Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170309233927/@comment-17623-20170310112304

Ninja ranks in general are very arbitrary are honestly serve only as a purpose to quickly gauge non-essential characters at a glance.

Naruto meets a Random Jonin-476, because he's a Jonin we now he must be a high caliber shinobi without having to go into too much detail.

In practice, ninja ranks are all but meaningless, as we see with Naruto, who by the the events of The Last, was basically the new Ten-Tails, but still had the rank of Genin. His equal, Sasuke whom also ranked up there with gods was also a Genin.

Meanwhile we've seen chunin and jonin drop like flies during the war for little to no reason, why? Because seriously.