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Main gun wise then most are deciding between the 2
Twin 410 is still the safer option but I’m still experimenting with Twin 356
Mhm my Seydlitz fleet?
ye, what was the backline
It was Seydlitz NJ Aquila, Ancho Agir Shima
With Swordfish Aquila and Quint Torp Agir
musashi instead of nj? :pausechamp:
This works because it applies 80% slow on enemy weeb frontline
Combo that with Seydlitz early strike and barrage
And the slow lasts long enough until NJ’s 10 sec barrage
And occasional torp hits from Shima
And the enemy frontline should be dead 15 sec into the round
hm, not gonna work with musashi then

I did some copium fleets before
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t
But whatever, might as well try
Harbin already destroyed the Seydlitz fleet
So it doesn’t work

well
Rest in peace my highly copium ideas
people seem to consider juneau instead or harbin now
I also tried Amagi NJ Vanguard before
or is it just for weeblike fleets
It caused trouble for Ari and Unknown
Plasma also found it annoying
Next I did the Seydlitz NJ Hiryuu fleet
Which is triple Invul
Aldarn regarded it as “cancerous defense”

It is trash but it is funny
Just find a couple few folks that are high ranking then roll each other on second week
Chat with them and tell them which gear to put on defense for testing
That’s how we at Lexington is doing it currently
maybe next season if i still want to test a fleet
i missed like 25 attacks when the whole city's internet died for 3 days 
im around rank 2000 range with 0/10 
next season copium
good thing unlike borgar im actually retired so i 
which one is harbin gun?
Why that over Tash gun?
is it harbin BiS?
oh BiS? i thought u were asking for the chinese DD gun 
harbin BiS is the twin 135 sap gun or tash gun
Tash gun is 35 FP, Harbin gun is 35 FP with 10 AA
While their dps is similar
So as an aux gun in pvp, Harbin gun is better
As for testings part 2
Brah’s fleet feels stronger than Vice’s
Not many strong ones
At this point, I only trust testings against others EOS player’s strong def fleets
makes sense
Any testings against like mid tier Mafia feels inconclusive
As their gears may not be as good or fully enhanced
Or other factors like using pve gear
Or just them not knowing how to gear properly

mid tier mafias get smokes even by my fleet so yeah
However all top people are testing out Musashi currently
not so good for testing
feels like musashi is too strong to pass on anyway
Yeah true
Her barrage is ridiculous
The range of the sword pretty much super large that you can slap the enemy BB across the map
As for the lightning, it has very high hit rate
And it can even strike backline
Its damage is quite high and it applies debuff
hm, now that i think of it
does the sword slap a carrier if its hidden
it should, no?
It does
But the lightning doesn’t hit
Any fixed barrage can slap hidden carriers
Targetting barrages don’t
i dont mind, solves my vanguard fight issues 
So stuff like FDG barrage
Or Richelieu barrage
Or part of Amagi barrage
This is why triple BB works for a time
Slapping enemy hidden CV with Riche and FDG barrage as they are fixed while the burn damage would reveal them
So you can reveal CVs using triple BB

Quite a funny comp
too bad no ones realistically gonna use richie now 
more like, musashi/vang/nj/fdg mix
Gotcha
Just roll me
yes to second
as for first, 4.4k sword slap crit into aquila, 4.1k lightning crit
i could try more runs if you need more data
didnt check but probably without wnt
are u using offensive or defensive auxes
You didn't get her 460 main gun?
*useless everywhere
Why the blue and not the purple?
bit faster, just testing stuff out anyway
And not using a CL secondary...
idk man, does she need more fp?
also thats again just testing stuff around, backread pink sugar for explanation on that secondary
got to admiral for first time 
I dont think I can with my fleet xd
I beat a mafia this round but I think it was just badly equipped
also I got insane rng on the fight xd
What vanguard ships you got in your dock?
well Juneau is there at the bottom but its gonna take quite a bit for ancho
I tried but since my vang is just dds her health thing is not really that good
Her skill is for the backline mostly lol
damn really wtf xD
with my fleet I usually win because my vang kills the other vang and lose when my vang dies too fast and the opponent vang just comes over and destroys my backline
That's why you put Juneau as tank
Shes first to die and keeps rest of VG alive
Keep Helena alive until 20s proc
Suzu helps that with smokescreen
juneau will sink for you 
I actually have lesser resets now that I have musashi. Thx for builds btw 

