Experience and Rank

Introduction

Experience in Kantai Collection is divided into two types. Ship Girl experience and Admiral experience. The former makes your ship girls more powerful and the latter increases your HQ level and plays into Ranking.

Ship Girl Experience

Ship girls earn experience through sorties, expeditions and exercises.

• The most time and resource efficient way to earn experience is through exercises.
  • But it is only limited to 10 times a day.
  • This is the best method to level weak or expensive ship girls.
  • A downside is that your experience gain is heavily dependent on other admirals putting up good fleets.
• A vast majority of ship girl experience is earned through sorties.
  • See leveling for details.
• Expeditions are for minor passive exp gain.

Sorties

Experience earned by ship girls in sorties is:

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{Exp}_\text{sortie} = \lfloor \text{Exp}_\text{base} \times \text{Mod}_\text{MVP} \times \text{Mod}_\text{flag} \times \text{Mod}_\text{rank} \rfloor }[/math]

• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Exp}_\text{base} }[/math] is the base experience of the node.
  • This is dependent upon the map and the composition faced. Please see the individual map pages for exact base exp values.
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Mod}_\text{MVP} }[/math] is the MVP bonus. It is [math]\displaystyle{ 2 }[/math] for the MVP and [math]\displaystyle{ 1 }[/math] for all other ships.
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Mod}_\text{flag} }[/math] is the flagship bonus. It is [math]\displaystyle{ 1.5 }[/math] for the flagship and [math]\displaystyle{ 1 }[/math] for all other ships.
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Mod}_\text{rank} }[/math] is the rank bonus according to the table below.

Sortie Rank Bonus
Rank	Multiplier
S	1.2
A	1.0
B	1.0
C	0.8
D	0.7
E	0.5

Notes

• The maximum multiplier a ship girl can earn is 3.6. This would be for a flagship MVP at S-rank.
• It isn't worth it to night battle to increase your rank in sorties. It is more time-efficient to take what you get.
• Most maps heavily reward full clears.

Exercises

Experience earned in exercises is:

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{Exp}_\text{exercise} = \lfloor \text{Exp}_\text{post-cap} \times \text{Mod}_\text{MVP} \times \text{Mod}_\text{flag} \times \text{Mod}_\text{CT} \rfloor }[/math]

Experience earned through exercises has a cap where experience over 500 is square rooted.

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{Exp}_\text{post-cap} = \lfloor 500 + \sqrt{\text{Exp}_\text{pre-cap}-500} \rfloor }[/math]

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{Exp}_\text{pre-cap} = \lfloor \frac{\text{Exp}_\text{Ship1}}{100} + \frac{\text{Exp}_\text{Ship2}}{300} \rfloor + \text{Rand} }[/math]

• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Mod}_\text{MVP} }[/math] is the MVP bonus. It is [math]\displaystyle{ 2 }[/math] for the MVP and [math]\displaystyle{ 1 }[/math] for all other ships.
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Mod}_\text{flag} }[/math] is the flagship bonus. It is [math]\displaystyle{ 1.5 }[/math] for the flagship and [math]\displaystyle{ 1 }[/math] for all other ships.
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Mod}_\text{rank} }[/math] is the rank bonus according to the table below.
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Mod}_\text{CT} }[/math] is the training cruiser bonus according to the table below.
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Exp}_\text{Ship1} }[/math] is the minimum experience value of the opponent's flagship based on exp tables below.
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Exp}_\text{Ship2} }[/math]is the minimum experience value of the opponent's 2nd ship based on exp tables below.
• [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Rand} }[/math] is a random number from 0 to 3.

Exercise Rank Bonus
Rank	Multiplier
S	1.2
A	1.0
B	1.0
C	0.64
D	0.56
E	0.4

Training Cruisers (CT) behave similarly to Light Cruisers, with the ability to increase exp earned from Exercises.

