Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1181222-20171004101140/@comment-734582-20171004140919

NeedleJizo wrote: Weren't those Mist guys supposed to be genin? They got washed by a few academy students (prodigies, but still) and showed zero training. Maybe the Mist is still lowkey trash. Well, you could say the same about ino, sakura, shikamaru, choji. They weren't exactly great when they got fresh out of the academy.

Plus, the Chunin exams made it fairly clear that Genin have a huge strength distribution, ranging from pretty useless (e.g. sakura, ino) to comparatively godlike (e.g Gaara)