

In season 1 episode 3, Midoriya is said to be placed last when compared to all
other 20 candidates. Although I agree with him losing to most, I fail to
identify how he could lose to a few of the candidates like Hagakure (the
invisible girl).

I mean, which activity could she have done better than Midoriya considering
that Midoriya had even trained for 10 months and that her quirk doesn't give
her any apparent advantage in this test?


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Why did Midoriya come last in the quirk assessment test when there were others worse than him?


# We don't know for sure.

As far as I'm aware, this is never explicitly addressed later on in the
series.

However, I think we can hazard a guess based on a few other factors seen
during the quirk assessment test.

While Midoriya may have performed as well or even better than students like
Hagakure that gain no real physical advantage from their quirk, we have to
remember that **Midoriya's quirk injured him severely** during the ball throw.
While it was not as bad as Aizawa may have expected (just his finger versus
his whole arm) **it's entirely possible that Aizawa deducted points due to
this injury.** This is a quirk assessment test, after all, and breaking a
finger after merely throwing a ball is a severe disadvantage to a quirk no
matter how you look at it.

Hagakure, meanwhile, may not have had any real major advantages like Midoriya,
but her quirk had no disadvantages either. I would assume she's also fairly
strong herself, as mentioned in the comments to your question, so it's not
unreasonable to think she had a similar (or even better) performance when
compared to Midoriya in the contests that neither had any advantage in.

This would apply to the other students with quirks that do not enhance their
physical strength as well, like Koda, Shoji, or Jiro, among others.

Considering that Aizawa was going to expel Midoriya before he thought to use
only his finger, I'd say Midorya actually did quite well to be placed last
instead.


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My point here is, if Midoriya hasn't broken his finger _on purpose_ , he would
have beaten Hagakure without needing his quirk. Therefore, he never needed to
break his finger in the first place, because he was clearly in a better
physical condition than she was.


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