This is our jujutsu kaisen strongest characters ranked 20-11 breakdown, counting down the sorcerers and cursed spirits whose strength is easy to underrate on a first read.

Jujutsu Kaisen, written by Gege Akutami, is one of those series where the appeal starts before you even get to the fights: the cast is stylish, characters look cool, feel cool, and carry themselves in a way that makes them easy to get attached to, and the series backs that up with a sense of humor that’s actually funny rather than just filler. That mix of sharp visual design and comedic timing is a big part of why this manga hooks people in the first place.

It ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from 2018 to 2024, closing out its story across 30 collected volumes and 271 chapters. Ranking a cast this deep is genuinely difficult, since some characters are strong because of pure sorcery output, some because of raw physical ability, and some almost entirely because they’ve unlocked a Domain Expansion, which changes the math of a fight regardless of how strong the user is outside of it. This half of the ranking, #20 through #11, is where that difficulty shows the most: these are characters whose strength is easy to underrate on a first read, either because they die before getting a full showcase, or because their techniques look unassuming next to Domain Expansions and cursed speech. Part 2 will pick up with #10 through #1, including the case for Sukuna over Gojo at the top of the list.

As a reminder, this ranking sticks to the main Jujutsu Kaisen series and leaves out the Modulo sequel cast, since those characters haven’t had the same chance to prove themselves in-story yet.

20 — Choso

Choso spends his early appearances as a Death Painting Womb serving Kenjaku’s agenda, which makes his later turn toward genuinely caring about Yuji land harder than it has any right to. His blood manipulation technique is deceptively flexible, letting him shape his own blood into blades, projectiles, and defensive barriers depending on the situation. He’s not the flashiest fighter on this list, but his consistency in a straight fight, and the way he keeps showing up for people even after his brothers are gone, earns him the closing spot here.

19 — Uraume

Uraume doesn’t get a ton of screen time, but everything they do on-page makes clear why Sukuna trusts them with his own vessel. Their ice-based technique is precise and merciless, and their unwavering loyalty to Sukuna across a thousand years says something about how dangerous they must have been even before the story starts. Uraume is a good example of a character whose strength is communicated more through reputation and composure than through a single big fight.

18 — Ryu Ishigori

Ishigori is one of the culling game’s more physically intimidating players, built around raw strength rather than a complicated technique. What makes him dangerous isn’t subtlety, it’s the sheer force he can bring to bear in a straight confrontation, which is exactly the kind of threat that catches sorcerers off guard if they’re expecting something more cerebral. He’s a reminder that the culling game arc stacked the deck with genuinely strong non-sorcerer combatants, not just curses.

17 — Miguel

Miguel’s technique lets him inflict status effects through touch, which sounds simple until you watch him use it to systematically dismantle an opponent’s ability to fight back before the real damage even starts. As the head of a Q-rank organization operating outside Japan’s jurisdiction, he represents a side of the Jujutsu Kaisen world that the story only shows in glimpses, and his fight scenes make a strong case that Japan doesn’t have a monopoly on high-level sorcery.

16 — Kashimo

Kashimo is a relic from the Edo era brought back through the culling game, and everything about his Electric Divergence Sword technique is built to punish anyone who blinks. He converts his own attacks into pure speed and lightning damage, and his single-minded obsession with fighting someone stronger than himself gives him a clarity of purpose that a lot of modern sorcerers lack. His duel with Hakari is one of the culling game’s best pure showcases of raw technical skill.

15 — Kinji Hakari

Hakari’s Private Pure Love Train technique is one of the most creative in the series, giving him access to a resource system built around risk and reward that rewards aggressive, high-stakes play. His personality, brash and overconfident, matches the technique perfectly, since both are built on the idea that going all-in is worth it if you’re skilled enough to back it up. He spends a lot of the culling game arc benched by circumstance, but every time he’s actually in a fight, he backs up the confidence.

14 — Jogo

Jogo is one of the more thoughtful curses in the series, someone who genuinely believes curses deserve to exist and fights with that conviction rather than pure malice. His fire-based technique gives him enormous offensive range, letting him level entire city blocks and back sorcerers into a corner with sheer destructive output. The fight against Nanami and Nobara in Shibuya remains one of the clearest showcases of how dangerous Jogo’s raw firepower really is, even before he links up with Sukuna.

13 — Takaba

Takaba is one of the strangest entries on this list by design, a sorcerer whose reverse cursed technique lets him warp reality based on what people find funny. It sounds like a joke, and Takaba plays it like one, but the actual application, rewriting the rules of engagement around comedic absurdity, makes him nearly impossible to prepare for. He’s proof that Akutami was still inventing genuinely novel power concepts deep into the back half of the series.

12 — Naoya Zenin (Cursed Spirit)

Naoya was already dangerous as a living sorcerer thanks to his Projection Sorcery, which let him copy any physical technique he witnessed. His return as a cursed spirit in the culling game raises the stakes further, since death removed whatever restraint he had left while keeping the technique intact. He’s one of the more purely hateable characters in the series, which makes it easier to appreciate his fights as spectacle without rooting for him.

11 — Suguru Geto

Geto’s Cursed Spirit Manipulation technique means his strength is really the strength of everything he’s ever absorbed, which by the time of the main story is an enormous and varied arsenal. His backstory as Gojo’s former best friend, and the ideological break that turned him into one of the story’s central antagonists, gives his fights a weight that goes beyond raw power scaling. Even accounting for the twist involving his body later in the series, his combat record on its own merits the highest spot in this half of the ranking.

That closes out our Top 20. Sukuna at #1 and Gojo at #2 will probably be the two placements people argue about most, but if there’s one thing four different ranking sources agreed on, it’s that “strongest in Jujutsu Kaisen” was never going to have a clean, uncontested answer, and that’s part of what made the series worth ranking in the first place.

Final Verdict: Jujutsu Kaisen Strongest Characters Ranked 20-11

That’s our jujutsu kaisen strongest characters ranked 20-11 — Choso, Uraume, Geto, and the rest of the cast whose strength gets overshadowed by Domain Expansions. Part 2 (#10–1) is coming soon, where we make the case for Sukuna over Gojo at the top. In the meantime, if you’re into character power rankings, check out our [One Piece strongest characters series →]