Akatsuki: the most powerful members

There have been many antagonist groups in Naruto. The seven swordsmen of the mist, Taka, The 5 ninjas of sound... yet none is as emblematic as the criminal organization with the red cloud: Akatsuki. ☁

Akatsuki was founded by Yahiko with the aim of protecting the Hidden Village from the Rain. The Second Order was created by Nagato to continue Madara's plan to fulfill the prophecy written on the Uchiha Stele , and Obito's Third Order of Akatsuki was a continuation of Nagato's. Subsequently, Akatsuki was taken over by Shin Uchiha, and seemed to have no purpose other than maintaining Akatsuki's existence.

Let's examine the most powerful members of this criminal organization so symbolic of the ninja world! 🐱‍👤

15. Juzo Biwa

Juzo Biwa is from the Village Hidden in the Mist 🌫, and he harbors intense hatred for his former village.

Despite this hatred, his village esteems him highly as one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist . His prowess with his sword made him a legend even before he joined Akatsuki and became Itachi Uchiha's partner. Juzo's skills made him a potential candidate to become the kage of his village before he left it.👋🏻

14. Hidan

Fans remember Hidan because of the importance of his role in the arc with Shikamaru Nara. This member of Akatsuki has incredible abilities such as being immortal.💀

With his abilities, he doesn't need to be the strongest ninja, he just needs to survive and outlast others. It took a lot of ingenuity and preparation for Shikamaru to end Hidan's reign . And even after all that preparation, Shikamaru just knew how to bury Hidan alive.⚰

13. Deidara

Deidara is a very outgoing shinobi. He has mouths on his hands and a very explosive set of jutsu.💥

Deidara mixes his chakra with clay to create explosive creatures. He is especially capable of competing against some of the strongest ninjas in the series such as Gaara or Sasuke at the start of Naruto Shippuden. This is impressive, as few other shinobi are capable of successfully facing them alone.🏆

12. Konan

Konan holds a high rank in the organization, although members like to think that they are all equal. After all, she is Pain's advisor and right-hand woman.

His ability to channel his chakra through paper📜, and even transform his body into pieces of paper, is incredibly unique for the series. Enemies may have misjudged her, but she is certainly one of the strongest members Akatsuki has ever had. 💪🏻

11. Kabuto Yakushi

Yes I know what you're thinking, one might wonder if Kabuto was officially a member of Akatsuki. However, while working under Orochimaru🐍, he infiltrates the ranks of the criminal organization , causing him to be included on the list.

Alongside Orochimaru, Kabuto learned a multitude of techniques, each more dangerous than the last. Kabuto is a powerful ninja who has more than one trick up his sleeve, as proof, he plays a major role in theFourth Great Ninja War arc. He's a survivor , and he'll use all the powerful techniques he has to get out of many situations alive.🃏

10. Sasori

Sasori is a puppeteer who served as both a puppet maker and assassin before joining Akatsuki. His most impressive assassination was killing the Third Kazekage , and subsequently made him into a powerful puppet. He has turned many people into puppets over the years, including his own parents and himself.👨‍👩‍👦

Because he himself was transformed into a puppet in his youth, he has the appearance of a young boy. He is capable of wielding a hundred puppets at a time for each finger.👆🏻 All his weapons are infused with poison.🩸 He is a very tough ninja.

9. Itachi Uchiha

Itachi is the older brother of Sasuke Uchiha 👦🏻, he is known for the massacre of his entire clan, except his brother, long before joining Akatsuki. He was a member of the Anbu as an assassin alongside another member of the Uchiha clan named Shisui, who was killed by Danzo. Danzo gave the order to wipe out the Uchiha clan , and it was Itachi who carried out the deed.

Itachi possesses one of the most formidable eye jutsu in Akatsuki, he capable of using Tsukiyomi, which can create agenjutsu world in which he can control all matter, space and time, thus creating infinite copies of himself. He can use the Susano, which allows him to seal people and have a big strike force, and he can control destiny itself, using Izanagi and the Izanami.

