"Gun Gale Online," commonly known as GGO, is a VR game that appears in "Sword Art Online," commonly known as SAO, which became the most popular media mix work among teenage boys and girls in the 2010s. While many SAO VR games have a strong fantasy feel, with people fighting with swords and magic, GGO is popular for its realistic world view in which people fight using real guns. Due to its unique style, GGO has even been published as a spin-off work, "Alternative Gun Gale Online," and is so popular that it has been made into an anime. Here, we will introduce the 10 strongest characters from this popular work, ranked in order of their strength.
【Gun Gale Online】10th place in strength: Fukajiro
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
Fukajiro is the best friend of Ren, the main character of "Alternative Gun Gale Online", and in GGO he fights using a six-barreled grenade launcher. Fukajiro's real name is Shinohara Miyu, and in the real world, he is a gamer who plays a variety of VR games. Since GGO allows you to convert status from other games, Miyu's Fukajiro was a strong avatar from the start.
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
In other games, Miyu's character development was centered on strength, and she can move around with two heavy six-barreled grenade launchers despite her small body. In terms of simple attack power and destructive power, she is definitely in the top class in GGO, and she also has a great sense of shooting. However, the 6-barreled grenade launcher is quite slow, so it doesn't seem like it would be effective against characters with high agility.
【Gun Gale Online】9th place in strength: Eva
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Eva is the leader of a female team called "SHINC." SHINC is a very intimidating team of large women, but in reality they are a group of cute, short high school girls in the real world. SHINC is quite skilled in team battles in GGO, and as they are a group of friends, they work well together. Even the main character M has a hard time with them, so they may be the strongest team.
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Eva, the leader of SHINC, is a leader after all, so she seems to be a cut above the rest. She is a reliable presence within the team, and she is often the one who survives to the end, so I ranked her 9th. She may seem like the type who pushes forward with determination, but she is actually quite a strategist and is a capable player who makes action choices that take advantage of the adult players. By the way, the team name SHINC is a play on the name of the rhythmic gymnastics club.
【Gun Gale Online】8th place in strength: M
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The 8th place in the GGO strength ranking is M, the heroine (lol) from "Alternative Gun Gale Online". In the spinoff, he seems to be the heroine, so I will introduce him as such (lol). He appears the second most after the main character, Len, so M is an important character in the spinoff. In real life, he is a handsome man. Some may think that M is a little stronger, but GGO is full of strong characters, so I think that's about right.
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
He has a shield made of rare metal that was possessed by Death Gun, who nearly defeated the main character Kirito in the main story, and has a fairly high defensive power. In addition, his main weapon is a large assault rifle called the M14EBR, and although it is an assault rifle, it boasts an effective range comparable to a sniper rifle and has taken down many strong enemies with it. He also seems to be a skilled marksman in real life, and fires without relying on bullet circles or shooting lines. If GGO were a real war rather than a game, he might be the strongest.
【Gun Gale Online】7th place in strength: Pitohui
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
In the spin-off work "Alternative Gun Gale Online," Pitohui boasts unrivaled strength and commits as many massacres as possible. You might think that since she's the main character, Ren's, greatest enemy, she'd be somewhere around the top three in strength, but even Pitohui was eliminated in the preliminaries of Bullet of Bullets, commonly known as BoB, held in the main story of SAO. In other words, if you look at GGO as a whole, she seems to be in the middle ranks, which is why she's ranked here.
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
The characters in the main story of SAO seem to be stronger overall, but among the characters in AGGO (Alternative Gun Gale Online), she is definitely one of the top three strongest. Because she has a huge amount of assets, she has purchased various weapons in GGO, and she is also strong enough to choose flexible tactics according to the battle situation. She also has enough strength to defeat the player in hand-to-hand combat, and her fighting ability is considerable. She is actually a surprising character in the real world.
【Gun Gale Online】6th place in strength: Yamikaze
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
Although he is very obscure, Yamikaze, who was the runner-up in the second BoB, should be strong. Based on the depiction in the work alone, Yamikaze may seem inferior to Pitohui, but he boasts an agility that even Sinon is surprised by, and furthermore, Yamikaze came second in the BoB competition, where Pitohui was eliminated in the preliminaries. Considering his history, it is natural to think that he is significantly stronger than Pitohui.
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
He is considered to have a higher player skill than Zexide, who won the second BoB, and Zexide was actually killed in real life, so we will exclude him from the ranking. I think that if Yamikaze had fought properly in the third BoB, he would have been a strong enough player to put even Kirito and Sinon in danger. However, he was surprised by a stray bullet from Death Gun and was shot by Sinon, making him an unlucky character who was taken out before he had a chance to show his true abilities.
【Gun Gale Online】5th place in strength: Ren
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The protagonist of "Alternative Gun Gale Online", Ren, is acknowledged by himself and others to be "lucky", and including that, I think he is stronger than Yamikaze. In fact, the accuracy of GGO's bullet circle seems to depend on luck, so even if Ren fought Yamikaze, who was unlucky and easily defeated, it seems likely that he would win (although it is unclear whether luck is a barometer for the game system).
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
Ren is the main character, so he is very skilled, and he uses a submachine gun called P90, which uses bullets with high penetration power, to defeat enemy players with overwhelming strength. Ren's strength comes from his quick movements, which are made possible by his high agility, taking advantage of his small size, so depending on the situation, he may be able to fight on equal terms with Kirito, the main character of the main story, who is the same type. By the way, in the real world, Ren is a 183cm tall female university student named Kohiruimaki Karen.
【Gun Gale Online】4th place in strength: Sinon
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Raising the ranking above the spin-off's protagonist, Ren, is the heroine of the main story, "Phantom Bullet Arc," Sinon. Even though it's a spin-off, Ren is the main character, so I wanted to rank him higher than Sinon, but Sinon is famous in the spin-off and gives the impression of being a strong player, so he's probably stronger than Ren. Since he won BoB, an individual competition, albeit by teaming up with Rito, I think he could aim for victory in SJ, a team competition.
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
Sinon has extremely accurate shooting techniques in long-range shooting of 1000 meters and almost never misses. Therefore, Pitohui, who was sniped so easily, is no match for Sinon, and Sinon would be able to successfully snipe all the characters in Alternative Gun Gale Online, who are generally weaker than the main story.
【Gun Gale Online】Strength 3rd place: Death Gun
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
Death Gun had the impression of being cowardly, but even if he fought Kirito in a fair and square battle, he was still overpowered by him at the time. Therefore, he may have been the strongest player in the third BoB, let alone Sinon. He was equal to or better than Sinon in sniping and better than Kirito in swordsmanship, so he is extremely strong. With his strength, he could have just fought fair and square in GGO and beaten him to a pulp without having to go to the trouble of killing Zexide in real life... I think...
【Gun Gale Online】Strength 2nd place: Subtilizer
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
Subtilizer is a character who boasts extraordinary strength, winning the 4th BoB using only unarmed combat and weapons he picked up. Even Sinon, who won the 3rd BoB with Kirito, was no match for him. He also won the first BoB, using only a knife and a handgun. Even though he was such a talented player, he wasn't even mentioned in the third BoB, and wasn't even taken seriously in Alternative Gun Gale Online; he's the kind of character who is so strong that they just ignore him.
【Gun Gale Online】Strength Ranked 1st: Kirito
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
I think the strongest character in GGO is Kirito, the main character of the story. Since this is GGO, I wanted to put the spin-off's main characters, Len or Sinon, in first place, but Sinon was defeated before she could do anything against Suberizer, and even though Len is strong, I think it would be difficult for him to beat the top three. In comparison, Kirito can become infinitely stronger with the power of his feelings, so he'll probably end up winning against Death Gun or Suberizer, who are stronger than him.
【Gun Gale Online】Strength Summary
Source: Gun Gale Online © Keiichi Sigsawa/KADOKAWA ASCII Media Works/GGO Project
As expected, the characters in the main story are generally stronger than those in the spinoff "Alternative Gun Gale Online". Pitohui, who is not without a doubt the strongest in AGGO, also came in 7th, and if the rankings were more detailed, Pitohui might not have been ranked at all. Even the main character of the spin-off, Ren, might not have made it into the top 10. It seems that the strength of the characters is overwhelmingly greater in the main story than in the spin-off.
