Ken Kaneki

Tokyo Ghoul · Artificial One-Eyed Ghoul, Ghoul Investigator (former), CCG's Reaper (former), One-Eyed King of Ghouls, Leader of the "Black Goat"

Post-Aogiri Arc

Tier
8-A, up to LOW 7-C
Attack Potency
Multi-City Block Level+, up to Small Town Level
Speed
Hypersonic+, up to Massively Hypersonic+
Durability
Multi-City Block Level+, up to Small Town Level

Owl Suppression Operation Arc

Tier
LOW 7-C, up to HIGH 7-C
Attack Potency
Small Town Level, up to Town Level+
Speed
Massively Hypersonic, up to Sub-Relativistic
Durability
Multi-City Block Level+, up to Town Level+

Pre-Rose Arc

Tier
8-A, up to LOW 7-C
Attack Potency
Multi-City Block Level, up to Small Town Level
Speed
Massively Hypersonic, up to Massively Hypersonic+
Durability
Multi-City Block Level+

Post-Rose Arc

Tier
7-C, up to HIGH 7-C
Attack Potency
Large Town Level, up to Town Level+
Speed
Massively Hypersonic+, up to Sub-Relativistic
Durability
Large Town Level, up to Town Level+

Post-Dragon

Tier
7-C, up to HIGH 7-A
Attack Potency
Large Town Level, up to Large Mountain Level
Speed
Massively Hypersonic+, up to Sub-Relativistic
Durability
Large Town Level, up to Large Mountain Level

