Ninjago: Ninjas' Real Ages? 🐲 Dragons Rising Update! 

I know we will probably never agree on this, but these are just my best guesses! Drop all yours down below! 🙏

I'm still surprised that Zane might be over 50 or more, but it makes sense with the timeline of his father and before meeting the other ninja

In hunted, the ninja state that they are still teenagers, just old teenagers meaning they are probably about 17 in hunted, 19 at the most. Additionally, in Seabound, Misako says that Kai is grown man now, suggesting he is 18, 20 at the most in seabound

Thanks to Hands of Time, we know Nya is around 3 years younger than Kai

Kai is two years older than Nya. I read somewhere that Nya was 13 at the time of the pilot season and Kai was 15.

I honestly wished ninjago creators would just tells us the ninjas age instead of leaving it up to viewer interpretation, but believe they’re all legal adults now.

Putting this here, Lloyd states in Dragons Rising he took years of training under Wu to learn Spinjitzu, so as weird as that is, it means that between Lloyd being discovered to be the Green Ninja to Pirates vs Ninjas there were at least 2 years we skimmed over even tho he had no physical change

So basically after dating for 11 years and being engaged for 8 years Nya and Jay should really already be married, though I’m sure it’s hard to plan a wedding when you have to save the world all the time.

I think it has been something like 2-3 years since the Merge because before the Merge, I think Arin and Sora both seemed like pre-teens based on Arin's voice and Sora's skills

Regardless of what you guys all think, I hope that we can agree that all of the ninjas are adults now, no longer teens. And for my personal estimates, I agree that the original four are in their late twenties, early thirties even, while Lloyd both chronically and physically is in his mid-twenties.

Kai stated during Hunted that at least he and Jay are still teenagers and during Seabound Misako stated that Kai is a grown-up man, which means that at least Kai and Jay aged the 18 in some time between those seasons, not before

As a fanfiction writer, this really helps a lot into understanding the characters I’m writing. Even if you’re not a fanfiction writer, videos like these give more depth into why a character acts the way they do, based on their ages. Even though my headcanon doesn’t line up completely with Tanner’s, the Era system helped me understand the Ninjago timeline and gave me some new insights on the characters. Thank you again, Tanner, for an amazing video ✨

Even though he was physically and mentally aged up, I still think of Lloyd as being significantly younger than the others just because I go by how many years he’s actually lived

My main problem is that in season 9 it is specifically stated that Jay and Kai are still teenagers, just of the adult variety, I base my entire predictions off of that fact.

