Ninjago by the Numbers

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[ninjagobythenumbers]

# of Episodes Ninjas Spend Together

If you would like to see my dataset or a clearer version of this chart go here. Scroll to the bottom of the post for info on reading the chart.

Interesting Statistics

Total # of episodes: 274

Pairing with the Most Episodes: Cole & Kai at 184

Pairing with the Least Episodes: P.I.X.A.L. & Wyldfire at 1

# of Episodes Nya and Jay are together: 135

# of Episodes Nya and Jay are separated: 139

# of Episodes Zane and P.I.X.A.L are together: 104

# of Episodes Zane and P.I.X.A.L. are separated: 170

New Ninja Pairing with the Most Episodes: Riyu & Sora at 42

New Ninja Pairing with the Least Episodes: Arin & Frak at 7

Mentorship Pairing with Most Episodes: Lloyd & Arin at 35

Original 6 Pairing with the Least Episodes: Zane & Nya at 100

Avg. # of episodes a given Ninja spends with a given Ninja: 50

Avg # of episodes Original 6 Ninja spend with Original 6 Ninja: 139

Avg # of episodes Core 4 Ninja spends with Core 4 Ninja: 163

Avg. # of Episodes X Ninja spends with a given Ninja

Cole: 74

Kai: 85

Zane: 78

Jay: 78

Lloyd: 74

P.I.X.A.L.: 78

Arin: 45

Sora: 17

Riyu: 19

Wyldfire: 16

Frak: 10

Key note, this doesn't necessarily reflect that some ninja spend more time alone. It may just reflect that they tend to spend time in bigger/smaller groups.

Pairings Ordered by # of Episodes Spent Together

How to Read the Chart

This chart depicts the amount of episodes each pair of ninja has spent together. It doesn't depict one on one time, just episodes that the ninja were in the same group. The leftmost and topmost lines of each square correspond to each ninja's color. Each cell is colored on a gradient of yellow to green, with yellow being a lower number of episodes and green being higher number episodes.

I will explain my methodology in another post, but an important note I need to make for now is that the numbers in these graphs are not the amount of episodes featuring groupings. Episodes counted even if the ninja were together offscreen. For instance, if Cole and Zane are hanging out for a stretch of episodes, let's say episode 1, 2, and 3, but Cole and Zane do not appear during episode 2, they have still hung out for 3 episodes.

[nyaskitten]

Look, I don't mind them marketing a kids show for what it is but... really? These new titles fucking suck. Why do they feel the need to do "WTF!?!?!?!" titles? Kids can't be THAT STUPID... is it cus the episode names are r indistinct? Literally just do the episode names and episode numbers, it's not that hard.

[ninjagobythenumbers]

i fully disagree raine, i think kids are likelier to click these titles than the episode titles. ipad babies need clickbait to find peak. they'll get scared if it looks too much like a cohesive narrative.

[nayomi73]

Hola, espero y hayan notado mi mejoría en el dibujo, me pone muy contenta volver a publicar dibujos que de verdad me encanten☺️

Por último un dibujito de Nya (esto tuve que publicarlo antes que el de Wu y Morro 😔)

Nya es muy hermosa 🌅🩵

[ginathecreativefairy]

CW: Possible Spoilers (Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)

So, I've been (re)watching LEGO Ninjago and it's been lots of fun; however, I also just realized that maybe Jay and Nya could have been in some kind of (romantic) relationship development since really early in the show, but as soon it became obviously official... everything just kept being normal.

Like now that I think about it, the romantic relationship between Jay and Nya was treated as something completely normal inside the show, the group was still really united, and that romance didn't overshadow the rest of stuff in the story.

Needless to say, romances like this make me feel really happy... meanly satisfied and happy 🤭😈

(Ha! In your miserable face, “Last-Minute Hookup” trope! >:D)

[ninjagobythenumbers]

This is one of my absolute favorite things about Ninjago, and about Nya and Jay in particular. A settled, long-term relationship between main characters is so rare to see in any show, especially kid's shows.

It's so refreshing and it's just a really lovely thing to see portrayed. They have a comfortability with one another that most shows don't get a chance to get to, or, even if they try, it feels a bit more manufactured, cus, unlike Ninjago, they don't have hundreds of episodes to settle into things.

[charleston-yappa]

Remembered I never showed u this doodle of the boys I made a bit ago lol

[sleepyking]

Alright guys let’s try this again—who’s your favorite Zane?

Human-esque Zane

Titanium Zane

Snake Jaguar

Ice Emperor Zane

Blane

Administration Mail Man Zane

Draconus Zane

Zane

Secret 9th Zane

Echo Zane

Voting ended onMay 8

@ninjagobythenumbers here u go :3

[ninjagobythenumbers]

Snake Jaguar heads get in the chat. Truly Zane's two and a half best eps. It has everything.