oh wow I quick swap so I would've never found that out by myself thanks xD
since yukana's here he'll help you with the rest 
Well
so with that said, then this? (ill retro juneau when I got the gold)
yeah
mm alright ill test it out
Now for those equips, assuming you have no tenrai, 457, quint mags i have a lot of changes to suggest
Give me 2 mins it's too much to type
no I dont have those 3
also its pretty unrelated since im gonna take her out anyway but im still curious, why does kitakaze die so damn fast in pvp?
shes even in the middle slot...
im gonna 120 musashi soon but not sure if Vang Musa Shinano would be better than current main line
cuz hiryuu has saved my ass an enormous amount of times
change vg the ship
my hiryuu, nano, musashi (115) backline has more success than with Vanguard sadly
mmm yeah indeed I could just keep backline cvs the same and swap my vanguard for my musashi
Yeah I'm not expert for musashi yet but seems she will be better than HMS Vanguard is
More comparable to NJ than Vanguard was
I’d put the +10 Wyvern on Hiryuu and either a Breguet or a Sea Hornet in Shinano’s first slot. Assuming you don’t have a Suisei instead of the Helldiver. 2xWyvern + Helldiver on Shinano is really slow to launch.
Hiryuu flagship better than Vanguard too
This is in the event you have 0 tenrai and 0 457mm guns
I didnt even know theres a gold version of this gun
oh you changed your mind nvm then I guess xd
Yeah i gear itnwrong
Feel free to remove that xd
Here is better
And also since your Musashi almost ready might as well make a fleet for her
For musashi gearing I'm not 100% sure maybe @whole salmon or @zenith lantern knows better since lexi did some preliminary testing
Prevent burn to help her survive longer
She is DD so Eva and speed not her main issues
If you don't have access to 12a suisei you can simply use the normal one
I can make it fortunately
Everything else on the image is also obtainable?
I think only Goldburn is unobtainable for me
yeah
thanks for this ill have to grind those MLBs for the Rainboow bubble and beaver squad now xd 
Yeah both are relatively easy and quite essential to pvp so recommend getting them
Pretty much used in every pvp comp
also can get only 1 barrel for now cuz monthly limit but its ok ill crush everyone in october
It'll be in time for next season anyways it's fine
The truly important thing for AoTN rank is sandbagging, not your fleet
Whats that?
Playstyle method
You essentially, stay 10/10 exercises and do one only when the player on your left awards you more points than you would usually get.
Then when 9/10 you repeat this process
oh is there no cap on the reward points?
And before the next reset (usually around 15-10mins beforehand you go to 5/10, preparing for your next set)
There is, but can't reach it without missing exercises
Which is not optimal for point minmaxing
Let's say late into the season the base reward for fighting a player is +10 points
If i were to fighting this player "Juwumy" i would get +11 and not +10 points
Since he is Above the 35 point threshold shown above
As such i fight him and take that one bonus point
@young storm makes sense?
Also, this works backwards too, fighting Pavlik there would have awarded me with a +9 since his score was lower
And if i were to fight someone with 35 points or less, i would get a +8

This stacks up over time and you end up having quite a few more points than the rest of the players around you
Making ranks such as AoTN much much easier
and now the overcap pain begins
Your Musashi gear should be pretty much there although I’ve not really been part of the testing. I was on holiday for the start of the event. I’ll only get her today from hitting pity, currently 180 builds no drop 
for Vanguard, triple406mle or twin457?
and for Musashi, izumo gun, twin356 41st year type or twin410kai?
currently doing Vanguard - Warkai - Perseus as my backline, aim to replace Warkai once I get Musashi raised. And maybe Juneau too, though i don't believe in her for some reason i don't know how to explain
wait did i ping the guy i replied to?
sorry if so
457 for Vanguard
And don’t worry about not believing in Juneau, she’s not a universal pick. If you’re running a fleet that tries to finish battles fast she’s much less useful compared to in a slower fleet

