The rankings below focus on each character’s peak form as seen in Naruto and Naruto Shippuden. To keep the field fair, we compare their best on-screen abilities, major fights, and how they impact a battle against other god-tier shinobi. This puts Six Paths users in the spotlight and sets a clear bar for what counts as top tier.
We are not including Boruto-only upgrades like Baryon Mode. If those forms were counted, positions would shift. Within these rules, you will see why Kaguya sits at the top, why Naruto and Sasuke anchor the top three, and how specialists like Might Guy and Kakashi break into a list full of monsters.
#7 Hashirama Senju
Called the God of Shinobi in his era, Hashirama’s power centers on Wood Release and Sage Mode. He held down the Tailed Beasts, beat Madara Uchiha at the Valley of the End, and matched Kurama clad in a Perfect Susanoo. His natural healing is so strong he fights without hand signs or medical ninjutsu, which shows a rare longevity in battle.
Hashirama’s large-scale jutsu decide wars. Techniques like Shinsu Senju: True Several Thousand Hands and the sealing gates of Myojinmon let him pin down gigantic targets and dominate the field. Against summon spam or bijuu barrages, his control and suppression give his side a lasting advantage, which is why whole armies planned around his presence.
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The ceiling changed once Six Paths power entered the story. Hashirama’s toolkit is elite, but he lacks Truth-Seeking Orbs and reality-bending space-time options. That gap puts him at 7 in a list crowded by jinchuriki-tier and Otsutsuki-tier threats, even though his overall battle impact is massive.
#6 Might Guy
When Guy opens the Eighth Gate, he becomes a force that even Six Paths Madara had to respect. The shock of Night Guy warped space and smashed Madara’s body apart, a feat few others can claim. Without Naruto’s intervention, the price would have been death, which proves how far the Gate of Death pushes a human body.
Guy’s win condition is simple and brutal. He uses unmatched speed and taijutsu to overwhelm god-tier foes before his body gives out. In earlier fights he wrecked Kisame Hoshigaki and kept up with top threats with just the Seventh Gate, which shows the raw return on a pure close-quarters style.
There are limits. The Eighth Gate is a timer, and Guy has no ninjutsu, no genjutsu, and no long-range tools. Against enemies who fly, spam hax, or warp space, he needs openings created by a team. That cost keeps him below the chakra monsters and reality shapers at the top, despite his peak burst being terrifying.
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Even with those drawbacks, no one else on this list hits harder in a single moment than Might Guy. His performance against Six Paths Madara earns him this spot, because few characters can claim they nearly ended a Ten Tails jinchuriki with pure hands and feet.
#5 Kakashi Hatake (DMS)
With Dual Mangekyo Sharingan granted by Obito’s spirit, Kakashi gained perfect Susanoo and upgraded Kamui on both eyes. He warped Kaguya’s attacks and sliced through her defenses with Kamui shuriken, which shows how space-time deletion lets him ignore normal durability. The boost was temporary, but in that window he fought at god-tier speed and precision.
DMS Kakashi is a tactician with a broken toolkit. Perfect Susanoo provides defense and mobility, while Kamui makes his strikes lethal on contact. He turned the last battle by protecting allies and creating kill shots, which is the kind of utility most bruisers on this list do not have.
The power up fades, which limits his long-term ranking. Still, for the time it lasted, Kakashi had the tools to threaten dimension-level foes and to support the sealing of Kaguya. That blend of hax, teamwork value, and finishing power earns him the number 5 spot over more one-note glass cannon peaks.
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#4 Madara Uchiha (Six Paths)
As a Ten Tails jinchuriki, Madara stepped into Sage of Six Paths territory. He wielded Truth-Seeking Orbs, healed from brutal damage, and used Limbo clones that exist on a parallel plane. Few could even perceive half of what he was doing, and fewer still could stop it once he accelerated.
Madara dismantled battlefields. He absorbed bijuu, outpaced entire armies, and forced the heroes to rely on Six Paths Naruto and Rinnegan Sasuke to survive. Earlier in the war he also humiliated the Five Kage, which set the tone for how wide the gap became once he fused with the Ten Tails and gained god-tree power.
He added range, control, and inevitability. With Limbo for pressure, orbs for absolute defense, and near-constant regeneration, he could shut down most strategies. Even specialists like Guy only found short windows to trade, and those windows came with lethal costs.
Madara went further by awakening the Rinne Sharingan and casting the Infinite Tsukuyomi. That is a planetary-scale win condition, which puts him at the doorstep of number one-level dominance. Only a twist of fate prevented him from finishing his plan.
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His downfall was not a fair duel. Black Zetsu betrayed him and revived Kaguya, who sits above him in raw power. If events had stayed on the path he chose, Madara’s kit suggests he could grind down nearly anyone below him with inevitability.
#3 Sasuke Uchiha (Rinnegan)
After receiving Hagoromo’s power, Sasuke awakened a Rinnegan with six tomoe. The key is Amenotejikara, a short-range space swap that breaks enemy setups and creates instant openings. He matched Naruto’s peak with Indra’s Arrow, which shows his ceiling is right at the god-tier line.
His Perfect Susanoo brings huge offense and defense, while the Rinnegan grants space-time portals, gravity techniques, and battlefield control. In the Kaguya fight he helped create the Chibaku Tensei cores that sealed her, which proves he can contribute to win conditions far beyond normal shinobi.
Sasuke’s chakra pool and stamina lag behind Naruto’s at this level, which matters in long wars. Even so, his mix of hax, speed, and cutting power keeps him over nearly everyone. Only the top two can reliably outlast or overpower him in a straight fight.
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#2 Naruto Uzumaki (Six Paths)
Hagoromo’s blessing turned Naruto into a Six Paths Sage Mode user with Kurama’s full power. He gained Truth-Seeking Orbs, extreme sensing, and the ability to share chakra on the fly. At this peak he tanked and countered god-tier strikes while keeping his team alive, which shows unmatched all-around value.
Naruto mixes all nine bijuu natures into custom Rasenshuriken variants for specific matchups, from lava to magnet release. He healed Might Guy from the brink and restored Kakashi’s eye, which highlights how far his Six Paths power can go. Few characters combine that level of offense, defense, and support.
He also brings numbers. With shadow clones in Six Paths Cloak, giant avatars, and Asura Kurama forms, Naruto floods the field and still hits with top-end finishers. His speed, reach, and durability let him stick to threats like Six Paths Madara and keep trading until he wins.
Only Kaguya’s raw ceiling puts him second. If we counted Boruto-era Baryon Mode, he would contest the top spot, but within Shippuden’s scope he sits right under the final boss of chakra. That balance of power and utility makes him the safest pick in most matchups.
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#1 Kaguya Otsutsuki
Kaguya is the source of chakra on Earth. She wields the Byakugan and the Rinne Sharingan, shifts entire battles into new dimensions, and draws on what feels like an endless pool of power. Her presence rewrites the rules, which is why even Naruto and Sasuke needed a seal rather than a knockout.
Her toolkit erases mistakes. With Amenominaka she swaps dimensions to control terrain, while Amenoteso and the Ash-Killing Bones end fights on contact. Her Expansive Truth-Seeking Ball threatened to wipe the world, which shows a level of destruction no one else on this list cleanly matches.
She lacks battle experience compared to the others, yet her floor is still higher. It took Six Paths Naruto, Six Paths Sasuke, DMS Kakashi, and Sakura together to land the final seal. That need for a perfect team play is why Kaguya claims number one, even if her decision-making is not always sharp.
