Madoka Kaname

"I know what I want now more than anything else, and I'm ready to trade my life for it. With no regrets." ― Madoka, to Kyubey

Madoka Kaname is the titular protagonist of Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Once a normal girl, she was roped into a conflict between witches and magical girls, and was offered to become one herself. Upon making her wish, she wiped out witches across the multiverse and ascended to a higher plane to become a goddess.

Stats[]

Attack Potency: Island Level (Parted the clouds over a city in a few seconds. As a witch, she was stated to be able to level the earth and reduce it all to dust) | Universe+ Level (Her skirt was stated to be the entire universe, which contains four spatial dimensions) | Higher Dimensional Level (5-Dimensional. Ascended to a higher plane of existence than the Puella Magi multiverse, which contains infinite universes and infinite timelines, as well as four spatial dimensions and a temporal one. After becoming a goddess, nobody could interact with her, nor could she interact with anyone else. Her realm is described as a "Meta-Conceptual Plane" with "No up, down, depth, or direction", and her individual arrows are able to Transcend time and places. Can further amplify her power infinitely with Tart's magic)

Speed: Massively Hypersonic (Comparable to Homura, who caught a bullet with her legs) with Speed of Light Reactions (Comparable to other Magical Girls that can dodge lasers [These lasers are described as such in the original translation, move in a straight line, and reflect off of surfaces] and concentrate sunlight into a heat ray through a mirror) | Massively Faster Than Light+ (Illuminated multiple galaxies in seconds with the explosion generated from her attacks), possibly Infinite (Her Shooting Star attack is said to fire an infinite number of arrows) | Omnipresent (Exists as a concept presiding over the entire Multiverse, and can see "Everything that has or will happen", all universes that "Could have been" and "yet may come to be")

Durability: Island Level (Is stated to be the strongest Magical Girl) | Universe+ Level | Higher Dimensional Level (5-Dimensional. Able to battle Ultimate Kriemhild Gretchen, who is comparable to her)

Hax: Immortality (A magical girl's body is essentially a puppet being controlled by their soul gem, and will regenerate from wounds so long as they have the magical energy for it, even from being decapitated), Reactive Evolution (Has a skill in PMMM portable that lets her become stronger when critically damaged. Magical girls can build up resistances to abilities over time), Healing (Can get rid of negative status effects and heal others with "Purifying Light"), Resurrection (Can resurrect others in PMMM portable with "Gospel of Resurrection"), Death Manipulation (Has a chance to one-shot any enemy with her "Purification" skill, and can one-shot all enemies around her with "White Light of Salvation"), Time Travel (Her arrows can travel through time), Pocket Dimension Creation, Reality Warping, Life Draining, Invisibility, and Mind Manipulation (Gains the powers of a Witch by using the Doppel technique. Witches can create pocket dimensions called barriers, warp reality and their opponents with a touch, drain the life of others, become invisible, and control their minds with a Witch's Kiss). Resistance to the powers of Witches (Magical girls are resistant to the powers of witches, often being the only ones unaffected in large groups of people) | As a goddess, possesses Conceptual Manipulation (Became a concept and ascended to a higher plane of existence, and stated that she would change any Law that would get in her way), Fate Manipulation (Stated by Kyubey to control the fate of many worlds, as well as being a singularity for Cause and Effect), Reality Warping and Existence Erasure (Rewrote the multiverse to fit her new laws and Erased every witch from existence. The concept of Witches no longer exists after Madoka's actions), Absorption (All magical girls become part of Madoka when they die). Should possess the powers of every other Magical Girl in the series due to having absorbed them and their magic into herself, including Time Manipulation, Time Travel (Homura Akemi can stop and travel through time), Magic Nullification (Mami's ribbons nullify magic, and Tamaki can negate attacks to herself multiple times), Stat Manipulation (Tart could upscale the power of her weapons infinitely), Damage Reflection (Corbeau can reflect damage to her enemies), Disease Manipulation (Corbeau can inflict a magical version of the Black Plague that affects other magical girls), BFR (Oriko's Doppel can send magical girls to another world)

Intelligence: Average (Is a regular 14-year-old girl) | Omniscient (Can see every universe, even those that don't exist, as well as everything that has happened and will happen) | Omniscient

Stamina: High (Magical girls can keep fighting so long as they have magic to do so with. Their bodies physically do not tire) | Infinite

Powers, Techniques, and Equipment[]

Powers[]