do you guys use the same fleet for the attack and defense?
no, my defence fleet is a meme fleet, attack fleets is a meta fleet
wouldn't it affect your ranking if your defense fleet lose?
It doesn't affect it
Using a strong fleet for defence might make others lose or at least avoid fighting you. But you might want people to have an easy time beating you so it's easier to get bonus points off them later in the season
wait so what affect ranking then cuz it always go up above 1000 everytime I wake up
your current score determines your rank
people who won more exrecises/got more bonus will rank higher
wait so defense fleet doesn't matter at all? only to annoy people?
yeah
i guess defence fleet matters in the last 5 minutes of a season for the people fighting for top 3 eos ranks
what is eos?
end of season

what does it mean using easy fleet so to get bonus point?
if you put easy defence fleets, weaker players will move more often and increase your chances of getting bonus points
sorry I still don't get it, what is this bonus point? does that mean weak player move up the ladder so that I can defeat them easily?
not excatly, check pins to see how it works
ok thanks
.
does restarting the game really refresh the opponents?
is it like refresh or do I have to wait few minutes or something before I open the game
restarting the games gives you their updated rankings, it doesn't change your opponents
this ijn fleet is good 
Does the 30% dmg reduc part of Musashi S3 work in pvp? The skill name doesnt seem to pop up at the start of the battle
It works in pvp
are you for real 
no, thats not the point
theres this thing called attacker advantage
Would it still work as flag since theres no acv in pvp?
In theory against a newbie fleet, a 125 bulin with dual toolbox would still have ~2.5k HP purely off level diff wouldn't it?
pvp is default parity
You could also throw 2 twin 134's on a bulin for 30fp, and a twin 128 gives her another 30
That's a bit long.. 
What were you using?
ez win
7th time
Something doesn't quite add up
Yeah looks like your reading comprehension
He said it's the 7th time he has faced this fleet
And still has had no issues
reading lessons from someone who skips classes? 
Yeah when you getting schooled by a skipper it's a rough one i know
Any tips to get rank always under 1000? I got a cursed timezone where the second reset is 2am in the morning and I can only play around when I woke up 4 hours later and by that time my rank is already above 1000 and only get 80 reward each win
I'll try that
You should only be rank 1k or over if you missed exercises or lose exercises
If you say so
if i use WNT, what am i stalling for
im gonna try hiryu shina musa in like two days
and i dont rly wanna use frontier medal with musa
but i dont know how to use it ig
You aren't necessarily stalling with wnt but reducing damage spikes
So in that comp, you'll be trying to reduce the damage taken from torps and since you have the advantage as the attacker (I'm assuming you're using this for attack), that will offset the damage debuff you take from wnt
ya, is my attack
Triple 155 kai as secondary for a BB good in PvP?
taking a look at the Sniper fleets pinned, yes
Okie. Ty
if i say so or if he says so? 
You don't want me to agree with you?
I'm not the one that said i don't have issues against that fleet 
https://youtu.be/AzkU4bHXFlc Part 6 of the long-awaited series is now here
Brah wants to tell everyone that the next few tests will include Musashi
Art: Pixiv
Gear: https://imgur.com/a/bulSMpd
This will be the last Perseus Test with this iteration of the fleet. Next teams will include Musashi.

quick question, why do the tryhards have the carriers at the middle, and the bbs at the sides?
as seen in this video
NJ on top for TB pattern reason
TB always go middle and bottom never top
Enemy fleets case idk but for Perseus fleet she might as well tank shots since she's probably not gonna get a 3rd AS in
I put VV as my flagship in mafia so she'll generally die first
It also matters for teatorps, they’re more likely to hit the flagship or bottom position.
Basically the topmost position is most likely to survive so you want your most valuable ship there. Flagship usually takes the most damage so you either put your least valuable there or someone with invulnerability like Hiryuu. Usually it’s a CV that goes flagship as they attack slower than BBs so you dont expect them to get off more than 1 airstrike anyway (+preload)

yesterday I saw someone running shima, noshiro, jintsu as their vg in pvp, somehow the torpedos(I assume) manage to instant kill my flag NJ in the back. I tried to copy it for fun but I dont seems to output as much damage as their fleet. Anyone know what is their gear loadout?
what torpedo were they using? teatorps or standard?
didnt pay attention to that, whats teatrops btw?
they probably had something like this + the buffs from noshiro/jintsuu
Also keep in mind the vanguard starts closer to you than theirs
I see
So def torps are more likely to hit your backline than the converse
defender advantage 
What's happen if maintenance gets longer than pvp reset ?
we overcap and mald

server score drops and we get compensation merit in mail copium

inb4 a simple maint causes another microlayer medley
Are you perhaps playing on Amagi server? 
no, on avrora
I see 
Thought it was you? 
I am running a similar VG so was wondering if my meme defense fleet actually did something

in case you were curious, for that fight, I put anchorage in front to tank and somehow manage to win it, the torp meme is
though
id describe the idea but it would get blocked
whats the point in adding anything without reworking how current system works
her slash is the one who she is facing and so far all I see is that the lightnings hit anyone randomly
Too powerfull, maybe someone will equip oxy torps and it's far more dangerous