Obviously some seasons take place very close to others in the timeline so I put that into account for my personal Ninjago timeline, which is: The pilots to S2 is yr 1 of the entire series, where the ninja are the following ages: Jay: 16 yrs Kai: 16 yrs Cole: 16-17 yrs Zane: 16 yrs (chronologically older ofc) Nya: 14 yrs Lloyd: 12 yrs Wu & Garmadon: 1000+ yrs Harumi: 12 yrs Then S3 to S7 is yr 2, where the ninja were the following (Edit: tbh, S3 & 4 could be a few months apart): Jay: 17 yrs Kai: 17 yrs Cole: 17-18 yrs Zane: 17 yrs Nya: 15 yrs Lloyd: 13 yrs Skylor: 18 yrs Pixal: 15 yrs (chronologically younger ofc) Nelson: 12 yrs Morro: 20s-30s chronologically, but abt 16-18 yrs physically S8 to S11 is yr 3 (the ninja need time to get flabby, lol. S11 can easily be a few months after S10), where the ninja were: Jay: 18 yrs Kai: 18 yrs Cole: 18-19 Zane: 18 yrs Nya: 16 yrs Lloyd: 14 yrs Harumi: 14 yrs Skylor: 18 yrs Pixal: 16 yrs Nelson: 13 yrs (Edit: Akita would be maybe 14-16 in the Neverrealm, but cuz 60 yrs passed either way, maybe at the VERY least in her 40s-60s rn) S12 to S15 is yr 4 & the ninja were: Jay: 19 yrs Kai: 19 yrs Cole: 19-20 yrs Zane: 19 yrs Nya: 17 yrs Lloyd: 15 yrs Harumi: 15 yrs Pixal: 17 yrs Skylor: 19 yrs Nelson: 14 yrs S16 to pre-Merge is yr 5 & the ninja were: Jay: 20 yrs Kai: 20 yrs Cole: 20-21 yrs Zane: 20 yrs Nya: 18 yrs Lloyd: 16 yrs Harumi: 16 yrs Pixal: 18 yrs Skylor: 20 yrs Nelson: 15 yrs Sora: 12 yrs Arin: 12 yrs Wyldfyre: abt 12 yrs Euphrasia: abt 12 yrs & now post-Merge was 3 yrs later (yr 8) so the ninja are: Jay: 23 yrs Kai: 23 yrs Cole: 23-24 yrs Zane: 23 yrs Nya: 21 yrs Lloyd: 19 yrs Pixal: 21 yrs Skylor: 23 yrs Harumi: 19 yrs Nelson: 18 yrs Sora: 15 yrs Arin: 15 yrs Euphrasia: abt 15 yrs Wyldfyre: abt 15 yrs the Elemental Masters, apart from Camille & Griffin Turner are in their 30s-40s, Griffin & Camille are somewhere in their later 20s Ronin: 30s Dareth: 30s Lou: 40s-60s Ed & Edna: 50s-60s Ray & Maya: 50s-60s Misako: 50s-60s Cyrus Borg: 40s-50s & abt the Tomorrow's Tea that affected Lloyd, I think once he was physically aged up, his physical age slowed down, while he was continuing to age mentally normally, & by a certain point, his mental age & physical age caught up with each other. & I think he was 12 yrs old mentally but abt 14-15 yrs old physically once he was affected by the tea, so by the time of yr 4 (S12-S15, before S16) both his ages caught up. & I think thats it. Sorry for it being long! 😄👍 Edit: Basically, Ninjago is split up into 8 yrs including Dragons Rising. The 4 Ninja are no older than 25 yrs, Nya & Pix are no older than 23 yrs, & Lloyd & Harumi are no older than 21. Ofc this is my own opinion, but I just can't see how the ninja would be in their late 20s to early 30s.

i will always stand by the ninja being in their early 20’s

I don't think that Zane's age should reset after he died, so he is 108

I would say they're in their mid 20s now, and were in their early teens in the pilots.

I don’t know why they didn’t say the ninja got like thrown through time when the merge happened, so they didn’t age. Because it’s been several years but they still act like teenagers

it was confirmed in s7 that kai is 3 years older than nya

I feel like post merge would be complicated ( and I guess wrong in the video ), Nya says she woke up post merge and found Kai helping the people from the Madness Realm, meaning Kai has already spent a while post merge. Therefore it would be safe to assume the merge not just made people go to different locations, but also different moments in time, same goes for Kai waking up when Lloyd had been at the Monastery for a while.

I believe Nya was stated to be three years younger than Kai back in season 7.

This is awesome! I have my own whole timeline worked out, and I mostly agree But I'm pretty sure it's said that Nya is 2 years younger that Kai, I think they were 3 and 5 when their parents left. I also put the ninja around 14-16 when they start, because they're still referred to as teenagers for way too long if they were any older at the start. I think ninjago's society is quite different, Nelson seems to be starting a job (albeit part time) younger than we would and they all get jobs in season 2

In my headcanon, Cole is the oldest, not counting Zane.

I watched this video several times. There are three canon things that you probably don’t know. Nya is two years younger than Kai. The ninjas were 14 and years old in the pilot episodes and Nya was 12. And in one of Brent Miller‘s videos I don’t remember which on, but someone in his video said that the ninjas are never going to reach an age higher than 20 but dragon rising it’s his own thing so they can perfectly well be 20 and up

I think Kai is at least two years older than Nya, because he held her when she was a baby. And Zane I believe was built during the Serpentine War? Since nobody but Jay and Cole probably had legitimate schooling and there are plenty of farms still around all of Ninjago, I'm thinking that Ninjago's definition of "legal adult" is around 16-18, I go by this because there are probably a lot of kids who went to high school only to go back to working with their families, some maybe getting internships while still in high school. So if Ray and Maya had not been taken then Kai and Nya would have probably been home schooled and also helping work the Blacksmith shop and maybe when Kai was 15 or 16 Ray would let him, and even Nya, fully run it because they would both be responsible and know how to manage the store. Without then Kai and Nya definitely learned things from the other villagers but because they seemingly had no family, and Wu apparently didn't want another Morro incident with "adopting" that is why Kai and Nya, two very clear teenagers, ran their shop. But that's just me trying to wonder why these teenagers never mentioned school all that much. Good timeline age video Tanner, definitely see them younger than what you have here but I get where you're coming from.

