Who is most powerful in the Teen Wolf Universe?
This question comes up a lot in the Teen Wolf Wiki Discussions on the App.
For the purposes of this video – I’m just looking at the relative power levels of the
characters on the show and not at the full species or group that they represent.
I’m judging them based on four main criteria –
Durability or how hard they are to kill.
That means a healing factor would rank you high on durability but if you are primarily
a spirit form like a Hellhound or Nogitsune, you’d rank even higher because spirits in
this universe apparently can’t be completely destroyed.
The second attribute is Intelligence because obviously intelligence overcomes brute strength
on Teen Wolf so if you’re highly intelligent and think before you act, you are automatically
more powerful in the end.
Then comes how strong a character is physically.
While this can be important in hand to hand combat, it doesn’t actually help you win
the big fights on this show.
Then finally I considered abilities – those things that one character can do that are
beyond the abilities of other characters – Lydia’s scream and Jennifer Blake’s telekinesis
are examples of the kind of abilities I’m talking about.
Now that the ground rules are set – I can share my list of the most powerful individual
characters in the Teen Wolf Universe.
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Now on with the top ten most powerful in Teen Wolf – and since I’m a dessert-first kind
of guy - I’m going to start at the very top of the list.
The most powerful individual character in the Teen Wolf Universe is Void Stiles.
You don’t get to be a thousand years old without ranking high on both durability and
intelligence.
With the ability to possess people and control even those he doesn’t fully possess, cast
vast illusions and hallucinations as well as his seeming immortality; Void Stiles is
undoubtedly the most powerful individual to appear on screen.
Had he not been so overconfident, he might have defeated Scott’s pack.
In the end though, his single-minded pursuit of chaos and his belief that his enemies weren’t
actually a threat, left him vulnerable to Scott’s well-laid trap.
Next up is our resident banshee.
While Lydia ranks as average in durability and strength, she more than makes up for it
with intelligence and super human abilities.
Lydia was already a genius before her banshee abilities allowed her to glimpse the future.
As she learned to harness those skills, her scream rose to an earthshattering level allowing
her to punch way harder than any other character.
Being animated by a spirit-form Hellhound means the third most powerful on my list is
Jordan Parrish.
The hellhound that brought him back after an explosion on the battlefield grants him
unprecedented durability and strength.
His ability to control fire makes him a formidable opponent.
The only reason he’s not higher on the list is that his slavish dedication to his prime
directive of protecting the secret of the supernatural as well as his vulnerability
to anything having to do with the Wild Hunt and Ghost Riders means he’s easily manipulated
and that has cost the heroes on more than one occasion.
Number 4 is Jennifer Blake.
She was already a highly intelligent person.
But overall, she was a pretty weak human being.
Then she developed her ability to harness and use supernatural forces and that made
her a formidable foe.
Hers was one of the most impressive power levels seen on the show but she was so blinded
and obsessed with revenge that it led to her eventual demise.
Kira ranks kind of low for a Kitsune at number five because she didn’t know what she was
doing most of the time.
What do you expect though?
I mean, she barely found out she was a Kitsune before getting tossed into battle with all
sorts of supernatural threats.
Her strength level was always below average and she didn’t seem to have a mind for strategy.
Her fighting skills with a sword were above average.
But her ranking here in the middle is almost completely based on her ability to create
and manipulate electricity and lightning.
That level of power was unmatched by anyone else on the show.
If she’d actually known how to use her abilities, she would have ranked much higher.
Number six is everyone’s type.
Jackson as a full Kanima was dumb brute strength.
He was almost impossible to kill, but with no will power of his own, he was more a weapon
than a character.
However, after his full transformation was complete, with all the abilities of both Werewolf
and Kanima and all the raw confidence that only Jackson can muster - he is one of the
strongest and most durable characters in the Teen Wolf Universe.
I admit it’s a little weird that the werewolves on the werewolf show will rank lower than
the other creatures – but while they’re natural healing factor and other enhanced
senses make them far more powerful than the average human, in this universe, the werewolves
are near the bottom in terms of powers and abilities.
While his stats are very similar to the full werewolves, Theo ranks at number seven because,
as a Chimera, he is not vulnerable to mountain ash and the rest of the rules that trip up
the other were-folk.
He’s also been through literal hell and learned lessons that make him mentally stronger
than the rest.
Malia lands at number eight for a couple of reasons.
First, as a woman, her pain threshold is higher than her male counterparts and second, her
time fully transformed gave her highly developed animal instincts the other werewolves
can not match.
I’ll throw in Deucalion here at number nine even though his power levels have shifted
significantly during his time on the show.
In Season 3, he was very strong but too obsessed with creating a perfect pack to intelligently
use that strength.
Then as the final living member of the Alpha Pack, he lost some of the strength of the
group but retained his status and apparently learned important lessons from the experience.
The very bottom of the list is a tie – if I had to choose, Derek ranks slightly above
last place because, as a born werewolf, he’s had a lifetime to understand his nature.
While it didn’t often show in his skills, Derek is more experienced than Scott.
Yeah, it’s a little controversial to rank the central character of the show as the least
powerful, but I think they wrote Scott that way on purpose.
He was average in almost every way and still managed to take out the more powerful threats
by being clever and inspiring loyalty in those around him.
I feel like I need to justify this ranking more for some reason.
Look at the facts, Kira, number 5 on this list, almost killed him with electricity in
Eichen House and she wasn’t even trying.
Void Stiles ran circles around him mentally and Theo fooled him for weeks.
A lot of fans point to Scott’s refusal to go all monster killer as his primary weakness,
I don’t believe that because monster werewolves are stupid werewolves
and killers never win in the end on Teen Wolf.
While they didn't make the top ten, i should mention a couple of big names -
Peter Hale was powerful, no doubt.
He was clever, yes, but the stronger he got the dumber he got.
His obsession with revenge and his arrogance cost him the win more than once.
Another classic example of this power to intelligence ratio was The Beast.
Undoubtably he was the strongest werewolf in the Teen Wolf Universe, but he relied too
much on that overwhelming strength and completely discounted his opponent’s intelligence and determination.
That’s my list of the top ten most powerful individual characters in Teen Wolf.
If y’all liked this one I’ll follow it up with an overall look at which CREATURES would
be the most powerful if we discount things like personal failures and lack of experience.
In the meantime, please, tell me how wrong I am in the comments.