Damn... I just fogot to do 5 exercise pass reset
Rank1 5/10 to rank1 0/10 little sadly 
Yeah I noticed you skipped
Hello PvP nerds
Is Musashi+enty+vanguard (idk who flag lol) good to maintain wins?
you can try musashi/vanguard/warspite or hiryuu or shinano. enty isn't that useful there
I have Aquila, Musashi and Iowa in back line, doing well into breaking the mafia fleet
got iowa but no yamato?
Iowa doesn't even exist 
Can someone post the gear set for weeb fleet with sushi
same as the one in pins except sushi with purple/blue gun

NJ: am i joke to you?
whats a good fleet composition if you only have the sr meta pvp ships but none of the UR ones except for musashi?
Probably Musashi/Warspite/Hiryuu
Ancho/Noshiro/Juneau maybe for vanguard
Or Harbin over Noshiro of you have her
should i pick aquila + vv over warspite + hiryuu?
Not sure... 
How is Musashi your only UR but you have all these other ships
I guess can use a fleet like Musashi/AQL/VV/Ancho/Duca/Juneau
i stopped playing when the first UR banner came out and I pulled on ducas banner but got everyone except for her
can I replace duca with zara?
No if you don't have Duca the fleet won't work
Better to go Warspite Hiryuu after all
alright ty
I know NJ exists
nevermind then 
the only time you dont run shima is when you dont have her 
Ah yes.. Same fleet.. about I wanna throw Juneau in somewhere so bad
interesting team..
standard weeb fleet, but musashi in place of nj
damn americas ass really got replaced by japans ass 
Time to put NJ to full time pve duties?
Is Garibaldi better than chapayev for pvp?
Why use either...?
Both of them sucks?
I mean I don't have duca abruzzi so I thought Garibaldi is like the poverty version
Who hasn't hit their aotn yet
🙋
so, with hiryuu shina musa
is wnt good?
im not running shima, so i dont benefit from dmg spike
but
idk
It’s good in the right fleet
hiryuu musa shina juneau noshi ancho
Brah wants to tell everyone to get their AoTN just like him 
is this even useful? this reduce damage to both side right, then what difference does it makes?
I mentioned it previously but it lessens the damage spike for both sides
But since the attacker has the advantage of taking less damage from the defending team, it's not as bad
In short, you are able to get more consistent games
Also if you have a slow fleet like Shinano, Hiryuu, Musashi it helps you get to the point where they can start to do damage without them dying to quicker firing ships first
I hate achroage hide and seek skills
Literally
She needs a nerf
But... Since she's good for pvp fleets i will use her for now
Until she's nerfed
Without her most fights wouldn't last 20s
Don't think ships get nerfed
Shima, NJ, Musashi need nerfing before Anchorage
pvp balancing.
WHOO BOY THAT WAS TOASTY
I was fighting a MF of Shinano, Perseus, Ryuuhou. Their VG was Shimakaze and a couple others I forgot.
My MF was Bismarck, Graf, and Ulrich. VG was Prinz, Z46, and Roon.

