Tiering System

## Introduction

The following is a comprehensive overview of the hierarchical system which this wiki utilizes in order to properly categorize and index fictional characters, entities, and objects based on the scale of their feats, and the varying scopes which they can affect or create/destroy. However, it should always be kept in mind that, although Destructive Capacity and Area of Effect are some of the most primary ways to qualify for a particular tier, they are not the only ones. For instance, harming a character with a certain level of Durability also allows another character to qualify for the corresponding tier.

Furthermore, it should be noted that characters from a higher tier are not necessarily invincible to entities of lower tiers, as certain powers and abilities can potentially bypass the difference in strength entirely, allowing the latter to contend with, or overpower such characters. See this page for more information.

It is also important to know that the difference between the lowest and highest bounds of a given tier is extremely variable and can be absolutely massive in scale. Hence, being far stronger than a character that belongs to a certain tier does not necessarily qualify one for a higher rating.

For general questions regarding the Tiering System's upper levels, it is advisable to read this page and this forum post as well.

## The Scale

### Tier 11: Infinitesimal

No joule value available. This tier pertains to characters or objects that can create/destroy or affect the whole structure of a lower-dimensional universe, or lower layers/levels of reality. Please note that existing as a drawing or being made of data/information is not to be ranked at this tier, as such beings are still 3-dimensional, but on an incredibly small scale.

This tier is broken into the following sub-tiers:

#### 11-C: Low Hypoverse level

Characters or objects that demonstrate power equivalent to destroying/creating a 0-D level construct of any size, or three levels of infinity/degrees of reality/fiction transcendence or similar beneath a 3-D reality. This tier also includes characters who are vastly below this level, and all characters beneath this tier’s requirements in any significant way will still be at this tier.

#### 11-B: Hypoverse level

Characters or objects that demonstrate power equivalent to destroying/creating an existentially inferior 1-D level construct of any size, or two levels of infinity/degrees of reality/fiction transcendence or similar beneath a 3-D reality.

#### 11-A: High Hypoverse level

Characters or objects that demonstrate power equivalent to destroying/creating existentially inferior 2-D level constructs of any size, or 1 level of infinity/degree of reality/fiction transcendence or similar beneath a 3-D reality.

### Tier 10: Human

#### 10-C: Below Average Human level

Characters or objects capable of exerting force comparable to humans who are below the average norm in terms of strength, such as small children or infirm people, as well as smaller animals such as cats and dogs.

#### 10-B: Human level

Characters or objects capable of exerting force comparable to that of regular humans, such as teenagers or unathletic adults.

#### 10-A: Athlete level

Characters or objects capable of exerting force comparable to that of more athletic humans, such as trained fighters or generally physically fit individuals.

### Tier 9: Superhuman

#### 9-C: Street level

Characters or objects that stand at the threshold of human strength and capabilities, represented by Olympic level athletes or rigorously trained martial artists, as well as larger animals.

It is important to note that, despite being named "Street level", this tier has nothing to do with actually affecting an entire street, with the name being more of a reference to street fighters as portrayed in martial arts movies and the like.

#### 9-B: Wall level

Characters or objects that can destroy or significantly damage extremely resistant materials such as stone, metal or steel, as well as similarly resistant parts of constructions such as structural boulders and walls.

#### 9-A: Small Building level

Characters or objects capable of destroying rooms or entire small constructions such as houses or more modest buildings.

### Tier 8: Urban

#### 8-C: Building level

Characters or objects that can destroy medium-sized buildings and constructions, such as large factories or large complexes such as supermarkets.

#### High 8-C: Large Building level

Characters or objects that can destroy large buildings such as skyscrapers.

#### 8-B: City Block level

Characters or objects that can destroy urban city blocks or equivalent areas of space.

#### 8-A: Multi-City Block level

Characters or objects that can destroy multiple urban city blocks or equivalent areas of space.

### Tier 7: Nuclear

#### Low 7-C: Small Town level

Characters or objects that can destroy a small town or settlement, or those who can easily harm characters with small town level durability.

