Naruto: The Most Powerful Akatsuki, Ranked

From Pain to Orochimaru, here are our picks for the most powerful members of Naruto's Akatsuki.

There are many groups of malicious people in Naruto. The Seven Deadly Swordsman, Kara, Taka, The Sound Five... none are as iconic because the Akatsuki, though. There are different iterations of the Akatsuki with different motives, but their beliefs are typically similar.

The first order of the Akatsuki was founded by Yahiko to shield the Village Hidden within the Rain. The second order was made by Nagato to hold on Madara's conceive to fulfill the prophecy written on the Uchiha Stone, and Obito's third order of the Akatsuki was a continuation of Nagato's. The fourth-order of the Akatsuki was made by Shin Uchiha, and it perceived to only hold the aim of keeping the Akatsuki moving. Let's take a glance at the group's most powerful members. This list will only include Akatsuki members as they were within the Akatsuki, not necessarily in their primes.

Updated by Amanda Bruce On April 20, 2020: The previous version of this list featured only the ten most powerful members of the Akatsuki. Now including five more members, the ability and flexibility of the members of the shinobi group are best reflected with even more ridiculously strong shinobi.

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Juzo Biwa

Leading off the foremost power of the Akatsuki is one that's an anime-only member. Juzo Biwa was originally from the Village Hidden within the Mist, and he harbors an intense hatred for his former home.

Despite that hatred, he holds a footing of the high esteem in his home in a concert of the Seven Ninja Swordsman Of The Mist. His prowess with a blade makes him a legend before he ever joins up with the Akatsuki and becomes Itachi Uchiha’s partner. Juzo’s skill actually made him a possible contender to become the leader of his village before he left it, so it’s only fitting that he loses his life to the particular leader of the village while working for the Akatsuki.

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Hidan

Fans remember Hidan thanks to the emotional role he plays in Shikamaru Nara’s storyline. This member of the Akatsuki is functionally immortal because of his incredibly complicated gifts.

He doesn’t even have to be the most effective fighter during a match, just outlast the opposite guys, and he did it for a really very long time. It takes Shikamaru an entire lot of designing and inventive techniques to bring Hidan’s reign of terror to an end, and even then, all he does is bury him. There’s always a clear stage that Hidan, or somebody else who learned from his particular style, could reemerge.

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Deidara

Deidara is pretty strange, even for a Naruto shinobi. He has mouths on his hands and a really explosive skill set.

Not only is he incredibly stealthy and ready to use clay as an explosive weapon, but Deidara is ready to travel toe-to-toe with a number of the strongest characters fans see within the series (at the time). he's ready to tackle both Gaara and Sasuke on his own once they are both learning a number of their best skills. That’s impressive since not many other shinobi are ready to take them on successfully alone. Even Naruto, who grew up to be incredibly overpowered, resorts to talking things out with them.

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Konan

Konan is one of only two Akatsuki members to survive the primary iteration of the team. She also ranks incredibly high within the organization, whether or not the members prefer to think they're all equal in their pursuits. She is, after all, Pain’s advisor and right.

Her ability to channel her chakra through paper, and then, to even transform her body into pieces of paper, is incredibly unique for the series. Enemies might need to misjudge her, but she is unquestionably one in all the strongest members the Akatsuki ever had.

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Kabuto Yakushi

It’s debatable whether or not Kabuto was ever officially a member of the Akatsuki. While working under Orochimaru, however, he does infiltrate their ranks, so he makes the list.

Kabuto learned all of his most dangerous techniques from Orochimaru. While he’s actually at his strongest after his time with the Akatsuki, he proves himself incredibly capable of taking up shinobi who should be able to wipe the ground with him over and yet again. He’s a survivor, and he’ll grasp at any powerful technique he can to create it out alive.

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Sasori

Sasori may be a puppet master who was both a puppet maker and an assassin before joining the Akatsuki. His most impressive assassination was killing the Third Kazekage, and afterward, he made him into a robust puppet, fully capable of wielding the Iron Sand. He's made many of us into puppets over the years, including his own parents and even himself.

Because he made himself into a puppet when he was young, he holds the guise of a young boy. Because he has expanded his parameters of chakra control beyond that of any regular ninja, he's capable of wielding 100 puppets at a time rather than only one for every finger. All of his weapons are imbued with poison, and he's known to be ready to attack with various microscopic homing projectiles of Iron Sand at the identical time.

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Itachi Uchiha

Itachi is Sasuke Uchiha's older brother, and he had assassinated his whole clan saves his brother long before joining Akatsuki. He was a member of the Anbu as an assassin alongside another Uchiha member named Shisui, who was killed by Danzo. Danzo gave the order for the Uchiha clan to be tired, and Itachi was the one to hold out the deed.

Itachi has a number of the foremost formidable ocular jutsu of the Akatsuki, capable of using the Tsukiyomi, which might create a genjutsu world during which he can control all of the matter, space, and time, creating infinite copies of himself. He can use the Susano'o technique, during which he can seal people away with it, and he can control fate itself, using the Izanagi and also the Izanami.

