The 20 Strongest Dragon Ball Characters in 2025

The Dragon Ball universe is a true spectacle of evolution, where the quest for power goes beyond the limits of the mortal and the divine. From Goku’s early days breaking rocks with his bare hands to warriors capable of challenging gods and annihilating universes, the escalation of power in the series is exponential and fascinating. In this article, we’ll dive deep into this hierarchy of strength, exploring the transformations, unique abilities and “hacks” that define Dragon Ball’s strongest characters in the current era – including the recent and devastating entries of Black Frieza and Gohan Beast. If you’re a fan of the series or are curious to understand who really rules the roost in the multiverse, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s get started on this cosmic journey!

The 20 Strongest Dragon Ball Characters in 2025

The Dragon Ball universe is a constantly evolving spectacle of power, where the limits of what is possible are challenged and broken with every saga. What began with Goku breaking rocks as a child has escalated to cosmic battles that decide the fate of entire universes. Creating a definitive list of the strongest is a challenge, as the scale of power is exponential.

This ranking takes into account not only raw power, but also unique abilities (hacks), arsenals, weaknesses and the current context of the canon, including more recent transformations such as Black Frieza and Gohan Beast. We go from 20th place to the absolute pinnacle of existence.

20. Piccolo (Awakened Potential / Orange Form)

Power: Piccolo finally received the evolution he deserved. With his potential unlocked by Shen Long and subsequently reaching his Orange Form, he has entered the power bracket of Goku and Vegeta. His raw power now rivals the Super Saiyan Blue form. Combined with his classic ability to regenerate and his strategic intellect, Piccolo has become a defensive and offensive fortress.
Hacks & Skills: Regeneration, limb lengthening and techniques like the Makankosappo (Special Beam Cannon) amplified.
Weakness: The Orange Form is still new. Its total combat limit and energy cost are still unknown, making it a somewhat unpredictable factor.

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19. Hit

Power: The legendary assassin from Universe 6 doesn’t rely on Ki explosions. His strength lies in a unique ability: the Tokitobashi, a leap in time. He can jump fractions of a second, becoming virtually untouchable and allowing him to hit vital points with absolute precision. His rate of evolution in combat is terrifying.
Hacks & Skills: Time jump (Tokitobashi), attacks on vital points that ignore durability, and creation of pocket dimensions.
Weakness: His temporal technique can be overcome by pure raw power or speed that transcends time, as Jiren has shown. His “hack” has a clear limit against divine-level opponents.

18. Top (God of Destruction Mode)

Power: Leader of the Pride Troop and candidate for God of Destruction, Topo was already a formidable fighter. However, when he unleashes his true power, he gains access to Hakai energy. In this state, an aura of pure destruction surrounds him, erasing from existence anything it touches, be it matter or energy.
Hacks & Abilities: Hakai energy, great stamina and massive offensive power.
Weakness: His control over the Hakai is rudimentary compared to Bills. It’s a destructive and uncontrollable aura, not refined control. This fury causes him to lose his strategic composure, making him predictable.

17. Kefla

Power: The Potara fusion between the two Saiyan prodigies of Universe 6, Caulifla and Kale. Kefla is a perfect storm of power, combining Caulifla’s instinctive fighting talent with Kale’s legendary and seemingly infinite power in his Legendary Super Saiyan form. Her Ki was so vast and wild that it forced Goku to awaken his Superior Instinct.
Hacks & Skills: Access to a colossal and growing Ki reservoir, devastating melee combat and overwhelming energy bursts.
Weakness: The arrogance typical of Saiyans is amplified in fusion. In addition, Kale’s power is inherently unstable, and Potara fusion for mortals drains energy very quickly under such pressure, limiting his time.

16. Gamma 1 & Gamma 2

Power: State-of-the-art androids created by Dr. Hedo for the Red Ribbon. Both Gamma Androids possess power that rivals that of Gohan and Piccolo in their peak states (before their new transformations). They are incredibly fast, strong and have highly efficient energy shields.
Hacks & Skills: Supersonic flight, high-impact energy cannons and defensive shields.
Weakness: Their heroic and naive nature can be exploited. Although strong, they lack combat experience against divine-level warriors and their transformations.

