Best Scooby-Doo characters

714 duels later, Scooby-Doo is still #1 in the favorite character ranking, with Shaggy Rogers close behind at 1291 ELO points.

Scooby-Doo dominates with 1412 ELO points and an 81% win rate across 37 duels, pulling 121 points ahead of his best friend Shaggy Rogers in second place. The sharpest divide in the ranking opens between Shaggy and Daphne Blake at third: 158 ELO points separate the perpetually hungry duo from the fashion-forward member of Mystery Inc. Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley round out the bottom of the top 5, clustered within 71 points of each other and each winning roughly 38% of their duels. The tight grouping at the lower end suggests the community sees a clear gap between the show's comedic core and the rest of the gang.

This ranking draws on 714 duels cast by 105 players across all 5 contenders, updated on 11 October 2026. The vote captures a strong preference for the series' comic relief characters over its problem-solvers, with the Great Dane and his snack-obsessed companion holding the top two spots by comfortable margins. Cast your own vote and shape the next update of this ranking.

Updated on October 11, 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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