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Introduction
Last Updated: 04-24-08

This page helps you on everything about the ninja ladders. What they are, how they manage it, it's top ten, information, history, ranks, ladders, and everything else.

Ninja Ladder
The Naruto-Arena ladders is a way to measure the players' individual or a country's skill in the Naruto-Arena game. They're a rating system which gives you and all the other players around the opportunity to compete with each other. This feature is the most important one in the Naruto-Arena game. In other words, this shows the top 1,000. The ninja ladder is the most important ladder of the Naruto-Arena game. It's an international ladder which everyone automatically joins when he or she starts playing the Naruto-Arena ladder game. It shows a player's individual skill in their quest of becoming hokage. 

Country Ladder
Every country competes in this ladder with its best 10 players. The total sum of the players’ points decides a country’s score. In order to let your account have influence on this ladder you should confirm that you've selected the right country in your profile.

What is a Ladder?
The Naruto-Arena ladder is a way to measure the players' individual or a country's skill in the Naruto-Arena game. They're a rating system which gives you and all the other players around the opportunity to compete with each other. This feature is the most important one in the Naruto-Arena game.

Experience
Experience forms the basis of your level, ninja rank and ladder rank. Every player starts the game with 0 experience points. By playing ladder games, you will be able to raise your experience. Your experience is an indication of your skill. Your experience will increase when you defeat an opponent. The amount of experience you gain depends on the level difference and expected skill between you and your opponent. By beating an opponent with a much higher level you will receive a large amount of experience. Beating an opponent of a much lower level will grant you only a small amount of experience. The experience gained from a battle can range from 15 to 600. Your experience can also be decreased by losing a battle. Much like gaining experience, this amount depends on the level difference between you and your opponent. By losing from a much higher level opponent you will lose very little experience. Losing from a much lower leveled opponent will cost you a very high amount. Aside from you opponent, the experience you lose in a battle also depends on your own level. During the first 25 levels, players will lose less experience from losing a game. This is done to help the less skilled players also progress in the ladder. The experience lost from a battle can range from 0 to 600. At this point there is no experience decay for inactive players. This may be introduced in the future.

Levels
As you gain more experience, you will also increase in level. Each player starts at level 1. To reach level 2, you will need 200 experience. With each level the experience that is required will increase, making it harder and harder to progress, whereas level 50 requires 50.000 experience points.

Ninja rank
As you rise in level, you will also gain new Ninja ranks. Each player starts the game as an “Academy Student”. From here on, you will receive a higher rank every five levels. This rule applies to all Ninja ranks except for the rank of “Hokage”. The “Hokage” rank is only given to the very best player. Aside from being number 1 in the ladder, this player must also be at least level 46. With each new Ninja rank, your icon and player card will change.

Ninja Ranks
Level 1-5: Academy Student
Level 6-10: Genin
Level 11-15: Chuunin
Level 16-20: Missing-Nin
Level 21-25: Anbu
Level 26-30: Jounin
Level 31-35: Sannin
Level 36-40: Jinchuuriki
Level 41-45: Akatsuki 
Level 46-50: Kage 
Level 46-50 + Rank #1: Hokage 

Ladder Rank
The ladderrank is the position a player has in the ladder. The more points a player gains, the higher the player is ranked. Rank #1 is always kept by the player with the most points. Players get a ladderrank as soon as they are in the top 1.000 of the ladder. The ladderranks are updated every 15 minutes. The player that has reached Kage level and is Rank #1 on the ladder may call himself/herself the Hokage of Naruto-Arena.

Matchup System
When you start a ladder game, you will be automatically matched up against an opponent of equal skill level. Your skill level is determined by your level and your performance in the last couple of games. If you are performing extremely well, you will be matched against players of a higher level then your own. This will make rising to your “real” level in the ladder go much quicker.