8. Bread

Pain is the animated corpse of Yahiko, the founder of Akatsuki although he is actually remotely controlled by Nagato. 👺

Pain possesses the Rinnegan, which gives him access to a wide variety of techniques and multiple points of view. He can control gravity using Shinra Tensei and Chibaku Tensei, and he is able to use the Six Paths, which allow him to summon powerful animals, summon the God of Death, tear away the people's souls, to make their bodies cybernetic🦾, and several other techniques. He can also resurrect people he has recently killed.

7. Kakuzu

Kakuzu joined Akatsuki in hopes of increasing his fortune🤑, and he is known to be one of the greediest people in the Shinobi world. It is known that he actually killed several Jinchuriki, including Fuu and Yugito, and that he killed entire villages alone, without any help from Hidan.

Kakuzu managed to make himself immortal by doing business with demons by letting them enter his body and obtaining five hearts❤, each of them represented on his body by a mask that uses different natures of chakras. It is so durable that Matatabi and Kakashi are incapable of harming it under normal circumstances.

6. Kisame

Kisame, nicknamed the Tailless Demon , is a man who possesses many of the qualities of a shark, having been trained by one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist, the former wielder ofSamehada . He tamed this sentient sword and learned to fuse with it at will, being in full control after the fusion.

Kisame is known as the "Tailed Demon", known for having both the chakra reserves and power of a tailed beast. He fights by constantly draining his opponents' chakra during battle, and he fought Killer B🐙. During his second encounter with Killer B, he managed to drain most of his chakra and return to Akatsuki with information.

5. Zetsu

Zetsu is undoubtedly one of the most intelligent and influential characters in all of Naruto. As one of Kaguya's "sons", he planned for millennia to bring her back to life. He actually wrote the prophecies on the Uchiha Stone, to set in motion the events that would lead Madara to convey his wishes to Nagato so that he could create the Second Order of Akatsuki. The prophecy was just Zetsu's giant plan.

A group of weaker Zetsu clones were created en masse, capable of covering a lot of ground and killing a lot of people. The Black Zetsu is capable of taking on powerful people, to the point that Madara was defeated once and for all because the Zetsu latched onto him and caught him off guard with a finishing move.🔪

4. Orochimaru

Orochimaru 🐍has traveled the world of Shinobi, and he is perhaps the most knowledgeable ninja since Hagoromo when it comes to jutsu. He joined Akatsuki to study the jutsu that the Akatsuki use, and his ultimate goal is to become truly immortal and unlock the secrets of multiple forbidden jutsu.

One of the great things about Orochimaru is that he's hard to get rid of permanently, he has more than one trick up his sleeve👜. Many genjutsu users have managed to get Orochimaru into their techniques, and yet he always manages to escape. Orochimaru was locked away by Itachi, but he still managed to come back. Orochimaru can also use the Edo Tensei technique.

3.Obito Uchiha

Obito is the founder of the Third Order of Akatsuki, and a former disciple of Minato, the Fourth Hokage. Although he was presumed to have died many years ago as a child, he secretly watched over Kakashi during his missions and helped him in times of need without getting caught. He was ultimately the cause of Minato's death. He joined Akatsuki under the pseudonym Tobi, the Masked Man.🎭

Obito has an even greater genjutsu than the Kotoamatsukami, being able to keep Yagura under his control for many years without Ao noticing, although he immediately noticed the use of the Kotoamatsukami . Obito then inherited the Rinnegan 👁 previously used by Nagato. He also became the jinchuriki of the Ten-Tailed Demon.

2. Madara Uchiha

Madara was the first person Zetsu involved in his plan to bring Kaguya back. Madara is also capable of using Tsukiyomi, Izanagi and Izanami, and with his Rinnegan.

Madara perfected his Susano until he became destruction incarnate. He defeated the ruling Five Kage at the time of the Fourth Great Ninja War. He eventually became the Jinchuriki of Jūbi, gaining power that was said to approximate that of Hagoromo, who is the first user of ninshu, and is also the being who created the moon. 🌑

1. Shin Uchiha

Shin Uchiha is a being created by Orochimaru . Shin ends up fully awakening his Sharingan, then clones himself several times until he recreates the entire Uchiha clan.⛩

Shin was a threat to Naruto and Sasuke. In terms of stats alone, he far surpasses the rest of Akatsuki.