My personal headcanon would is (Era 1) Pilots-Legacy of the Green Ninja. Cole is 16, Kai is 15, Jay is 14, Nya is 13, Lloyd starts off 10 and is aged up to 13. For Zane, I usually go with 40. (Era 2) Rebooted is a year after LOTGN. Cole is 17, Kai is 16, Jay is 15, Nya is 14, Lloyd is 14, and Zane is 41. (Era 3)Tournament of Elements-Hands of Time. Cole is 18, Kai is 17, Jay is 16, Nya is 15, Lloyd is 15, and Zane is 1 because of the new body. (Era 4) Sons of Garmadon-March of the Oni. Cole is 19, Kai is 18, Jay is 17, Nya is 16, Lloyd is 16, and Zane is 2. (Era 5) Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu-Seabound. Cole is 20, Kai is 19, Jay is 18, Nya is 17, Lloyd is 17, and Zane is 62 (60 years in the Never Realm). (Era 6) Crystalized. Cole is 21, Kai is 20, Jay is 19, Nya is 18, Lloyd is 18, and Zane is 63. (Era 7) Pre-Merge. Cole is 22, Kai is 21, Jay is 20, Nya is 19, Lloyd is 19, Zane is 64, Sora is 12, and Arin is 11. (Era 8) Dragons Rising. At least 3 years have passed. Cole is 25, Kai is 24, Jay is 23, Nya is 22, Lloyd is 22, Zane is 67, Sora is 15, and Arin is 13. Note: Era 8 I can see the Ninja being older that's why I put at least 3 years.

The only thing I would change would be making Nya 2 years younger then Kai

Super cool! I’ve always wondered how old each the ninja are! Thanks tanner!

Actually in hunted (era 5), kai states that the ninja are still teens.

I love your theories on their ages. And it just really makes sense to me that Lloyd would be over 25 at least

Thx for the video! Finally an age analysis I can find my inner peace with 😂 Most guesses about the age of the ninja are simply messed up and super confusing

In season 9, Episode 5: The Gilded Path, after Wu has aged to a teenager, Kai mentions that they are all still teenagers. Jay responds saying that they're "grown up teenagers", so its likely that Kai, Cole and Jay are likely 18 or 19 in Era 4.

Zane can be a Master at this point lol And technically Zane will outlive Lloyd by well forever 😂

That means Zane is over a 100 years old but he does seem to be the most mature out of all the ninja I wonder how old wu is and garmadon.

When Nya born, Kai was old enough to hold her in hands, so there is no way they have only one year between them

Like last year, I’d say you’re pretty much accurate for the ninja’s ages. Kai and Jay are most likely the same age. Nya is probably two or three years younger than them. When he got aged up, Lloyd is either the same age as Nya or a year younger. Cole is about a year or two older than Kai and Jay but probably aged down a bit when he became a ghost because ghosts don’t age (I mean look at Morro. He died a teenager and was probably like that for 30 years). Zane was most likely built during the serpentine era which was 40 years before Hands of Time but it really depends on how you count his age. We have a few hints on the ninja’s age like in Hands of Time, Krux called the ninja “a bunch of kids” which could mean none of them are 18 yet or that he considers everyone under 21 a kid. In Hunted Kai told Jay that “they were still teenagers” meaning they both could be around 19 then. And in Seabound when Misako says that “Kai is a grown man” meaning he’s 21 and it’s been two years since Hunted. So when we get to Seabound here’s how old I think the ninja are…… Kai and Jay: 21 Cole: 22 Zane: either 102 (counting both original form and titanium form) or 62 (just counting titanium form) Nya and Lloyd: 18 or 19 When we get to Crystalised, all the ninja are one year older except for maybe Nya who probably didn’t age when she became one with the sea so their ages would be…… Kai and Jay: 22 Cole: 23 Zane: either 103 or 63 Lloyd: 19 or 20 Nya: probably the same age she was in Seabound For Dragons Rising, it doesn’t say how much time has passed but Nya did say it was years. So by then I’d say the ninja are in their mid to late 20s except for Zane who would be in his mid to late sixties. As for Arin and Sora, yeah I’d say they were kids when the Merge started and in the present day they are teenagers.

