MCU Character Tiers - Who's Strongest? Fastest? Toughest? Most Skilled? etc

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A lot of people on this forum - myself included - enjoy talking about which MCU characters are most powerful and who would beat who in a battle. It's good fun but power's a vague thing to measure and 'who would win in a fight' is sometimes a rock, paper, scissors situation because of all the different factors.

I thought it would be interesting to make a thread for breaking that down a bit more and seeing which aspects of each character make them dangerous and which are their weaknesses.

Here are my thoughts as a starting point:

Who's physically strongest?

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Tier 1: Thanos, Hela, Kurse
Tier 2: Hulk, Ultron, Thor, Captain Marvel
Tier 3: Cull Obsidian, Abomination, Vision, Hulkbuster, Giant Man
Tier 4: Iron Man, Valkyrie, Ronan, Loki etc
Tier 5: Gamora, Spider-Man, Drax, Captain America etc

Who's the most skilled combatant?

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Tier 1: Hela, Captain America, Widow, Daredevil, Barton
Tier 2: Bucky, T'Challa, Okoye, Valkyrie, Gamora, Elektra, Killmonger
Tier 3: Thor, Thanos, Loki, Heimdall, Nebula, Ronan
Tier 4: Captain Marvel, Punisher, Doctor Strange, Daisy Johnson

notable weakness for: Hulk

Who has the best melee weapons?

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Tier 1: Thor (Stormbreaker), Thanos (Endgame Sword), Hela (Necroswords), Thor/Cap (Mjolnir)
Tier 2: Corvus Glaive, Cap (Shield), Loki (Chitauri Scepter), Gamora (Godslayer), Valkyrie (Dragonfang)

Who has the best ranged powers/weapons?

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Tier 1: Thanos (full Infinity Gauntlet)
Tier 2: Thanos (power stone), Scarlet Witch (psionics), IW Thor (lightning/Stormbreaker), Hela (necroswords/spears)
Tier 3: Captain Marvel (photon blasts), Vision (mind stone), early MCU Thor (lightning/Mjolnir), Loki (Chitauri Scepter blast), Doctor Strange, Iron Man (repulsors, unibeam, missiles, lasers etc), Daisy Johnson
Tier 4: Rocket (Laser Cannon), Star-Lord (Quadblasters), Cap (shield - when thrown), Hawkeye (trick arrows)

 

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Who has the fastest combat speed/reflexes?

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Tier 1: Quicksilver
Tier 2: Hela, Thor, Captain America, Thanos, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Winter Soldier, Spider-Man, Vision etc all seem to be roughly in the same league

Who's shown the most agility?

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Tier 1: Black Panther, Captain America, Hela
Tier 2: Spider-Man (still a rookie)
Tier 3: Loki, Valkyrie, Captain Marvel, Iron Man, Thor

Who's shown the fastest travel speed?

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Tier 1: Captain Marvel (flight speed), Strange (sling ring portals), Thor (teleport with Stormbreaker)
Tier 2: Quicksilver (running speed), Iron Man (flight speed), Vision (flight speed), Thor (flight speed with Mjolnir)

Who's shown the most durability against blunt force?

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Tier 1: Captain Marvel, Thanos, Hela, Kurse
Tier 2: Thor, Hulk, Ultron
Tier 3: Vision, Abomination, Cull Obsidian, Iron Man, Ronan, Drax, Loki

notable weakness for: Scarlet Witch, Daisy Johnson, Ancient One, Doctor Strange, Ebony Maw, every non-powered human

Who's shown the most durability against piercing damage?

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Tier 1: Hela, Kurse
Tier 2: Thanos, Thor, Hulk

notable weakness for: Scarlet Witch, Daisy Johnson, Ancient One, Doctor Strange, Ebony Maw, every non-powered human

Who's shown the most durability against energy/explosives?

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Tier 1: Thor
Tier 2: Thanos, Captain Marvel, Hela, Iron Man (using his nanotech shield)
Tier 3: Iron Man, Valkyrie, Volstaag

notable weakness for: Scarlet Witch, Daisy Johnson, Ancient One, Doctor Strange, Ebony Maw, every non-powered human