does end of season people suddenly become crazy strong? cuz I can't beat anyone now lol
Some are strong, but mostly they still use weak defense fleet
What does main gun efficiency do?
increase dmg
is it still a good idea to put the damage control aux to juneau kai?
or better to put it on someone else?
Put it on Anchorage
@gleaming veldt Arkbk
Not sure if Memphis should replace someone in my pvp defending fleet or if it should stay as is ...
It’s fine
waifu fleet is waifu fleet 
which one takes prio if both are in fleet?
skills of both needs flagship and can't be equipped together on the same ship so
ah so that's it, thanks
then what if your flagship has WNT and enemy flagship has Frontier
Both activate
so they add, probably
guys how do i join the azur lane pvp esport tournament??
Not through this server sos
@candid sluice
update sheet when?
also for usability sake a bit of feedback, you want the latest changelog at the top
I thought she would have been in T0
ah thats prolly because it wasnt updated recently
I wonder if would be possible to collect data of fleet used for ATK/DEF for the first 100 players every EOS
just to see the most used comps
that fit the tier
stuff like this
yeah ATK can't be done unless players submit their atk fleet
DEF can be done but DEF dont matter much iirc
its just for completition sake
also doubt anyone would
some people probably would because they dont mind, but getting a top100 of each server to do that seems unrealistic
seen it done before but need to also consider the fact that a lot of people use meme fleets
Will update once we get more confirmation and testing with sushi new meta
(Also when I’m not busy)
Oh that's cursed

ALM did that a while, it was a lot of work and hard to make it "accurate" because they can only look at defence fleets
What one may use for attack may not necessarily what they use for defence
Yeah attack is too hard to do passively. It will rely on people providing data and that's not reliable at all
is this gun better than champy for pvp?
Yes
hiryuu still good? returnee me
yep
hmm hiryuu warspite and chise for main and kronk yuudachi roon vanguard is what i use rn i think thats good enough, no? defo nit enough against NJ mafia i can imagine
Show dock
Try Musashi/Warspite/Hiryuu/Ancho/Juneau/Harbin
i can build ancho but not harbin not enough dragon empery
can use Helena or something i guess
aya with aug 
Is this a good pvp fleet?
Uhhh
I guess you can use Musashi/Shinano/Hiryuu/Ancho/Ayanami/Juneau
All these ships should be obtainable for you with ease
Juneau drops everywhere this event
Hiryuu B2 iirc
Maybe also D2?
Ok
whats the standard BB AUX you use in PvP? last I played 2 years ago meta was SG Radar + white shell/HSFCR
HPFCR (Table is better but we only have one) + EVA auxes like beaver, WNT or Rudder.
I see so not much has changed
Just the ships pretty much
Some new guns you use
Namely MK7 is used
Bigger equip changes were probably to CVs in past 2 years
I still have mostly new ships and gear was just a login warrior not doing much besides daily missions and bear minimum event grinds
i did miss the past 2-3 events before this musashi one
That's fine
Seems the next meta won't use those ships
Swapping VV for Musashi and Duca for anchorage should be good
was wondering what the new thing was
What you mean?
new meta*
Ahh gotcha
wasnt sure if mafia was still basically the #1 thing to run
The gun to be used on Musashi seems a bit unorthodox, i don't remember which one it was
@whole salmon what gun was it again?
If you run Musashi with NJ
i was planning on using her signature gun for shelling but ive seen twin 410/gear lab 410 recommended
thanks
Musashi 410 and NJ 457 would cause NJ’s salvo to be delayed in firing
It’s due to absolute cd
Very unfortunate
swapping duca for anchorage seems like a sizable DPS drop for vanguard since neither her or juneau seem to do much in post battle charts
If it is Musashi alone without other BBs then run 410
If it is Musashi with other BBs then use the case above
i dont have musashi close to leveled yet so cant test that fleet
What you need isn’t dps, it’s survivability, especially against other Musashis
1 salvo from enemy Musashi would outright kill or cripple your entire frontline excluding Ancho
it is still early I guess havent seen a single leveled muashi in exe
amagi snail pace
Other servers already had 125 Musashis in pvp on the first day of her release
Especially among the higher ranking players
yeah amagi just snail then
So we got a lot of testings in
TLDR is that Musashi is busted
Just use her

Musashi’s lightning strikes deals insanely high damage with stupidly high hit rate as it doesn’t really care about speed
👀
Unlike NJ’s barrage where you can easily dodge it with speed padding items if the barrage targets frontline
mines still lv70 gonna be a grind
Not to mention Musashi’s sword barrage has insane range
Vertically, it can hit enemy frontline most of the time
Horizontally, it can slap the enemy backliners from across the map

