Unlike the Justice League shows, Young Justice mainly focused on the sidekicks, minor characters, and tier-2 superheroes in the DC roster. While they may not be as strong as the main JL members, they still have plenty of strengths and zeal to get things done. From Robin to Superboy to Artemis, the Team is stacked with superheroes.
The following ranking will primarily focus on strengths, especially physical powers. A brilliant strategist with no punching power ranks low here, while a brute-force alien or clone ranks high, even if their tactics leave something to be desired. Feats shown across the series, comics-adjacent power sets, and consistency of display all factored into placement.
12. Robin
Robin’s low ranking does not mean that he is a useless member of the team. In fact, he is a great fighter and can take on any opponent. But he has no superhuman strength. Just like his mentor, Batman, Dick Grayson is a trained fighter, not someone granted heroism by superpowers.
Every takedown he pulls off comes from gymnastics, precision striking, and exploiting an opponent’s weak points rather than overpowering them. He can hold his own against far stronger foes through sheer technique, gadgets, and misdirection, but in a pure strength contest he loses to nearly everyone on this list.
11. Tigress/Artemis
Artemis is a phenomenal archer, having trained with the best and coming from a family of assassins. Her bow and variety of arrows give her a lot of versatility. She had a power-up when she became Tigress, during her time undercover with the Light. Her combat style became more ruthless, and she let the darkness take over her.
Still, she does not have superhuman strength compared to other members on this list. She is well-trained and has a great mindset to fight. Her rank reflects that her effectiveness comes from skill and equipment rather than raw force, even though she’s consistently one of the team’s most reliable members in actual combat scenarios.
10. Zatanna
We come to the first superpowered individual in the list. Zatanna’s magic is capable of many things in terms of sheer strength and force. She can hurl stuff, flatten cars, and generate telekinetic force, giving her great destructive potential. However, her powers are a bit inconsistent, as it depends on her spellcasting under pressure.
When her magic connects cleanly, she can rival much stronger characters. But because her strength is conditional and situational rather than an innate physical trait, she ranks in the middle-lower tier despite flashes of genuinely high-end power throughout the series.
9. Rocket
Rocket’s belt generates force fields that let her fly, create protective barriers, and project concussive blasts strong enough to knock out or repel powerful enemies. This makes her effective strength almost entirely tech-dependent rather than personal.
She’s used her field to block attacks from metahumans and even briefly contain dangerous energy, showing real upper-tier potential. She ranks here because her power ceiling is high but throttled by the limitations and battery life of her equipment, unlike characters whose strength is simply always available to them.
8. Static
Virgil Hawkins’ electromagnetic powers let him generate powerful electrical blasts that manipulate objects. His magnetic force can strike opponents from a long distance, and he has faced trained enemies with ease. If there are metals or magnetic objects nearby, he is nearly unstoppable.
He ranks in the upper-middle tier because his power is genuinely dangerous in the right conditions, even though he lacks the raw, unconditional physical strength of the show’s Kryptonian, Amazonian, and Martian-tier characters.
7. Beast Boy
Beast Boy’s superpowers allow him to access the physical strengths of any animal when he transforms. From elephants and T-rexes to lizards and rhinos, Beast Boy can do them all. However, at base level, he does not have any raw physical strength to fight, and he has to transform to land those punches.
When he commits to a large enough animal, he can match or exceed several metahumans in raw power, which is enough to place him solidly in the middle of the pack rather than near the bottom with the non-powered fighters.
6. Blue Beetle
The Scarab bonded to Jaime grants him a living alien armor capable of generating weapons, enhancing his physical strength dramatically, and adapting to combat threats in real time. Early on, his strength is inconsistent because he’s still learning to work with the Scarab’s aggressive suggestions, but as the series progresses, his power output climbs noticeably.
Feats include tearing through armored vehicles and trading blows with metahuman opponents. He ranks in the upper half because his ceiling is genuinely high, even if his control lags behind characters with more innate power.
5. Kid Flash
Wally West’s strengths lie not in his raw physical power but in how he uses his kinetic momentum to manipulate objects around him (showrunner Greg Weisman famously established that the Speed Force does not exist in the Young Justice Earth-16 continuity). As one of the fastest speedsters, Kid Flash can use his speed to defeat even the most powerful opponents and save people in peril. Vibrating molecules, generating high-speed impacts, and moving fast enough to create powerful physical effects all give him strength that scales with velocity.
He’s used speed-based force to knock out enemies far bigger than himself. He ranks above several traditionally stronger characters because speed-generated force is a legitimate and often underrated form of strength, even though he can’t match sustained superhuman muscle output in a straight contest.
4. Aqualad
The Atlantean’s physiology grants him many powers, including enhanced strength, which is capable of opposing the strongest metahumans. He is consistent and reliable, and does not get affected by external factors. He works best when he is underwater, and his combat skills there are unmatched.
He ranks in the top half because his strength, while not reaching alien or Amazonian extremes, is dependable, substantial, and backed by real feats against dangerous threats throughout both the League and Team storylines. He also has one of the best growth arcs in Young Justice.
3. Wonder Girl
Cassie Sandsmark’s demigoddess heritage (as the daughter of Zeus) gives her immense strength and raw power, though it does not surpass Wonder Woman’s. She can lift heavy objects and throw them at opponents and can give fierce competition to some of the most powerful metahumans in combat.
Her strength is consistent, innate, and grows more impressive as the series progresses and she gains more experience using it. She ranks near the top because her power level is genuinely elite, with only experience limiting her abilities.
2. Miss Martian
M’gann’s Martian physiology gives her substantial innate strength, but it’s her shapeshifting and telekinesis that push her into the top tier. She can physically alter her body to increase size and power, while simultaneously using telekinetic force to lift, crush, or throw objects and enemies with tremendous force.
This combination of physical and psychic strength gives her some of the highest single-target damage potential on the team. She ranks second because her ceiling, when fully unleashed, rivals or exceeds nearly every other character, held back only by her own reluctance to use it fully.
1. Superboy
Connor Kent is cloned from Superman’s DNA and hence has the superhuman strength that the Kryptonian has. He is consistently the most powerful member of the Young Justice team and has proved not just with his raw power but also with other physical abilities that he can be the most powerful person in the world.
He can tear through solid structures, oppose powerful metahumans, and is independent of tech. He tops this ranking because his strength is essentially unconditional Kryptonian-derived force, showing the highest floor and among the highest ceilings of any major member, with no need for spells, tech, or extra conditions to hit that level.
| Rank | Young Justice Member | Key Strength |
| 1 | Superboy | Superman DNA and extreme superhuman powers |
| 2 | Miss Martian | Martian physiology |
| 3 | Wonder Girl | Amazonian heritage and training |
| 4 | Aqualad | Atlantean physiology |
| 5 | Kid Flash | Speed Force |
| 6 | Blue Beetle | Scarab’s alien powers |
| 7 | Beast Boy | Access to various animals’ physical powers |
| 8 | Static | Strong electromagnetic force |
| 9 | Rocket | Belt provides energy blasts and flight abilities |
| 10 | Zatanna | Supernatural magic |
| 11 | Tigress/Artemis | Trained archer |
| 12 | Robin | Trained fighter under Batman, flexibility, and tech |
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Young Justice is available to stream on HBO Max.
