About fightelo
fightelo is a place to settle "who would win?" arguments. Pick a side on any matchup, leave a take, and watch the rankings shift.
What is ELO?
ELO is a rating system originally designed for chess by Arpad Elo. Each fighter starts with a baseline rating; when they win a matchup their rating goes up, and when they lose it goes down. How much it moves depends on the gap between the two ratings: beating someone much higher-rated is a bigger jump, losing to someone much lower-rated is a bigger drop.
On fightelo, every vote on a matchup nudges both fighters' ELO. That means a fight between two near-equal opponents barely moves the needle, but an upset (low-rated form beating a high-rated one) creates a real swing. Draws split the difference.
We track ELO at two levels:
- Global ELO — a fighter's rating across every vote, ignoring universe. Useful for cross-universe comparisons (Goku vs Superman vs Naruto).
- Universe ELO — a fighter's rating within a single universe (Naruto, Marvel, etc.). Tends to drift higher or lower than the global, since universes have their own competitive ecosystems.
Anything above ~1200 is "above average for the pool", and the higher you go the rarer it gets. The Fighters page is the simplest way to see who's currently on top.
Forms and matchups
A "fighter" can have multiple forms — Naruto has Base, Sage Mode, Six Paths Sage Mode, etc. Each form has its own ELO, since clearly Six Paths Naruto is not the same as kid-Naruto. When you vote on a matchup, the specific forms on each side are what get rated, not the fighter as a whole.
That's why fighter pages have form tabs at the bottom — each tab is a separately-tracked rating.
Universes
Universes group fighters by source material (Naruto, One Piece, DC, etc.). Join universes you care about to bias your home matchup feed toward fights you'd actually have an opinion on.
Credits
Fighter portraits and the lead descriptions are scraped from publicly-available Fandom wikis (Narutopedia, OnePiece Wiki, DC Database, etc.). Image rights belong to their respective owners; fightelo just uses them in the spirit of fair use to identify each fighter. If you're a rights-holder and want something removed, get in touch — see the privacy page for the contact email.
Contact
Questions, bugs, takedowns, or feature ideas: hello@fightelo.com.