Best Dragon Ball transformations

14732 duels later, Super Saiyan 1 is still #1 in the Dragon Ball ranking, with Super Saiyan 2 close behind.

The original Super Saiyan 1 leads with 1387 ELO points, but Super Saiyan 2 trails by only 11 points at 1376. The podium stays tight until rank 3, where Ultra Instinct Sign claims 1339 ELO points with a 55% win rate across 1905 duels. The real shock sits between ranks 3 and 4: Ultra Instinct Sign pulls 45 ELO points ahead of the complete Ultra Instinct form, a gap that suggests the community values the intermediate state over the mastered technique. Super Saiyan 4 rounds out the top 5 at 1263 ELO points with a solid 60% win rate. At the bottom, Beast lands at rank 17 with 1033 ELO points and a 38% win rate, sharing last place territory with Super Kaioken at 1066 points. The weakest transformations reveal a fanbase skeptical of newer forms and hybrid power-ups, while the classics command respect.

This ranking draws from 14732 duels submitted by 283 players, comparing all 17 Saiyan transformations excluding Heroes content. Updated on 10 October 2026, these scores reflect how the community weighs nostalgia against raw power, technique against spectacle. Cast your vote and reshape the hierarchy of Saiyan forms.

Updated on October 10, 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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