Rating

Description
Rating determines our place in the hierarchy of things, it is often based off of a players skill as it revolves around the concept of PvP. The higher rated player you grip the more rating you will gain in return, as a base the rating is set to 1,000 however, this number can fall to 0 and possibly even negative numbers. The higher you have the higher chance you have of attaining a Rank, but it scales off of others ratings. Thus forth gripping a ranked player will give you a ton of rating and meaning they lose a lot in the process.

How to Obtain
To obtain rating you grip someone, simple as that. But depending on their total potential as well as their rating you could recieve less than others, similar to how sometimes you will only get 0.3 souls by gripping someone lower than you, this makes rating a pain to increase as you lose a lot more than you gain half the time.

Uses
Rating is used to attain a rank, the rank is purely cosmetic as well as the title you can get when achieving rank number 1. It isn't the ranking that describes the player, it's the other way around.