Flashback decades in the past

Strategizing

Great dynamic with Cole

Rogue solo mission

Fantastic combat

Use of Nindroid abilities

Mr. E

Earned True Potential drop

Zane death

Falcon shout-out

Snowy Birch forest

Lore

[sleepyking]

Who’s you favorite Zane

Human-esque Zane

Titanium Zane

Draconus Zane

Blane

Ice Emperor Zane

Echo Zane

Administration Mail Man Zane

Zane

Secret 9th Zane

Voting ended onMay 7

This is for you @sablesentry

[ninjagobythenumbers]

Where the helllll is Snake Jaguar in this poll?

[inconspicuousmuffin]

Silly RGB. Made em a while ago but forgot to post 🫠. I wanted to make the others but the platform im using only lets me have 5 layers and I got lazy :/

Look how whimsy 🥺

edit: WAHHH i did not expect this to blow up that much TYSM GUYS!! <3

[alizibtheterrible]

Lil goofpost before the official start of AP exam season (for me anyways) yayyyyyyy wish me luck

[nyaskitten]

Every sin of Jaya can be forgiven cos they're so cute in DR. tan csc sec cot.

[ninjagobythenumbers]

my thoughts during the rapid fire trigonometry practices in high school

[mar-marcy]

Gotta love the ninja's fake names in DR and the naming techniques behind them.

When infiltrating Impirium Sora just picks her old name (Ana), Lloyd just jumbles the letters of his own name (Doyll Donmagar) and poor Arin mixes up a name from the things surrounding him (Dr. Lampshade Floortile).

Later on in the Land of Lee, Lloyd uses the same naming technique on Wyldfyre (Fyldwyre), Jay apparently went to the Cole school of fake names by using something ridiculous to assert dominance (Count Strong McCoolguy) while Nya, the most sensible one, just uses her mom's name (Maya McCoolguy).

[ninjagobythenumbers]

Fun fact: Zane's fake name (Snake Jaguar) is the middle name of Kelly Metzger (Nya's voice actress)'s child because her partner appearently also comes from Cool School of Fake Names.

[headcanonsninjago]

IMPORTANT QUESTION

Before the merge, were elemental powers only exclusive to Ninjago? Were there other elemental masters? Or did the new elemental masters only gain them when the merge happened?

We know from the Tournament there are masters from other realms, but they have had plenty of time to train since the merge happened in order to master their elements. Is there any evidence of someone having their powers before the merge?

[ninjagobythenumbers]

I see no reason why powers would be exclusive to Ninjago prior to the merge. The sources just happened to endow Ninjagons in these few centuries, likely to do the enhanced threat levels and lobbying from the FSM.

Zeatrix had her powers pre-merge. Other elemental masters seemed more advanced than people who had just had their powers for a few years. The Forbidden Five's powers are technically elemental, I believe. The fact that Wu, who was one of the first humans in Ninjago, seemed unaware of prior green ninjas also seems to be pretty good evidence that elemental powers were elsewhere.

I genuinely think that the reason so many people got powers right after the merge is just because, between Posession and the Merge, if any one died, they wouldn't actually move on. They would be stuck in the Land of Lost Souls. As we saw with Morro, when a soul doesn't move on, its power can remain attached. Thus, once the land beyond opened up with the Merge, Morro was able to mentally move on, while other masters physically moved on, thus allowing for the powers to choose new masters.

[ninjagobythenumbers]

happy finals season

[docwyattnews]

[ninjagobythenumbers]

not seeing any severance...

doc wyatt L

[myaow]

Omg before I forget did anyone else notice in the episode 10 I think when Cole fixed the hole in the wall he heated it up to fuse together?? And it was definitely heat it steamed has he done that before???

I’m like two seconds from falling asleep rn I can’t remember if he’s done that before and ik like oooo magma arms n shit but have we actually seen him heat rock before is lava bender Cole actually possible???

[ninjagobythenumbers]

i like to think he heated it up by moving a bunch of little particles back and forth.

<3 friction <3

Otherwise, I don't think he should be able to do that.

[nyaskitten]

Ninjago is the America of all the realms.

[ninjagobythenumbers]

Ninjago is a lawless land with only a puppet government, for, its true leader, a billionaire technocrat, has bought the favor of those with the monopoly on violence.

[macrohappy]

have we ever seen the first spinjitzu master do a spinjitzu tornado

[ninjagobythenumbers]

i personally have, on a trip to the desert back when i was a child.