This is intended to be a guide to looping. Unlike The Trade or Soul Reaping, Looping really doesn't need a walkthrough. However, there are still many questions that people have about looping and there's really not one good centralized place for information. This guide is intended to answer all of those questions. In the process, I'm hoping this provides a good checklist of "things to do" on their path to looping. Nothing in this guide is necessary.
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Looping FAQ
What is looping?
Looping is where you take a high level character (usually level 52+) and through special missions, you revert back to a level 6 character. You lose most of your jutsu, your allies, and a large number of your items. Your rank is also reset to Genin. After you loop, you begin a new season (such as season 2, after the first time you loop).
When can I loop?
Any time after one of your attributes (Gen/Nin/Tai) reaches level 18 in season 1. You have the free choice of looping then. The timer for looping starts at 20. Each additional season increases this range by 3, so that the upper limit is 23 in season 2, 26 in season 3, and so on and so forth.
What if I don't want to loop?
Two weeks after you receive your looping warning you will receive a stamina penalty and be unable to help your Village in the Ninja World War (no bingo'ing, no invading, etc). You don't have to loop at this point. However, it's probably a good idea.
What are the benefits of looping?
The primary benefit is access to themes. But there are certain things that are only available in subsequent seasons as well. Many allies have a Lvl. 2 form that can only be unlocked in Season 2. Also, the Trade Lvl. 3 cannot be attained until season 2. It's also currently believed that the Impossible Mission can only be completed in Season 4.
What allies do I keep when I loop?
You keep Flipper and The HoClaus. All other allies are lost.
What jutsu do I keep when I loop?
Only the jutsu taught by Flipper and the jutsu taught by your Sword of the Reaper. The complete list is:
- Clone Jutsu
- Disguise Jutsu
- Escape Jutsu
- Exploding Tags: Activate
- Projectile Weapons: Kunai
- Projectile Weapons: Shuriken
- Soul Reaper Style:Call, Sword!
What permanent items do I keep when I loop?
This list is not complete, and we'll be adding notes to all the individual item pages about whether an item loops. But generally, the following items loop:
- Letter of Marque
- Sannin's premium
- Hollow Leg
- Glowing Mood Ring
- Silver Hairpin
- Professor's Hat
- Banana Sticker/Pretty Rainbow Sticker/Monster Mask
- Shortbunny
- Beat-Up Teddy, Creepy Love Letter, Emo Valentine or Pink Bouquet
- All arena items (including bloodline specific items) and points
- Some Reaper items (Heck Butterfly, Swallowtail Butterfly, Soul Glove, Blue Flower Hairpin, Sword of the Reaper)
- Any Super-Rare from the Prize Wheel (K-Dog's Headband, Stealth Suit, etc.)
- * Anything gained from referrals (Pirate Hat, etc.)
- Any monster drop items
- 75% of your Ryo
The Note and The Tote do not loop. Neither do the Captain's Jacket, Reaper Blood - Dormant, Reaper Blood - Shikai, or Reaper Blood - Bankai.
Looping Goals
The following are things you can try and accomplish before you loop to the next season. You do not have to (and in some cases, cannot) do everything listed here in a single season. They are, instead, just goals you should attempt to accomplish at some point, when you feel like it, and if you think the reward is worth it.
Items
Obtain Prize Wheel Prizes
The following items can only be won from the Prize Wheel, and all of them loop.
Winning each of these items should be something of a priority at some point.
Obtain Referral Items
The following items are gained by referring individuals to BvS and having them reach the rank of Chunin. All of them loop.
So, it's in your interest to continuously try and get people to play BvS!
Obtain Monster Kill Items
After you get a Natural Research Facility, your village will occasionally get attacked by monsters. If your village defeats them, your village may get an upgrade as well as 2 items. One will go to the Village leader, the other will be given randomly amongst those who helped kill the monster. These items loop, so helping to kill monsters should be a high priority.
Obtain Arena Items
Once you reach Chunin, you can participate in the arena. If you win 10 games in one day in the arena, you are given a specific bloodline related item. This item gives you special abilities in the arena, and these items loop and stack. As such, you should try and get 10 wins in one day at least once per season when you are using a new bloodline.
There's a wide variety of strategies that one can employ to get 10 wins. The only thing that's absolutely necessary is to be able to have enough games in order to get to the 10 win point. Buying games with ryo can only get you so far. Matches are purchased in sets of 3, and triple in cost for each set that's purchased. So the first three cost 500, the next three cost 1,500, the next three cost 4,500 and so on. Buying more than 9 matches in this fashion becomes cost prohibitive. The game has conveniently changed recently so now everyone starts off with one Arena play. Another option is to spend arena reputation points for more matches. 1 match costs 150 reputation points and does not increase in cost. If you have a large quantity of reputation points, this can be worthwhile. Finally, an additional 6 matches can be gained by using 2 Emergency Rations if you have the Hollow Leg.
