Outsmarting Tiering System

The tiering system is used to scale a character's capabilities to manipulate another one.

## Tier 10 - True puppet

Characters in this tier have no mind, no willpower and nothing even vaguely similar. They are simply puppets, obeying the orders without thinking no matter how bad those are for themselves and their eventual close ones, like robots.

Example: Pacifistas (One Piece)

## Tier 9 - Pawn

Characters who are naive and/or stupid to the point they’re easily manipulated, fooled and/or aren’t able to see or deduct obvious things. Those characters are with no doubt the peak of incompetence.

Example: Goku (Dragon Ball Super)

## Tier 8 - Side Syndrom Bearer

Characters that have what can be named as the “side syndrom”. Their Full Scale IQ and real time intelligence in most situations is similar to the average person. But, sometimes, for plot reasons or not, they suddenly reach a much higher level of incompetence.

Example: Goku (Dragon Ball Z)

## Tier 7 - Average person

Characters that have the intelligence of a normal person, able to see or deduct obvious things and thinking rationally and logically up to a certain point. They are not particularly stupid in any way but not particularly smart either.

Example: Kratos (God of War)

## Tier 6 - Skilled One

Characters that have the intelligence of a normal person most of the time, able to see or deduct obvious things and thinking rationally and logically up to a certain point. However, in some rare situations, they show superior cognitive abilities in the domain of manipulation, deduction, fooling and/or reasoning that surpass what a normal person can achieve. This tier can also be achieved by a person with great social abilities and/or a solid mind.

Example: Sans (Undertale)

## Tier 5 - Prodige

Characters that passed the barrier separating the normal persons and the ''smart'' ones. They almost constantly shows good answers to the problems they're confronted with, be it in manipulation, deduction, planning, fooling and/or reasoning. This tier can be achieved either with a small amount of consequent achievements in the pre-mentioned domains or constant small ones.

Example: Miyabi Nagumo (Classroom of the Elite)

## Tier 4 - Genius

Characters that simply proved being completely above the rest. Be it by achieving multiple great feats in the various domains mentioned in the previous tiers, or by constantly achieving numerous smaller feats and proving their ability during numerous chapters each time they had the chance and on a relatively long period of multiple chapters, those characters proved being polyvalent and skilled enough to reach this tier.

Example: Nakayama (Coded Law, Volume 2) (high 4)

## Tier 3 - Maestro

Characters who have both multiple great feats and constant smaller ones they achieve on a relatively long period of multiple chapters. These characters fundamentally have close to no flaws at all, and are generally as skilled on their own as multiple genius tier characters who team up.

Exemple:

Ayanokoji Kiyotaka (Classroom of the Elite) (Low 3)

Nori Kibe (Coded Law) (High 3)

## Tier 2 - King

Characters that achieved great or even near-impossible feats in almost every possible domain repeatedly. Those characters are able to plan and scheme on a level where anybody below wouldn’t even comprehend their reasoning process as it surpasses their comprehension.

Example: Baku Madarame (Usogui) (High 2)

## Tier 1 - Deity of Mind

Characters who have achieved mental supremacy, the godhood of the mind. In a fair situation, their defeat is simply impossible against anybody that isn’t also a deity of mind and even then, the confrontation might be the most intense ever conceived and might ends with a pure streak of luck, as the two deities of mind will both make the perfect move each time. Such characters are so rare they can be counted on the fingers of a hand.

Examples:

* Gu Yue Fang Yuan (Reverend Insanity) (High 1)
* Batman (DC comics) (High 1)

## Notes

#### Note 1

Inherent flaws that are part of a character’s personality and concern only certain particular situations such as Sanji’s attitude toward women won’t lower the scaling of a character and won’t be counted in any way.

#### Note 2

This kind of tiering system is based on subjective interpretation, even if a character fits the description of a certain tier, he might be one tier higher or lower depending on the circumstances.

#### Note 3

This tiering is based on pure FSIQ, manipulation and such, not on pure intelligence.

#### Note 4

Characteristics such as omnipotence obviously aren’t taken into account as the comparison between characters as it is meant to compare characters in a fair way.

#### Note 5

Even if omnipotence, knowledge-related abilities, mind-control and similar capacities aren’t counted, capacities that realistically enhance the capacities of a character are authorized.

Example: in “Lord Of The Mysteries”, the Conspirator potion enhances the plotting abilities and the Seer potion enhance memory, those two effects are still counted in the tiering.

#### Note 6

Even in the same tier, disparities can exist.