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A guide to efficiently gaining {{Item/Icon|Ranking Point Reward|size=20px}} [[Ranking Point]]s, notably from sorties.
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=Efficiency Summary=
''Check the link next to the comp for fleet setup reference

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
!colspan=11|'''Resource color code: {{color|lime|Less than 50}} > {{color|yellow|50-100}} > 101-200 > {{color|red|More than 200}}
'''For {{Bauxite}}, just divide the number by 3.

'''{{IR}}, {{Item/Icon|Ranking Point Reward|size=20px}}, color code: {{color|lime|Great}} > {{color|yellow|Okay}} > Average > {{color|red|Bad}}
|-
!width=20% rowspan=2|[[File:SortieButtonOn.png|170px]]
!width=10% rowspan=2|Average time spent per boss run <ref name="TimerRun">In mm:ss format. This also assumes additional 30 seconds coming back to the home port for resupplying and repairing before sortieing again.</ref>
!rowspan=2|Victory Rate <ref name="Boss Sunk">Assumed with carried over HP and morale, use {{IR}} only if HP is less than 50% (Except for 4-5 sub comp, see below).</ref>
!rowspan=2|Retreat Rate <ref name="Boss Sunk"/>
!colspan=4|Average Resource used rating <ref name="Boss Sunk"/>
!rowspan=2|Average {{IR}} per run <ref name="Boss Sunk"/>
!rowspan=2|{{Item/Icon|Ranking Point Reward|size=20px}} per run <ref name="S-Rank">Assuming S rank all nodes.</ref>
!width=10% rowspan=2|Average {{Item/Icon|Ranking Point Reward|size=20px}} gained per hour <ref name="rptgph-note">This is calculated as '''Points gained per run X Victory Rate X ( 60 / Average time spent per boss run )'''.</ref>
|-
!{{Fuel}}
!{{Ammo}}
!{{Steel}}
!{{Bauxite}}
|-
|'''[[3-2]]<br>1CL 5DD'''<br>Fast+ fleet, 4 radars [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=YhsmWH5O7W0]
|03:00
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|98.7%
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|1.3%
|style="background-color:#FFFF00"|
|style="background-color:#FFFF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|0.278
|style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|1.3
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|25.66
|-
|'''[[3-4]]<br>2CL 1CAV 3DD''' [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=vGHhHxyJS-w]
|04:30
|96.5% <ref name="Note63BRank"/>
|3.5%
|
|style="background-color:#FFFF00"|
|style="background-color:#FFFF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|1.17 <ref name="Note63BRank"/>
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|2.43
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|31.26
|-
|'''[[4-4]]<br>3CVL 1CL 2DE'''<br>5 OASW, 2 '''non-Kai''' DE [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=UUaRdsoah58]
|05:30
|95.5% <ref name="Note63BRank"/>
|4.5%
|
|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|0.282 <ref name="Note63BRank"/> <ref name="44dock">Assuming you would '''never''' bucket DEs. The simulator result ignores any bucket usage if the damaged (less than 50% HP) shipgirl has less than 1 hour of repairing (only possible for DEs in this case).</ref>
|1.99
|20.73
|-
|'''[[4-5]]<br>2 SS'''<br>Fast+ fleet [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=3rIu7r-rR0w]
|03:30
|style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|70.7%<ref name="Note45B">Can only get B rank at best. Also, all the numbers in this row assumes you will always sortie them at full HP and 49 morale.</ref>
|style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|22.4%
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|1.31
|1.91<ref name="Note45RP">Assuming D rank preboss and B rank at the boss node, which gives '''2900 - 200 x 0.8 = 2740 HQ EXP''', or '''1.91''' ranking point.</ref>
|style="background-color:#FFFF00; color:black"|23.14
|-
|'''[[4-5]]<br>1BB 1CV 1CL 3DD'''<br>{{ShipLink|Nelson}} touch + {{ShipLink|Kaga Kai Ni}} [https://jervis.vercel.app/en?p=UO0x1nDIY-M]
|05:30
|style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|85.5%
|style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|14.5%
|
|
|
|style="background-color:#FF0000"|
|1.10
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|2.31
|21.54
|-
|'''[[5-4]]<br>1CL 3DD 2CLT'''<br>ETSCF fleet [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=2fsnHFpgvY4]
|06:30
|style="background-color:#FFFF00; color:black"|97.4%
|style="background-color:#FFFF00; color:black"|2.6%
|
|style="background-color:#FFFF00"|<ref name="54ammonode">5-4 south route also consists of one ammo node that will always give you '''60 ammo''' (No DLC equipped). Assuming 98% of the time you will not retreat and go through this node, you will spend less ammo per run.</ref>
|style="background-color:#FFFF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|1.52
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|2.55
|22.93
|-
|'''[[6-2]]<br>1BB 1CV 2CAV/AV 2DD'''<br>{{ShipLink|Nelson}} touch [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=v2gg1_Rqq6E]
|05:30
|style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|85%
|style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|15%
|style="background-color:#FF0000"|
|style="background-color:#FF0000"|
|
|style="background-color:#FF0000"|
|0.895
|style="background-color:#FFFF00; color:black"|2.1
|style="background-color:#F00; color:white"|19.47
|-
|'''[[6-3]]<br>1CL 4DD 1AV''' [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=5e92mT6ZLA]
|05:30
|96.8% <ref name="Note63BRank">Assuming you would only advance to night battle if you '''DID NOT''' get at least a '''B Rank''' at the end of the day battle. In general, unless you are looking for rare drops, it's not worth getting the S rank.</ref>
|3.1%
|
|style="background-color:#FFFF00"|<ref name="Note63ResNode">The air recon resource node can give a small amount of ammo and bauxite depending on the player luck. If they managed to roll those, the amount of resource spent will be less.</ref>
|style="background-color:#FFFF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|<ref name="Note63ResNode"/>
|style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|1.39<ref name="Note63BRank"/>
|style="background-color:#FFFF00; color:black"|2.18
|23.02
|-
|'''[[7-1]]<br>1CL 4DD'''<br>Damegami RE [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=R_80_edliA]
|04:30
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|99.7%
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|0.3%
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00"|
|style="background-color:#00FF00; color:black"|0.118
|1.47
|style="background-color:#FF0000; color:white"|19.54
|}
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=Ranking Comps=
''For '''[[4-5]] 3 DD and [[6-2]]''' comps, please check out the [[Help:Ship_Farming|Ship Farming]] page.