Connect: Magical Girls can fuse their powers with other Magical Girls to produce new effects.
Magic: The basis of all Magical Girl powers. This can be used in a variety of ways, from healing the user through their Soul Gem to amplifying their attacks with magic.
Light Manipulation: The main source of Madoka's powers. She is able to shape light into a variety of powers and shapes, including light that "purifies" and instantly kills enemies, light that heals and removes status effects, and hardlight constructs like arrows.
- Arrows: As an archer, Madoka's main offense consists of firing various types of arrows. These arrows can travel through time, turn into duplicates of Madoka herself, and weaken those struck by them. Madoka can fire hundreds, if not thousands of these arrows at once, which becomes even more powerful as a goddess.
Weapon Creation: Magical Girls fight by using their magic to create weapons.
Telekinesis: Magical Girls can control their weapons telekinetically, and recall them to their hands at any time.
Wings: Madoka is able to sprout wings from her back for flight.
Magical Sense: Madoka and other Magical Girls can sense witches in other dimensions, as well as detect despair and magic and communicate with one another telepathically.
Conceptual manipulation: As a goddess, Madoka's abilities all stem from this. Madoka herself has become a concept called the Law of Cycles, being the ultimate embodiment of hope. Through this, Madoka has become a singularity for cause and effect that exists outside of the multiverse and its infinite timelines, and she is able to rewrite any law that she wishes. This was used to erase the concept of witches across the entire multiverse, and create a "heaven" that other Magical Girls go to when they die.
Other Powers: Though she has not displayed these due to little onscreen combat feats, Goddess Madoka should have access to the abilities of all other Magical Girls, as they are absorbed into her upon their death. This would include abilities like Homura's time travel, Tart's ability to infinitely increase her attack power, and Mami's ribbons that nullify magic, among other things.
Healing: Goddess Madoka can rain down pink feathers onto a battlefield, that were able to instantly heal and recover the strength of all Magical Girls in the fight against Walpurgisnacht.
Doppel: A technique used by Magical Girls to summon a Doppel, a manifestation of their Witch that they would otherwise have become before Madoka's law. This Doppel functions as both a transformation and a summon, causing the witch to engulf and protect the user as well as fight alongside them. Doppels can use the abilities that witches once could.
- Witch's Kiss: A spell that controls the mind of someone else, causing them to become a servant and food source to a witch.
- Barrier: A pocket dimension born from a Magical Girl's mental landscape. Witches, and by extension Doppels, can pull others into this barrier, where they can warp reality to affect and hinder their opponents at will.
- Familiars: Witches are able to create and summon armies of familiars to hinder their opponents and protect themselves.

Techniques[]

Magical Arrow: Madoka's main Arrow attacks.
- Spread Arrow: Fires an arrow that splits into multiple copies.
- Twinkle Arrow: Fires a stronger arrow, amplified by magical energy.
- Magical Squall: Madoka creates a rain of arrows powerful enough to cover an entire city,
Pannier Rocket: Madoka turns herself into a large ball before firing herself at the enemy like a rocket.
Twinkle Staff: Madoka turns her bow-staff huge, using it to attack all enemies in front of her.
Shooting Star: Ultimate Madoka's technique used to defeat her witch, Kriemhild Gretchen. It was stated in the PSP game to fire an infinite amount of arrows at once.

Equipment[]

Soul Gem: The gem unique to all Magical Girls. This gem contains the soul of the user, their "True body", and allows them to puppet their physical body from the gem. A Soul Gem works from roughly 100 meters away, and most Magical Girls wear theirs as jewelry when they transform, such as Mami's headband or Homura's bracelet. A Soul Gem allows the user to shrug off fatal wounds, but if it is damaged or destroyed, the Magical Girl will die.
Bow: Madoka's main weapon as a Magical Girl, a mix of a Staff and Bow that can be used as a melee or ranged weapon freely. Madoka can change the size of this weapon and enhance it with magic at will.

Key[]

Magical Girl | Avatar | Goddess

Minor Feats[]

This section can be used to discuss any bit feats that help create consistency in a character's rating, as well as miscellaneous skill feats.

Attack Potency/Strength[]

Parted the clouds over Mitakihara city with the aftereffects of her arrows
Stronger than other Magical Girls, where even the weakest ones can create shockwaves with their kicks
Created an explosion that destroyed the earth and moon, and illuminated several galaxies
Recreated and rewrote the entire Multiverse as a goddess

Speed/Reactions[]

Her arrows reached the cloud layers in seconds
Can fire infinite arrows at once as a goddess
Should be faster than other Magical Girls, who can jump to the "Edge of the Universe", though this may be hyperbole
The light from her final attack illuminated several galaxies

Durability/Endurance[]

Magical Girls can keep fighting as long as they don't run out of magic, even if their heads have been taken off.

Skill/Intelligence[]

A skilled combatant as a Magical Girl, able to keep up with others, though she has few feats of her own due to her short screentime
As a goddess, is completely omniscient

Powerscaling[]

Madoka has been stated to be the strongest magical girl, even without her goddess abilities. As such, she should be above any other feat in the series, or at least comparable to them. As a goddess, she is the strongest being in the entire setting, including witches like Walpurgisnacht or Kriemhild Gretchen.

Weaknesses[]

Madoka herself is an idealistic non-combatant, who prefers not fighting her opponents, and took a long time to even decide to become a magical girl in the first place.
If a Magical Girl's soul gem is broken, she will die. If she gives into despair and runs out of magical energy, she will become a witch (Though as a Goddess, Madoka lacks this weakness, due to not having a soul gem).

Sources[]

VS Battles Wiki (For Scans and Calculations)
Character Stats and Profiles Wiki (Provided translations of japanese-only materials lacked by VS Battles Wiki)
Puella Magi Wiki (For episode transcripts and ability descriptions)

Versus Compendium's Conclusions[]

Notable Wins: Notable Losses:

Inconclusive Matches: