I don’t think there is anyone who haven’t heard the name NARUTO atleast once in their life. Especially if that person is an anime viewer. In recent times naruto has become even more popular than Dragon Ball Z. An anime which was once considered the pionner of the popular shounen genre.

Naruto manga was written by Masashi Kishimoto, it started serialized in Shueisha’s magazine, Weekly Shōnen Jump from September 21, 1999, to November 10, 2014. The anime with the same name premiered on October 3, 2002, and concluded on February 8, 2007, after 220 episodes. But the whole story of naruto is divivded into 2 parts. First part ran for 220 episodes and a second part named Naruto: Shippuden premiered on February 15, 2007 and concluded on March 23, 2017 after 500 episodes. So Naruto anime consists of 720 episodes. Unfortunately most of the episodes are fillers. [“Filler” refers to a story in an Anime that was not in the Manga. These are created as a result of Anime production sometimes outpaces the Manga.]

Before the main topic, I would like to mention one other Transformation post of Vegeta is available on my website.

During the story, the main character also named Naruto Uzumaki acquires a couple of forms. In this post I am going to rank those forms based on their strength. Unlike other animes these forms and their names are little confusing (the names weren’t officially given by the creator, they were created by the online community), and most of the forms aren’t that different from one another except minor changes. I felt this while I was watching the anime. So for the viewers I have made this ranking.

In the Naruto universe these forms are called as “Mode”.

Naruto Transformations Ranked:

Toad Sage Mode

Naruto Uzumaki went to Mount Myoboku to train under Fukasaku and Shima in the art of the Sage Mode. Its power was such that Naruto could easily overpower all Six Paths of Pain with it. Not only did his strength and sensory perception get boosted to incredible heights. But his chakra control improved significantly as well. Nonetheless it had many problems firstly Naruto was unable to complete his training because of Pain’s attack on Hidden Leaf. Second, to enter this mode Naruto needs to meditate to gather the chakra from nature which takes a lot of time. And during the time of mediation Naruto’s body is vulnerable to any types of attacks. Finally to maintain this mode Naruto’s body needs to continously absorb chakra from narute which was tough for him during that time.

Partial Nine-Tails Chakra Mode

With the help of Killer Bee and Kushina’s essence Naruto subdued Kurama and extract a portion of his chakra by force. That chakra gave birth to, what is only known as partial nine tails chakra mode. It was only a tiny amount of Nine Tails Chakra. But was enough to keep up or beat the fourth raikage’s speed. The shadow clones created with this chakra was able to overpower Kage level enemies with ease. The speed of this mode was so fast that Naruto was able to outrank his father, who was known as the Yellow Flash of the Hidden Leaf. This mode helped Naruto during the early stages of Fourth Great Ninja war. But soon got outclassed by likes of Madara Uchiha.

Kurama Chakra Mode

Half way through Fourth Great Ninja War, Kurama finally decided to join forces with Naruto after getting impressed by his conviction and finally decides to lend him all of his chakra willingly. After gaining full access to Nine Tails Chakra, Naruto appeard in Kurama Chakra Mode or simply Kurama Mode. In this mode Naruto was able to deflect the strongest attacks of 5 other Tailed Beasts without much effort. This mode put up against Obito, who had the Rinnegan and Hashirma Cells embedded in him.

Tailed Beast Mode

In order to go against all the 5 tailed beasts controlled by Obito, Naruto released Kurama’s chakra to create this mode. In this mode the chakra of Kurama takes the avatar of the Nine Tailed Fox. This mode also had enhanced healing. And Naruto could surround others inside this mode to protect them and heal them at the same time. Simply put is was the Kurama version of Susanoo! The only problem with this mode was, Naruto and Kurama could only maintain this form for 5 minutes because it was the first time they were working together. But by the end of the Fourth Great Ninja war, they solved this weakness.

Six Paths Sage Mode

Naruto gained this mode after receiving the Six Paths Yang chakra from Hagoromo Otsutsuki. It mixed with the chakras of all the Tailed Beasts. By combining all the Tailed Beasts Chakra with Kurama’s Chakra and then putting Sage mode into the mix, Six Paths of Sage Mode was created. This mode is very distinct in appearance and a bit complicated in terms of creation. In short Naruto combined all the Chakras he received until that time to create this mode. This mode was so strong that it got equal footing against the likes of Six Paths Madara and later Kaguya Otsusuki.

Ashura Mode

Ashura Mode was the strongest mode in NARUTO universe, Naruto entered this mode during his final battle against Sasuke. It is called Ashura because this form of his greatly resembles the battle avatar of Asura Otsutsuki . It is a mixture of Six Paths of Sage Mode and Tailed Beast Mode. Naruto accessed this form by collecting a huge amount of natural energy and then merges two Kurama clones with his own. This mode was the only thing that stood against Indra Susanoo’s ultimate attack named Indra’s Arrow by releasing Six Paths: Ultra Big-Ball Rasenshuriken. The clash of those two attacks were so deadly that it destroyed the Valley of the End.

Conclusion:

I should mention for those, who have already watched the anime know that there are some minor forms I haven’t add to this ranking because those forms aren’t that distinct in apperance than other forms. For example the form where Naruto mixed Toad Sage Mode with Kurama Mode and his eys gets the plus (+) sign, it was very hard to notice. Another one was since the start of the anime Naruto has been borrowing kurama’s chakra whenever he was in trouble and that chakra appeared in the form of a cloak surrounding Naruto’s body, that wasn’t also a proper form.

During his fight against Pain, Naruto transforms rapidly growing six tails and by the end he grows eight tails. All these changes were very fast and weren’t that significant in terms of appearance and strength. Because from the start he was overpowering Pain and not to mention the animation was very bad. And finally ‘Baryon Mode’ [the strongest mode], Naruto entered this mode in Boruto anime, which is another anime and this ranking is based on NARUTO anime.

Thank you for staying until the end!