{{FleetGuide
| Map = 3-2 Ranking
| Fleet = '''1 CL, 5 DD [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=YhsmWH5O7W0]
| Route = {{MapRoute|C|red|E|blue|F|blue|L|red}} '''or''' {{MapRoute|C|red|G|purple|F|blue|L|red}}
| AS = 0
| Speed = '''Fast+
| Note = {{color|green|'''One of the fastest ways to get ranking points.}}
Boss node always contains a transport ship to hunt so this map can be a great way to do {{color|green|'''weekly transport'''}}. The tradeoff is you can't really spam it much due to the high morale draining rate, so either you have to wait for a while to do it again or prepare a lot of this kind of fleet to do transport kill.

The simulator result assumes you will always lose fuel due to a maelstrom on the way. In practice, there is only 50 % chance of hitting this node.
}}

{{FleetGuide
| Map = 3-4 South Ranking
| Fleet = '''1 CAV, 2 CL, 3 DD [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=vGHhHxyJS-w]
| Route = {{MapRoute|D|purple|H|red|L|blue|J|blue|P|red}}
| AS = 84
| Note = '''{{color|green|Best option for 3-4 ranking, one of the best and fastest ways to gain a large amount of points.}}
*Also a good map to finish the Weekly World 3 quest.
You can even achieve better result by swapping the flagship between CAV and CL, keeping the sparkle for them to increase the pass rate.

Equipping radars on at least 3 ships will cause your fleet to lose less fuel on the maelstrom node {{MapRoute|D|purple}}.
}}

{{FleetGuide
| Map = 4-4 Ranking
| Fleet = '''3 CVL, 1 CL, 2 DE (5 OASW, 2 non-Kai DE) [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=UUaRdsoah58]
| Route = {{MapRoute|A|red|E|red|I|red|K|red}}
| AS = 72
| Note = {{color|red|'''DE must be non-Kai (Have less than 10 HP and have at least 2 equipment slots)'''}} to abuse the overkill protection mechanic. Such DE {{color|blue|'''has the highest chance to trigger it'''}} with the {{color|blue|'''least chance'''}} of ending up at {{Taiha}} state, which helps increase passing rate.

