# Animal Crossing Fans Chose Best and Worst Villagers After 1.8 Million Votes

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/animal-crossing-fans-chose-best-and-worst-villagers-after-1-8-million-votes/
- Published: 2026-08-18T17:05:25+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-18T19:05:48+00:00
- Original publisher: Polygon
- Original article: https://www.polygon.com/animal-crossing-fans-vote-on-best-villagers-surprising-result/
- Topics: Entertainment, Gaming

## Key points

- Fans cast 1.8 million votes ranking Animal Crossing's villagers into tiers.
- Lolly the cat topped the poll; cats dominate the S-tier.
- Once-coveted Raymond ranked only 37th, in A-tier.

## Summary

Animal Crossing fans have cast more than 1.8 million votes in a large-scale community poll to rank the series' hundreds of villagers, producing a definitive "best and worst" tier list. The poll, run by fan site AnimalCrossingWorld, settles a long-running debate among players, who are randomly assigned villagers when founding their in-game towns and often campaign to attract or avoid specific favourites known as "dreamies".

Lolly, a cat with a Normal personality, topped the poll as the single best villager, with cats dominating the S-tier overall, making up seven of the top twenty entries. Notably, Raymond, the heterochromatic, business-suited cat who became so sought-after after his 2020 debut in New Horizons that he was traded for millions of in-game Bells on a black market, only placed 37th, landing in the A-tier rather than the top rank. At the other end, Truffles, Vic, Violet, Vladimir and Wart Jr featured among the lowest-ranked villagers, though organisers noted rankings could still shift as more votes are cast.

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