I don't think that Zane would grow the 5 years after the merge because he was deactivated during that time until Kai and Nya woke him up.

I feel like it goes like this since Kai and Jay say they are teenagers in season 9, Wu is way over 1000, Misako around like 50-60+, Pixal was just born in Era 2 and got older each era normally and Skylor is probably same age as Kai, seems safe to age lloyd up 3 or 4 years with the tea, i dont see how he’d be approximately the same height as everyone else if his body only had like a 2 year growth spurt while they are all adult sized Era 1 (Pilots - LOTGN) Kai: 15 Jay: 15 Zane: around like 10 or younger since Dr Julien turned off his memory switch after he died but his body is 38 Cole: 16 Nya: 13 Lloyd: 9-10 then 13 Era 2: Legal age could be different in ninjago plus Master Wu made Nya a teacher and ran the whole academy Kai: 17 Jay: 17 Zane: 40 Cole: 18 Nya: 15 Lloyd: 15 Era: 3 TOE- HOT Kai: 18 Jay: 18 Cole: 19 Zane: 2 Nya: 16 Lloyd: 16 Era 4: Oni Trilogy Kai: 19 Jay: 19 Cole: 20 Zane: 3 Nya: 17 Lloyd 17 Era 5: FS - Seabound. Misako says that Kai is a grown man Kai: 20-21 Jay: 20-21 Cole: 22-22 Zane: 64 Nya: 18 Lloyd 18 Era 6: Crystalized Kai: 21 Jay: 21 Zane: 65 Cole: 22 Nya: 19 Lloyd: 19 Era 7: Pre Merge Kai: 22 Jay: 22 Cole: 23 Nya: 20 Lloyd: 20 Zane: 66 Era 8: After Merge and current era Kai: 26 Jay: 26 Cole: 27 Zane: 70 Nya: 24 Lloyd: 24 Arin: 14 Sora 14

Kai, Cole, Jay, Zane, and Nya would be young teens in the pilot to season 7, young adults in season 8 to season 15, and adults in dragons rising Lloyd would be a young kid in season 1 to half of season 2, 13 or 14 kid in the next half of season 2 to season 7, young teen in season 8 to season 15, and young adult in dragons rising

I think Arin and Sora were 9 years old pre merge, that Kai is older than Jay, and that between Kai and Nya there is a 2-3 years gap

Hey Tanner, I'm not sure but I think in one of the episodes they mentioned that the year gap between Nya and Kai is 3 years.

Nya is 3 years younger than Kai, that was confirmed, and also in hunted Kai says to jay that they're still teenagers so they probably have to be around 19 in the oni trilogy

What you said makes sense so I agree with you especially on how you did Lloyd, Arin and sora.

From secrets of forbidden spinjitzu we learn that some realms have different timelines so I believe that after the merge the ninjas ages would be mixed up excluding Lloyd seeing as he was still in Ninjago post merge so I think some ninjas may have spent more than 5 years depends on where they woke up

Its stated in hunted that the ninja are grown up teenagers so around 17 - 18 and so that makes nya 16 because kai is 2 years older than her, and in crystalized they are probably a year older, in dragons rising arin and sora are probably 14 - 15 which means that they were 12 - 13 pre merge which makes the ninja probably in their 20s

Zane's age in dragons rising is nice .