When using such DE, you don't need to bucket them. Just repair them in the dock and swap them for another DEs if they are damaged. Assuming '''DE lv is less than 99, she would always have less than an hour of repairing'''. This helps reduce bucket usage<ref name="44dock"/>.

CVL with slot equals or less than 17 is preferred as they can't be shot down under AS+ fighter phase.

{{color|green|'''Great map for leveling ship due to new ship EXP boost at the boss node.}}

}}

{{FleetGuide
| Map = 4-5 Sub Ranking
| Fleet = '''2 SS [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=3rIu7r-rR0w]
| Route = {{MapRoute|A|blue|D|red|H|red|T|red}} '''or''' {{MapRoute|C|blue|D|red|H|red|T|red}}
| AS = 0
| Speed = '''Fast+
| Note = {{color|red|'''Requires Fast+ submarine-only fleet'''.}} As of January 2025, {{ShipLink|I-201/Kai}} and {{ShipLink|I-203/Kai}} are the only ones who can achieve '''Fast+'''.
{{color|green|'''Cheapest map to do weekly world 4 quest.}}

{{color|red|'''However, the map MUST BE LOCKED in the FINAL FORM to make enemy DDs disappear at the boss node, which will lock you out of {{ShipLink|Maruyu}} farming}}'''. But on the bright side, without enemy DD presence, the enemy ASWs are very weak, where they have little to no chance to sink your {{Taiha}} non-flagship submarine, so you can advance after node H with {{Taiha}} non-flagship submarine and no harm will be done to them.

Keep in mind they have {{color|red|'''LITTLE TO NO CHANCE'''}} to sink your submarine, '''NOT''' impossible. There is an actually '''0.2%''' chance your submarine can die, or 2 out of 1000 runs.

For practical purposes, it is recommended that this comp/strategy is to be used in parallel with other ranking maps. As an example, one may run [[7-1]] as their main ranking map and occasionally sortie this composition as soon as the submarines are repaired, effectively making this strategy '''bucket-free'''.
}}

{{FleetGuide
| Map = 5-4 Ranking
| Fleet = '''1 CL, 2 CLT, 3 DD - ETSCF fleet [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=2fsnHFpgvY4]
| Route = {{MapRoute|B|blue|E|red|H|violet|I|green|J|violet|M|blue|P|red}}
| AS = 0
| LOS = Cn2: 45
| Note = You should always sortie this fleet at 49 morale as '''if you manage to S-rank all preboss nodes, the entire fleet will be sparkled by the time you reached the boss node''', which helps reduce bucket usage.
{{color|green|'''Best map to kill transport ships as you will meet 4 of them in one sortie.}}

Like Phase 1, boss node still {{color|green|'''contains a lot of old {{Ship/Link|Naganami|Zuikaku|Shoukaku|Mutsu|Agano|Ariake|text=rare ships}}, making it ideal to farm for their equipment'''}} if the player desires.
*However, the {{color|red|{{EquipmentLink|Elite Torpedo Squadron Command Facility}} '''is the absolutely minimum requirement'''}} for this fleet to work, and '''possibly the {{EquipmentLink|Prototype Night Zuiun (Attack Equipment)}}''' as well to maintain the high pass rate.

Due to the possibility of using FCF, it is possible that LoS may drop below the requirement. Only continue if your fleet still {{color|red|'''have above Cn2 45 LoS'''}}.

If you managed to tweak the fleet setup to allow 3-slot CL or weaker DD with low luck while maintaining reasonable pass rate, {{color|green|'''this map can be one of the best options for leveling. A ship that is in non-flagship position and never get MVP will gain at least 1700 - 1850 EXP per boss runs (2500 - 2800 if flagship, more with MVP)'''}}. Theoretically, if the flagship always becomes MVP and you finished the boss battle, she can gain up to '''4500 EXP''' per runs.

Keep in mind that due to being in a slot with very low capacity, the {{EquipmentLink|Prototype Night Zuiun (Attack Equipment)}} will {{color|red|'''almost always be completely shot down'''}}, thus losing the proficiency.

