In Assassination Classroom, Class 3-E is made up of Kunugigaoka Junior High School students deemed to be failures who wouldn't amount to anything since they did not meet the school's ridiculously high expectations. However, these students were tasked with killing a creature who would be acting as their teacher for the year, which they named Korosensei.

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They found themselves motivated immediately, as the consequences for failure meant Korosensei would blow up the world. As a result, they devoted plenty of time to studying and training, becoming successful students as well as talented assassins. Although each student has their own talents, 10 of these students in particular showed exemplary skills in manipulation, knife skills, and shooting.

10 Yukiko Kanzaki Has Great Agility & Good Aim

Yukiko smiles as the sun sets

Yukiko used her talent in arcade games to hone herself as an assassin, boasting quick reflexes and excellent aim. When participating in the paintball battle with her classmates, she took out some of the students who were hidden a large distance away before she could even react, including the other group's sniper. She also has high agility to match her good aim, even managing to land a shot while she was upside down and in motion.

9 Kirara Hazama Strikes Fear Into Korosensei

Kirara is deep in thought

As one of the more proficient marksmen in the class, Kirara is able to become one with the shadows, blending in perfectly and catching other people by surprise. She also takes pride in her ability to strike fear into other people, even scaring Korosensei through her expressions alone. She has also been known to curse people, which has brought surprising physical changes to Korosensei's appearance. This makes it difficult to discern if he was just scared or if it really worked.

8 Toka Yada Excels In Tricks & Manipulation

Toka Running

Toka and a few of her classmates were able to subdue a group of armed men who were attacking Korosensei, and she is even one of the most talented female students when it comes to using a knife. However, her true strength is her ability to trick and manipulate others. She easily tricks someone into running away by showing him a yazuka emblem and pretending to be the daughter of a yakuza boss, putting her acting ability close to Kaede's.

7 Rio Nakamura Is Brilliant With A Good Grasp On Technology

Rio smiles

Rio is talented at using a gun, making her optimal when it comes to attacking someone from a distance. She has a good grasp on technology, which allows her to take apart and put together various things. Most notably, she is the most intelligent female student in the class, having spent most of her life being far more intelligent than the average student in her grade. Despite having high intelligence, she is a realist who doesn't take her opponents lightly, making her more difficult to defeat.

6 Hinata Okano Is Best With Knives & Her Kicks

Hinata sitting in the classroom

As a former member of the gymnastics club, Hinata has high agility and an ability to fight well at close range. She tends to rely on her kicks rather than on her fists, but this proves to be rather effective, as she has knocked out a fully grown man with a single kick to the face.

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Tadaomi Karasuma notes that her movements are capable of catching people off guard. On top of this, Hinata is one of the best when it comes to wielding a knife, ranking at the top of the class in this area of expertise.

5 Manami Okuda Is Crafty At Making Effective Poisons & Smokescreens

Manami sitting in the classroom

As Manami has a natural talent in chemistry and mathematics, she applies this knowledge to make a series of deadly poisons. Upon trying each poison, Korosensei tells her that these would be very effective on a normal person, although they have no effect on him. This skill makes her one of the deadliest assassins in the class, and she can even use her knowledge to make things that could help her in the midst of battle, such as a smokescreen.

4 Rinka Hayami Has Superb Accuracy & Kinetic Vision

Rinka grasps her arm with her eyes closed

Rinka has the best marksmanship of all of the female students, to the point where even professional assassins like Lovro Brovski acknowledge her skills and even want to recruit her. She has excellent accuracy and kinetic vision and is capable of taking down most moving targets.

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When cornering Korosensei during the class' island vacation, her bullet missed by a mere 30 centimeters. Her shooting skills only improve, as she has the accuracy to shoot the gun out of someone's hand.

3 Meg Kataoka Excels In Close Combat & Swimming

Meg stands next to her classmates

Tadaomi Karasuma stated that Meg has the momentum and constitution that rival the male students', making her as good as Hinata when it comes to close combat. Meg even shares Hinata's skills in handling a knife, as they both share the same rank upon assessment. She is also the best swimmer in the class since she was part of the swim team. Using this talent, she saved Kaede from drowning and she can even swim 50 meters in under half a minute.

2 Ritsu Goes Beyond What Is Humanly Possible As An A.I.

 

Ritsu greets her classmates with flowers

Ritsu is a heavy artillery A.I. who can adapt to her surroundings. With each assassination attempt, she can regroup and calculate her chances of success after modifying her actions. Holding four shotguns and two machine guns, she has even landed a hit on Korosensei by attacking his blind spot. She can hack into any software in order to get the information that she needs, meaning that she is not confined solely to her main body.

1 Kaede Kayano Increased Her Speed & Strength After Injecting Tentacles Into Her Neck

Kaede smiling

After injecting the tentacles into her own neck, Kaede became the strongest female student in her class. Despite the intense, ceaseless pain they caused, her acting skills made it seem as though nothing was wrong, and she was even able to make Korosensei lower his guard. By biding her time, she was able to discover Korosensei's weaknesses and use them to her advantage. The tentacles increased her speed and her physical strength, making her attempt to assassinate him one of the attempts closest to success at the time.

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