Introduction

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 various activities. Ranking rewards players with rare equipment.

You can view your rank in the Military Records menu under the Ranking tab.
Ranks are updated twice daily at 0300 and 1500 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.
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 EOs and Quests will be lost.
- 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 Rank Rewards for a list of historical rewards.
Difficulty of ranking varies from server to server. Please see 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 Phase 1.
You will not be able to rank if you have reached the HQ experience cap of 300,000,000.
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 with the same amount of rank points will be sorted by HQ experience.
For tips on how to rank, please see the help page.

Reward Tiers

Normal Tiers

The standard ranking tiers are:

Top 5
Top 20
Top 100
Top 500

Higher tiers provide more and better rewards. The rankings also get more competitive as you climb the tiers. T20 - and sometimes T100 - requires careful planning, resource management and strategy. Because of the way points are earned, it becomes marginally easier to rank throughout the year if you rank consistently. Rewards are distributed with a month lag. I.e the reward for June's ranking is distributed at the end of July. Finalised rank points are also displayed at that time.

Special Tiers

The Special reward tiers were introduced during Phase 2. They are:

Lucky Special Operations Fleet Group (キリ番特務艦隊群)
- Rank 600, 700, 800, 880, 888, 900, 999, and 1000.
Choice Fleet Name & Comment Striking Force Group (艦隊名&コメント選抜遊撃部隊群)
- 8 Admirals.

Admirals who are selected will receive the same reward as the Top 500. To be eligible, you need to be within the top 501-1,000 Admirals in your server. Special reward tiers are essentially a lottery and shouldn't be relied upon for ranking rewards.

Earning Points

Initial Points

These points are also known as "Carry Over" points. It is based on the amount of HQ experience earned in the current year to date and the amount of bonus points earned in the previous month. These points are calculated at 0300 JST on the first day of the month.

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{RP}_\text{initial} = \frac{\text{RP}_\text{YTD}}{50,000} + \frac{\text{RP}_\text{prev-bonus}}{35} }[/math]

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{RP}_\text{YTD} }[/math] is the total year-to-date HQ exp earned since January.
- There is no way to check the carry over from HQ exp in game. You will need to keep records of your own to keep track.
[math]\displaystyle{ \text{BonusRP}_\text{PrevMonth} }[/math] is the total amount of EO and quest bonus points earned in the previous month.

Monthly Points

These points are earned from sorties, exercises and expeditions. Please see HQ experience for information on HQ experience is earned. Note that HQ experience doesn't translate directly to rank points, points earned is given by the following formula:

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{RP}_\text{month} = \text{HQ Exp}_\text{month} \times 0.0007 }[/math]

[math]\displaystyle{ \text{HQ Exp}_\text{month} }[/math] is the total HQ exp earned after 2200 JST on the last day of the previous month.

These points usually count for a majority of your rank points in a month. The most efficient way of earning points is through sorties. Expeditions and exercises do not provide enough HQ exp to rank.

Sortie Points Summary^[1]
Map	Non-Boss Exp	Boss Exp	Route	Points Earned	Notes
World 1
1-1	10	20	AC	0.021	Random branching only.
1-2	10	20	AE	0.112
1-3	40	380	ADBEFJ	0.322	Fuel farming route.
1-3	40	380	CFJ	0.322
1-4	60	720	BCFIL BCFHL ADEHL ADGJL	0.588
1-4	60	720	BDEHL BDGJL	0.630
1-5	80	1,060	ADEJ ADFGJ	0.910
1-6	100	-	AEGFB	0.140	Unlikely to get an S rank at F.
1-6	100	-	AEGKMJD CHKMJD AEGKMLID CHKMLID	0.210	Unlikely to get an S rank at D or L.