For some reasons, if you approach the boss node from south route once the map is cleared, {{Enemy/Link|Heavy Cruiser Ne-Class/Elite|text='''CA Ne-Class'''}} comp will never appear (Dev oversight or historical reference?)
}}

{{FleetGuide
| Map = 6-3 Ranking
| Fleet = '''1 CL, 4 DD, 1 AV [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=5e92mT6ZLA]
| Route = {{MapRoute|A|blue|C|red|E|red|G|green|H|green|J|red}}
| AS = 0
| Note = If the player prefers farming {{DM}} via the air recon node, {{ShipLink|Nisshin A|text=Nisshin}} can be used as an AV with full SPB loadout. This will secure GS for air recon node G and H, and {{color|green|'''both of these nodes combined can yield up to 8 {{DM}}'''}} if the player is lucky (Still requires at least a victory at the boss node to obtain though).
*Keep in mind that without a proper combat-oriented AV like {{ShipLink|Mikuma Kai Ni Toku|text=Mikuma}}, the victory rate may decrease.
This comp works better if you have '''married''' DDs who can '''1-slot OASW''' to increase the pass rate at the sub node.
}}

{{FleetGuide
| Map = 7-1 Ranking
| Fleet = '''1CL 4DD - Damegami RE [https://jervis.vercel.app/?p=R_80_edliA]
| Route = {{MapRoute|D|red|E|green|G|red|H|red|K|red}}
| AS = 0
| Note =Standard ranking fleet, '''{{color|green|default chosen by most of the players}}'''.
Despite damegami in the RE, they will never be used ('''Please also see {{color|red|Note}} <ref name="damegami71">There is actually an extremely small chance (around 0.01%, or 1 out of 10000 runs) that you will use it, the simulator rounded it down to 0.</ref> below'''). They are there to allow you to advance to the boss node with no harm done.
}}

<references/>

=Cannons=
Management of quarterly sortie quest ranking points ("Cannons"):
*Credit to '''Savara, Ink20'''. This is one of the recommended strategies to shoot ranking cannons.

As of current, there are 7 quarterly quests giving ranking points, known as cannon. A total of '''2050''' point can be obtained by completing all of those.

The following is the list of quarterly sortie quests. '''Bold''' indicates cannon quests
*At the beginning of the quarterly (unlocked by default): Bq3 and '''Bq13'''
*Unlocked by weekly or monthly quests:
**Bq1 needs Bm6 (Monthly 4-2)
**'''Bq2''' needs Bw2 (Weekly carriers)
**Bq5 needs D11 (Tokyo Express 2) 
**'''Bq7''' needs Bw9: (Weekly 5-2) 
**'''Bq8''' needs D11 (Tokyo Express 2) 
**Bq9 needs D11: (Tokyo Express 2) 
**'''Bq11''' needs Bm8 (Monthly supply lines)
*Unlocked by other quarterlies:
**Bq4 needs Bq3
**Bq6 needs Bq5  
**'''Bq10''' needs '''Bq2''' 
**'''Bq12''' needs '''Bq11'''

===Recommended course of actions===
*1. Do all weeklies
*2. Do Bm1: “Monthly Myoukou 2-5”
*3. Do Bm5: “Monthly 1-5”
*4. Do Bm8: “Monthly supply lines”
*5. Do Bq11: “Newbie cannon” (80 rpt must be “sacrificed”)
*6. At this point 5 big cannons are unlocked
**6.1. Bq2 do everything but 6-3 run
**6.2. Bq7 do everything but 5-4 run
**6.3. Bq8 do everything but one 1-5 run
**6.4. Bq12 do everything but 4-2 run
**6.5. Bq13 do everything but 5-4 run
*7. Bq10 remains locked until Bq2 is done
*8. Clear all EOs and farm ranking points as usual
*9. When the end of the month is close, calculate how many rpt you need to reach your desired position and fire the cannons you need.


Alternatively, if you want to try ranking all 3 months:
*Month 1. Do Bm1, Bm5, Bm8, Bq2, Bq8, 7-2-2 run of Bq10 (so you don't have to open it again) and everything but one run of Bq7, Bq11 and Bq13 (350+300 rpt with 200+80+390 rpt ready in case of need)
*Month 2. Do Bq7, Bq10 and Bq11 (200+400+80 rpt)
*Month 3. Do Bq12 and Bq13 (330+390 rpt)
Also, remember that some requirement of these quests are shared with other quests and can be done together like 5-4 of Bq7 and Bq13 with 2CL, 3CA, 1CV or 1BBV (north or south route), 6-4 of Bq2 and Bq13, 6-3 of Bq2 and Bq4, etc.