We do remember skybout technically never happened so it erases a whole month at most so that Era makes sense

Well approximately Nya and Lloyd seem to have the same age, but your theory makes more sense . Eventhough in S7 Kai looked like a 3 years kid when he was holding baby Nya and when she grew up he hasn't change, but we can suppose that maybe sometimes a 1 year old can hold a baby

Awesome vid 🐉

These would really be the ages of their bodies because for their actual mind age, Zane would be 108, and Lloyd would be 21 since the ages shown in the video are of their bodies

That age selection works pretty well for the ninja. 👍

Finally someone who actually uses logic. Most people hc season 1 Lloyd to be 10 and they're saying that his actual age (aka his age if he aged normally) is 13, which means that in their opinion only 3 years passed Yeah, as you said while something is not confirmed there is no rights or wrongs, but there has been i think more than 3 time skips, all of them being about a year, so it's just not logical

But in ninjago hunted kai says "but jay we're still teenagers" im quite confused about that

Ok the only thing that aged with Lloyd was his body…. And mental state ig. So in era 8 he would be roughly around 21 Nya was confirmed to be 3 years younger than Kai. And for Jay and Nya’s relationship to work out he would be around 1 and a half year older than Nya. (MY OPINION) Cole I picture to be more older and mature than them so yeah I’d say 29/30 in era 8

Man they all need to get married, Cole and Lloyd are single ups😢 They are too old hahah

I agree except for Nya and I personnally think that in Crystalized they are : - Kai : 22 -Jay : 22 -Zane : 63 -Cole : 23 - Nya : 20 - Lloyd : 20 - Skylor : 21 - Harumi : 18 - Pixal : 5 ( she was still alive despite her body being destroyed) - Vania : 20

I love this, one issue tho, in hunted, kai says to jay when jay was complaining about wu being a teenager, kai says “jay, we’re still teenagers”

Yay another one finaly

Pretty sure it’s confirmed Kai is 2 years older then Nya. And I personally don’t count Lloyds age to grow when he grows up, he still is in the mind of a child/10-11 year old, and you wouldn’t go into puberty at 18.

The age gap for Kai and Nya seems a bit off, only because of scenes from Hands of Time. Personally I’d probably knock her down another year. Maybe

In my opinion, I think Dragons Rising actually happens 2.5 or 3 years after the merge. Not as long as 5 years but also not as short as 1 year. Because if the time skip was too long, there will be no time for more development of stories.

I think in the oni trilogy they would all still be teenagers because I remember one of the ninja saying they were still teens when young wu turned into a teenager. I remember them saying they were still teenagers but older teens than young wu was.

it was and will be great seeing them grow up

My son has recently started watching Ninjago. I remember in one of the recent episodes from crystallized or the movie, one of them (I think Kai but could be wrong), explicitly states his age at 16.

I agree!🙏🏻

Jay said in season 9 that they’re still teenagers

Did you guys know that the Dragon of the new destinys bounty is actually sora the Dragon

Absolutely agree. I tried to age them and the results are the same!

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought there must've been a year before the merge!

I think you are probably right Tanner.

i totally agree with this

Lloyds is still younger then that his body might have aged but hes only been alive for a shorter period of time also lloyd being part dragon and part oni could very easily effect his phisical aging aswell making him much older

same I did my prediction as well on Aaron and sora

I think that kai is about 3-4 years older than Nya based on the flashback from season 7

The video is good, I saw for example another one in which it said that Nya was 13 years old and that at that age he built that giant mech.

I agree with you Tanner fishies

I would personally make the starting ages three years below that. The Era logic is very sound, but Eras 1 and 4 are where I question it. In Hunted they say they are 'grown up teenagers' which is 18-19. For that to fit, Kai and Jay's starting ages would be 15. Cole would be 16, so on. You could make an argument that Seabound rectifies that, and that's the Era where Kai and Jay reach 18-19, but I personally think this makes more sense as it's still believable that Kai would be able to run a whole shop by himself at the start.

Love how they found a way to make Zane just super old

I think it’s -1 year from all the ages cause in hunted they are said to be ‘older teenagers’, plus I think Lloyd is like at least 2 or 3 years younger than Nya, idk it’s cause his voice drops in like season 8 and I’d hope his voice didn’t drop when he was 18

In sons of Hamadan, there was a flashback of Harumi as a child. She was a little child during. I’d estimate she was like 6 or 7 at the time. The flashback shows her as a child when the great devourer attacked ninjago. And during sons of garmadon, she was all grown up. So I personally think that since she kissed Lloyd, she’d be atleast 18. So I’d estimate that between season 1 and season 8, that atleast 10 years had passed. Because according to the video, sons of garmadon happened 3 years after season 1. Which would make haromi about 10-12. And with Lloyd being all grown up, that’s a little wierd for him to develop feelings for her. But she definitely looks all grown up which supports my theory

You should make predictions as to how old you think some of the other characters are, especially Rapton, that man has old man hairs but doesn't sound like one

I think Kai is 2-3 years older than Nya because when Nya was born Kai was able to hold her.

