My Hero Academia depicts a wild future where superpowered Quirks and costumed heroes are the norm, meaning these heroes are treated more like elite soldiers or celebrities than mysterious rogues like Batman or the X-Men. When being a superhero is just business, that means pro heroes can legally take on interns too. Now everyone has their own Robin.

Some story arcs of My Hero Academia depict the students of classes 1-A and 1-B interning with heroes whose Quirks or personalities match their own, but clearly, some pro heroes are better teachers than others, with Best Jeanist and Fourth Kind doing very little good for their interns. Then there's the dragoon hero Ryukyu, who borrowed the "three genin and a jonin" model from Naruto. And it seems to work.

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The Teamwork Of Naruto's Ninja Squad Model

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It's common in shonen titles and sometimes seinen works as well for the youthful main characters to get a mentor or coach to train them and explain their series' combat system. Anime mentors run the gamut from the copycat ninja Hatake Kakashi to the rogue Soul Reaper Urahara Kisuke to Eraserhead and Kirishima Touka, and often, this training is one-on-one. It's often most efficient for a single mentor to train a hero who has unique powers, such as the elderly Gran Torino training Izuku to control One For All. However, there are equally viable alternatives, and the dragoon hero Ryukyu knows it. She can train three students at once and not miss a beat.

Ryukyu is one of the top 10 heroes and is perfectly qualified to coach three students who have totally different Quirks from one another, making her My Hero Academia's version of Kakashi himself. In the Naruto world, Kakashi expertly coached Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke on how to fight as a team and support one another during a mission -- a lesson the three genin took to heart. Teamwork is a common virtue in shonen stories, and sure enough, Naruto could never have succeeded on his own, while characters like Tsuyu and Ochaco wouldn't get very far on their own either. Many of My Hero Academia's best combat scenes portray pro heroes and sidekicks fighting as a team, even the loner rabbit hero Mirko, and that's the only way to take down the League of Villains or the mighty supervillain Shigaraki Tomura.

By training her three students together, Ryukyu is therefore giving Ochaco, Tsuyu and Nejire a head start in the ways of team-based combat. Moreover, if the three students have the same mentor, they'll also have perfect compatibility as teammates, both on a personal and professional level. They are the new genin squad, and it's already paying off enormously. More pro heroes could stand to follow that model, both for the sake of student heroes and even other pro heroes. It's an excellent system, although it's not for everyone.

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The Efficiency Of Training Three-Student Teams

Anime My Hero Academia Nejire With Ryukyu Mentor

For many reasons, having a single pro hero train three students at once is beneficial for all involved, but it goes beyond that. Not only will this 3-1 model teach teamwork to the three students involved, but it also eases the strain on the pro hero industry as a whole. As My Hero Academia's internship arcs showed, many students interned with pro heroes on a 1:1 basis, and with so many students needing interns, this meant a lot of pro heroes had to step up and accept interns. However, not all pro heroes were ready for, or even interested in, that responsibility.

Some pro heroes simply have the wrong personality or the wrong Quirks to train students, and some internships were simply a disaster. The goofy Mt. Lady exploited her own intern Mineta, treating him more like an errand boy or butler and teaching him nothing at all. Similarly, Best Jeanist tried and failed to connect with Bakugo, and the internship was a total waste of time in the end. Some pro heroes actually did well, such as the retired Gran Torino, Endeavor and Selkie, but overall, this 1:1 ratio is not a good idea. That's where Ryukyu's Naruto team model comes in.

Only pro heroes who can handle interns should accept any interns at all, and the other pros will be out of the picture. Then, those intern-ready pro heroes can accept small teams of students to make up for the smaller pool of available pro heroes, with teams of 3-4 being optimal. That ensures that all interested student heroes get an intern, even if that means sharing, and best of all, sharing a pro hero will be a perk, not a downside.

Jonin-style pro heroes like Ryukyu and the flaming #1 hero Endeavor can efficiently teach three or four students all at once and sharpen their teamwork skills all the while. Such pro heroes can choose their own teaching methods, such as Ryukyu's empathy and tight focus on teamwork, or Endeavor's intuitive teaching style and slightly looser teamwork theme. Either route should work, and the "genin" student heroes will learn much from this. Perhaps the pros might learn something too, inspired by seeing their hardworking students fighting as a team.