15. Merged Zamasu

Power: The Potara fusion between Goku Black and Zamasu from the future created what, in theory, would be the perfect deity. This entity possessed the absolute immortality of Zamasu combined with the Saiyan body and infinite growth potential of Goku Black. Its power was so colossal that it began to merge with the very fabric of the universe, corrupting all of reality. He could create Ki blades and regenerate instantly from any injuries.
Hacks & Abilities: True immortality, regeneration, growth of power in battle, creation of Ki weapons and corruption of reality.
Weakness: The fusion between an immortal Kaioshim and a mortal Saiyan body created an unstable and paradoxical existence. This internal instability, his divine arrogance and the corruption of his very essence were exploited by Vegito and ultimately led to his defeat at the hands of Zen’o.

14. Cell Max

Power: A giant, crude and incomplete version of the original Cell, created by Red Ribbon to be the ultimate weapon. Cell Max is raw power personified. Even in his unfinished state, his physical strength was so absurd that neither Gohan in his “Ultimate” state nor Orange Piccolo were able to cause significant damage initially. He is an irrational monster of mass destruction.
Hacks & Abilities: Incredible physical strength, devastating Ki blasts and extreme durability.
Weakness: His biggest flaw is that he is incomplete. He doesn’t have the tactical intelligence, refined techniques or calculating arrogance of the original Cell. He is a wild animal driven by pure instinct, with a critical weakness in his head which, once exploited, led to his downfall.

13. Granolah

Power: The last survivor of the Cerealian race, Granolah used his planet’s Dragon Spheres to become the strongest warrior in Universe 7. His “hack” is twofold: his sharpshooting skills, allowing him to hit vital points from any distance, and his Evolved Right Eye, which grants him a perception and precision that rivals Superior Instinct. He was fast and powerful enough to overcome Goku and defeat Vegeta.
Hacks & Skills: Right Eye (superhuman vision and precision), sniper techniques with Ki and extreme speed.
Weakness: His power was bought, not earned. The desire for the Dragon Spheres drastically reduced his remaining lifespan. His body was not used to such power, causing severe energy (stamina) drain during prolonged battles.

12. Gas (Released)

Power: After Granolah became the strongest, the head of the Heeters family, Elec, used the Dragon Spheres to wish Gas to become the strongest warrior. The result was frightening. Gas gained primordial control over energy, being able to create any weapon out of thin air and trap his opponents in force fields. In his “aged” and unleashed form, he surpassed Granolah, Goku and Vegeta simultaneously, demonstrating sheer savagery and power.
Hacks & Skills: Creation and materialization of weapons, instant teleportation, manipulation of energy to trap opponents.
Weakness: Like Granolah, his power came at a terrible cost. Desire burned away his life force at an alarming rate, making him age decades in minutes and destroying his mental sanity in the process. He was the strongest, but he was dying every second of the battle.

11. Moro (After Absorbing Merus)

Power: An ancient mage known as the “Devourer of Planets”, Moro possesses one of Dragon Ball’s most terrifying hacks: the absorption of life energy. He can drain the energy from entire planets and from any opponent, rendering Ki-based transformations practically useless. His peak was reached when he absorbed Merus, an assistant Angel, gaining not only immense power, but also reality manipulation abilities similar to Higher Instinct.
Hacks & Skills: Life energy absorption, magic, terrain manipulation and, after absorbing Merus, angelic abilities.
Weakness: His own greed was his undoing. His mortal body was not made to contain the power of an Angel, leading to an unstable fusion with the Earth. This instability created an opening for Goku, channeling the power of all the Saiyajins, to destroy him.

