So, this is my tier list of strength levels of heroes.
Order for each tier is based on strength for each game. (Warcraft; Starcraft; Diablo; Overwatch).
- Tier S: (W) Murky, of course (S) Kerrigan, (D) Nephalem
- Tier A: (W) Arthas, Deathwing, Medivh, (D) Malthael, Diablo, Imperius, Tyrael
- Tier B: (W) Ragnaros, Alextrasza, Thrall, Malfurion, Illidan (S) Tassadar, Zeratul (D) Azmodan, Auriel,
- Tier C: (W) Gul’dan, Kel’thuzad, Cho’Gall, Anub’Arak, Jaina, Sylvanas, Kael’Thas, Tyrande, Uther (S) Alarak, Artanis, Stukov, Dehaka (D) The Butcher, Leoric,
- Tier D: (W) Mal’Ganis, Yrel, Varian, Cromi ¿?, Garrosh, Zul’Jin, Muradin, Greymane, Lunara, Chen, Rehgar (S) Fenix, Zagara, Nova
- Tier E: (W) Anduin, Whitemane, Maiev, Falstad, Samuro, Valeera, Gazlowe, Stitches (S) Raynor, Tychus, Blaze, Sgt Hammer (O) Genji, Hanzo, Zarya, Tracer, D.Va
- Tier F: (W) ETC, Lili, Brightwing (S) Abathur, Lt. Morales, Probius (O) Junkrat, Ana, Lucio
Note 1: I played all blizzard games a decent amount of time to rank most of them, but I might be wrong about certain heroes, comment below what you think or what I got wrong.
Note 2: Some heroes I dont know much lore about them so I put in the rank i feel they belong (Falstad, valeera, Rehgar and others)
Note 3: heroes are in their most common form. So no Sylvanas fairytales from new expansion, Thrall Pokemon GO…
Note 4: This list is based on abilities, strength, raw power and control over it. No minions/armies (or Zagara would be A tier).
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Blizzard power levels are so all over the place it’s not even funny, especially for WoW.
Like you said, first and foremost thing to consider is from what time period is a Hero represented and what makes them scary in the first place, then there’s stuff like power level differences between universes and all that jazz. I’m pretty sure WoW characters of past and present are generally stronger than the grand majority of SC heroes and most diablo dudes. I mean, half the cast freely necromances themselves back to life whenever they feel like it. KTZ was already dead for a while before he cast the spell to become a lich. KT avoided death with the power of blood elf magic science. Two Skulls of Gul’dan! Even Whitemane’s healing potential was so great she canonically could not die unless a certain artifact was used to kill her.
Kerrigan seems like she’s from either SC2:WoL or an updated BW, and while she’s certainly powerful as the queen of blades her main source of strength is the endless Zerg at her command. She can level a building with a swipe of her hand but a properly organized Terran force can kill her (or at least force her to retreat).
I don’t think it’s correct putting Zeratul and maybe Tassadar on the same level as an elemental that literally has domain over all fire and an ancient dragon that governs life. Tass possibly just barely makes the cut because he reaches some next level enlightenment stuff at the end of his life but all it really amounts to is turning himself into a warhead.
Now WoW stuff goes back and forth and the writers seem to constantly forget what they’re doing. Recently the players themselves seemed to be elevated to a near godlike existence as all the strongest heroes of the world look to you to do everything for them, so this can cause a huge discrepancy in power whenever they try to make anything impactful by just killing off whoever they please.
Arthas gets punked out because Tirion has some divine intervention card he pulls during the fight the trumps him. Then Tirion gets punked out by Gul’dan because it was still on cooldown or something.
I don’t think Uther belongs on the same tier as raid bosses, and Garrosh should be up a bench due to infusing himself with the power of an evil god. Zul’jin is a strong warrior but should be down a bench because he’s his WC2 iteration, where he’s only just that. No magical druid powers yet, just a troll with some axes.
Chromie time travels at will and if she wasn’t so stern on keeping things as they’re supposed to be or following some overarching path that is technically the best possible future for Azeroth, she could easily have someone killed before they ever come to power.
Blizzard just gets way too wonky, man.
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thx ^^
also ps: that old list is dead wrong and ik that now xD
arthas is actually alot weaker than he really is. he can be defeated by all ppl in his tier and some in tier B too. ( rag, alex pre nerf, tassadar) and the protoss are generally higher. rag is also stronger than the ppl in his tier. to put it into prespective:
lore for whoever is interested:
basically, the devs of WoW said that arthas is weaker than lei shen ( a big panda tyrant ) and lei has 99.9% of his power from a titan watcher, ra'den, who was too weak already due to his crippling depression. to beat ragnaros, tyr and odyn ( propably the strongest titan watchers ) teamed up and had to battle rag for weeks to defeat him. and the only reason they won was because they were made by the titans to resist fire. so yea
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Just ignore the comment I linked you with. Im not scrolling that whole list up xD I have only 70% battery left
Just ignore the comment I linked you with. Im not scrolling that whole list up xD I have only 70% battery left
Still is useful, Thx for sharing, Ana.
