(01/01-2026) – This is it.
After twelve long months of camping low levels, fleeing real fights, logging off in panic, calling friends for backup, failing anyway, and repeating the same mistakes with religious dedication, the moment has finally arrived.
Throughout 2025, an impressive number of gankers have distinguished themselves. Not through skill. Not through courage. Not even through basic situational awareness. But through persistent, creative, almost artistic stupidity.
Month after month, they returned to the same places.
They attacked the same targets.
They died in the same ways.
They learned absolutely nothing.
Some of them earned bronze.
Some clawed their way to silver.
A few reached gold.
But now, all medals, honorable mentions, and repeated humiliations are on the table.
In this final article, every contender of 2025 is brought together. Alliance and Horde. Rogues, warriors, Death Knights, and assorted cowards. Alts included. Excuses ignored.
Only one title matters now.
Only one ganker will be crowned.
Welcome to the final reckoning.
Welcome to The Most Stupid Ganker of the Year 2025.
Final Rankings
First, the list of nominees.
In parentheses, you can see the total number of times each nominee has been killed. For some, the count starts in July 2023 due to technical issues with my add-ons and the retail WOTLK client.
After that:
B = Bronze
S = Silver
G = Gold
HM = Honorable Mention
Now, let’s look at the proud contenders for The Most Stupid Ganker of 2025.
Alliance: Bbqsix (HM), Cajj (G), Diazayus (B), Doktorche (HM), Fantta (G + HM), Getcandyx (S), Izikiil (HM), Lesleymyhr (HM), Livanski (HM), Loshbatko (B), Madzx (HM), Raspunzel (HM), Siviticu (HM), Spriite (S), Toastytoast (G), Vilearts (B), Xoniwan (S)
Horde: Crazypriestt (HM), Keepal (HM), Papataliban (HM), Zucc (G + HM)
Third Place – Bronze
Fantta
Third place goes to Fantta.
Why?
First of all, because he is so stupid that he keeps dying in the same place, in the same way, over and over again. And not just this year. He has been doing this for years. That level of consistency in failure requires dedication. You do not achieve that accidentally.
Fantta does not learn. He does not adapt. He does not evolve. He simply respawns and repeats.
Second, Fantta is so stupid that in a competition designed to reward stupidity, he is too stupid to win first place.
Let that sink in.
Among dozens of gankers competing for the crown of absolute idiocy, Fantta somehow manages to fall short. He is not spectacular enough. He is not exceptional. He is just endlessly, depressingly, facepalm-inducing.
And believe me, over the years I have encountered an impressive number of stupid people. Fantta is not only stupid in a unique way. He is also persistently stupid.
Second Place – Silver
Zucc
Zucc appears to have permanently moved into Lakeshire. He is excellent at killing low levels and Flight Masters, which is, of course, the highest expression of PvP mastery.
He has had multiple 1 vs 1 fights against my paladin, one of the characters guarding the area.
He lost every single time.
Not one win.
Not one close call.
Nothing.
And yet, he kept trying.
Things changed after a memorable 2 vs 1, where he showed up with a rogue-friend and still they managed to get both killed.
After that, Zucc suddenly discovered the advanced PvP technique known as “running away”.
Now, the moment he sees my paladin, he flees with impressive enthusiasm.
This forces me to log over to my rogue, wait patiently, and let Zucc attack another level 80, preferably low-geared. Only then can I log with my paladin, with a bit of luck, intercept him, and stop him before he escapes.
The downside is that I rarely get clean 1 vs 1 fights with him anymore.
The upside is that he still ends up with my flag lodged firmly where it belongs.
Honorable Mentions
Cajj / Spriite
Even though I was not very active from late 2024 until August 2025, and only sporadically online between September and November, I still managed to kill Spriite, who I am convinced is also Cajj.
Which is impressive, really. It takes effort to be this consistently bad across time zones and long absences.
He must be related to Fantta. It is genuinely difficult to find two players who are both this bad at PvP and this dumb. There has to be some shared genetics involved.
Raspunzel
The chain-killed.
No matter where I meet Raspunzel, she dies.
Freewind Post.
Undercity.
Anywhere.
No matter which character I use, she dies.
As long as I do not accidentally handicap myself by fighting her with my paladin, she dies.
This is not Toys “R” Us.
This is Rez “R” Us.
Getcandyx
A truly exceptional mage. By exceptional, I mean exceptionally stupid.
He started ganking Warsong Hold. I killed him there, so he moved to Vengeance Landing. Unfortunately for him, I also have characters there.
At the time, my shadow priest was present. He thought he could kill her.
He could not.
So he moved to step two of the Ganker’s Playbook: fleeing on sight.
Then, of course, he convinced himself that this made him a great player. “You can’t kill me, neh nah neh nah!” The intellectual maturity of a pair of used socks.
The only time he dared to attack me was alongside his gankadin boyfriend, Diazayus.
I chain-killed Diazayus with my shadow priest, which led to an inspired tactical decision.
Diazayus hid.
Getcandyx attacked me in the air.
Their plan was for me to land near Getcandyx so the paladin showed up and they could kill me together.
Naturally, I was supposed to ignore the fact that the guy who always runs away suddenly attacked me.
I was also supposed not to notice the paladin’s Devotion Aura buff under the mage’s buffs.
A truly brilliant plan.
Intelligent as half a pound of sauerkraut.
Yes, he is German, of course.
First Place – Gold
Toastytoast
There is no debate here.
Toastytoast takes gold.
This is a man who has been ganking for years. Years.
A human warrior who requires full Wrathful gear, Shadowmourne, max engineering, and 35k HP just to kill level 70s.
To be fair, this is an improvement. When I first met him, he needed the exact same setup to kill level 28s.
Despite all that gear, he still fails miserably against my paladin, my death knight, and even my rogue.
That level of sustained failure deserves recognition.
Toastytoast is not just bad. He is committed to being bad.
For that reason, and that reason alone, he earns the gold medal for 2025.
That’s it, friends.
The books are closed on 2025.
Now let’s see what fresh stupidity 2026 has in store.
Ready? (Scorpyo)
