Blue Lock: Best Dribblers, Ranked

Summary

• Rin Itoshi has impeccable dribbling skills to maneuver past defenders and score crucial goals.
• Kenyu Yukimiya is Japan’s top one-on-one player, overwhelming opponents with his speedy dribbling.
• Meguru Bachira’s instinctive dribbling skills make him an elite playmaker on the field, leaving rivals puzzled.

Blue Lock project aims at creating the best striker in the world so that Japan can finally win the World Cup. Jinpachi Ego’s ideal forward is an egotistical goal-scorer with unparalleled technical skills, including dribbling. While the facility is home to some of the best strikers with a strong penchant for goal-scoring, dribbling does not come naturally to everyone. Even among them, only a talented few are able to compete or perform at the level of international prodigies and national superstars. Here are some of the best dribblers that feature in the series based on their impact and skill.

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Rin Itoshi

Blue Lock’s Best Player

• Manga Debut: Chapter 40
• Anime Debut: Episode 11
• Position: Forward
• Skills: Dribbling, Flow State, Puppet Control, Spatial Awareness, Kick Accuracy

Although Rin Itoshi’s playing style is not heavily reliant on his dribbling skills, he has worked hard enough on it to leave very few technical flaws. In crunch situations, he has shown remarkable confidence in his dribbling to go past some of the best defenders and score brilliant goals for his team.

You guys don’t learn at all, do you? I’m staking my life on each moment here.

Rin’s well-rounded playing style incorporates feints, marseille turns, occlusion breaks, and nutmegs. When he is in the flow state, he has demonstrated that his dribbling can even neutralize his prodigious brother Sae and overwhelm entire defensive lines.

7

Kenyu Yukimiya

Bastard Munchen’s Offensive Midfielder

• Manga Debut: Chapter 93
• Anime Debut: Episode 24
• Position: Forward, Left Wing, Offensive Midfielder, Side Back
• Skills: Dribbling, Speed, Gyro Shot, Flow State, Sword Screw

Kenyu Yukimiya is argubaly Japan’s best one-on-one player. He relies on his street dribbling style to get past his opponents at incredible speed. When he is in the flow state, Yukimiya takes things to a whole new level by performing La Croqueta in quick succession to overwhelm the defense line. He is one of the most talented dribblers from Blue Lock.

6

Meguru Bachira

FC Barcha’s Center Forward

• Manga Debut: Chapter 1
• Anime Debut: Episode 1
• Position: Foward, Side Back, Left Wing
• Skills: Dribbling, Passing, Bee Shot, Flow State

Meguru Bachira is an instinctive footballer who loves to challenge himself and is always on the lookout for better opponents to compete against. He is one of the best playmakers at Blue Lock who has turned the game on its head many times for his team.

My greatest weapon is my dribbling.

Bachira’s ability to leave rivals puzzled primarily relies on his incredible dribbling skills. He is so good at it that it is sometimes almost impossible to take the ball from him in one-on-one situations. He beautifully incorporates nutmegs, marseille turns, midair elastico, and rabonas into his gameplay, making it difficult to decipher his thought process and, in turn, contain him.

5

Sae Itoshi

• Manga Debut: Chapter 4
• Anime Debut: Episode 2
• Position: Forward, Midfielder
• Skills: Perfect Kick Technique, Dribbling, Passing, Reflex, Metavision

Sae Itoshi is a passive dribbler who likes to play the waiting game in order to decipher technical flaws in his rivals. Once he has them figured out, he likes to sneak past them with one fluid movement, leaving no option for recovery.

In the game against Blue Lock Eleven, Sae single-handedly exposes the fault lines in their defense using his superior dribbling. It appears that his unique technique is quite advanced, and only international players with years of experience can stand a chance against him, as Ego’s mentees struggle to even understand his moves.

4

Alexis Ness

Bastard Munchen’s German U20 Star

• Manga Debut: Chapter 157
• Position: Offensive Midfielder
• Skills: Dribbling, Passing, Flexible Ankles

As an offensive midfielder, Alexis Ness understands that he is expected to create goal-scoring opportunities for the strikers, and he is incredibly good at it. The consummate dribbler is almost impossible to stop because of his flexible ankles and hyper-rational technique, which makes him a nightmare for the opposition.

A violation of loyalty to Kaiser. That’s your first yellow card.

With no wasted movements, Ness dribbles past even the best defenders to control Bastard München’s flow of offensive play. In the Neo-Egoist League, teams struggle to contain him, especially in the presence of prodigious strikers like Michael Kaiser.

3

Noel Noa

Jinpachi Ego’s Former Teammate

• Manga Debut: Chapter 1
• Anime Debut: Episode 1
• Position: Forward, Defensive Midfielder, Side Back
• Skills: Dribbling, Off-the-ball Movements, Ambidexterity, Physique

Regarded as the best striker in the world, Noel Noa is a French striker who plays for the national team and also represents Germany’s Bastard München. While his success can be attributed to many factors, dribbling is without a doubt one of his biggest strengths.

Noa is so skilled at dribbling that he can move at high speed without making a mistake, almost as if he were a machine. If that alone does not make him a frightening striker to defend against, Noel truly shines because of the ambidexterity that allows him to dominate at the highest level of football.

2

Leonardo Luna

The Scion Of Real Madrid

• Manga Debut: Chapter 87
• Anime Debut: Episode 23
• Position: Forward
• Skills: Dribbling

Leonardo Luna is a professional Spanish footballer who is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world. In the Spanish League, he represents the strongest club in the world, Re AI, which is also home to world-class players like Sae Itoshi.

As a striker, he relies heavily on his dribbling to exploit the opponent’s weak points and score goals. His weapon is further bolstered by his swift reflexes and intuition. Jinpachi Ego rates him quite highly and picks him for the Team World Five to test his mentees.

1

Lavinho

Brazillian Master Striker

• Manga Debut: Chapter 155
• Position: Forward
• Skills: Perfect Dribbling, “Rising Dance”

FC Barcha’s top-scorer, Lavinho is a dangerous striker whose perfect dribbling technique allows him to glide past defenders without breaking a sweat. He has developed a unique playing style by inculcating elements of Afro-Brazillian martial arts and dance, Capoeira, which allows him to move in a way that only the best in the world can follow.

When Lavinho is at his best, he uses his technique called the Rising Dance to take on two opponents at once. He first performs a rainbow flick to outsmart the first, then goes on to use him as a wall to stop other players from intercepting him. Rising Dance is an extremely technical and stylish move that showcases Lavinho’s superior dribbling and strategic thinking at its very best.