#### 7-C: Town level

Characters or objects that can destroy a town, or those who can easily harm characters with town level durability.

#### High 7-C: Large Town level

Characters or objects that can destroy a large town, or those who can easily harm characters with large town level durability.

#### Low 7-B: Small City level

Characters or objects that can destroy a small city, or those who can easily harm characters with small city level durability.

#### 7-B: City level

Characters or objects that can destroy a city, or those who can easily harm characters with city level durability.

#### 7-A: Mountain level

Characters or objects that can destroy a mountain, or those who can easily harm characters with mountain level durability.

#### High 7-A: Large Mountain level

Characters or objects that can destroy a large mountain, or those who can easily harm characters with large mountain level durability.

### Tier 6: Tectonic

#### 6-C: Island level

Characters or objects that can destroy an island, or those who can easily harm characters with island level durability.

#### High 6-C: Large Island level

Characters or objects that can destroy a large island, or those who can easily harm characters with large island level durability.

#### Low 6-B: Small Country level

Characters or objects that can destroy a small country, or those who can easily harm characters with small country level durability.

#### 6-B: Country level

Characters or objects that can destroy a country, or those who can easily harm characters with country level durability.

#### High 6-B: Large Country level

Characters or objects that can destroy a large country, or those who can easily harm characters with large country level durability.

#### 6-A: Continent level

Characters or objects that can destroy a continent or those who can easily harm characters with continent level durability.

#### High 6-A: Multi-Continent level

Characters or objects that can destroy multiple continents or those who can easily harm characters with multi-continent level durability.

### Tier 5: Planetary

#### 5-C: Moon level

Characters or objects that can destroy a moon, or an astrological object of similar proportion.

#### Low 5-B: Small Planet level

Characters or objects that can destroy a small planet or those who can easily harm characters with small planet level durability.

#### 5-B: Planet level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy a planet.

#### 5-A: Large Planet level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy large ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune.

#### High 5-A: Dwarf Star level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy very small stars.

### Tier 4: Stellar

#### Low 4-C: Small Star level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy small stars.

#### 4-C: Star level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy a star.

#### High 4-C: Large Star level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy a large star.

#### 4-B: Solar System level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy a solar system.

#### 4-A: Multi-Solar System level

Characters or objects that can create/destroy multiple solar systems.

### Tier 3: Cosmic

This tier is broken into the following sub-tiers:

#### 3-C: Galaxy level

Characters or objects capable of creating and/or destroying a galaxy, when the space between celestial bodies is taken into account, as opposed to merely the matter encompassed by them.

#### 3-B: Multi-Galaxy level

Characters or objects capable of creating and/or destroy multiple galaxies when the space between celestial objects is taken into account as well.

#### 3-A: Universe level

Characters or objects that can create or destroy all celestial bodies within a finite 3-D space at least equivalent in size to the observable universe via an omnidirectional explosion that covers the entire space, alternately create or significantly affect a 3-D universe or a pocket dimension of comparable size, which does not involve the destruction and/or creation of space-time.

#### High 3-A: High Universe level

Characters or objects that demonstrate an infinite amount of energy on a 3-D scale, such as creating or destroying infinite mass, or those who can affect an infinite 3-D space. This extends to an infinite number of finite or infinite-sized 3-D universes or pocket dimensions when not accounting for when not accounting for any higher dimensions or time. Large numbers of infinite 3-D universes, unless causally closed from one another by a separate spacetime or existence, only count for a higher level of this tier. Being “infinitely” stronger than this level, unless uncountably so, does not qualify for any higher tier.

### Tier 2: Multiversal

#### Low 2-C: Universe level+

Characters or objects that are capable of significantly affecting, creating, and/or destroying an area of space quantitatively larger than an infinitely-sized 3-dimensional space. Common fictional examples of spaces representing such sizes are space-time continuums (the entire past, present and future of 3-dimensional space) of a universal scale. However, it can be more generally fulfilled by any 4-dimensional space that is either:

**A)** Equivalent to a large extra dimensional space. That is, a higher-dimensional "bulk" space which embeds lower-dimensional ones (Such as our universe) as subsets of itself, whose dimensions are not microscopic / compactified.

