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Ranking serves as the competitive aspect of Kantai Collection. You compete against other Admirals on your server to see who can earn the most points in a month doing [[#Earning Points|various activities]]. Ranking rewards players with rare equipment.

Ranking serves as the competitive aspect of Kantai Collection. You compete against other Admirals on your server to see who can earn the most points in a month doing [[#Earning Points|various activities]]. Ranking rewards players with rare equipment.

* You can view your rank in the [[Military Records]] menu under the Ranking tab.

* You can view your rank in the [[Military Record]] menu under the Ranking tab.

* Ranks are updated twice daily at '''0300 and 1500 JST'''.

* Ranks are updated twice daily at '''0300 and 1500 JST'''.

* Rank points stop counting for the daily update at '''0200 and 1400 JST'''.

* Rank points stop counting for the daily update at '''0200 and 1400 JST'''.

** This means any points earned after this cut off will count towards the next update.

** This means any points earned after this cut-off will count towards the next update.

* The final cut off for the month is at '''2200 JST''' on the last day of the month.

* The final cut-off for the month is at '''2200 JST''' on the last day of the month.

** Any points from sorties, expeditions and exercises earned after this point '''count towards the next month.

** Any points from sorties, expeditions, and exercises earned after this point '''count towards the next month.

** Any points from [[#Extra Operations|EOs]] and [[#Quests|Quests]] '''will be lost'''.

** Any points from [[#Extra Operations|EOs]] and [[#Quests|Quests]] '''will be lost'''.

** The ranking page '''will not reflect''' the points earned between 1400 and 2200 JST on the final day.

** The ranking page '''will not reflect''' the points earned between 1400 and 2200 JST on the final day.

* Rare equipment from ranking is not necessarily useful. Please see [[Ranking/Rank Rewards|Rank Rewards]] for a list of historical rewards.

* Rare equipment from ranking is not necessarily useful. Please see [[Ranking/Rank Rewards|Rank Rewards]] for a list of historical rewards.

* Difficulty of ranking varies from server to server. Please see [[Ranking/Rank History|Rank History]] for the general pattern of rank thresholds for your server.

* Difficulty of ranking varies from server to server. Please see [[Ranking/Rank History|Rank History]] for the general pattern of rank thresholds for your server.

** Note that rank history before August 2018 are not indicative of current ranking difficulty because those were from [[KanColle Phase 2#Phase 1|Phase 1]].

** Note that rank history before August 2018 is not indicative of current ranking difficulty because those were from [[KanColle Phase 2#Phase 1|Phase 1]].

* You '''will not''' be able to rank if you have reached the HQ experience cap of 360,000,000.

* You '''will not''' be able to rank if you have reached the HQ experience cap of 360,000,000.

* Admirals who have breached the Terms of Service may be banned from ranking. They will be unable to rank for an unknown period of time.

* Admirals who have breached the Terms of Service may be banned from ranking. They will be unable to rank for an unknown period of time.

* Admirals with the same amount of rank points will be sorted by HQ experience.

* Admirals with the same amount of rank points will be sorted by HQ experience.

* For tips on how to rank, please see [[Help:Ranking|the help page]].

* For tips on how to rank, please see [[User:Minhfongboy/KC Phase 2 Ranking|the help page]].

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