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Every Akatsuki Member Ranked by Power Level

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In the Naruto universe, no organization cast a wider shadow than the Akatsuki. Eleven members. Matching black cloaks with red clouds. S-rank bounties on every single one. Each of them had broken with their home village and achieved a level of power that put them beyond conventional responses — one or two jonin weren’t enough to stop them, and the Five Great Nations knew it.

The Akatsuki started differently. Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan founded the original group in the Hidden Rain Village as a genuine peace movement during the Third Shinobi World War. Three orphans trying to end a conflict that had already taken everything from them.

The idealism didn’t last. After Yahiko’s death and Obito Uchiha’s intervention, the group restructured around a single goal: capture all nine Tailed Beasts to create a weapon so overwhelming that no nation would dare to fight. Fear as the instrument of peace.

This guide ranks all eleven members from the least to the most dangerous, based on combat feats, ability ceiling, durability, and tactical intelligence. Detailed lore at the Naruto Fandom — Akatsuki wiki. Browse officially licensed Blokees collector kits for Naruto characters including Naruto Uzumaki, Kurama, Madara Uchiha, and Minato Namikaze in the Naruto Toys collection.

Quick Rankings: All Eleven Members at a Glance

Rank	Member	Tier	Defining trait
#1	Madara Uchiha	God-tier	Perfect Susanoo + Rinnegan + Ten-Tails. Force of nature.
#2	Obito Uchiha	S-tier	Kamui intangibility + Ten-Tails Jinchuriki + Rinnegan.
#3	Nagato / Pain	S-tier	Rinnegan + Six Paths of Pain + destroyed the Hidden Leaf alone.
#4	Itachi Uchiha	S-tier	Totsuka Blade + Yata Mirror + Tsukuyomi. Unbeatable in 1v1.
#5	Kisame Hoshigaki	A-tier	Largest chakra of any human shinobi. Samehada eats chakra. ‘Tailed Beast without a tail.’
#6	Kakuzu	A-tier	Five elemental hearts. Near-immortal. Combat experience from Hashirama’s era.
#7	Sasori	A-tier	100 puppets + Third Kazekage Iron Sand. Core is the only killable point.
#8	Deidara	B-tier	C4 Karura is a near-instant kill. Beat Gaara. Pushed Sasuke hard.
#9	Hidan	B-tier	True immortality. Jashin ritual kills on blood contact. Zero conventional counters.
#10	Konan	B-tier	Six billion paper bombs. Nearly killed Obito Uchiha.
#11	Zetsu (Black + White)	C-tier	Excellent espionage. Minimal direct combat output.

Ranking Criteria

Criterion	What it measures
Jutsu mastery	Complexity, lethality, and versatility of their ninjutsu, genjutsu, and taijutsu toolkit.
Combat intelligence	Strategic adaptability mid-fight. The ability to read situations and counter unconventional approaches.
Durability and stamina	How long they sustain high-level combat. Chakra reserves, healing capacity, and physical endurance.
Actual feats	What they demonstrably accomplished against named opponents in the series — not just potential.
Power ceiling	Maximum achievable power state. Accounts for Mangekyo, advanced jutsu, and peak form.

All Akatsuki Members: Full Power Breakdown

#11 Zetsu (Black + White) — C-Tier

Attribute	Detail
Role in Akatsuki	Intelligence, espionage, communications. The organization’s surveillance network.
White Zetsu abilities	Body duplication. Can create mass clones. Chakra absorption at a basic level. Merges with the ground for concealment.
Black Zetsu abilities	Possesses hosts. Recorded human history and manipulated events across generations. Limited direct combat jutsu.
Why ranked last	Neither Zetsu can hold their own against any other Akatsuki member in direct combat. Power lies in manipulation and information, not battlefield output.

#10 Konan — B-Tier

Attribute	Detail
Core ability	Dance of the Shikigami: converts her body into billions of paper sheets for attack and defense simultaneously.
Best feat	Prepared six hundred billion explosive paper tags in the Uzushio River with a detonation period of ten minutes. Obito survived only by using Izanagi, and the technique cost him one eye.
Elemental weakness	Oil and fire are direct counters. Paper loses structural integrity immediately. Any fire-based user in the Akatsuki exploits this.
Why ranked here	Kage-level threat. Genuinely nearly killed Obito Uchiha. Her limitation is that the members ranked above her either have elemental counters or operate in a power tier she can’t reach.

