Talk:Hwa Ryun/@comment-85.166.177.109-20130316014934/@comment-203.122.223.123-20130316020345

I would suggest that it is likely that a person's ranking is influenced by their ability to use skills that are less common, given that guides have a rather niche set of skills that are highly valued within the Tower, it is likely that their ranking increases faster than otherwise proportional to their other capabilities, that is, that a guide generally will have a higher rank than their other skills and attributes would suggest warranted.

Therefore a guide would have a lower level of fighting ability relative to others near their own rank, because the guide's rank would have incorporated their highly valued guide specific skills and thus not reflect as accurately their fighting ability.