Tier list of the Sailor Moon Classic Youma

Just a little fan project I have been considering doing for a while, this is a tier list of how strong the various Youma are from the first season of the Sailor Moon Anime. If you are wondering why I am not doing the manga....that's because there are 2 youma in the manga so....

I don't know if people this I could do the monsters of the following seasons (Cardians/Droids/Daimon/Lemure/Phages). So let's get into them.

Low Tiers (Able to threaten a human):

34: Iguara

• Wall Level Strength and Durability
• Claws and Tail Grip Attack
• Weakness: Small weak point on her tail

Iguara....Iguara. I wouldn't want to run into her personally, but in a monster fight, she's such a bad choice. She's got no range on her whatsoever, since even using her tail to get into midrange is gonna leave her weak spot exposed, and even that requires her to be pretty close. And there are other youma without significant range, but what they have is at least significant mobility. The Lizard Youma can't fly or teleport or even levitate. Against a flying youma she'd be forced to toss things at it. She's got such a lack of versatility, she's just a beatstick and there are better beatstick Youma.

33: Papillion

• Flight
• Can turn her arm into an axe
• Can command a swarm of butterflies which can induce pain in her enemies or shield her

The Butterfly Youma has a few options in combat, and she has to use all of them at once to have even a half-decent combat strategy, just blinding her enemies with a swarm of butterflies as she swipes at them with an axe arm. While her butterflies can induce pain, they can't actually do damage from what we know so it's basically just another way to slowly drain the enemy's composure. Everything about her from her body to her strategy is just so fragile and prone to collapse with a single attack.

32: Petasos

• Can entangle enemies in her vine-like hair
• Flower-hands can shoot entangling vines 
• Can control all the animals of the forest
• Her animals can short-circuit electronics

The Forest Youma's powers are unfortunately very circumstantial. While being able to summon the animals of the forest sounds like it would be pretty helpful, the truth is animals really wouldn't be any kind of real threat to any Youma outside of like the bottom half of the low tiers. Her entangling is also barely a distraction against most Youma. 

31: Widow

• Can shoot entangling webs
• Has Spider Fangs and Sharp Claw legs

Widow shares much of the same weakness as Petasos, but she exchanged a lot of the more circumstantial powers for her webbing being more durable then Petasos's vines, as it required Fire Soul to break it, and for actual melee combat options. 

30: Zoyrin Geller

• Superhuman Strength and Durability
• Agile and Nimble
• Can cut people with the blades on their boots
• Can resist absolute zero temperature
• Act with a single mind

The Ice Skating Youma are kind of decent meleers with a bit of mobility, but they lack a lot of offensive finishing power

29: Castor-Pollux

• Superhuman Durability
• Can cast Fire Soul
• Can cast Shabon Spray

The Gemini Youma have a fairly good attack spell and a fairly good stalling option and that's all. If their opponent has any kind of versatility or counter then they have no other option. 

28: Yasha

• Levitation
• Superleaping
• Teleporation
• Can turn her horns into drills

Yasha has great ability to maneuver and get around the battlefield but only has one attack which puts her in a precarious position and isn't that strong an attack. She has to rely on a lot of maneuvering to get an edge on the enemy. 

27: Oniwabandana

• Ninja Skills
• Katana
• Shuriken
• Duplication
• Teleporation

The Ninja Youma is basically just a better version of Yasha.

26: Garoben

• Can turn arm into an axe
• Strong enough to lob pieces of paper through a wall
• Can drain energy through technology
• Can control those she has energy-drained

Garoben's Technology power is heavily environment dependent. She is strong enough to be a lower level beatstick, and her axe is gives her some finishing power but she really relies on tech to overcome more versatile and mobile youma.

25: The Plant Sisters

• Ninja Skills
• Plant Manipulation, can cause vines to quickly overrun a small building
• Levitation
• Forcefield
• Housenka has Stretchy Claws
• Grape has red orbs which can be thrown for small explosions
• Suzuran can create sonic wave attacks

I know a lot of people think these three are stronger due to their showing against Nephrite but that was when he was off-guard. Earlier Nephrite stomped all 3 at once. Regardless they have a lot more versatility then lower tiers but their raw power means they rely on stealth and flanking and can be overcome by more physical youma.

