Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170309233927/@comment-734582-20170310121352

AsianReaper wrote: If you remember, basically every named Shinobi in the series was on some level "better."

Exactly. Consider that there were 100 000 ninja fit for the war (so about 20 000 per major village). Consider how many well-known ninja we've seen(a hundred or so?). The series is almost exclusively about the top 5% or 1% of ninja.