#9 Hidan — B-Tier

Attribute	Detail
Core ability	True immortality granted by Jashin worship. Conventional killing methods have zero effect.
Jashin ritual	Once Hidan ingests a single drop of an opponent’s blood, a ritual circle links his body to theirs. Any injury Hidan inflicts on himself is mirrored in his victim. One drop is enough to kill almost anyone.
Critical weakness	Slow. Low-tier ninjutsu outside the ritual. Relies on Kakuzu for range and tactical cover. Cannot be killed but can be permanently incapacitated — Shikamaru buried him underground in pieces.
Why ranked here	One of the most dangerous gimmick abilities in the series. A single blood contact is potentially fatal for any opponent. But rank is limited by speed, zero strategic adaptability, and complete dependence on the ritual activating.

#8 Deidara — B-Tier

Attribute	Detail
Core ability	Explosive clay jutsu via mouth-shaped openings in his palms. Clay is infused with chakra and detonates on command.
Notable techniques	C1 (small explosives), C2 (flying dragon), C3 (city-level bomb), C4 Karura (microscopic clay bombs entering the bloodstream — near-instant kill against anyone without Lightning-style).
Key feats	Captured Gaara (Fifth Kazekage). Pushed Sasuke Uchiha to exhaustion. His C4 required Sasuke’s Susanoo to survive.
Why ranked here	C4 is one of the most lethally versatile techniques in the series. His elemental weakness to Lightning prevents him from ranking higher. In the right matchup, he kills S-tier opponents.

#7 Sasori — A-Tier

Attribute	Detail
Core ability	Master puppeteer. Controls up to 100 human puppets simultaneously, each loaded with specialized weapons and poison.
Core preservation	Sasori converted his own body into a puppet — only his living core remains, housed in a detachable chest cavity. Effectively unkillable unless the core is struck directly.
Third Kazekage puppet	The most powerful human puppet in history. Carries Iron Sand: magnetically controlled iron powder that forms blades, shields, and crushing pressure. The Third Kazekage’s rarest technique.
Why ranked here	100 poisoned puppets plus Iron Sand is an overwhelming force. The only true counter is dismantling all puppets faster than he can deploy them, which Chiyo achieved only at cost of her own life.

#6 Kakuzu — A-Tier

Attribute	Detail
Core ability	Five hearts — stolen from killed opponents. Each heart contains a different elemental nature. To kill Kakuzu, you must destroy all five.
Elemental arsenal	Fire, Wind, Lightning, Water, and Earth. Four hearts can be released as independent masked entities. Effectively five Kage-level bodies fighting simultaneously.
Historical context	Old enough to have fought Hashirama Senju (First Hokage) and survived. The only shinobi known to have attempted and returned from a mission to kill Hashirama.
Why ranked here	Durability and multi-elemental firepower give him an overwhelming edge over most opponents. Ranked below Kisame because raw chakra volume and healing efficiency put Kisame ahead in sustained combat.

#5 Kisame Hoshigaki — A-Tier

Attribute	Detail
Core ability	Samehada: a living sword that absorbs chakra on contact. Every strike heals Kisame and weakens the opponent.
Chakra reserves	Described as having more chakra than any human shinobi in the series. Guy Might calls him the “Tailed Beast without a tail.”
Merged form	Kisame can merge with Samehada entirely, taking a shark hybrid form with exponentially increased speed and a Water Shark Bomb powerful enough to rival the Eight-Tails.
Key feats	Fought Guy Might to a standstill multiple times. Defeated Killer Bee (Eight-Tails Jinchuriki) in direct combat by draining his chakra before he could complete a Tailed Beast form.

#4 Itachi Uchiha — S-Tier

Full ability reference at the Naruto Fandom — Itachi Uchiha.

Attribute	Detail
Tsukuyomi	Itachi’s Mangekyo ability: traps the target in a mental dimension where he controls the passage of time. Subjects them to decades of psychological torture in seconds.
Amaterasu	Black flames that burn anything they touch and don’t extinguish until the target is consumed. Cannot be doused.
Susanoo — equipped form	Totsuka Blade: seals anything it pierces in an eternal illusion. Yata Mirror: reflects any elemental attack regardless of nature. A Susanoo carrying both is theoretically impervious.
The health factor	Itachi was dying from a terminal illness for the entirety of his active period as an Akatsuki member. At full health, the ranking would be debated. Even dying, he held his own against Sasuke and was fully capable of killing him at any point.
Why not ranked higher	Limited chakra reserves due to illness. In a prolonged attrition battle against Nagato or Obito, he would exhaust his Mangekyo before they exhaust theirs.

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#3 Nagato / Pain — S-Tier

Nagato’s full ability documentation at the Naruto Fandom — Pain.

