The Umbrella Academy Season 2: Every Academy Member Ranked From Worst To Best
1. Five
Of course Number Five is at the top of this list. Ever since he returned to this timeline in 2019 in a small boy's body, he has been the leader of the Umbrella Academy, and has been the brains behind every plan and every move made by the team.
Though it is true that it was he who scattered his family across time in the early 1960's in the first place, in doing so he still managed to save all of their lives. It wasn't the perfect solution to the problem, but it was a solution, and gave the family the chance to save the world all over again.
As a grumpy old man with little time for the antics of his now much younger siblings, having little capacity for patience and rarely treating them particularly kindly, he never stopped trying to save the lives of his brothers and sisters. Not a day went by when he was stuck in the apocalypse that he didn't think of them.
When he had a sure fire ticket home, and Allison, Diego, and Vanya all missed the cut off to get back to 2019, Five could have easily moved forward either with just Luther and Klaus, or on his own. However, in each of these scenarios, the entire family wasn't together, and thus was deemed absolutely out of the question.