• The bonus depends on their position and number in the fleet as well as their level. See below for bonus values:

CT Experience Bonus: [math]\displaystyle{ \text{Mod}_\text{CT} }[/math]
Fleet	Affected Ships	CT Level					Notes
		1-9	10-29	30-59	60-99	100+	The flagship's level if it is a CT, highest leveled CT otherwise.
1 Katori-class non-flagship	All	1.030	1.050	1.070	1.100	1.150	Asahi not present
2 Katori-class non-flagship		1.040	1.060	1.080	1.120	1.175
1 Katori-class flagship		1.050	1.080	1.120	1.150	1.200
1 Katori-class flagship + 1 Katori-class		1.100	1.130	1.160	1.200	1.250
1 CT non-flagship	All	1					Asahi present, but not counted as a CT
2 CT non-flagship		1.030	1.050	1.070	1.100	1.150
3 CT non-flagship		1.040	1.060	1.080	1.120	1.175
Asahi flagship	All surface	0.630	0.648	0.672	0.690	0.720	Asahi present [1][2]
	SS(V)	1.365	1.404	1.456	1.495	1.560
Katori-class flagship + 1/2CT	All surface	1.103	1.134	1.176	1.208	1.260
	SS(V)	1.523	1.566	1.624	1.668	1.740
Asahi flagship + 2CT	All surface	1.155	1.187	1.218	1.260	1.313
	SS(V)	1.595	1.639	1.682	1.740	1.813
CT list: Asahi (Base), Katori/Kai , Kashima/Kai Some level intervals have not been sampled yet. Bug: when no CT is flagship, Asahi bonuses do not work.

Notes

• Like sorties, the maximum multiplier a ship girl can earn is 3.6. This would be for a flagship MVP at S-rank.
  • With two married CT in the fleet, it is 4.23.
  • It is not recommended to have a CT flagship as a more valuable ship can use that experience.
• It is recommended to do night battle in order to attempt to get a higher rank for better exp.
  • Participation per day in exercises is limited so it is important to maximize the exp.
• Because of the way exp is calculated, even losses can yield a lot of experience.
• See Exercises for calculated experience values.

Expeditions

Please see Expeditions for the experience earned from each expedition. Note that the experience listed is multiplied by 4 on a great success.

Ship Girl Exp Tables

Pre-Marriage Table
Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff		Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff		Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff		Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff
1	0	0		26	32,500	2,500		51	127,500	5,000		76	331,000	12,000
2	100	100		27	35,100	2,600		52	132,700	5,200		77	343,400	12,400
3	300	200		28	37,800	2,700		53	138,100	5,400		78	356,200	12,800
4	600	300		29	40,600	2,800		54	143,700	5,600		79	369,400	13,200
5	1,000	400		30	43,500	2,900		55	149,500	5,800		80	383,000	13,600
6	1,500	500		31	46,500	3,000		56	155,500	6,000		81	397,000	14,000
7	2,100	600		32	49,600	3,100		57	161,700	6,200		82	411,500	14,500
8	2,800	700		33	52,800	3,200		58	168,100	6,400		83	426,500	15,000
9	3,600	800		34	56,100	3,300		59	174,700	6,600		84	442,000	15,500
10	4,500	900		35	59,500	3,400		60	181,500	6,800		85	458,000	16,000
11	5,500	1,000		36	63,000	3,500		61	188,500	7,000		86	474,500	16,500
12	6,600	1,100		37	66,600	3,600		62	195,800	7,300		87	491,500	17,000
13	7,800	1,200		38	70,300	3,700		63	203,400	7,600		88	509,000	17,500
14	9,100	1,300		39	74,100	3,800		64	211,300	7,900		89	527,000	18,000
15	10,500	1,400		40	78,000	3,900		65	219,500	8,200		90	545,500	18,500
16	12,000	1,500		41	82,000	4,000		66	228,000	8,500		91	564,500	19,000
17	13,600	1,600		42	86,100	4,100		67	236,800	8,800		92	584,500	20,000
18	15,300	1,700		43	90,300	4,200		68	245,900	9,100		93	606,500	22,000
19	17,100	1,800		44	94,600	4,300		69	255,300	9,400		94	631,500	25,000
20	19,000	1,900		45	99,000	4,400		70	265,000	9,700		95	661,500	30,000
21	21,000	2,000		46	103,500	4,500		71	275,000	10,000		96	701,500	40,000
22	23,100	2,100		47	108,100	4,600		72	285,400	10,400		97	761,500	60,000
23	25,300	2,200		48	112,800	4,700		73	296,200	10,800		98	851,500	90,000
24	27,600	2,300		49	117,600	4,800		74	307,400	11,200		99	1,000,000	148,500
25	30,000	2,400		50	122,500	4,900		75	319,000	11,600

Marrying ship girls instantly raises their level to 100. No experience is necessary for this level up. Please see Marriage for more details.