24: Morga

• Superflexible
• Levitation
• Low Building Level Durability
• Stretchy Claws
• Energy-Draining
• Can control those she energy-drained

The First Youma is a complete tank to the lower tiers. Her Levitation, especially given her stretchy claws, means she can avoid melee if she wants, her durability is very high relate to most of them and her energy-draining can wear down most of them.

Mid Tiers: Strong enough to beat one of the Seven Great Youma

The 7 Great Youma were the 7 Leaders of the Youma Army back in the time of the Silver Millenium. They have lots of combat experience and are the physical powerhouses of the Youma, being physically stronger and tougher then other Youma. Being Mid-Tier means being able to at least 5/10 the weakest of them.

23: Bakene

• One of the 7 Great Youma
• Highly Superhuman Strength and Durability
• Claws and Fangs

The Cat Youma is the Great Youmas equivalent of Iguara. He's a beatstick without much in the way of mobility and versatility. While he's BIG, like a story tall, his abilities leave a lot to be desired.

22: Flau

• Room Level Mouth Blasts
• Flight
• Fast Energy-Draining Flower

Flau's main tactic will be using her speed and energy blasts to just bombard her enemy. She's pretty fragile in melee though if someone touches her magic flower it will essentially knock them out immediately due to it's heavily energy-draining properties

21: Tesuni

• Can shoot dark energy balls that can trap people in tennis balls
• Can spam fireballs
• Can telekinetically throw enemies

Tesuni is a pretty decent ranged blaster Youma, with a good rate of fire and a way to push enemies back from melee. That said her strategy is pretty limited in options.

20: Akan

• Enhanced Punches and Kicks
• Skilled Melee Fighter
• Can throw Green Balls that trap those affected by them. These balls crush those inside

The Sentai Youma is odd. Without his special move he'd be really low, maybe as low as Iguara. However his special move is such an odd spammable and painful move that it pushes him all the way up here. 

19: Cameran

 

• Personal Forcefield
• Can shoot energy blasts that turn those hit into photographs

Cameran is similar to Akan in that she can only do one thing, but it's a really dangerous thing. But hers is a lot more dangerous and just as spammable. Also she has a decently tough forcefield. 

18: Jumeau

• Can crush human bone
• Can fly
• Can telekinetically launch her limbs which "cut like knives" and which she can control after
• Can regenerate her own limbs at will
• Has telepathic control of dolls
• Weakness: small point of her shin on her right leg

Jumeau has a lot of options and her regeneration gives her time to slice and dice her enemies with her knive like projectile limbs or just stab them in their eyes or slice their throats. Her flight can also keep her out of melee range. That said physical powerhouses Youma if they can get a shot off or get into melee range and can rip her quite literally limb from limb. 

17: Gesen

• One of the Seven Great Youma
• Highly Superhuman Strength and Durability
• Mallet Arm
• Grappling Crane Arm
• Blaster Arm
• Sword

The Second Weakest of the 7 Great Youma is nontheless in the upper half of Youma due to his sheer number of offense options at every range. His Blaster can work as long-range. His sword can work at close range, his mallet can work at close or mid range and his crane can work at mid range and pull into his close range. With his level of strength and power as a Great Youma, he can quickly overwhelm most weaker youma and his level of durability means it's gonna be hard to put him down for most youma through sheer power.

16: Boxy

• One of the Seven Great Youma
• Highly Superhuman Strength and Durability
• Can shoot boxing gloves off his hand that explode
• Flight
• Skilled Melee Fighter
• Can regenerate new boxing gloves at will

The Third Weakest of the Seven Great Youma, Boxy's flight gives puts him above Gesen giving him a third dimension to maneuver in. He's also better at close to very close range due to his Boxing Skills and while he doesn't have as many options his exploding boxing gloves can just as easily overwhelm opponents at long range as Gesen's blaster arm. 

