Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31297098-20170213105642/@comment-26484417-20170213231715

Lord Asriel Sew wrote: Well yeah, but they don't need to know it because WE know it. Afterall, this ranking thing is just trivia. I don't think SIU actually care about those things. In a blog post he even said that ToG was the kind of story where : Story >> Games >> Battles (^^ what I also think) As CB mentioned before, while you're not wrong, the information you brought up isn't something known by the Ranking Bureau. This entails that this couldn't have played any role in determining Phanta's rank; so it must have been something else.

As for my two cents; maybe it's the mystery? After all, Enryu may be unimaginably powerful, and a being that killed a Guardian, but Phanta is the one whose mysterious and seemingly unpredictable nature--together with the act of suddenly storming Zahard's castle--is what keeps people on their toes.