Post-Marriage Table
Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff		Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff		Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff		Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff
100	1,000,000			120	1,255,000	32,000		140	2,760,000	120,000		160	6,120,000	150,000
101	1,010,000	10,000		121	1,290,000	35,000		141	2,887,000	127,000		161	6,320,000	200,000
102	1,011,000	1,000		122	1,329,000	39,000		142	3,021,000	134,000		162	6,580,000	260,000
103	1,013,000	2,000		123	1,372,000	43,000		143	3,162,000	141,000		163	6,910,000	330,000
104	1,016,000	3,000		124	1,419,000	47,000		144	3,310,000	148,000		164	7,320,000	410,000
105	1,020,000	4,000		125	1,470,000	51,000		145	3,465,000	155,000		165	7,820,000	500,000
106	1,025,000	5,000		126	1,525,000	55,000		146	3,628,000	163,000		166	7,920,000	100,000
107	1,031,000	6,000		127	1,584,000	59,000		147	3,799,000	171,000		167	8,033,000	113,000
108	1,038,000	7,000		128	1,647,000	63,000		148	3,978,000	179,000		168	8,172,000	139,000
109	1,046,000	8,000		129	1,714,000	67,000		149	4,165,000	187,000		169	8,350,000	178,000
110	1,055,000	9,000		130	1,785,000	71,000		150	4,360,000	195,000		170	8,580,000	230,000
111	1,065,000	10,000		131	1,860,000	75,000		151	4,564,000	204,000		171	8,875,000	295,000
112	1,077,000	12,000		132	1,940,000	80,000		152	4,777,000	213,000		172	9,248,000	373,000
113	1,091,000	14,000		133	2,025,000	85,000		153	4,999,000	222,000		173	9,705,000	457,000
114	1,107,000	16,000		134	2,115,000	90,000		154	5,230,000	231,000		174	10,266,000	561,000
115	1,125,000	18,000		135	2,210,000	95,000		155	5,470,000	240,000		175	10,950,000	684,000
116	1,145,000	20,000		136	2,310,000	100,000		156	5,720,000	250,000
117	1,168,000	23,000		137	2,415,000	105,000		157	5,780,000	60,000
118	1,194,000	26,000		138	2,525,000	110,000		158	5,860,000	80,000
119	1,223,000	29,000		139	2,640,000	115,000		159	5,970,000	110,000

HQ Experience

Like ship girls, Admirals earn HQ experience through sorties, expeditions and exercises.

• The best way to earn HQ experience is through sorties.
• Exercises and expeditions give minimial HQ experience. They are only for supplementary gain.
• The most important use of HQ experience is for Ranking.
• HQ experience is capped at 360,000,000.

Sorties

HQ experience from sorties is only affected by rank.

Sortie Experience Modifiers
Rank	Non-boss Multiplier	Boss Multiplier
S	1.0x Non-Boss Exp	1.0x Boss Exp
A	0.8	Boss Exp - (0.5 x Non-Boss Exp)
B	0.5x	Boss Exp - (0.8x Non-Boss Exp)
C	0x	Non-boss exp
D	0x	0x
E	0x	0x

The value of non-boss and boss node experience is given by the table below.

Sortie HQ EXP Table
Map	Non-Boss Exp	Boss Exp		Map	Non-Boss Exp	Boss Exp		Map	Non-Boss Exp	Boss Exp		Map	Non-Boss Exp	Boss Exp
1-1	10	20		2-1	60	720		3-1	110	1,420		7-1	140	1,680
1-2	20	140		3-2	120	1,740		2-2	70	840		7-2-1	180	360
												7-2-2		2,360
1-3	40	380		2-3	90	1,180		3-3	140	2,280		7-3-1	??	??
												7-3-2		??
1-4	60	720		2-4	120	1,740		3-4	160	3,320		7-4	??	??
1-5	80	1,060		2-5	160	2,320		3-5	190	2,880		-
1-6	100	-		-				-				-
-				-				-				-
4-1	110	1,520	5-1	160	2,020	6-1	180	2,160
4-2	120	1,640	5-2	170	2,340	6-2	200	2,600
4-3	140	1,880	5-3	190	2,680	6-3	180	2,760
4-4	170	2,340	5-4	210	3,020	6-4	230	3,160
4-5	200	2,900	5-5	240	3,480	6-5	260	3,520
-			-			-
-			-			-

