Jump Showdown Character Tier List [Alchemist Part 1] — Best Characters Ranked

The best character in Jump Showdown is Godly Highschooler — and he is free. On the move data published for the current [ALCHEMIST PART 1] build, nothing else in the game matches his awakening: the Heaven's Equal activation is listed at 99.9% damage, and Heaven Piercer at 76%, rising to a full 100% if you clear its quick-time event with 10 or more points. Cursed Child is the closest rival, and the strongest starter pick is Unsealed Sorcerer.

Every fighter in Jump Showdown is a renamed parody — Unsealed Sorcerer is Gojo, Unwanted God is Kratos, Godly Highschooler is Jin Mori from The God of High School. All characters have a flat 100 HP, so every damage figure below is literally a percentage of a full health bar. New here? Start at the Jump Showdown hub and check the current codes list before you queue.

S Tier

Godly Highschooler — Free

Jin Mori from The God of High School, added sixth alongside Cursed Child in the "Fractured Times" update. His base kit is already the most punishing in the game: Renewal Taekwondo 9.81% on a 21s cooldown, Whirlwind Slam 12.5% on 19s, Dragon Dropkick 16% on 18s, and Triple Kick Counter at 15% on 18s. His wall combo adds 6.35%.

The awakening, Heaven's Equal, is what puts him at the top. The activation itself is listed at 99.9%. Inside it, Heaven Piercer does 76% on a 120s cooldown and converts to 100% if you land 10+ points across its six quick-time prompts — consecutive hits stack, so a clean run scores 27. Godlike Clash is a clash QTE worth 80.5% if you win it and 57% if you lose. Orbit Breaker adds 40.6% on 15s and Azure Dragon Kick 35.7% on 18s. His passive, Pressure Points, rolls on kill: 50% chance of a 1.2x speed and damage buff, 30% chance of a full cooldown reset, 20% chance of a slow or blind. There is no catch — he is main roster and costs nothing.

Cursed Child — Boss unlock

Chara from UNDERTALE, unlocked by beating the Cursed Child boss. The boss has 777 HP and shifts into a second phase the moment it drops to 450 HP or below — roughly 58% of its bar, not the 40% figure that circulates on aggregator sites. Phase 2 grants it four new moves and its attacks hit for about double their playable values, so bring help.

The payoff is the deepest awakening in the game: Cursed Remedy 70% on 16s, Special Hell 75% on 15s, and Seven Souls 70–80% on 44s if you hit both sliders dead centre. Reset counters for 50% against whoever triggers it and 25% as AoE — which also damages you. The base kit backs it up: Onslaught and Feral Takedown for 17% plus 9.5%, Bloody Mary 19% on 21s, Lethal Wound 12% on 18s, and Fight for 12% on a centred slider or 4% mistimed. Her passive, Damage Indicator Check, is a flat damage increase.

A Tier

Unsealed Sorcerer — Free

Gojo, and the first character ever added to the game — which is why he is the pick we give new players. His base moves are Zero Hour 8% on 21s, Lapse Blue 15% total on 20s, Reversal Red 10% on 23s and Palm Strikes 10% on 19s, with a 10% wall combo. Nothing spikes, but nothing is dead weight either.

His awakening is NO MORE HOLDING BACK... Ruthless Massacre closes at 70% on 100s, Max Blue 37% (10.5% on the miss variant) on 17s, Singularity Red a 9% poke on 3s, and Infinite Void a 40s utility lock. Maximum Output — Purple scales 20–100% and eats the whole awakening bar, but it is conditional: land Inhumane Speed and melee Max Blue first. His passives are Reverse Cursed Technique, which heals him, and Honored Chant.

Unhinged Esper — Free

Accelerator from A Certain Magical Index, and the second character added. His passive, Vector Reflection, is the reason he is here: it makes zoning him a losing proposition. Base kit is 13% on 19s, Soundwave Punch 15% on 15s, Tectonic Control and Blink Strike for 3% plus 5% on 21s, and Accelerated Punishment 7% on 18s.

His awakening, Level 5 Esper, is genuinely strong — Power Display 60% (40s on hit, 17s on a whiff), Vector Grasp 47% on a short 10s cooldown, Carnal Revolution 43% on 32s, and The Strongest at 70% as a one-time use on a 100s timer. What keeps him out of S is his base damage floor, which is the thinnest of the free roster.

B Tier

Greatest Psychic — Free

Reigen from Mob Psycho 100 — the roster's joke pick with real teeth. His moves are SELF DEFENSE RUSH!!!, SALT PUAAANNCH, GET A JOB YOU BUM!!! and GO GREEN BLOB!. The trouble is the numbers: 4.8% and 7.5% on two of them, with SALT PUAAANNCH at 15% carrying the base kit.

