I just had a horrible realization, if Ultimate has online ranks, then we won't get cloud saves. Splatoon 2 doesn't have cloud saves to prevent reverting back to a save where you had a higher rank.
https://kotaku.com/some-switch-games-wont-support-cloud-saving-to-prevent-1828944536
Splatoon 2 saves data locally, not by account (which is super dumb), and with how big Splatoon is I wouldn't be surprised in Ultimate was made the same way. I really don't care about online multiplayer, so I kinda hope there's not an online ranking system in Ultimate so that we can get our save data backed up. This is a game I will play for
years, and not being able to save my data externally or in the cloud will be BS considering how vulnerable a handheld is to getting broken and losing local data.