Our Meta page tracks the current tier list at a glance, but the three decks sitting at the top of the OP-16 format deserve a closer look than a one-line summary can give. Here's what actually makes each one tick — and why they're beating everything else in the room right now.
Green/Blue Monkey.D.Luffy — the deck to beat
This deck's defining trait is resilience. It draws from two separate character pools — the Impel Down breakout crew and the core Straw Hats — which means answering one side of the deck still leaves the other fully functional. That's unusual, and it's a big part of why the deck is so hard to disrupt.
Its game plan is simple to describe and hard to execute: flood the board early with small, efficient characters, then set up a single explosive turn using the leader's DON-untapping effect, which only activates while every character on board is from the Impel Down pool. When that turn comes together, it can restand attackers for ten or more hits — often enough to end the game outright. The tradeoff is real pilot skill required to sequence the board correctly; this isn't a deck that plays itself.
Purple Enel — the fastest clock in the format
Where Luffy wins through board development, Enel wins through pure speed. The leader effect ramps four DON and immediately attaches all of them, rested, onto a single character — which sounds inefficient but actually turns a cheap 1-cost character into a real attacker as early as turn one.
The payoff cards are Enel's 6-cost characters, which gain a further power boost and become genuinely hard to remove in combat. Backed by a suite of free 0-cost events for protection, the deck is built entirely around ending the game before slower decks get the chance to stabilize. If you're facing Enel, the matches tend to be short — you either have an answer to the early pressure, or you don't.
Purple/Yellow Donquixote Rosinante — the long game
Rosinante is the counterpoint to the other two: it doesn't race, it grinds. The deck leans on card advantage and incremental removal rather than an explosive turn, which makes it the most patient of the top three.
OP-16 gave it a genuine answer to big, hard-to-kill threats in the form of a power-reducing SR Sakazuki — shrinking an opposing character down to a size the rest of the deck can clear in a single attack. That's exactly the tool control decks usually lack, and it's a large part of why Rosinante has held its position at the top since release rather than fading once faster decks caught up to it.
What these three have in common
Despite very different game plans, all three decks share one trait: each has a clear, specific answer to the exact problem that usually beats its archetype. Luffy solves disruption with redundancy. Enel solves slow starts with an all-in early turn. Rosinante solves big threats with targeted removal. That's usually what separates an S-tier deck from a merely good one — not raw power, but having an answer built in for its own worst matchup.
Check the full tier list for the rest of the format, including the A- and B-tier decks and how they stack up against these three.