His 1000% awakening, however, is not weak — a claim this page previously made and has now removed. 1000% exorcism does a full 100% if the stomp connects, EMOTIONAL DAMAGE 60% and Mask Remover 40%, and he has a separate Mob Mode with ERADICATE and CRASHOUT. His passive, Spirit Link, raises damage and heals 25%. He sits in B because you have to survive on a very low base output to reach any of it.

Unwanted God — Free

Kratos: the most consistent base kit in the game, and the least documented ceiling. Chaos Barrage 15% on 16s, Leviathan Rush and Slam 11% combined on 19s, Leviathan Throw 5% plus 2.5% on the recall, Draupnir Spin 6.5% on a fast 9s. His passive, Guardian Shield, extends perfect-block range.

His awakening is The Rage of War. Spartan Rage is documented at 41%; Natures Arsenal, Rageful Tackle and Father Son Bonding have no published damage values, so we are not going to quote any. On what is actually documented, his awakening ceiling is the lowest of the six main-roster fighters, and that is what places him here.

Edgerunner — Free

David Martinez from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, added seventh in "The Hornet Update" alongside Short Alchemist and Silk Weaver. Adrenal Bash does 7.5% on a quick 13s cooldown, Servo Cannon 12.5% on 16s, Overclock Strike 13% across all three hits on 22s. Sandevistan Counter deals 0% by design — it repositions, it does not damage. His awakening, Cyber Skeleton, has no published damage values, so he is placed on base-kit data alone.

Sub-characters

Sub-characters are roster members built differently: instead of unlocking a new moveset on awakening, they get a single powerful attack. That trade-off is real, so ranking them against the main roster would mislead.

Living Blade — Free

Anubis from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and the best-documented sub-character. Possession Flurry does 15% on 15s — joint-highest base move in the game — with Crypt Cutter 11% on 16s, Wailing Fang 9.5% on 25s and Evil Spirit 8% on 10s when landed. His awakening, Phantom Dominion, is a single 100% hit, and he carries three passives: Pose, Foresight and Bloodlust. Earlier versions of this page put him bottom for "below-average damage"; on the published numbers that is simply not true.

Not Ranked, and Why

We are not going to guess a tier to make a table look complete. These are in the game but do not have enough published data to rank honestly:

• Short Alchemist (Edward Elric) — the Early Access character the current build is named after, with an explicitly unfinished kit. The wiki lists Reconstruct Final at 25% on 15s and Deconstruct at 4%/7.5% on 16s, and little else. Awakening: Limit Breaking. Passive: Transmute.
• Silk Weaver (Hornet) and Burning Star — sub-characters with no published move damage; Burning Star's page is still a stub.
• The Conquered and Meaty Michael — World Events only.
• World Class Candy Maker, Mr Prince and The Red Mist — donator and exclusive characters, not generally obtainable.
• Skill Builder movesets — Build Mode lets players author their own characters and share import codes. Community builds such as Vergil are not roster characters and only run in private servers.

Summary Table

How We Ranked These Characters

Being straight about this: we did not run a controlled PvP test series, and we are not going to claim we did. Every damage percentage, cooldown and passive above comes from the individual character pages on the official Jump Showdown Fandom wiki, whose Characters index was last edited August 18, 2026. We weighted four things: base-kit damage against cooldown, awakening ceiling, passive value, and how conditional the big numbers are — a 100% move behind two quick-time events is worth less than a 75% move that just needs to connect.

Three things were corrected in this pass, and they were wrong for months:

• No character is sold as a gamepass. Checked against the Roblox game-pass API on August 19, 2026, the store sells VIP, Early Access, Awakening Outfits, Kill Sounds, Private Server +, Extra Emote Slots and Extra Emote Pages — that is the whole list. Only Early Access gates a character, and only Short Alchemist, temporarily.
• "Wukong" and "Godly Highschooler" are one character. Jin Mori is the Monkey King — the staff in Heaven's Equal is Nyoibo. Listing him twice, once as "event-limited", inflated S tier with a fighter that does not separately exist.
• Black Flash is not a game-wide block mechanic. It appears only in Unsealed Sorcerer's Ruthless Massacre cutscene and as a Zero Hour variant — not a universal perfect-block counter, and no part of this ranking.

Where the wiki has no number — Father Son Bonding, the Cyber Skeleton moves, anything on Burning Star — we left it blank rather than estimating.

Jump Showdown in Numbers

All figures pulled from the Roblox games API on August 19, 2026:

• 261,901,739 visits lifetime
• 375,861 favourites
• 240,572 likes vs 69,715 dislikes — a 77.5% approval rating
• Around 1,000 concurrent players at this check — an off-peak morning reading, so expect materially higher at peak
• 16 players per server; created July 16, 2024 by Jimpee's Cabin, public release March 2025
• Current build tag [ALCHEMIST PART 1], with a "Short Alchemist full release" event listed by the developers

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