5 years after the merger is too much for me, I would put a maximum of 3, and the ninjas are very old for me, I wanted them to be still young 😭. By the way, Kai and Nya don't take 3 years? In the series he said that Kai lost his parents at 3 or 2 years old and when they gave Nya baby he was already a little big, so at least they should take 2 years

Wait isn’t it confirmed Hands of time is atleast a year after Dotd? Cause at the end of Dotd it cuts to them being on the island on next day of the departed and Cole saying something like “and Jay was too scared to move in because he thought it was still haunted”

i think the ninja are in their late 20s early 30s

Is Wyldfyre a ninja? Anyway I imagine she would be a little older than Arin and Sora. Riyu would probably be 1 or 2 since as of now he is a baby. Love your videos Tanner! :)

In season 9 the ninja said that they are still teenagers so this is very wrong. Also season 10 the ninja are still teens as it’s literally straight after S9. Also I think the ninja didn’t age during the merge they were in the merge for seconds but when they came out it’s been like 3 years

I’d say that the ninjas aged 1 year from pilot season to season 2 then 1 year from season 2 to 3 then 1 year every 2 seasons after that then 1 year from season 7 to 8 then 1 year every 2 seasons after that then 1 year from season 15 to crystallized then 3 years from crystallized to dragons rising season 1

I thought that after the merge was 3 years? :p I do really like these headcanons tho, they’re pretty fitting

I agree with everything except your thoughts on Erin and sora. I feel like even though it’s not a big gap from your opinion, it would make since as a story if they were 16. Seeing as a big plot line is Erin and sora growing into the ninja they could become, I feel like 16 makes more sense. In most situations, 16 feels way bigger than 15. Bigger than a difference between 14 and 15. But other than that your ideas seemed pretty spot on.

I have something very funny to share when I was originally watching Ninjago I thought we was like in his like mid-to-late 60s and but the entirety of the history of Ninjago took place within a timespan of 80 to 100 years I was like a little kid when I thought this though

The only thing I disagree with is Zane’s age. Zane would not age down because he has a new body it’s not about that. It’s about how old his soul is not his body but although the rest of them are good logic, I like how you break the seasons up into eras (years)

In my opinion,between season 2 and rebooted more time has passed since we are told that there have been more technological advances and the city was completely rebuilt, maybe atleast 5-6 years?

We have to add one more year after s1 of dragons rising, starting with s2, I’m sure there’s gonna be a timeskip as we can see with Riyu’s aging up

I think to be realistic elemental masters seem to live longer than regular people. But none of the ninja are in there 30s. So based on factors like the ages thrown out, like Kai becoming a man or an hunted when it says Kai and Jay are still teenagers. The fact that Nia is three years younger than Kai and but there’s no way a bunch of 15 to 17-year-old were beating up. older experienced warriors. Their ages have to be around as followed. Dragon’s rising= -Kai and Jay- 26 -Cole- 27-28 -Zane- 100+ -Nya- 23 -Lloyd- 22 because of the aging potion. -Sora and Aaron- 16-17 because you need to keep in mind that Aaron needed time to learn spinjitso and Sora in the brightest tech mind in the world. So they can’t be under 16. They also need similar strength to a regular adult before all there training. One more point. The ninja need to be older, especially Kai just to make Nia older because there’s no way they would’ve aired a genie trying to seduce a minor character in season 6.

I thought it was confirmed that nya is 2 years younger than Kai or am I wrong?

I agree with you, but I think the ninja should’ve looked a little different after the merge, arin and sora look very different from before and after and I don’t think it should be too big but just a little change

If you do the maths. (Ray being around his kids after Lloyd is born, and we know he left when Nya was three) that makes Nya at max three years older than Lloyd

Well all i know that when we met the ninja in the pilots, is that some of the ninja were like 18 or 17. :P