Link Rating

Link Rating
Japanese	ＬＩＮＫ（リンク）の数（すう）字（じ）分（ぶん）
Japanese (ruby)	リンクのすうじぶん
Japanese (base text)	ＬＩＮＫの数字分
Japanese (romanized)	Rinku no Sūjibun
Japanese (translated)	Link Number
English	Link Rating

A Link Rating (Japanese: ＬＩＮＫ（リンク）の数（すう）字（じ）分（ぶん） Rinku no Sūjibun, "Link Number"), often referred to as simply Link (Japanese: ＬＩＮＫ（リンク） Rinku), is a property exclusive to Link Monsters, in place of a Level or a Rank. The original Link Rating of a Link Monster Card is located next to its ATK, in the space normally taken up by the DEF on other Monster Card types.

A Link Monster's Link Rating is equal to the number of Link Arrows it has, and is also the number of Link Materials that must be sent from the field to the Graveyard to Link Summon it. If a Link Monster is used as a Link Material, it can either be optionally treated as either a single Link Material or a number of Link Materials equal to its Link Rating. Link Monsters with a Link Rating of 3 or higher all require a variable number of Link Materials, with a minimum of 2.

As Link Monsters do not have Levels or Ranks, they cannot be used for Ritual, Synchro, or Xyz Summons; and any effects that would refer to the Level or Rank of a monster, such as those of "Gravity Bind", "Level Limit - Area B" and "Planckton", do not affect Link Monsters. Since Link Monsters do not have Levels, cards such as "Star Changer", "Scanner" and "Yellow-Bellied Oni" do not affect them at all. Cards that modify Levels or Ranks such as "Harmonic Waves", "Feedback Warrior", and "Xiangsheng Magician" also do not affect Link Monsters.

It appears that a Link Monster's Link Rating has the same role of gauging the maximum original ATK it can have as with Levels and Ranks. So far, the limits are:

1000 ATK for Link 1 monsters
2000 ATK for Link 2 monsters
2600 ATK for Link 3 monsters
3000 ATK for Link 4 monsters

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Level	?^† ???^† -8^† -7^† -6^† -5^† -4^† 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Rank	???^† 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Monster type	Normal Effect Pendulum Token Maximum^RD
Monster card type	Fusion Ritual Synchro Xyz Link Dark Synchro^† Accel Synchro^† Delta Accel Synchro^† Limit Over Accel Synchro^†
Monster subtype	Tuner Special Summon Dark Tuner^† Armor^† Plus^† Minus^† Plus Minus^†
Ability	Toon Union Spirit Gemini Flip
Alignment^†	Dark Divine Dreams Earth Fiend Fire Forest Light Thunder Water Wind
Attribute	?^† ???^† DARK EARTH FIRE LIGHT WATER WIND DIVINE
Type	Aqua Beast Beast-Warrior Creator God Cyberse Dinosaur Divine-Beast Dragon Fairy Fiend Fish Illusion Insect Machine Plant Psychic Pyro Reptile Rock Sea Serpent Spellcaster Thunder Warrior Winged Beast Wyrm Zombie Celestial Warrior^RD Cyborg^RD Galaxy^RD High Dragon^RD Magical Knight^RD Omega Psychic^RD Black Magic^† Dark Knight^† Dragon Magic^† Electroid^† Gadget^† Immortal^† Immortal (manga)^† Magic^† Plantfolk^† Sea Beast^† White Magic^† Wild Beast^† Yokai^† ?^† ???^†
ATK	? ??? ???? X000 ∞ 0 1 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 666 700 750 800 850 900 920 950 1000 1050 1100 1150 1200 1250 1300 1350 1380 1400 1450 1500 1550 1600 1610 1650 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000 2050 2100 2150 2200 2250 2300 2350 2400 2450 2500 2501 2510 2550 2600 2650 2700 2750 2800 2850 2900 2950 3000 3100 3200 3300 3400 3450 3500 3600 3700 3750 3800 4000 4200 4300 4400 4500 4600 5000 10000 100000
DEF	? ??? ???? X000 ∞ 0 1 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 666 700 750 800 850 900 950 1000 1050 1100 1150 1200 1250 1300 1350 1400 1450 1460 1500 1530 1550 1600 1650 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1930 1950 2000 2030 2050 2100 2150 2200 2250 2300 2350 2400 2450 2500 2550 2600 2700 2750 2800 2900 2950 3000 3100 3200 3300 3400 3500 3600 3700 3800 3850 3900 4000 4100 4500 4800 5000 100000
Pendulum Scale	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Link Rating	1 2 3 4 5 6
Link Arrow	Top-Left Top Top-Right Left Right Bottom-Left Bottom Bottom-Right
Conventions	Conventions of 3000 ATK and DEF Level 4 ATK and DEF conventions
^† Does not exist in the OCG or TCG (ATK and DEF not marked) ^RD Only exists in Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel See also {{Card types}} and {{Card lists}}

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