Strongest JJK Characters, Ranked

If you only want the short list: Sukuna, Gojo, Yuta Okkotsu, Kenjaku and Yuki Tsukumo. We rank by peak strength shown in the completed manga, not by who has the best aura or the coolest domain. Further down you'll find the JJK strongest characters ranked from one to fifteen, so the top ten and the five after it are both covered.

11. Toji Fushiguro. No cursed energy at all and he still beats a teenage Gojo in Season 2. He's lower than people expect because adult Gojo is a completely different problem.

12. Mahito. His soul-touching technique ignores normal defence. He's the villain who makes Shibuya so bleak. Sukuna and Yuji are the only ones who reliably hurt his soul, though.

13. Suguru Geto. A special grade who controls thousands of curses, and the main villain of Jujutsu Kaisen 0. He loses to Yuta at the end of the Night Parade, which caps his ranking.

14. Choso. Blood Manipulation with none of the usual blood-loss limits. He's a strong fighter who keeps running into people stronger than him, Yuji in Shibuya first among them.

15. Aoi Todo. Boogie Woogie is a simple technique that Todo turns into a genuinely nasty one, and he's the best fight IQ on the Kyoto side.

Some people rank Fumihiko Takaba near the top, since his technique, Comedian, makes whatever he finds funny real. We leave him off on purpose. It only works when he believes his own joke, and that makes him impossible to slot into a normal power ranking.

Strongest and best aren't the same list. In fan polls Gojo is the usual winner, and Yuji, Megumi, Nanami and Inumaki show up near the top over and over. If you're asking who the best JJK characters are as characters, our answer is Nanami and Geto. Both get a complete arc in a small amount of screen time.

The most hated JJK characters are easier to call: Mahito, for what he does to Junpei, Nanami and Nobara, and Naoya Zenin, who is written to be loathed and lands it.

Three rules. First, peak form only: Yuji at the end of the manga, not Yuji in episode 1. Second, demonstrated feats beat hype. Characters get credit for what they actually do on the page, not for what other characters say about them. That's the reason Takaba and some one-chapter players aren't ranked. Third, a team win counts less than a solo one. Plenty of the biggest moments in the final arc are group efforts, and we try not to hand the whole result to whoever lands the last hit.

We also ignore matchup-only wins when they obviously wouldn't transfer. Hakari is a nightmare in a long fight and much less scary against someone who can kill him in one blow before the jackpot hits. That's why he's tenth and not sixth.

Strongest student: Yuta Okkotsu. He's a second-year and already a special grade. Late-manga Yuji is the only student argument against him.

Strongest curse: Sukuna, though he's technically a human sorcerer turned cursed object rather than a natural curse. If you mean curses born from human fear, Mahito at his Shibuya peak, with Jogo just behind him.

Strongest without cursed energy: Toji Fushiguro, with Maki's later form right alongside him. The series compares them directly, and Ogi Zenin sees Toji in Maki in Chapter 149.

Strongest Kyoto character: Aoi Todo. Nobody else from Kyoto comes close in the main story.

Strongest in the anime so far: Gojo, easily. Sukuna has only ever fought at a fraction of his power on screen. If you're anime-only, keep that in mind before arguing about our top two.

The most common thing we disagree with is putting Toji in the top five. He's an incredible fighter, and beating teenage Gojo in Season 2 is a real feat. But he beat a Gojo who didn't have Reverse Cursed Technique yet, and the Gojo he creates by nearly killing him is a different animal. Toji himself more or less admits as much before he dies.

The second is ranking Megumi high on potential. Sukuna clearly thinks Megumi could be something special, and the Ten Shadows is a frightening technique on paper. But the most dangerous thing Megumi ever does with it is summon something he can't control. Potential isn't a feat.

The third is leaving Yuki out because she has so few fights. We get why. We just think a character who can turn herself into a black hole has earned a place, even with a short highlight reel.