Ranking the best fighters in the Arrowverse
By TheSuperor 73 Comments
An often discussed topic is; who are the best fighters in the Arrowverse? There exists a number of threads on this, but instead of just listing characters with no reasoning what so ever, I'm going to try to the best of my abilities to analyze and evaluate the fighters. Feel free to disagree with me, I know most of you are going to either way ;)
Honorable Mentions
There are a few fighters that didn't quite make it into the top 15, but I feel like they deserve an honorable mention. These fighters are not ranked in any order in particular.
Yao Fei Gulong
Yao Fei could potentially be ranked higher, but he doesn't have a whole lot of feats to show from. He displayed great skill in his fight against Billy Wintergreen.
I can't rank him any higher due to him losing his second encounter with Billy, who was handily beat by Slade. This puts Yao Fei right outside the top 15 fighters in the Arrowverse.
Speedy
Speedy has proven herself capable of matching the likes of Malcolm Merlyn and Anarky in combat. That being said, I believed that Merlyn is seriosuly reduced without his arm, and Anarky is an extremely inconsistent combatant. Speedy herself has a whole lot of inconsistent showings, this puts her right outside of the top 15 fighters in the Arrowverse.
You can check out my respect thread on Speedy to dive deeper into her abilities and see what she truly is capable of.
Vigilante
Vigilante is more of a weapons expert than he is a h2h combatant, but he has proven himself a challenge for the likes of Green Arrow and Prometheus, this puts Vigilante at an incredibly hight level of skill.
My respect thread on Vigilante can be used to further study his abilities.
Brick
Daniel Brickwell has proven himself a challenge for the Green Arrow on more than one occasion. He has also proven himself to be able to defeat John Diggle as of mid season 3.
Brick doesn't really have a whole lot of showings that convinces me that he should be higher on my list, so until he gets some more feats, he'd do good as an honorable mention.
Other honorable mentions include: Al Owal, Konstantin Kovar, Captain Boomerang, Komodo and Billy Wintergreen
Now as we have gotten the honorable mentions out of the way, it's time to look at the top 15 fighters in the Arrowverse.
15. John Diggle
As recently as yesterday did I finish my respect thread on John Diggle. Digg is a severely underrated fighter, due to the fight that he rarely ever wins fights against named characters. On the other hand Digg has proven himself the fodder wrecker machine, whether it be regular thugs or League Ninjas.
Diggle has also proven himself on multiple occasions in training sessions with Oliver, always presenting Oliver with more of a challenge than any of his other team mates did.
14. Anarky
With any sort of consistency could Anarky be ranked way higher on this list. Anarky goes from holding off Green Arrow and Speedy at the same time and one shotting Speedy with a beautiful ninja kick to the face to getting one shot by Diggle and losing to Speedy in single combat. Anarky has some ridiculous high end feats, but he hasn't performed consistently enough to be ranked any higher. I feel like the base feat of where to rank Anarky is his fight against Green Arrow in 5x01.
13. China White
China White did already in episode 2 of the series present herself as a real challenge to the Green Arrow.
China White also presented the Green Arrow a real challenge in season 2 as well. It wasn't until season 5 we could really establish Green Arrow as a superior combatant, where he beat her handily. China White is also skilled enough to match Katana in her own game, this really speaks volumes of her skill.
12. Katana
Katana is skilled enough to cut down half a dozen men in seconds. She can fight China White to a near stand still.
Katana is even skilled enough to get the better of Maseo in a sword fight. It should be noted that Maseo did gain the upper hand and had Katana defeated, but Katana capitalized on a poor final strike from Maseo. Furthermore Katana is skilled enough to stalemate Nyssa in a sword fight, which is quite an achievement.
11. Maseo Yamashiro
Maseo poses a threat for Green Arrow as of season 3, and is fast enough to catch arrows.
Maseo managed to defeat a distracted Nyssa in a sword fight.
Maseo also proved himself capable of stomping Oliver in the Hong Kong flashbacks.
Scaling off the fight with Katana, who is ranked 12, I think it's fair that Maseo occupies the eleventh spot on the list.
Now lets dive right into, what I believe is the 10 best fighter in the Arrowverse
10. Bronze Tiger
9. Nyssa al ghul
8. Mick Rory
7. Malcolm Merlyn
6. Slade Wilson
5. Damien Darhk
4. Prometheus
3. Sara Lance
2. Green Arrow
1. Ra's al ghul
I realize there are some flawed logic behind this, but my verdict remains the same. There are many inconsistencies, but I have done my very best to compile this list of who I think are the best fighters in the Arrowverse. And oh, I completely ignored Vandal Savage cause he sucks.