Strongest Black Clover captains

Yami Sukehiro – Black Bull wins 83% of his duels and tops the Black Clover Magic Knight Captain strength ranking ahead of Mereoleona Vermillion – Crimson Lion.

The gap between the top two captains is stark. Yami Sukehiro – Black Bull holds a commanding 152 ELO point advantage over Mereoleona Vermillion – Crimson Lion at 1466 points, the largest separation in the ranking. William Vangeance – Golden Dawn secures third place with 1378 points and a 63% win rate across 227 duels. The bottom tells a different story: Gueldre Poizot – Purple Orca languishes at rank 11 with just 562 ELO points and an 8% win rate, suggesting the community views him as the weakest captain by a wide margin. Kaiser Granvorka – Purple Orca fares only slightly better at rank 10 with 705 points.

This ranking draws from 6393 duels judged by 277 players across 11 Magic Knight Captains. The data was updated on 12 October 2026. VAINKEURZ builds its rankings through direct head-to-head matchups where the community decides each contest, one duel at a time. If you have your own opinion on which captain would win in a fight, cast your vote and shape how these leaders stack up against each other.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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