I don’t think Uther belongs on the same tier as raid bosses
Uther manage to win Arthas deathknight in single duel (and that same arthas won easily against illidan. I dont mean Uther will win everyone but he is a good fighter + the light is stronger in him than anyone else except when plot needs it. Its kind of the obi-wan of warcraft. Far from the best, but manage to win everytime with experience and will. Or thats my opinion jajaja
Regarded the protoss, we see artanis taking out at once around 20-30 zerglings + some hydralisks while taking some injuries, destroying his strong shield in the process. I really feel almost none of the warcraft main characters would take a bunch of zergs, they are pretty fast and strong, no matter how powerful they are. Warcraft characters are strong on average, but they wont last long in Koprulu sector. Same applies in Diablo universe. There, even mundane demons are pretty strong in raw power, and some have powerful abilities/magic, thats why nephalems have no contest. Wacraft characters are overrated and inconsistent writing makes them feel stronger.
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I always find it interesting people put Tracer lower than other heroes with guns. She can literally accelerate and rewind her time. As shown in animations/shorts/etc, she isn’t limited to just 3 blinks per-whatever, no restrictions on it at all. So she can blink up to anything, and dump a whole clip into their head, and if she’s injured at all, she can just rewind that. You’d have to kill her in one instance to really win, but she’s constantly accelerating her time, so good luck.
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Wouldn’t jimmy be tier 1 on the list?
He can just sugar coat Sarah to go destroy something for him.
Else he can vaporise a planet with hyperion.
I’d argue that Malthael belongs in tier S.
I think Illidan belongs in tier A
I think Sylvanas and Artanis belong in tier B
it is half true, that many main charachters cant take on a bunch of zerg like artanis at once, but some charachters just completely bypass the thing due to their insane power. basically, theyre so strong that it dosent matter if theyre fast or not. take deathwing, for instance. its true that he cant take a yamato cannon to the face, but against 90% of zerg creatures, he just roflstomps on them. ( idk if banelings can melt his armor but thats a different story 
, also dont know if he can beat a leviathan, maybe cause magic, but maybe not cause size )
take ragnaros. he dosent need to be fast to swing his hammer on a hydralisk. ( also dont know if banelings can melt the hammer )
my point is that some charachters in WoW can compete to starcraft standards, since there are very few actually strong charachters in SC and it all comes down to armies.
charachters that can join starcraft without the power scale difference imho:
-DW
-ragnaros ( and the elemental lords )
-medivh ( and the guardians )
-alexsrtraza ( and the dragon aspects )
-arthas ( barely yes, but he can still have SOME impact )
-sylvanas ( also barely, even with her new death powers )
- these charcahters are HOTS charachters, and also there will be several others who can join.
keep in mind, if we include all players and all created charachters ever made, with their really strong powers, they might just maybe, just MAYBE, be considered a fourth race. since they defeated already strong characters listed here as small groups, and these lore characters can be included, then it might be fair to add the adventurers, since they just become stronger with every lore kill. im not saying they can compete with space weaponry or black holes, but if they all work together, they can be a mini race.
sidenote: for the previous comment, about rag and the keepers and stuff, the molten beared of odyn is actually from his battle with rag, which is cool i just read that lol
Tier B is pretty high. illidan doesnt deserve same tier as Arthas (Lich king).
Malthael probably you are right.
Artanis seems about same power as alarak, but he is much younger, some kind of Anduin for his race. He has the potential to surpass Tassadar and become B or even A tier with all powers from different protoss societies. But I feel he is B right now. If this list would be about badassery, he would be S++ for sure.
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I only say that about Illidan because he faught Sargeras and didn’t die. He didn’t kill Sargeras so he loses points for that and he didn’t kill Arthas either but I want to believe he was stronger in Legion than he was at the end of The Frozen Throne.
Artanis took on Zeratul though and killed him so I think he should be at least the same tier. Debatable though because Zeratul probably wasn’t trying very hard because he didn’t want to kill Artanis but still. Artanis is pretty strong.
In his own tier by himself. He’s probably my favorite Protoss character, but I like all the Protoss characters.
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Pretty much all protoss deserve to be in that category. Even Karax.
I mostly play random in Starcraft, but protoss characters are really amazing.
For me, the best blizzard can offer besides Tyrael, Anduin Lothar, and some Warcraft 3 characters.
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But Artanis is one above the rest. 
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Man, I just saw the cinematic Artanis fighting a hybrid along Kerrigan.
+1 tier for our buddy.
I can’t think of very few characters who can defeat an hybrid, should be a metric to know strength.
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Zerglings and Hydralisks are relatively easy for most Protoss to take down but just the Psionic power involved in this scene is a good representation for how strong he is.
I totally agree with Murky at tier S.
An angry murloc is no joke.
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What Incarnation of Kerrigan would you put in your Hierarchy? Since her different Skins show her in at last three phases of her Existence. As Queen of Blades, as recovered human or as Ur-Zerg Queen of Blades?
Tracer should be at Level D, just think about it, a hero who can move and go back in time as much as he wants? Add to that the fact that she has not even discovered most of the functions that her chron throttle has, said this by herself and even in one of her voice lines she says, What will this switch do?
I don’t know, but leave her to the level of Raynor or Tychus who are absolutely immobile and too clumsy gives me a lot to think about.
Abathur is F? Hey now, he’s the backbone of the zerg army, constantly evolving it from the ground up. Also dehaka isn’t here!!! 
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