Nah dude, ninja Gilbert Gottfried is clearly the highest, clearly!
Answer me this, have you ever seen ninja Gilbert Gottfried? ...Exactly.
His stealth and skills are off the fucking charts! And No one lives who have seen him.

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Well I think we have to seperate the highest rannking Lin Kuie and the strongest.

Sektor may be the highest member cuz he is the son of the grandmaster but in terms of strenght I think ESZ was nnnumber 1 foloowed by his brother, who even surpassed him later on.

The rest about the ranking is speculation. We do not know how strong Cyrax was compared to Sektor or Smoke before being automated