Obtain a Hollow Leg
The Hollow Leg is a great item for those who make use of potions. To obtain this item, you must first achieve the True Blood of the Reaper (see the Reaper Guide). Once you've done this you will need 25 Tasty Burgers to gain access to All You Can Eat 2. This will require 50 Tasty Burgers that are dropped by Lil' Bo Lvl. 2. After you have done this, you can now get Hollow Jaw items from Reaper mission A-Level! Destroy a Hollow Stronghold. This is a very low drop rate, so it's suggested that you use MC Stripeypants. You may also need Fletch to complete the mission. After you have all 3 jaws, you can get your Hollow Leg! This item does loop, but only works when you're a Jonin or higher.
Themes
Unlock: All Together Now
To do this, you need more than 45 allies. While this is time consuming, it's not too difficult. Here's a general breakdown of how to find allies:
- 38 allies from general and special missions
- 4 allies from The Trade
- 9 allies from Reaper missions
- 2 allies from exams in season 2
- 1 ally from Hanging Out
- 1 ally from seasonal content (The HoClaus).
Level 2 allies do not count as a new ally. You need to have more than 45 allies on your ally list. There is more than enough allies in the game to accomplish this without having to get every ally.
Unlock: Battle of Champions
This requires getting Billy Lvl. 3 and Emosuke Lvl. 3.
First, you need to get Billy to lvl. 3. Pick Billy up from D-Rank missions. This should be easy. Then, take Billy to the B-Rank mission Defeat an Evil Pirate after you reach Special Jonin. After one or more attempts, he should become Billy Lvl. 2. After this, you must make Jonin and bring Billy to the A-Rank mission Withstand the Eyepatch of the Soul!. This is the hardest A-Rank mission in the game, so bring a strong party (like Never Say Yaoi Bonus or Crazy Love Triangle) and consider using a strong jutsu (such as Flying Thunder God Technique or Kido:Nightfall). With luck, you will then get Billy Lvl. 3.
You can work on Emosuke Lvl. 3 at the same time that you're working on Billy Lvl. 3, but the final step requires that you already have Billy Lvl. 3, unless you have a generous villager provide you with the last and rarest item. First, get Emosuke from D-Rank missions. Again, this should be easy. After that, you'll want a large number of Emo Rock CDs (for most people, 20). Emosuke drops the CDs, but they are also available as a hidden item on the B-Rank Rock out on Stage! Use these CDs to complete Rock the World or Rock the World (B Side). This will level Emosuke up to Emosuke Lvl. 2. Now, you need a Billy Bucket (which is dropped by Billy Lvl. 3) and 3 Razor Blades (which are droped by Emosuke Lvl. 2). Once you have these items, complete the special mission Goth Talk (which requires these items and exactly 48 hours). After this, you'll receive Emosuke Lvl. 3 and unlock Battle of Champions!
Unlock: Drunken Fist
This theme is pretty easy to unlock, but it is a little time consuming. You need to unlock Bruce Jr. Lvl. 2. To do this, you need to have Bruce Jr. in your party when you spar more than 200 times. He does not need to be in your party for every sparring, just when you hit 201.
The easiest way to do this is to get as many sparring partners as possible. You can have up to 30. Get 30 if you can. Then just spar with all of them, every day until you get close to 201. Then toss Bruce Jr. in your party and finish it off to get him to level 2. Congratulations, you got a new theme!
Unlock: Floating on Air
This one takes a bit to accomplish, but it's well worth it. First you need to collect two Sham Rocks, which are rare items that you can get from Ingredient Hunt when your village Science! Workshop is currently in rare collection mode. Once you have two, go complete the special mission St. Flash's Day. This requires that you hang out with Bruce Jr.. This will get you the Flash Ring and The Running Man Jutsu.
Once you have the the ring and jutsu, use the jutsu 50 times with a Girl Power team. This will unlock The Freshest Move I've Ever Seen. To complete this mission, you give up your Flash Ring. This is an incredibly nice theme, so enjoy!
Unlock: Killer Montage
This is relatively straight forward. All you need to do unlock this theme is to finish Season 2 as a Jonin or Sannin. Very little planning should go into this one.
Unlock: Love Only Yourself
To do this, you need to carry the Spirit of the Sand Demon. You'll need to be the Kage of a Village with the Natural Research Facility and then have the Sand Demon attack your Village. Only the Kage gets this monster drop, so this one is a bit rare.
Unlock: Lucky Sevens
To do this, you need to get the Sevens Trophy from the Slot Machine in the Party House. McMasters has said that you should statistically expect to spend about 150,000 ryo to win the trophy. You may win it sooner or later than that. 150,000 is just a statistical average. Just keep playing slots until you win it!
Unlock: Money for Nothing
You must spend 500,000 ryo in the party house in a single season. It doesn't matter where you spend it (and it doesn't have to be only in one game). The easiest way to do this is to attempt to get the Sevens Trophy from slots, or to win the other rare prizes from the party wheel. This isn't too difficult to accomplish.
