Summary
The world ofMy Hero Academiais filled with quirks, each one being more interesting than the last. With only 20 percent of the population not having a quirk, this means the number of quirks that exist is limitless. However, not every quirk is as strong, and having elastic eyeballs won’t give you a chance against someone who can turn entire cities to ashes with a single touch.
These are the best quirks in My Hero Academia, not just the strongest ones. While a quirk like Katsuski Bakugo’s Explosion may have more destructive power, the versatility provided by Eraserhead’s Erasure would put it above the former.
Updated on July 09, 2025, by Asad Kashif: With Kohei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia finally ending, we got to see a lot more of what the characters were capable of. From seeing the true strength behind Shigaraki’s Decay to realizing what exactly separates Deku from All Might, the last arc changed a lot of what we knew about quirks and how strong they can be. We’ve added these in, as well as some strong supportive quirks that helped clutch in the war against All For One to present you with the best quirks in My Hero Academia.
12Compress
Shrink Things Down
Compress isn’t a quirk many have on their list when they think of strong abilities. It doesn’t have the same level of strength as All Might’s One For All, nor can it damage opponents with the same potency as Endeavor. However, this widely underused quirk may be one of the strongest powers in My Hero Academia.
Compressed allows the user to shrink anything they touch down into a marble. This is usually done on objects or hostages. However, there’s nothing that stops Compress from touching the strongest people of the verse to immediately capture them, since even All Might has no way of escaping the marble from inside once Compress is activated.
11Erasure
Erase Others' Quirks
In a world where quirks are everything, the ability to nullify anything anyone can throw at you turns every unfair scenario into a simple brawl. The quirk reduces every battle down to who’s a better combatant, even if you’re facing powerhouses such as All Might or All for One.
Erasure is also excellent as a supporting quirk, taking away the enemy’s quirk and letting your allies, who still have their quirks, overwhelm them. It fits Aizawa’s personal combat style as well, with his metallic alloy-capturing weapon giving him an advantage over quirkless individuals with no way of keeping up with him.
10Manifest
Become What You Eat
The quirk doesn’t mean you become a sentient drumstick upon consuming one. Rather, it gives you the ability to manifest parts of the food you consume. You become your own personalized chimera, with an excuse to eat whatever you want to eat.
Tamaki, one of the Big Three in U.A, uses the quirk to manifest wings, tentacles, claws, shells, and much more. He can even target specific abilities belonging to the animals he consumes, such as an octopus’s ability to camouflage upon eating some fresh takoyaki.
9Copy
Mimic The Quirks Of Others, Albeit Temporarily
While not on the level of All for One, the ability functions in largely the same way. It lets Monoma copy quirks belonging to other users by touching them. He can hold multiple quirks at once, but can only use one at a time, having to switch to another before being able to use it.
Monoma cannot make use of accumulation-type quirks such as One for All or Fat-Absorption.
The versatility and freedom provided by this quirk let Monoma keep up with and beat Deku in a one-on-one battle until the latter’s quirk went out of control. What gives this quirk an edge over other quirks is that in scenarios involving large crowds of people, there’s no knowing what quirk Monoma currently holds, and no stopping him from copying another.
8Fierce Wings
Take Control Of Individual Feathers
Hawk’s Quirk can only really be controlled by him. He was raised as a child to be able to fully make use of said quirk, and any normal hero wouldn’t be able to use it even half as effectively. However, when in possession of Hawks, the quirk becomes one of the most versatile abilities in all of My Hero Academia.
Fierce Wings grants the user complete control over a seemingly infinite number of feathers. Each feather can be sharpened and telekinetically controlled to fly around and pierce targets. They can also be grouped together to form shields or swords. Furthermore, each feather can be used to sense targets, making Hawks’s quirk the single best tool for intel gathering.
7Decay
Turn Everything To Ashes
In any world, including that of My Hero Academia, there are few powers stronger than instantly destroying anything (or anyone) you touch. Having a quirk that’s almost a hack to one-shot anyone in existence so long as he can get his hands on them, Shigaraki Tomura’s Decay is one of the strongest quirks in existence.
Even in its base state, it was causing problems for U.A students and Pro Heroes alike. However, once Shigaraki awakened the true nature of the quirk, he could level entire cities down from a simple touch, taking it from being a broken ability to one that’s unrivaled in its destructive prowess.
6One For All
A Quirk That Gets Stronger With Each Generation
The quirk belonging to the former number one hero, All Might, as well as the series protagonist that eventually turned into the greatest hero, Midoriya, seemed quite simple at first. It was a quirk that gave the user superhuman abilities, and the ability to pass the quirk down to a successor.
It was later revealed that the quirk strengthened with each successor, with Deku having the strongest version of it. The quirk’s deemed the strongest quirk in the series through sheer power alone, with All Might’s fists being able to overpower entire cities.
5Deku’s One For All
Everything One For All Has, And More
One For All powers up with each new successor, yes, but the version Deku has is almost a completely separate quirk from what we’ve seen All Might possess. Sure, in terms of pure OFA power alone, Midoriya can’t achieve 100 percent of it without breaking his body, but the other qualities he gained from the quirk let this version surpass All Might’s.
The main reason behind the quirk being better is its stockpiling of quirks belonging to the previous One For All users. With some utility quirks such as Smokescreen, Danger Sense, and Black Whip, Deku becomes more all-rounded, being able to have a quirk combination to deal with any position he could be put in.
It gets scary with quirks like Fa Jin and Gearshift, letting Deku combine these with One For All’s superhuman strength to achieve speed and magnitudes of power beyond even prime All Might.
4Overhaul
Deconstruct And Reconstruct Matter
There are many strong quirks in the series, but there are few that can keep up with Overhaul. The quirk functions similarly to Shigaraki’s Decay, letting Kai Chisaki deconstruct anything he touches down to the atomic level. What makes this quirk better in many ways than decay is that Overhaul can also reconstruct whatever he’s broken down.
It’s revealed later on that Decay is a copy of Overhaul, with the half that repairs objects ripped away to further isolate Shigaraki for All for One’s plans.
This gives Overhaul infinite freedom in how to utilize his quirk. He can heal injuries, reshape terrain, or use it like decay, instantly killing someone by touching them. It also has some more horrifying uses; being able to merge people together, giving the chimera quirks belonging to both of the original humans.
3New Order
Give Rules To Objects And People
We only got to see Star and Stripe’s New Order for a brief moment against her fight with Shigaraki, but it was enough time to solidify the quirk as one of the strongest ones in the series. The quirk lets you set up rules for anything you touch and can call the name of, including people.
New Order has a limit of two rules being activated at any given time. Cathleen always had one rule that strengthened her own body to superhuman levels.
In the show, Star and Stripe used the quirk to create a huge manifestation made of air, to hold several destructive lasers as a sword, and to give her own quirk the ability to eat other quirks. The only reason she lost was due to Shigaraki’s internal identity conflicts with All For One, since it stopped Cathleen Bate from forcing a rule on him.