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Pain

Pain is that the animated corpse of Yahiko, the founding father of the initial Akatsuki. He is the leader of the second-order of the Akatsuki, though he's actually being remotely controlled by Nagato Uzumaki.

Pain possesses a projection of Nagato's Rinnegan that he inherited from Madara, which provides him access to a good type of abilities. He can control gravity using the Shinra Tensei and also the Chibaku Tensei, and he's capable of using the Six Paths, which permit him to summon powerful animals, summon the God of Death, pull out people's souls, turn his body cybernetic, and several other techniques. He may also resurrect people he has recently killed.

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Kakuzu

Kakuzu joined the Akatsuki in hopes to expand his fortune, and he's known to be one amongst the greediest people within the Shinobi World. he's known to own actually taken out multiple Jinchuriki, including Fuu and Yugito, and he has slain entire villages alone with none help from Hidan.

Kakuzu managed to successfully make himself immortal by making deals with demons by letting them into his body and attaining five hearts, each of which are represented on his body as masks that use different chakra natures. he's so durable that Matatabi and Kakashi are incapable of damaging him under normal circumstances.

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Kisame

Kisame could be a man who holds many qualities of a shark, having been trained by one among the Seven Deadly Swordsman, the previous wielder of the Samehada. After his master killed himself, he took on the blade. He tamed this sentient sword and learned to merge with it upon the need, being fully control after the merger.

Kisame is thought because the "Tailless Tailed Beast", noted to possess both the chakra reserves and power of a Tailed Beast. He fights by draining the chakra of his opponents constantly during a battle, and he has fought against Killer B. In his second encounter with Killer B, he managed to empty most of his chakra and make his way back to the Akatsuki with intel.

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Zetsu

Zetsu is undoubtedly one {in all|one amongst|one in every of} the foremost intelligent characters in all of Naruto. Being one in every of Kaguya's "sons", he planned for millennia to bring her back. He actually wrote the prophecies on the Uchiha Stone, to line in motion the events that result in Madara passing on his wishes to Nagato so he can create the second-order of the Akatsuki.

A bunch of weaker Zetsu clones was made en bloc that's capable of covering lots of ground and killing plenty of individuals. Black Zetsu is capable of leeching onto powerful people, to the extent that Madara was defeated once and for all because Zetsu latched onto him and caught him off guard with a finishing blow.

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Orochimaru

Orochimaru has been everywhere the Shinobi World, and he's perhaps the foremost knowledgeable ninja since Hagoromo regarding jutsu. His incentive to hitch the Akatsuki was to review the jutsu that the people of the Akatsuki use and his ultimate goal is to become truly immortal and to master every possible jutsu.

One of the foremost formidable things about Orochimaru is that it's hard to permanently put him down. Multiple users of genjutsu have successfully caught Orochimaru into their techniques, and Orochimaru always comes back. Orochimaru was sealed away by Itachi, but he always comes back. Orochimaru can even use the Edo Tensei technique to summon Hashirama and Tobirama and Minato to fight against potential opponents. He also includes a universe he created inside his mind that he uses to require other people's bodies.

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Obito Uchiha

Obito is that the founding father of the third order of the Akatsuki, having been a lover of Minato, the Fourth Hokage. While he was presumed to possess died a few years ago as a baby, he has secretly watched Kakashi during his missions and helped him go in times of need without getting caught. He was eventually the reason behind Minato's death.

Obito has genjutsu even greater than the Kotoamatsukami, being capable of keeping Yagura under his control for several years without Ao noticing, despite immediately noticing the usage of Kotoamatsukami. Obito later inherited the Rinnegan previously utilized by Nagato, mastering it. While using it, the Six Paths he controlled were all fully-functional Jinchuriki.

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Madara Uchiha

Obito is that the founding father of the third order of the Akatsuki, having been a lover of Minato, the Fourth Hokage. While he was presumed to possess died a few years ago as a baby, he has secretly watched Kakashi during his missions and helped him go in times of need without getting caught. He was eventually the reason behind Minato's death.

Obito has genjutsu even greater than the Kotoamatsukami, being capable of keeping Yagura under his control for several years without Ao noticing, despite immediately noticing the usage of Kotoamatsukami. Obito later inherited the Rinnegan previously utilized by Nagato, mastering it. While using it, the Six Paths he controlled were all fully-functional Jinchuriki.

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Shin Uchiha

Shin Uchiha was an experiment created by Orochimaru during the events of the Boruto manga. He took inspiration from Danzo and imbued one artificial organic structure with as many Sharingan as he could get his hands on. Shin eventually fully awakened his Sharingan, then he cloned himself repeatedly until he recreated the entire Uchiha clan.

Shin was a threat to Naruto and Sasuke. At this point, even base Naruto and Sasuke are known to be able to single-handedly defeat everyone within the Shinobi World by themselves, and Shin Uchiha is additionally stated to be a threat to the entire world. Naruto and Sasuke also took on Momoshiki shortly after, who created a parallel universe along with his own power, and who was feared immensely by Kaguya. On sheer statistics alone, he far outclasses the remainder of the Akatsuki.