KodaC123223
Mark TwainC122243
Katai TayamaC114132
Nobuko SasakiC114113
Shosaku KatsuraC113122
Margaret MitchellC122323
AceC113122
Santoka TanedaC114224
KarlD111113
Naomi TanizakiD113113
KarmaD112112
Rokuzo TaguchiD113122
Kirako HarunoD112112
Shirase BuichiroD112112
MinoraD112212
Junsa SugimotoD112111
YamagiwaD112112
James LD112112
Tokio MurakamiD112112

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