From least to most Smartest characters in Death Note (DN Edits)

[minsified]

Never forget that This all happened because apparently ryuk was bored

[andychen]

L is so smart that he got twice the screen time.

[catskilsha]

“A world without Light would be dark”

-L

[inyowalls]

If Light didn't kill Naomi, death note would've been over in 5 episodes.

[User-Angel-]

Naomi solved the Los Angeles BB murder case she definitely deserves more credit for her work not only that she was almost the reason light was caught.

[SpunkMcKullins]

Bro did not need to put Matsuda below Misa 💀

[vinaysolanki]

The story writter of "death note"
is the SMARTEST GUY 😂✌

[ultimatedeletion]

Light fought whole Japanese investigators and police department
While he was in high school

[MalleusDraconia-jbsj]

No way Near is smarter than Light and Mellow, if Mellow wouldn’t have made that move, Mikami would have never made that mistake writing Takada’s name and Near would have died. So all the credit goes to Mellow and he knew he was going to die, so that it could be easier for Near to capture Light, and plus Near didn’t deduce the fact of a fake notebook

[Chamth]

I love how ryuk laugh in every serious situation 🤣🤣

[lawlietenthusiast]

C'mon everybody knows that Ryuk is the mastermind behind this anime🗿

[Lily-uihc]

Light should be second though 🤷‍♀️
Near alone cannot surpass him

[allisonargent]

Light is smarter than Near, he said so himself and only outsmarted him with all the clues left by Melo and L

[thatguybutitsactuallyagirl]

Naomi was able to literally debunk Light's entire truth in just one setting. Be for real

[annie_murchie]

I feel like Naomi deserves a higher ranking, she was smart af

edit: damn i posted this over a year ago and y’all still commenting on it- 😭

[them]

When you are the main character, but get shot by the least smart character in the anime

[Rabie_Sahyouni]

Light is smarter than Near...although Light lost he did prove that he's smarter the plan was perfect but the writer wanted Light to lose making a fake deathnote in one night is definetly impossible

[ThethMilkman]

It looks like Light couldn’t hide in the darkness for long this led to him taking a massive 𝐋 as the end was 𝐍𝐞𝐚𝐫 for him.

[sourcandy]

Light lost just because of other's carelessness to me he's a true genius

[jaybee]

Naomi is canonically one of the best detectives for the feds. I’d put her a bit higher