Path	Ability
Deva Path	Gravity manipulation. Shinra Tensei (massive repulsion) and Bansho Ten’in (massive attraction). Chibaku Tensei: creates a miniature moon from gravity compression.
Asura Path	Cybernetic body augmentation. Launches missiles, deploys mechanical arms, generates laser blasts.
Human Path	Soul extraction: instantly kills the target and reads their mind. One touch.
Animal Path	Summons multiple giant creatures simultaneously.
Hungry Ghost Path	Absorbs all ninjutsu and chakra. Makes standard jutsu useless.
Naraka Path	Summons the King of Hell, which can repair any of the six bodies — and execute people through interrogation.
Key feat	Destroyed the entire Hidden Leaf Village — a village with Kage-level defensive infrastructure — in a single Shinra Tensei blast. Fought Naruto in Sage Mode, Six-Tails form, and Eight-Tails form before being stopped.

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#2 Obito Uchiha — S-Tier

Attribute	Detail
Kamui	Dimensional warping through his Mangekyo Sharingan. His body phases through physical attacks by warping into another dimension. He can also teleport objects and people into that dimension instantly.
Rinnegan (Madara’s)	Obito obtained one of Madara’s Rinnegan after Nagato’s death. Used it to control the Ten-Tails and reconstruct the Six Paths of Jinchuriki.
Ten-Tails Jinchuriki	At peak, Obito housed the Ten-Tails itself. This state grants regeneration that outpaces almost any damage output, truth-seeking balls, and offensive power on par with a divine being.
Why not #1	Madara is ranked above him because Madara’s Ten-Tails mastery was more complete, and Madara’s combat experience and power ceiling as an individual (before the Ten-Tails) surpassed Obito’s.

#1 Madara Uchiha — God-Tier

Attribute	Detail
Perfect Susanoo	A complete chakra avatar the size of a small mountain. Uses the same weapons as Itachi’s Susanoo but without any health cost to Madara due to his Hashirama-enhanced life force.
Rinnegan	Madara’s own Rinnegan, not obtained. Gives him the Six Paths powers including Chibaku Tensei, chakra absorption, and visual information sharing.
Hashirama’s cells	Madara grafted Hashirama’s cells onto himself after the Valley of the End. This gave him effectively unlimited stamina and regeneration.
Ten-Tails Jinchuriki	At his peak, Madara absorbed the Ten-Tails and achieved the form of the Sage of Six Paths. Infinite Tsukuyomi was his ultimate tool — a planetary-scale genjutsu.
Historical feats	Fought the First Hokage — the most powerful shinobi of his generation — to a draw repeatedly. The only shinobi who required divine intervention (Kaguya) to ultimately stop.

Final Power Tier Classification

Tier	Members	Why they belong here
God-Tier	Madara	Operates above the rules of the verse. Perfect Susanoo + Rinnegan + Hashirama healing + Ten-Tails. Required divine-level beings to stop.
S-Tier	Obito, Nagato, Itachi	Each can single-handedly destroy a village or end any individual fight. Nagato’s six-body Rinnegan system and Itachi’s Totsuka/Yata Susanoo both make them theoretically unbeatable in their optimal state.
A-Tier	Kisame, Kakuzu, Sasori	Kage-level and above. Each capable of defeating most jonin or kage in a 1v1. Their ceilings are lower than S-tier because they lack a “win button” that bypasses conventional combat logic.
B-Tier	Deidara, Hidan, Konan	High jonin to Kage threat level. Each has a specific kill condition that makes them dangerous against anyone without the right counter. Their limitations are matchup-dependent.
C-Tier	Zetsu	Exceptional utility and intelligence value. Zero direct combat output at a level matching any other member.

Conclusion

The Akatsuki power hierarchy shows one clear pattern: the more an ability bypasses conventional combat logic, the higher it ranks. Genjutsu that ends fights on eye contact. Immortality with no physical counter. An intangible body. A planetary genjutsu.

Strategy matters in Naruto, but the top four members of this list hold abilities that defeat strategy itself. Nagato destroyed a village before anyone could mount a defense. Itachi’s Susanoo carries a sealing blade that neutralizes any opponent it touches. Obito phases through everything physical. Madara simply doesn’t stop.

FAQs

Who is the most powerful member of the Akatsuki?

Madara Uchiha is the most powerful Akatsuki member by a clear margin. His power set is built on multiple overlapping advantages: the Perfect Susanoo (which Itachi’s Susanoo matches in theory but couldn’t sustain due to illness), his own Rinnegan, Hashirama’s cellular grafts giving him effectively unlimited stamina, and eventual Ten-Tails jinchuriki status.