Important Notes

• You only gain HQ exp for every combat node. Please see Nodes for more details.
• It is not worth the time to night battle in an attempt to increase your rank for more exp.

Exercises

HQ exp earned in exercises depends on the level difference between you and your opponent.

Level Difference	S	A	B	Defeat (C/D/E)
≥5	160	120	96	80
3~4	120	80	64	60
1~2	80	60	48	40
0	60	40	32	30
-1~-2	40	30	24	20
-3~-4	30	20	16	15
≤-5	20	15	12	10

Important Notes

• The closer you get to the HQ level cap, the less HQ experience you'll earn from exercises.

Expeditions

Please see Expeditions for the experience earned from each expedition. Note that the experience listed is multiplied by 2 on a great success.

Admiral Rank

These are the ranks displayed on your Military Record screen and beside your name in the server rankings.

• Ranks depend on your current position in the Rankings.
• Ranks currently serve no purpose beyond cosmetic.
• Ranks are calculated off the total number of valid admirals on the server.
  • Admirals who have registered but not started the game aren't counted.

Insignia	Rank Full Rank Name	Translation	Notes	Rank
	元帥 (Gensui, 元帥?) 元帥海軍大将 (Gensui Kaigun Taishō, 元帥海軍大将?)	Marshal Admiral	Top 1% of the server.	1
	大将 (Taishō, 大将?) 海軍大将 (Kaigun Taishō, 海軍大将?)	Admiral	Top 5% of the server.	2
	中将 (Chūjō, 中将?) 海軍中将 (Kaigun Chūjō, 海軍中将?)	Vice-Admiral	Top 10% of the server.	3
	少将 (Shōshō, 少将?) 海軍少将 (Kaigun Shōshō, 海軍少将?)	Rear-Admiral	Top 20% of the server.	4
	大佐 (Taisa, 大佐?) 海軍大佐 (Kaigun Taisa, 海軍大佐?)	Captain	Top 40% of the server.	5
	中佐 (Chūsa, 中佐?) 海軍中佐 (Kaigun Chūsa, 海軍中佐?)	Commander	Top 55% of the server.	6
	新米中佐 (Shinmai Chūsa, 新米中佐?) -	Junior Commander	Top 65% of the server. Does not officially exist in IJN rankings. Used as an intermediary rank between Lieutenant-Commander and Commander.	7
	少佐 (Shōsa, 少佐?) 海軍少佐 (Kaigun Shōsa, 海軍少佐?)	Lieutenant-Commander	Top 80% of the server.	8
	中堅少佐 (Chūken Shōsa, 中堅少佐?) -	Vice Lieutenant-Commander	Top 90% of the server. Does not officially exist in IJN rankings. Used as an intermediary rank between Lieutenant and Lieutenant-Commander. Translates literally to "Mid-level Lt-Commander".	8
	新米少佐 (Shinmai Shōsa, 新米少佐?) -	Junior Lieutenant-Commander	Rest of the server. Does not officially exist in IJN rankings. Used as an intermediary rank between Lieutenant and Lieutenant-Commander.	10

HQ Exp Table

Disclaimer: EXP list from Lv100 through Lv120 is guessed based on patterns observed from known data across several levels. Value may be off by 100000-200000 points per level.

Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff		Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff		Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff		Lv	Exp.	Exp. Diff
1	0	0		31	46,500	3,000		61	188,500	7,000		91	564,500	19,000
2	100	100		32	49,600	3,100		62	195,800	7,300		92	584,500	20,000
3	300	200		33	52,800	3,200		63	203,400	7,600		93	606,500	22,000
4	600	300		34	56,100	3,300		64	211,300	7,900		94	631,500	25,000
5	1,000	400		35	59,500	3,400		65	219,500	8,200		95	661,500	30,000
6	1,500	500		36	63,000	3,500		66	228,000	8,500		96	701,500	40,000
7	2,100	600		37	66,600	3,600		67	236,800	8,800		97	761,500	60,000
8	2,800	700		38	70,300	3,700		68	245,900	9,100		98	851,500	90,000
9	3,600	800		39	74,100	3,800		69	255,300	9,400		99	1,000,000	148,500
10	4,500	900		40	78,000	3,900		70	265,000	9,700		100	1,300,000	300,000
11	5,500	1,000		41	82,000	4,000		71	275,000	10,000		101	1,600,000	300,000
12	6,600	1,100		42	86,100	4,100		72	285,400	10,400		102	1,900,000	300,000
13	7,800	1,200		43	90,300	4,200		73	296,200	10,800		103	2,200,000	300,000
14	9,100	1,300		44	94,600	4,300		74	307,400	11,200		104	2,600,000	400,000
15	10,500	1,400		45	99,000	4,400		75	319,000	11,600		105	3,000,000	400,000
16	12,000	1,500		46	103,500	4,500		76	331,000	12,000		106	3,500,000	500,000
17	13,600	1,600		47	108,100	4,600		77	343,400	12,400		107	4,000,000	500,000
18	15,300	1,700		48	112,800	4,700		78	356,200	12,800		108	4,600,000	600,000
19	17,100	1,800		49	117,600	4,800		79	369,400	13,200		109	5,200,000	600,000
20	19,000	1,900		50	122,500	4,900		80	383,000	13,600		110	5,900,000	700,000
21	21,000	2,000		51	127,500	5,000		81	397,000	14,000		111	6,600,000	700,000
22	23,100	2,100		52	132,700	5,200		82	411,500	14,500		112	7,400,000	800,000
23	25,300	2,200		53	138,100	5,400		83	426,500	15,000		113	8,200,000	800,000
24	27,600	2,300		54	143,700	5,600		84	442,000	15,500		114	9,100,000	900,000
25	30,000	2,400		55	149,500	5,800		85	458,000	16,000		115	10,000,000	900,000
26	32,500	2,500		56	155,500	6,000		86	474,500	16,500		116	11,000,000	1,000,000
27	35,100	2,600		57	161,700	6,200		87	491,500	17,000		117	12,000,000	1,000,000
28	37,800	2,700		58	168,100	6,400		88	509,000	17,500		118	13,000,000	1,000,000
29	40,600	2,800		59	174,700	6,600		89	527,000	18,000		119	14,000,000	1,000,000
30	43,500	2,900		60	181,500	6,800		90	545,500	18,500		120	15,000,000	1,000,000

Effects of HQ Level

Effective LoS

The Line of Sight formula is affected by HQ level. A higher HQ level will result in higher LoS requirements for routing.

Resource Soft Cap

A higher HQ level will result in a higher soft cap on primary resources (). Please see Resources for more information.

Development Rarity

The higher your HQ level, the higher your chance of obtaining rare equipment from Development.

Difficulty Tiers

The difficulty of events used to automatically be adjusted to HQ level. As of the Winter 2015 event, players have been able to select the difficulty level they wish to challenge. HQ level affects the difficulty levels available to be selected.

HQ level also affects the enemy compositions you can encounter in extra operations. Please see the individual extra operation pages for the difficulty tier breakdown.

Tier		HQ Level Range	Rare Drop Availability	Notes
I	Casual	1+	Very Limited
	Easy		Limited
II	Medium	35+	Most of	Easy or higher must have been selected on the previous map
III	Hard	80+	All	Medium or higher must have been selected on the previous map

Server Ranking

HQ experience earned throughout the year and the month determine your rank in the server. This differs from the Admiral Ranks detailed above. This is a numerical ranking that awards rare equipment when you achieve certain thresholds. Please see Ranking for more details and the help page for advice on how to rank.

See Also

Ranking
Tutorial:Leveling
Help:Fleet Formation
Rank Rewards
Rank History
http://senka.com.ru/
Minhfongboy's P2 Ranking guide