World 2
2-1	60	720	CDH CDEH	0.588
2-2	70	840	CEK CEFHK	0.637
2-2	70	840	CEGK CEGHK	0.686
2-3	90	1,180	CDGKN CDGIKN	0.889
			ADGKN ADGIKN CFGKN CFGIKN CFJN	0.952
			BEFJN BFGKN BFGIKN	1.015
2-4	120	1,740	BGHLP BCGHLP	1.386
2-4	120	1,740	BGHIKLP BCGHIKLP BCFJLP BCFJMP	1.470	BCFJLMP not included because it arrives at the boss with too little fuel/ammo.
2-5	160	2,320	CEIO CEGIO	1.848
2-5	160	2,320	BFJO CEGLO	1.960

World 3
3-1	110	1,420	CDG CFG	1.148
3-2	120	1,740	CEFL	1.302	Recommended ranking route.
3-2	120	1,740	CGHFL	1.386
3-3	140	2,280	ACGM ABFJM	1.792
3-4	160	3,320	BHLJP	2.548
3-4	160	3,320	ACEGJP ACFMP BHGJP BHLNP	2.660	ACEGJP is the recommended ranking route.
3-5	190	2,880	FGK	2.282
3-5	190	2,880	BDHK BCFGK BEHK	2.415

World 7
7-1	140	1,680	DEGHK FGHK	1.470	DEGHK is the recommended ranking route.
7-2 Phase 1	180	360	CEG	0.504
7-2 Phase 2	180	2,360	BCDIM	2.030	Recommended ranking route.

World 4
4-1	110	1,520	CFHJ	1.218
4-1	110	1,520	ABDHJ ABDGJ CFDHJ CFDGJ	1.295
4-2	120	1,640	ACL	1.316
			ACGL AEGL BDCL	1.400
			BDHGL	1.484	H is a submarine node that doesn't use ammo.
4-3	140	1,880	ABGHN ADHN CDHN CFHN	1.610
4-4	170	2,340	AEIK	1.995	Recommended ranking route.
4-5	200	2,900	ADHT CDHT	2.310
			ADHKT CDHKT CFGHT CFJHT	2.450
			ABEMRSQONT	2.730

World 5
5-1	160	2,020	BCFJ	1.638
5-1	160	2,020	ADEGJ BEGJ BCFGJ	1.750
5-2	170	2,340	BCDFO BCEFO	1.995
5-3	190	2,680	DGIOKEQ DGIOKHEQ DGJLOKEQ	2.142
5-3	190	2,680	CDGIOKEQ CDGIOKHEQ DGIJLOKEQ	2.275
5-4	210	3,020	BCGLP BEHIJMP	2.555
5-5	240	3,480	ACEGIMOS ACEHNOS BFJPS BKPS	2.940

World 6
6-1	180	2,160	AFGHK	1.764
6-1	180	2,160	ADFGHK CFGHK	1.890
6-2	200	2,600	CEIK CEJK	2.100
6-2	200	2,600	CEFIK	2.240
6-3	180	2,760	CEGHJ	2.184
6-3	180	2,760	CEFHJ	2.310
6-4	230	3,160	ADCFN BDCFN	2.856
6-5	260	3,520	ACDGM BFIJM	3.192

↑ Assumes S-ranks at all nodes.

Extra Operations

Extra Operations reset at 0000JST on the 1st of every month. Clearing them will give bonus points. Note that clearing EOs after 2200JST on the last day of the month loses you the bonus points.

Map	Bonus Points	Extra Rewards		Notes
Map	Bonus Points	Medal	Present Box	Notes
1-5	75	1	-
1-6	75	-	1
2-5	100	1	-
3-5	150	1	-
4-5	180	1	-
5-5	200	1	-
6-5	250	1	-

Quests

All quests that give bonus ranking points are quarterly quests. They reset at 0500JST on the 1st of March, June, September and December. These quests are colloquially known as "Cannons".

Any bonus points from quests earned after 1400JST on the last day of the month are carried forward to the following month.
Any bonus points from quests earned after 2200JST on the last day of the month are lost.

Quest Name	Bonus Points	Extra Rewards	Notes
Bq2	350	2,000 Irakox1; x4	Aka "Z Cannon".
Bq7	200	800 Choice of: x1 or x5	Aka "Mikawa Cannon"
Bq8	300	2,000 500 500 Choice of: Skilled Lookoutx1 or Skilled Pilotx1 or Maritime Resupplyx4	Aka "W7 Cannon"
Bq10	400	2,000 Choice of:x4 or Irakox3 or Maritime Resupplyx4	Aka "Z2 Cannon"
Bq11	80	800 Choice of:x4 or Type 94 Depth Charge Launcherx2 or Drum Canisterx2	Aka "Newbie Cannon"
Bq12	330	2,400 Choice of: x1 or Daihatsux2 or New Type Rocket Equipment Development Materialsx1	Aka "W4 Cannon"

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