What are the abilities of the weakest Akatsuki member?

Zetsu is split into two entities — White Zetsu and Black Zetsu — and neither is a direct combat threat at the level of the other members. White Zetsu can duplicate itself into mass clones, absorb chakra at a basic level, and merge with the ground for reconnaissance. These are useful support abilities, not combat tools.

Why is Itachi Uchiha ranked so high?

Itachi holds a nearly unbeatable combat kit in optimal conditions. His Mangekyo Sharingan gives him Tsukuyomi (a mental prison where he controls time), Amaterasu (black flames that don’t extinguish), and a Susanoo equipped with two unique weapons: the Totsuka Blade, which seals anything it touches in an eternal illusion, and the Yata Mirror, which reflects every elemental attack.

What is Pain’s true strength in the Akatsuki?

Pain’s combat capability comes from distributing a single Rinnegan across six different bodies, each assigned a distinct ability from the Six Paths. The division of labor is the key: the Hungry Ghost Path absorbs all ninjutsu, making standard jutsu useless. The Human Path extracts souls on contact. The Deva Path manipulates gravity at a scale that can level infrastructure.

Who can defeat Akatsuki members in a 1v1?

For the top tier, only a small group of characters in the series can reliably compete. Hashirama Senju (First Hokage) is the only shinobi canonically equal to Madara before Madara’s power-ups. Minato Namikaze (Fourth Hokage) is fast enough to exploit Obito’s Kamui timing window. End-of-series Naruto and Sasuke can defeat both Obito and Nagato.

Why are Hidan and Kakuzu considered middle-tier?

Hidan’s immortality is genuine — he cannot be killed through any conventional method. But his ability only activates after a blood ritual, and he lacks the speed, chakra reserves, or versatile ninjutsu to force that ritual against top-tier opponents.

Shikamaru defeated him using shadow-based area control and eventual burial. His rank reflects the gap between a powerful gimmick and a rounded combat system.

What makes Kisame’s sword Samehada special?

Samehada is not a conventional weapon. It is alive — a sentient shark-like sword that actively absorbs chakra from anything it contacts. This means it doesn’t just cut opponents: it drains their ability to use jutsu, progressively reducing their combat capacity with every strike while simultaneously healing Kisame.

When Kisame fully merges with Samehada, he takes a hybrid shark form with dramatically increased speed and can create a massive sealed dome of water — Water Prison Shark Dance — that effectively removes terrain advantages and prevents escape. Inside that dome, Kisame’s aquatic speed is at its peak and the opponent’s chakra is continuously absorbed. He defeated Killer Bee using this exact combination.

What is Madara’s true power?

Madara’s baseline individual power — before the Rinnegan, before the Ten-Tails — is already in a different category from other members. His Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan grants the Perfect Susanoo: a full-body chakra avatar with offensive and defensive capabilities that his Perfect Susanoo makes him arguably equal to a Tailed Beast in a direct exchange. His grafted Hashirama cells give him effectively unlimited stamina.

How does Obito compare to other Akatsuki members?

Obito outranks every member except Madara for one primary reason: Kamui makes him effectively impossible to hit. Physical attacks and most ninjutsu phase through his body when he activates the technique.

The few methods that work — Kakashi’s matching Kamui frequency, Kaguya-level power, or locking his chakra — all require either another Kamui user or power tiers the other Akatsuki members don’t reach.

Who is the most underrated Akatsuki member?

Konan is consistently underestimated. She is usually presented as Nagato’s support partner, which obscures the fact that she independently constructed a technique that nearly killed Obito Uchiha — at the time one of the most powerful beings in the series. Six hundred billion explosive tags with a ten-minute sustained detonation window is an asymmetric kill plan that most shinobi could never survive at all.

Sources

Naruto Fandom — Akatsuki — Primary wiki documentation: organization history, membership, goals, and individual member pages. Ongoing updates.
Naruto Fandom — Pain (Nagato) — Six Paths of Pain ability breakdown and Rinnegan documentation.
Naruto Fandom — Itachi Uchiha — Mangekyo Sharingan ability documentation including Totsuka Blade and Yata Mirror details.
Naruto Fandom — Madara Uchiha — Full power documentation including Perfect Susanoo, Rinnegan, and Ten-Tails Jinchuriki state.
Naruto Fandom — Byakugan — Ancillary reference for dojutsu comparisons across Akatsuki Sharingan users.
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