Kaiju Alpha Kaiju Tier List (August 2026)
Ranked on four things we can show you rather than on feel: published HP, how deep the unlock gate is, what Update 45 actually changed, and where the largest creator guides agree. Anything we could not source stayed off the table instead of being guessed into a tier.
S Tier
| Name | Role | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Destoroyah Final Form | 1.5M cells + double level-100 chain | The highest published HP in the game at 8,600 max, and the deepest gate: level 100 Aggregate with 100 kills AND level 100 Flying Form with 100 kills before you may spend the cells. |
| Space Godzilla | 500K cells + three level gates | The community wiki calls its Detonate the highest DPS potential in the game — upwards of 4,500 area damage on a short wind-up. 7,100 max HP. Photon Shield is unavailable while Crystal Garden is up, which is the real skill check. |
| Shimo | Unlock cost not published | Here on creator consensus rather than numbers: a 160,000-view showcase calls it the strongest kaiju in the game, and the guide culture around it treats the unlock as the hardest in the roster. No published stat line yet. |
| Godzilla Ultima | 1M cells | Priced second-highest of anything with a published cost. Stats are still unpublished on the community wiki, so it sits here on price and gate depth alone. |
A Tier
| Name | Role | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Godzilla 2000 | Buffed across four skills in Update 45 | 5,450 max HP — the highest of anything Update 45 touched — plus damage raised on skills 1 through 4 and max run speed from 9 to 13. Base HP was cut to 3,850, so it is fragile until you level it. |
| Kiryu | The Update 45 burst pick | Absolute Zero Cannon went from 2,000 to 3,750 max damage. Its cooldown went from 44 to 100 seconds in the same patch, which turns it from a rotation skill into a once-a-fight decision. |
| Monster Zero (King Ghidorah) | Ten skulls, one per server | The gate is time rather than cells, and it is the one gate a double-cell weekend cannot shorten. |
| Heisei Godzilla | 125K cells | Reworked in Update 45 — the headline change of the patch. Also a prerequisite: Space Godzilla needs it at level 100. |
B Tier
| Name | Role | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Biollante | 50K cells — the farming pick | 4,900 HP with wide area damage and mild cooldowns. The community wiki names it outright as one of the best early-to-mid grinders, because surviving inside a crowd is what maximises cell gain. |
| Showa Jet Jaguar | 50K cells, flies | 4,590 max HP after Update 45's buff, with cooldowns adjusted in the same patch. Flight makes it a strong skull-hunting body. |
| Showa Hedorah | 50K cells, flies | Same price bracket as the two above and no level gate. Stats are not published. |
| Megalon | 40K cells | Players note it can burrow to regenerate, which is a real sustain tool at this price point. |
| Showa Gigan | 35K cells, flies | The cheapest flier in the mid bracket. Stats are not published. |
C Tier
| Name | Role | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Jet Jaguar 1973 | 9,500 cells | 2,875 HP but described as extremely fast — the best early body for getting somewhere, not for winning once you arrive. |
| Godzilla 1955 | Free starter | 3,500 HP, the toughest of the free options, and slow with it. |
| Anguirus 1955 | Free starter | 2,750 HP. No gate, no cost, and no reason to keep it once you can afford anything else. |
| Godzilla 1954 | Free starter — the default | 2,400 HP, slow, low damage. The wiki's own advice is to avoid attacking anything bigger than yourself, which is a polite way of saying farm buildings and leave. |
Tier list revised:
How this ranking was built
Four inputs, in this order. Published HP where a stat line exists — the community wiki's infoboxes and the numbers Update 45 printed itself. Gate depth, because a kaiju locked behind two level-100 prerequisites is not competing with a free starter. What Update 45 moved, since a patch that raises one skill from 2,000 to 3,750 damage relocates a kaiju on its own. And creator consensus, used only where no numbers are published at all, and labelled as such in the note.
What we did not do is guess. Several kaiju that certainly exist — Titan X, MUTO Prime, Striker Eureka — have no published stats and no clear consensus, so they are on the kaiju list and not in a tier. A tier list padded with names the author has not sourced is the failure mode this page is trying to avoid.
Before you commit cells to anything above B tier, check the unlock requirements — the endgame picks cost levelling time on other kaiju long before they cost cells. Free rewards that shortcut some of that levelling are on the codes page.