Board Thread:Fourth Databook/@comment-4271790-20141104211032/@comment-362960-20141105034556

Tangocharlie07 wrote: And the last thing,no Ranks. What the fak man? I mean, Naruto should be S-Rank, shouldn't he? Every ninja should have a rank other than just 'jonin' or 'genin'. And even the techniques. Ultra Big Ball Rasengan can wipe away a mountain, and if that ain't S-Rank, I don't know what is. Letter ranks are all about difficulty be they mission difficulty or technique acquisition i.e. learning difficulty (B-Rank is Jonin difficulty for reference). It's interesting as we haven't actually heard the ranking of shinobi, for instance Itachi was an S-Rank missing nin, in all of part 2. It would make sense that such a rating would be on what kind of mission it is to take them down, but any kind of enemy shinobi on a mission gets it a minimum of B-Rank under normal circumstances. But I doubt Naruto would rate that classification not because he isn't dangerous, but as that system was only ever applied to the Bingo book. Since Naruto isn't a Nukenin or other kind of criminal he wouldn't be referred to in that manner. And applying that ranking would be redundant in a lot of situations anyway. Most normal Jonin are around the same level, when they reach a power beyond that they usually become famous and get another epithet, like the Sannin for instance. This war of course did a number om power levels and rankings of course.

Ultra Big Ball Rasengan isn't particularly more difficult than the Normal Rasengan you just add way more chakra. Compare it to Futon: Rasenshuriken which requires a third Kage Bunshin to use and factoring in the Kage Bunshin training method, twenty man-years worth of training.