**B)** Portrayed as completely transcending lower-dimensional objects and spaces in the setting of a given work of fiction.

#### 2-C: Low Multiverse level

Characters or objects that can significantly affect, create and/or destroy small multiverses which can be comprised of several separate space-time continuums ranging anywhere from two to a thousand, or equivalents.

#### 2-B: Multiverse level

Characters or objects that can significantly affect, create and/or destroy larger multiverses which comprise from 1001 to any higher finite amount of separate space-time continuums.

#### 2-A: Multiverse level+

Characters or objects that are capable of significantly affecting, creating and/or destroying a countably infinite number of separate space-time continuums.

### Tier 1: Extradimensional

Characters or objects that can significantly affect spaces of quantitatively greater sizes than ordinary universal models and spaces, usually represented in fiction by higher levels or states of existence (Or "levels of infinity", as referred below) which trivialize everything below them into insignificance, normally by perceiving them as akin to fictional constructs or something infinitesimal.

#### Low 1-C: Low Complex Multiverse level

Characters or objects that can universally affect, create and/or destroy spaces whose size corresponds to one to two higher levels of infinity greater than a standard universal model (**Low 2-C** structures, in plain English.) In terms of "dimensional" scale, this can be equated to 5 and 6-dimensional real coordinate spaces (R ^ 5 to R ^ 6)

#### 1-C: Complex Multiverse level

Characters or objects that can universally affect, create and/or destroy spaces whose size corresponds to three to five higher levels of infinity greater than a standard universal model. In terms of "dimensional" scale, this can be equated to 7 and 9-dimensional real coordinate spaces (R ^ 7 to R ^ 9)

#### High 1-C: High Complex Multiverse level

Characters or objects that can universally affect, create and/or destroy spaces whose size corresponds to six to seven higher levels of infinity greater than a standard universal model. In terms of "dimensional" scale, this can be equated to 10 and 11-dimensional real coordinate spaces (R ^ 10 to R ^ 11)

#### 1-B: Hyperverse level

Characters or objects that can universally affect, create and/or destroy spaces whose size corresponds from 8 to any higher finite number of levels of infinity above a standard universal model. In terms of "dimensional" size, this can be equated to 12-dimensional real coordinate spaces and up (R ^ 12 and up)

#### High 1-B: High Hyperverse level

Characters or objects that can universally affect, create and/or destroy structures whose size is equivalent to an infinite number of quantitative sizes above a universal model, usually represented in fiction by endless hierarchies of layers of existence, each succeeding one completely trivializing the previous into insignificance, or more generally a space with infinite dimensions.

Characters who reach into higher sets of infinity beyond the baseline Aleph-0 get a **+** modifier next to their Attack Potency rating.

### 1-A: Transcendent

Characters or objects that functionally transcend the rest of the Tiering System. These characters have a qualitative superiority over the previous tiers rather than a quantitative one, meaning that the lower tiers are functionally nonexistent to them.

#### 1-A: Outerverse level

Characters whose superiority over lesser realms is qualitative, rather than quantitative. This is to say that their transcendence over lower realms hinges on the very quality of their existence as opposed to mathematical quantities, and as such is completely beyond any and all extensions of the latter. For example, characters to whom lower worlds are literal unreality/fiction, or characters who exceed the necessity of physical size and dimensionality entirely.

This tier can be divided in "layers." For example, a character who sees some dimensioned world as fictional would be considered to be at the "baseline" of this tier. A character who sees that entity as fiction, then, would be a single level above baseline, and so on and so forth. A character who stands infinitely-many layers above the baseline is to receive a "+" modifier next to their Attack Potency section.

