Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170915213819/@comment-734582-20171029081343

Mushibrow wrote: but honestly it has been implied numerous times they are among Konohas best ninjas, even though they dont have much story to tell about Keep in mind that Naruto is a story about the 0.01% of top ninja. 99% of all ninja are of the fodder type. Literally.

Just look at the 4th war: 100 000 ninja were fielded. Assuming generously that that's around 1/5th the ninja population (about 1/5th would be significant others, 1/5th low genin and 2/5th non-utilized population, IE child ninja, untrained ninja or unrecruited ninja).

Look at the average village: regular people outnumber ninja easily 10 if not 100 to 1. This puts the average world population at around 5 to 50 million.

Look at how many characters we know. 100? 200? Of the 100 000 ninja in the war, that's .1%. Of the people in the world, that's basically nothing. And we've already seen a stark contrast between the ninja in the "known character" pool, ranging from pretty weak (e.g. Konohameru's friends) to godlike (e.g. naruto). So Naruto is pretty much the 1% of the 0.1%.

Characters like Kurenai, Asuma are really strong. Strong compared to the whole Ninja population.