Best anime friendships

Straw Hat Pirates wins 77% of its duels and tops the Best Friendship ranking ahead of Class 1-A.

The 190 ELO points separating Straw Hat Pirates from Class 1-A mark the sharpest divide in the ranking, placing Luffy's crew in a category of its own with 1480 points after 88 duels. Class 1-A holds second place with 1290 points and a 61% win rate across 105 duels, just ahead of Exorcists at 1282 points. The closeness of ranks 2 through 5 suggests shifting loyalties among voters, with barely 35 points between Class 1-A and Team 7. Generation of Miracles sits at rank 4 with 1270 points, while Team 7 claims the fifth spot with 1255 points. At the bottom, Anohana languishes at rank 15 with 1027 ELO points and a 36% win rate across 83 duels, showing that not every anime friendship resonates equally with the community. Team Rocket and Mad Scientists occupy ranks 13 and 14, rounding out the lower tier.

The ranking draws from 15066 duels submitted by 390 players across 15 contenders, updated on 10 October 2026. These head-to-head matchups reveal which friend groups command the strongest emotional pull, from pirate crews to high school classes to supernatural teams. Cast your vote on VAINKEURZ to shape the next update and see how your favorite squad stacks up against the competition.

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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