=Trivia=
==Tools that Help with Ranking==
===Savara's ranking cutoff - planning tool===
:Website: [https://bonodere.famluro.es]
This is a ranking supportive tool that calculates the amount of point you need to farm in order to reach a selected goal. It also includes features using ranking data from [https://senka.su senka.su] such as automatic score input,  other players tracking system, and a filter for players potentially going for high ranking. For more information, please visit the site.

===Senka.su===
:Website: [https://senka.su]
A database site that shows the top 500 record of every server, which can be helpful if you wanna check where you are at compared to the other players in the top 500.

==Ranking Plan==
*As of September 2020, many quarterly quests that give ranking points have been released. This has directly affected the ranking pressure across all servers as nowaday T500 may requires as much effort as Phase 1 T100. However, this can also be a good thing as if you do all those quarterlies and EO in one single month, you can stack up to 3000 points pretty easily. With a couple of more sortie, you are guaranteed to hit T500 as well. So my advice is '''If your life is very busy, just focus all quarterlies in one month and clear all the EO that month too, this way, at least you will get ranking rewards every 3 months'''
**Of course it is still possible to rank every month and spread out quarterlies to get enough point buff (i.e each month you only do 2-3 quarterlies for around 600 points), but will require much more points from daily sortie for T500 nowaday if you wanna catch up. Plan your schedule accordingly to your server if you spam daily. You are gonna need like 3700 for T500 (Hashi will need more obviously)
===Regarding the EO and Quest cannon===
*For EO cannon, you can shoot anytime in a month to gain rpt, but '''note that if you shoot in the last day of the month, between 22:00 - 00:00 JST of the next month, it will not be counted for anything !'''
*For quarterly quest cannon:
**Shooting it anytime before 14:00 JST of the last day of any month will give rpt to that month.
**Shooting it after 14:00 JST of the last day of any month, <u>as long as that month is '''NOT''' the last month of the quarter</u>, will give rpt to the following month.
**Shooting it after 14:00 JST of the last day of the last month in a quarter <u>will just simply waste it, not counted for anything.</u>
**For reference, 4 quarters in KC are month 12-1-2 / 3-4-5 / 6-7-8 / 9-10-11
Example:
*Right now it's July, it belongs to quarter 6-7-8. I have the Z cannon available giving 350 points.
**If I shoot it anytime in July before 7/31 14:00 JST, I will have 350 points for July.
**If I shoot it after 7/31 14:00 JST, but before August coming, I will have 350 points for August.
**If I shoot it after 8/31 14:00 JST, I will get nothing out of it, as August is already the last month of the quarter.
*For limited seasonal quest cannon (Rainy Season 2023 - Terubozu, Setsubun, etc...), let's say the current month is '''May''' and it currently has a seasonal quest cannon:
**Shooting it anytime before 14:00 JST of the last day of '''May''' will give rpt to May.
**Shooting it after 14:00 JST of the last day of '''May''' will give rpt to the following month, '''June'''.
The last note regarding the seasonal quest cannon are '''VERY IMPORTANT''' to know about especially {{color|red|if the said cannon is a '''MONTHLY''' quest. As the points are '''given''' to the next month if the cannon is shot '''AFTER 14:00 JST of the current month''', <u>''it is possible to stack the point gained from that particular quest '''TWICE''' in the following month.''</u>}} The seasonal quest cannon will start giving the point to the next month as soon as 14:00 JST of the current month has been passed, but '''the monthly quest reset will not occur yet''', so there is a small time window of 15 hours where you can finish the said monthly seasonal quest before it resets itself, allowing you to do it again, doubling the point gained from the said quest in the following month.<br><br>
The entire quest cannon can be summed up using this table:
{|class = "wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:auto"
!rowspan=2|
|colspan=2|'''May 31st'''
|colspan=2|'''June 1st'''
|-
|'''13:59 JST of May 31st and before'''
|colspan=2|'''14:00 JST of May 31st - 04:59 JST of June 1st'''
|'''05:00 of June 1st and later'''
|-
|Quarterly quest
|Accounted for May
|colspan=2|{{color|red|'''LOST'''}}
|Accounted for June
|-
|Seasonal quest '''BEFORE''' June quest reset
|Accounted for May
|colspan=2|'''Accounted for June'''
|
|-
|Seasonal quest '''AFTER''' June quest reset
|colspan=3|
|Accounted for June
|}

=See Also=
*[[Ranking]]
{{Help}}

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