10. Broly (DBS) – The Living Legend

Power: Broly is the very definition of an anomaly. Like the true Legendary Super Saiyan, his power is not only immense, but infinitely growing. His most terrifying characteristic is his ability to adapt and evolve in battle, which seems to have no ceiling. He went from a lower level than Vegeta (Base) to surpassing Goku and Vegeta in Super Saiyan Blue in less than an hour of combat. His “Berserker” form unleashes such overwhelming power that it forced him to fuse with Gogeta in order to be contained.
Hacks & Abilities: Infinite growth power during battle, uncanny physical strength, extreme endurance and the Legend’s massive Ki.
Weakness: The mind. Broly has no conscious control over his power in his Berserker state. He is an uncontrolled force of nature, with no strategy or discernment between friend and foe, making him unpredictable and dangerous even to his allies.

9. Jiren – The Mortal Who Defies the Gods

Power: Jiren is the antithesis of Broly. His power is not the gift of legend, but the result of discipline, absolute training and an unshakeable will. His strength is so immense that he can meditate in the eye of the hurricane of a battle, completely ignoring powerful attacks. He broke Hit’s time jump technique with a single glance and was the first opponent to resist and overcome Goku’s initial Superior Instinct. He has no tricks; he is pure, overwhelming strength.
Hacks & Abilities: Incalculable Ki power, absolute mental resistance, vision that can perceive space-time techniques.
Weakness: His psychology. His philosophy that “strength is everything” made him arrogant and lonely. When his self-confidence was shaken by the cooperation and perseverance of his opponents, his power faltered, proving that even his invincible strength had an emotional fragility.

8. Vegeta (Ultra Ego)

Power: The divine and offensive counterpart of the Higher Instinct. Ultra Ego is the manifestation of the power of a God of Destruction adapted by a Saiyan. Unlike Goku, who avoids damage, Vegeta absorbs damage and converts it into power. The more he indulges his thirst for battle and the more he is wounded, the stronger and more powerful he becomes. It’s a form that feeds off the very destruction it causes and receives.
Hacks & Skills: Conversion of damage into power, continuous increase in strength during battle, access to Hakai techniques.
Weakness: The principle is also your risk. There is a physical limit to how much your mortal body can take. A sufficiently massive and rapid attack could disintegrate him before he has time to convert the damage into a significant increase in power.

7. Goku (True Ultra Instinct)

Power: The pinnacle of the Angels’ technique, finally mastered and adapted by a mortal. True Higher Instinct is the evolution of the “Master” state (silver hair). Goku has managed to integrate his Saiyan emotions into the technique, allowing him to use his warrior fury while his body remains in a state of automatic evasion and attack. It’s the perfect balance between his Saiyan nature and divine power, making him stronger and more efficient than ever.
Hacks & Skills: Perfect automatic movement (evasion and attacks), combination of emotions with the divine technique, access to your entire arsenal with maximum efficiency.
Weakness: It’s still a divine technique in a mortal body. The energy drain (stamina) remains massive, and he can be overcome by raw power that is simply too fast or too strong to be totally nullified, as seen in his fight against Black Frieza.

6. Gogeta & Vegito (Blue)

Power: The pinnacle of mortal power achievable through fusion. Whether through Dance Fusion (Gogeta) or Potara Earrings (Vegito), the result is the same: an exponential multiplication of Goku and Vegeta’s power. Gogeta Blue completely dominated the Legendary Broly, while Vegito Blue humiliated the immortal being Merged Zamasu. They possess the combined arsenal of both, resulting in devastating techniques such as the Final Kamehameha. They are the ultimate solution to god-level problems.
Hacks & Skills: Exponential fusion power, combined arsenal of techniques, superior combat intellect.
Weakness: Time. The Dance Fusion has a fixed duration of 30 minutes, and the Potara fusion, which should be permanent for mortals, is drastically reduced due to the immense energy expenditure of the divine forms, falling apart in a few minutes.