15: Jiji

• One of the Seven Great Youma
• Highly Superhuman Strength and Durability
• Ape-Like Agility and Climbing Skills
• Roar creates a sound attack that is a cone of pressure

The Middle Great Youma, the Ape Youma can be deceptively strong due to his agility and his roar which can knock around most other Youma. 

14: Shakoukai

• Intelligent
• Teleporation
• Her shells can release a goo capable of putting out fire and lightning and can turn people into wax statues

Shakoukai has the combination of a broken single attack with the added mobility of teleporation. Her attack also forms a sort of rudimentary defense since the goo can block and nullify most other attacks. Her heightened intelligence also gives a leg up against most youma since she will be able to think more tactically.

13: Blizzar

• Agile
• Can Teleport Through Ice
• Can manipulate ice, including very large quantities of ice at once
• Sonic attack that can cause avalanches

The Ice Youma's powers can be quite dangerous, since she can freeze most other Youma and any physical components they use for attacks. She is quite manueverable, especially in areas with lots of snow and ice, her ice powers can be used to manipulate the terrain for good affect and her sonic attack gives her a more direct form of offense

12: Balm

• Hairclaws
• Can throw cards with enough force to send them through a wall
• Telekinesis
• Hyponosis
• Energy-Draining

In terms of raw power and agility, Balm would get destroyed by most youma, but her hypnosis and to a lesser extent her energy-draining make it irrelevant since she can quickly force a youma to do as she says. Her only weakness is highly mobile youma able to get off an attack on her before she can hypnotize. 

11: Derella

• Made of a goolike substance
• Can entangle and trap enemies in goo
• Levitation
• Can expertly disguise self and voice 
• Hypnosis

Derella has the same hypnosis trick as Balm, and while she gives up some of Balm's other tricks, Derella gains levitation, which allows her to stay away from melee and her goo nature which would allow her to take a few hits first. 

10: Kigaan

• Superhuman arm and length strength
• Telekinesis (Levitated a whole bus)
• Can open portals to other dimensions at will
• Maintained a whole dimension

Kigaan is decent physically and her telekinesis would allow her to her to crush lesser youma and throw stronger ones around but would leave her vulnerable to ranged attacks. But what she can do is just open a portal to her own dimension, throw them in and then stop maintaining the dimension, collapsing it on them. For most Youma that's a pretty clear death sentence immediately.

9: Bunbo

• One of the 7 Great Youma
• Highly Superhuman Strength and Durability
• Superhuman Intelligence
• Superleaping
• Giant Scissors hands that can be launched
• Can spam energy shuriken from mouth

Bunbo is the third strongest of the 7 Great Youma. He is a rather solid tank Youma, with good physical stats, and the ability to maneuver around with superleaping as well as a good ranged attack that can be spammed. He also has enhanced intelligence, meaning he can really throw his weight around intelligently and avoid a lot of the most dangerous abilities of lesser youma

8: Rikoukeidar

• One of the Seven Great Youma
• Highly Superhuman Strength and Durability
• Can throw capsules which release "primordial protozoa" which cling to her enemies and drain them of their energy
• Can reflect ranged attacks with her magical flask

The Second Strongest of the Great Youma, neither close range works well against her due to being one of the physically most advanced Youma, nor long range due to her flask, and her protozoa give little time for consideration since they can quickly cause her enemies to fall to unconsciousness

7: Mitsuami

 

• Wall Level Strength and Durability
• Blowdryer arm can create such intense heat as to instantly turn plants to charcoal
• Automatic Fire Scissors Launcher
• Giant Electronic Razor Arm
• Air Manipulation (Can create a localized tornado)
• Super-Vision (Can see individual strands of DNA)
• Can disguise herself as a group of humans each of whom can breath out knockout gas

Mitsuami is a versatile powerhouse, with plenty of options including super high levels of heat, knockout gas, and creating a localized tornado. Her Super-Vision is an interesting ability and using her air manipulation she can easily put most most enemies off-guard. 