Unlock: My Name Is
This is only available in Season 2+ and cannot be done in the same season that you're attempting to unlock Say My Name. This involves reaching the Trade Lvl. 3 and siding with Anonymous over Right. See The Trade Guide for suggestions on how to unlock The Trade Lvl. 3.
Unlock: Nine Tails
To do this, you need to carry the Spirit of the Nine Tailed Fox. You need to be in a Village with the Epic Monument and then have the Nine-Tailed Fox attack your Village. The only way for him to attack is for you to summon him using the Enticement Altar.
Unlock: Out on Top
Start the New Season while you are the #1 Player in your rank. This takes some serious planning. In preparation, make sure you get Arena Favorite at the very least. Any other items that provide +XP % bonuses would also be good.
You should plan to loop on a day where you're going to get a 7 day stamina bonus, so you have 100 more stamina than normal. If you have a Valentine's day item, make sure your party is setup to take advantage of that the day before. Do what you can to make sure you get 100 stamina for the day from people clicking on your referral link. That's just getting enough stamina in preparation.
Do A-Rank (or B-Rank) missions until you get to 30 stamina left. If you have at least 3 Hairpin Pieces sell your Blue Flower Hairpin and do the mission again to get a new one. This will give you another 200 stamina to work with. You may only do this special mission once a day now.
Once you're out of usable Hairpin Pieces, get down to 10 stamina and then use Ninja Art: Hottie Regeneration. This will get you another 100 stamina to work with. Continue this until you run out of stamina.
Now, after you've done all this, take as much money as you can save for as long as you can, and spend it all in the Party House on the most expensive party that you can afford. This will help boost your daily XP by quite a bit, depending on how much you've saved.
If you got the Hollow Leg you can drink two Silver Elixir, which give you 100,000 daily XP each at a total of 200,000 extra daily XP. This may be very useful
It used to be that 1,000,000 daily XP would be enough to get you to #1. However, recently, even 2,000,000 is not a safe bet. You just need to take it as high as you possibly can.
If you get lucky, you'll be ranked #1. Hopefully you're in a Village with an Epic Monument, and you can become a Sannin as well the same day you loop. Good luck! You'll need it!
Unlock: Reach for the Sky
This is another theme that requires very little planning. All one has to do is finish Season 3. There does not seem to be any rank limitations placed on this.
Unlock: Say My Name
This is only available in Season 2+ and cannot be done in the same season that you're attempting to unlock My Name Is. This involves reaching the Trade Lvl. 3 and siding with Right over Anonymous. See The Trade Guide for suggestions on how to unlock The Trade Lvl. 3.
Unlock: Seasons Don't Fear
Get the True Blood of the Reaper. See the Reaper Guide for how to do this.
Unlock: Teacher's Pet
Start a New Season with over 1 million XP. This is relatively easy to do. Just stop buying jutsu that you don't need, and it won't be too hard to have 1 million XP saved up. Most Jonin pull about 100,000 a day when running B-Rank missions if you need a rough estimate of how long this will take.
Unlock: The Road to Womanhood
Get Nadeshiko. This involves hanging out with 4 allies on the same day. It's recommended that you identify four allies that currently have low friend points and take them to the party house, 2 at a time. Hopefully you will get enough points to hang out with all four on the same day.
Alternatively, you could couple the Floating on Air theme with a Make-Out Mood Enhancer, which may prove easier to accomplish.
Unlock: Warstruck and obtain Letter of Marque
These two are related. Getting the Letter of Marque unlocks the theme Warstruck. To get the Letter of Marque you must obtain all of the Ninja World War permanent items. Once you have done that, you unlock the special mission: Red Tape. You'll need to pay 15,000 Ryo as well, so come prepared for that! This is definitely worthwhile and a goal you should aim for early on.
Unlock: The Flash
To unlock The Flash, you need to reach Sannin rank on a character that is of the Legacy bloodline. You cannot unlock this theme during the same season that you attempt to unlock You See Right Through Me or You Spin Me Right Round. To become a Sannin, you need to be able to be one of the top 3 daily players for the day, be in a village with an Epic Monument, and have all 3 Sannin allies (J-Diddy, SNAKEMAN, and The Rack).
Unlock: You See Right Through Me
To unlock You See Right Through Me, you need to reach Sannin on a character that is of the WhiteEye bloodline. You cannot unlock this theme during the same season that you attempt to unlock The Flash or You Spin Me Right Round. To become a Sannin, you need to be one of the top 3 daily players for the day, be in a village with an Epic Monument, and have all 3 Sannin allies (J-Diddy, SNAKEMAN, and The Rack).
Unlock: You Spin Me Right Round
To unlock You Spin Me Right Round, you need to reach Sannin on a character that is of the RedEye bloodline. You cannot unlock this theme during the same season that you attempt to unlock The Flash or You See Right Through Me. To become a Sannin, you need to be one of the top 3 daily player of the day, be in a village with an Epic Monument, and have all 3 Sannin allies (J-Diddy, SNAKEMAN, and The Rack).