Powers and abilities

  • One-Eyed Ghoul Physiology; Rinkaku Type
  • Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant (Kaneki is highly skilled in close-quarters combat, effectively using both his body and kagune in battle. He is able to read opponents, adapt to their movements, and combine physical strikes with kagune attacks to overwhelm them, such as when he knocked out two investigators by maneuvering around their quinque with acrobatic breakdance-like movements)
  • Information Analysis & Analytical Prediction (Able to predict, analyze, and adapt to opponents during combat)
  • Social Influencing (Instigating Fear, Coercion & Deception; Can use his experience of being tortured by Yamori to intimidate ghouls and terrify them into giving him the information he wants)
  • Instinctive Action (Kaneki has been stated to fight on instinct several times)
  • Power Mimicry (Capable of reading his opponents and learning to predict and mimic their techniques)
  • Enhanced Senses (Awareness; Could sense Shachi about to attack him from above without looking)
  • Surface Scaling (Able to scale on walls in Kakuja mode)
  • Supernatural Willpower (After being tortured and dismembered by Jason for multiple consecutive days, he stated that he no longer felt anything from his normal attacks, and proceeded to fight him while unbothered, despite a carnivorous centipede being stuffed inside his ear for the duration. He continued to fight and provoke Shachi, even though he had been utterly defeated in their previous encounter. Even if he were to lose again, it would only drive him to push himself even harder and become stronger than before. Should be comparable to his future self, who confronted Arima, whose mere presence could make ghouls faint upon seeing him and who had the appearance of a God. He continued to fight even while exhausted, with his perception distorted, body pierced, and eye and brain pierced through)
  • Biological Manipulation (In addition to ghouls' limited resistance to biological manipulation, which can cause rapidly developing cancer, paralysis, and destruction of the nervous system, Kaneki's body still retained human genetics despite his acquired ghoul physiology)
  • Poison Manipulation & Negation Regeneration (Low-Mid; Instantly reattached his arm and healed his damaged torso from bikaku quinque even though it should poison him and inhibit his regeneration)
  • Electricity Manipulation (Scales up to Matsumae, who can block T-Human's electricity with her kagune)
  • Pain Manipulation (After being tortured by Yamori, Kaneki has become highly resistant to pain, even twisting his own leg to escape grabs to counterattack)
  • Enhanced Supernatural Willpower (While he was in Kakuja Form, he restrained himself and didn't kill Amon)
  • Accelerated Development (Battle; The first time he encountered IXA and Narukami, he successfully avoided them until he was overwhelmed by Arima's power)
  • Fear Manipulation (He made a CCG soldier trained in fighting ghouls scream in terror and wet himself simply because he disarmed him)
  • Statistics Amplification due to controlled kakuja.
  • Rage and Madness (Type 1; Able to maintain sanity in kakuja form)
  • Fear Manipulation and Paralysis (Successfully copes with Arima's overwhelming aura, which causes ghouls to become paralyzed and even lose consciousness)
  • Enhanced Senses (Vision; Investigators are taught dynamic vision)
  • Multiple Selves (Type 1; Sasaki has another personality within him, the original personality of Ken Kaneki)
  • Limited Perception Manipulation (His performance alone replicated an image of a snake capturing its prey to Urie)
  • Weapon Mastery (His swordsmanship has been described as elegant as though he's controlling water)
  • Limited Underground Mobility (Can use his kagune to attack from underground
  • Superhuman Precision (Comparable to the best Special Class investigators who can kill an opponent standing behind them without even turning around, and make precise throws at a target in free fall, and are able to deflect multiple Kagune projectiles flying at them.)
  • Enhanced Instinctive Action (Should be comparable to Urie who can dodge attacks far faster than his perception)
  • Limited Attack Reflection (Similar to Juuzou Suzuya who is able to deflect a volley of dozens of Kagune projectiles, deflecting them to the sides)
  • Damage Boost via Weapon Mastery (Comparable to Kuroiwa who can cut through kagune using a broken blunt wall-hanger sword, despite the fact that ordinary weapons cannot harm ghouls at all)
  • Enhanced Information Analysis & Enhanced Analytical Prediction (Superior to Arima, being able to completely predict Arima)
  • Feints (Tricked Arima with kagune shout)
  • Limited Enhanced Regeneration Negation (High-Mid: Suppressing Kanae's regeneration, who can reattach a severed head, Eliminated Eto, who instantly recovers from Narukami's attacks and can instantly regrow a severed head)
  • Weapon Creation (Capable of creating cages and traps using his kagune)
  • Extrasensory Perception (Can detect when something is going wrong in the 24th ward)
  • Social Influencing (Leadership; After becoming the One-Eyed King, Kaneki leads hundreds of ghouls across different wards and in different fields such as communication, recon, and resource searches)
  • Absorption (He can eat and instantly digest opponents with his kagune. He surpasses Uta, who can swallow opponents whole)
  • Enhanced Electricity Manipulation & Extreme heat (30,000° C; No-sold an attack from Narukami)
  • Flight (Pseudo-flight; His Kakuja now grants him the ability to fly without requiring physical jumping and can remain stationary mid-air. Furthermore, it eliminates the need for physical movement, allowing him to maneuver freely)
  • Enhanced Regeneration (At least Mid; Should be far superior to before, up to Low-High with Reactive Evolution; He was reduced to a puddle and still regenerated from it. Kaneki shares the same RC-cell physiology as Rize, whose body and kakuhou were split apart and distributed among the Oggai before later being reconstituted into a single complete being. However, a kakuhou merely serves as a source and accumulation point for continuously renewing RC cells, meaning Rize did not regenerate from fragmented pieces of her kakuhou itself, but from RC cells that retained her biological information and sense of self. This is further supported by her statement that "you and I are one," indicating that she and Kaneki possess the same fundamental RC-cell-based physiology. Given that his post-Dragon body is effectively a living kagune composed of RC cells, he should be capable of reconstructing himself from a dispersed mass of RC-cell matter even after no solid parts of his body remain.)
  • Limited Enhanced Regeneration Negation (Low-High; Furuta was unable to regenerate his arm and failed to recover from the wound inflicted by Kaneki. He killed Dragon-Rize with one attack, which has the same physiology as him)
  • Enhanced Instinctive Action (Unleashed a barrage of kagune effortlessly, without any conscious intent)

Weaknesses

Using his Kakuja causes Kaneki to lose his grip on his sanity, Standard Rinkaku Type weaknesses. | Anything that reminds him of his past life can cause a mental breakdown. Mentally and emotionally unstable | None Notable | If his true body is removed from the Dragon, it will begin to collapse into individual tentacles | None Notable

Ranked #3 of 26 in Tokyo Ghoul by strength.

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