#### High 1-A: High Outerverse level

Characters who exist in a state of "meta-qualitative" superiority. This is to say, they are completely above the "quality" defining lower levels of qualitative superiority, residing in a wholly different hierarchy that operates on higher qualities entirely. For example, if a cosmology has a hierarchy of levels of Reality-Fiction Transcendences, and then a character above it transcends all forms of reality and fiction, being a part of a hierarchy whose mode of superiority functions on something else entirely, then the character in question is to be rated at **High 1-A**.

Note that, in order to be at this tier, the character must exceed the framework of the lower levels entirely, and not simply be at the top of an existing lower hierarchy.

### Tier 0: Boundless

Characters who are completely beyond both quantity, quality and meta-quality. In other words, their superiority over lesser things derives from a total lack of any qualities, instead of simply being above some qualities while still operating on higher ones, as **High 1-A** characters do.

Read this post for more information.

## **Notes**

**Note 1:**

Because the distance between any given number of universes embedded in higher-dimensional / higher-order spaces is currently unknowable, it is impossible to quantify the numerical gap between each one of the subtiers in Tier 2. As such, it is not allowed to upgrade such a character based solely on multipliers. For example, someone twice as strong as a Low 2-C character would still be Low 2-C, and someone infinitely more powerful than a 2-C would not be 2-A.

**Note 2:**

The term "Hyperverse" comes from two words: "hyper," which is used in mathematics to designate higher-dimensional space, and something extreme, above or beyond the usual level. As well as "verse" as a short for "universe". So it is intended as a description of a superior existence beyond conventional reality.

Similarly, "Hypoverse" is derived from "hypo", which is used as a suffix to mean being "under", "lesser than", or "below" something. Furthermore, it is the literary inverse of "hyper", which makes it a fitting complement to the existing terminology.

**Note 3:**

Keep in mind that certain tiers do not necessarily correspond to the destruction of their namesakes in any meaningful fashion. This is because the minimum requirements for these tiers are arbitrary values.

Here is a list of the tiers in question:

* **8-C: Building level** (0.25 tons-2 tons)
* **High 8-C: Large Building level** (2 tons-11 tons)
* **8-B: City Block level** (11 tons-100 tons)
* **8-A: Multi-City Block level** (100 tons-1 kiloton)
* **Low 7-C: Small Town level** (1 kiloton-5.8 kilotons)
* **7-C: Town level** (5.8 kilotons-100 kilotons)
* **High 7-C: Large Town level** (100 kilotons-1 megatons)
* **Low 7-B: Small City level** (1 megatons-6.3 megatons)
* **7-A: Mountain level** (100 megatons-1 gigaton)
* **High 7-A: Large Mountain level** (1 gigaton-4.3 gigatons)
* **High 6-C: Large Island level** (100 gigatons-1 teraton)
* **Low 6-B: Small Country level** (1 teraton-7 teratons)
* **High 6-B: Large Country level** (100 teratons-760 teratons)

Tiers between **9-A** and **3-B**, even those which do correspond with their namesakes, should not be assigned unless there are accepted calculations, multipliers, and/or reliably stated precise Joule values that correspond with those ratings, as many verses can have their own context result in these feats being above or below their namesakes. The exceptions are that the lower borders of **5-B**, **4-C**, **4-B**, **4-A**, **3-C**, and **3-B** can be considered standard calculations for destroying a planet, a star, a solar system, two or more solar systems, a galaxy, and two or more galaxies respectively, and adding those tiers based on those specific feats is allowed.

**Note 4:**

Note that merging universes/realms does not necessarily warrant a Tier 2 rating, unless said universes/realms are provably separate spacetimes.

## Other statistics

* Attack Potency
* Speed
* Lifting Strength
* Striking Strength
* Durability
* Range
* Intelligence
* Stamina

## Footnotes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Significantly affect" is here used as an umbrella term for feats that don't involve direct creation or destruction but are comparable to them in power, such as warping and distorting the entirety of the structure in question, sustaining its existence with energy, merging the structure with another one, etc.