5. Black Frieza – The Perfect Tyranny

Power: The most terrifying and recent evolution in the universe. After the Tournament of Power, Freeza did the unthinkable: he trained seriously for ten years in a Hyper-Temporal Chamber. The result was the acquisition of his final form, Black Frieza. His power is so incomprehensible that he defeated Goku (True Higher Instinct) and Vegeta (Ultra Ego) with a single blow each, simultaneously, without showing any effort. He is currently the strongest mortal in Universe 7, setting a new level that the protagonists have yet to reach.
Hacks & Abilities: Absolute raw power that transcends the most advanced divine techniques, immeasurable speed and the iconic durability of his race, now amplified to cosmic levels.
Weakness: Still unknown in terms of combat ability, but Freeza’s legendary arrogance remains. His overconfidence and tendency to underestimate his opponents may be, as they always have been, his blind spot.

4. Bills (Beerus) – The Original God of Destruction

Power: Throughout the Dragon Ball Super saga, Bills has served as the ultimate paragon of power. He is the embodiment of authority and divine power in its purest state. A master of Superior Instinct (although he doesn’t master it perfectly like an Angel), his main power is Hakai. Unlike Topo, Bills can erase anything from existence – from people to ghosts – with the slightest gesture, without the need for a constant destructive aura. His combat experience spans millions of years.
Hacks & Abilities: Complete and controlled Hakai, partial mastery of Higher Instinct, divine speed and durability.
Weakness: His laziness is notorious, and he has a symbiotic vital link with his Kaioshin. If the Great Kaio of the East dies, Bills will also be eliminated, a unique vulnerability among the gods.

3. Whis – The Guardian Angel

Power: If Bills is an insurmountable wall, Whis is the whole mountain. As the Angel and guide of the God of Destruction of the Seventh Universe, he is the teacher of Bills, Goku and Vegeta. Whis possesses the “Autonomous Superior Instinct”, a perfect, always-on version of the technique, making him effectively untouchable in battle. He is capable of knocking out Bills with a simple touch to the neck. His most impressive ability is to rewind time by up to 3 minutes, reversing universal catastrophes.
Hacks & Skills: Autonomous Higher Instinct (perfect), temporal manipulation, instant interstellar teleportation, creation of pocket dimensions.
Weakness: His only major limitation is the Angelic Laws. He is forbidden to interfere directly in mortal affairs or take sides in conflicts, acting strictly as a neutral guide. If he violates these rules, he will be erased from existence.

2. Great Priest – The Father of All Angels

Power: The Great Priest occupies a position of power so high that the strength of his children (the Angels) pales into insignificance in comparison. He is the embodiment of the concept of untouchability. Whis openly states that his power is nothing like that of his father. The Great Priest is considered the strongest being in terms of combat in the entire multiverse, capable of paralyzing all the Gods of Destruction simultaneously with a mere thought.
Hacks & Abilities: Absolute power that overshadows all Angels, cosmic paralysis, teleportation of entire universes.
Weakness: Like all angels, he is a servant, not a master. His will is subordinate to Zen’o, limiting his direct actions. His nature is that of a cosmic administrator, not an active warrior.

1. Zen’o – The King of Everything

Power: At the absolute pinnacle of power lies Zen’o. He is not a fighter; he has no Ki techniques or martial arts. Zen’o is a force of cosmic nature, an entity whose power is a conceptual hack of reality. With a simple thought or raise of the hand, he can erase anything from existence. It doesn’t matter if it’s a person, a God of Destruction, an Angel or an entire universe – everything instantly ceases to exist. He demonstrated this power by eliminating six universes during the Tournament of Power without the slightest effort.
Hacks & Abilities: Universal and absolute erasure, total invulnerability, existence beyond-concept.
Weakness: His only vulnerability is his childish mind. Zen’o is naive, capricious and doesn’t understand the consequences of his actions, which makes him the most unpredictable and terrifying force in all of creation. His will, however random, is the final law.

Final Conclusion:
This list traces the epic journey of power in Dragon Ball, from planetary warriors to the entities that rule reality itself. What makes the series fascinating is that, even with Zen’o at the top, the quest for power by mortals like Goku, Vegeta and Freeza continues, always challenging the impossible and redefining what it means to be “strong”.