A little advice, don't get serious about ranked if you are f2p. It will take some time where you are able to fight compared to your situation at the moment since you need to collect better ninjas snd increase your initiative.

I said it would take time for f2ps.... You obviously had time to build your teams since you said you had a merge. If you look at OP, he doesn't have a lot of ninjas to build a team meaning he probably had like less than 2 months of gameplay.