High Tiers: Strong enough to beat a DD Girl one on one

The DD Girls are a group of 5 Youma that personally serve Queen Beryl, and are well feared in the Dark Kingdom.  They are famous for killing the Sailor Senshi. They are nearly as strong as the Great Youma and generally more dangerous due to their abilities.

6: DD Girls

• Highly Superhuman Strength (can charge people so far underground that there is magma)
• Highly Superhuman Durability (can tank magma)
• Agile Flight
• Teleportation
• Fire Manipulation (Can create flames of such heat that it can replicate the heat of magma)
• Lightning Manipulation
• The Gem on their Leader's forehead can create illusions

For most Youma to battle even a single DD girl is impossible. They are highly agile, highly physically powerful, have devastating ranged abilities etc. 

5:  Kyurene

• Agile Flight
• Teleporation
• Superhuman Durability
• Sound Waves Attack
• Can Change into a swarm of Bats
• Can induce sleep
• Stretchy Claws

The Vampire Youma has the same level of agile flight as the DD Girls, but her bat-swarm ability allows her to swarm most Youma as many different separate entities at once and each one can induce sleep in the victim allowing her to end the fight. Her sound wave attack can also help throw enemies off balance. 

4: Binah

• One of the Seven Great Youma
• Highly Superhuman Strength and Durability
• Agile Flight
• Creation (What she draws with her magic feather pills comes to life)
• Transmutation (What she draws on with her magic feather pills becomes as she has drawn)

The Angel Youma, strongest of the Seven Great Youma, has quite the interesting powerset. Her magical feathers can draw what she needs for the occassion and can convert her enemies into what she wants. Due to the open-nature of her powers she is clearly the most versatile Youma and it would take lots of raw power to overwhelm her given her nature as a Great Youma.

3: Murid 

• Teleportation
• Can breath out a mist that causes hallucinations of a fantasyland
• Has a snake whose bite turns the victim to stone
• Illusions-Disguised the above snake as an apple and created an illusion of an entire amusement park
• Manipulative

The Dark Princess Youma's illusions and petrification would make a mockery of almost all the youma on this list. Her petrification snake ignores physical durability and her teleportation and manipulation, illusion and teleportation would give her plenty of opportunity to use it.

2: Thetis

• Highly Superhuman Durability
• Water Manipulation, enough to create huge columns of water as attacks and a large whirlpool
• Superleaping
• Intelligent
• Teleportation
• Claws
• Created an illusion of an entire cruise ship
• Drained the energy of a cruise ship so fast that they all fell unconscious before they even realized something was wrong
• Has her own minions made of water that can regenerate from being cut in half

My favorite Monster of the week in Sailor Moon, Thetis, or the Youma who knew love, for her beloved Jadeite proved to be almost unmatched in the realm of power. She had water manipulation to rival the DD girls fire manipulation, could create illusions on the level of Murid, could drain energy faster and at almost unmatched range then any youma which would be a one-shot against most of them, could teleport, had decent to good melee ability due to her durability and claws, and has her own minions that would be at least a challenge for most youma to destroy. Combined with her tactical ability and she easily snags this sport. 

WTH Tier:

1: Ramua

• Energy-Drained a City
• Can create entrances or exits to her dimension
• In her dimension has complete control of time, able to slow it down, speed it up, reverse it or make it freeze at any rate and for whoever she chooses
• Weakness: Her Cursed Clock which if destroyed will destroy her dimension

Ramua's powers are insane, she's more on par with the Heavenly Kings Jadeite, Nephrite, Zoicite, and Kunzite then she is the other Youma. The ONLY reason that Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury were able to beat her was because Tuxedo Kamen with his psychometry felt the dark presence of the Clock and destroyed it giving Usagi the opening to hit her with the Moon Tiara. Against any of the other Youma she can freeze them in place and then make them age arbitrarily fast until they die of old age.