There’s currently 4 Musashi comps in testing
Musashi NJ Aquila
Musashi NJ Hiryuu
Musashi NJ Shinano
Musashi Hiryuu Shinano
All of which seems to have positive results, we don’t have a large enough sample size to determine which is better
Is musashi barrage aimed and flag dependent or can u just chuck her on the side for damage reduction?
Fought quite a lot of musashis today and yesterday
On amagi ^^
Damage reduction applies in pvp regardless of position
must be because server just reset then and I was procrastinating the past week 
What is sort of for certain
Musashi fleets can easily sweep non Musashi fleets
Only weeb fleet semi puts up a fight
The rest just dies
Musashi barrage has 2 parts
Firstly is the sword slash, it is a huge beam that hits in a straight line with super long range so it can hit enemy backliners and enemy frontliners along its path
The second part are lightning strikes, it can strike both frontline and backline with super high hit rate. Tbh I don’t even think you can even use speed to dodge it
So 1 Musashi barrage and the enemy frontliner is either crippled or dead


As for her survivability then
11k HP with 30% damage reduction
So you don’t have to worry about that
She can probably take a full torp salvo from mkix to the face and survive

a ship i dont know 
harbin
She can. I've managed to snipe her at the start of the fight once or twice but that was probably multiple Teatorp conga lines hitting her from Harbin + Shima
Hey guys! Could someone please advice me a good pvp fleet?
Check the pins for some suggestions
Pinned spreadsheet not updated yet but fleets with Musashi are proving to be very tricky so i would recommend putting her in any of those meta fleets in the pins
Anyone have an EoS list for Lex by any chance? Decided to make an effort for once and missed updating the listings before the reset 
Depends on where you are in the game
Beginners can take losses against super high level fleets and use PvP as a fast and oil-free XP source
Intermediates can pick and choose easy fights and just get the bonus merit from consistently winning
End-game ||no-lifers|| make meta fleets that capitalize on excessive grinding of rare equipment and research ships and lucky rolls 90 pulls; where are my banner ships?! and ||set strong defense fleets to troll other end-game no-life players.||
Yeah we have screenshots
Great. Could you link the AotN list for Lex (or send it to me)? 
I can post my docks, if u want
But i guess im somwhere in midgame or so
Starting w12 and 88 skk lvl
Well, if you have Anchorage (PR) and NJ (event), it doesn't matter what your player level is. You just need to support them with ships like Aquila (event), FdG (research), Abruzzi (event), Noshiro (build), Harbin (research), Hiryuu (drop), Juneau (drop), and Musashi (current event) are some current high potency ships.
The most efficient synergy builds involve farming Operation Siren for specific torpedoes (in a torpedo centric offensive fleet) or rainbow BB guns (for NJ and the like).
Sadly, i dont have neither ancho or nj, nor aquila abruzzi noshiro or harbin
Yeah, your best bet at the moment is to hunt for easy to beat fleets using whatever you have. Refreshing when you get the chance, taking a loss if you have to. But as long as you win most of your fights, there's a chance to get the 2500 merit bonus if you get lucky and make it to the top 10 for a split second.
Most of PvP success revolves around strong synergy (and a lot of luck retrying fights)
what's your in-game name? I can look you up in the screenshots 
Sine Mora 
You can still set up a torpedo centered front line (Ayanami Jintsu Shiranui) and hope they (a.) don't immediately die to a preloaded airstrike because they are VERY fragile and (b.) Immediately nuke a few defenders with their preloaded forward firing (OpSi farmed) torpedoes. (But also avoid fighting defenses that use that.)
Or build a defensive offense (because tanky ships like Hiryuu and Juneau are droppable, Portland can still be a crutch) and try to outlast some of the higher level also-low-synergy defenses.
Cheers 
Well, I have shima and yuudachi

So, like, my current pvp fleet is adalbert shima yudachii vanguard fdg enty
That's a start.
Is there any way to make ot better, since i got musashi as well?
Or maybe some other things that could be changed
You're going to probably drop Adalbert; generally speaking, CA ships don't fare as well in PvP (Anchorage being the exception since she provides so many buffs)
You can gamble on a full torpedo offense (I would use Ayanami or even Ibuki... And a lot of resets). Don't suppose you have Juneau Azuma or Ägir? They are some tanky ships to increase front line survivability.
You can also pair Juneau or Enterprise with an elite repair Manjuu (or Hiryuu) so you have a buffer to hit that reset button.
Enterprise herself can be replaced by Musashi in flag position. That gives you a 3 BB backline that, like a torpedo front, gambles against specific defensive parties.
At this point, even without Anchorage, you have a good to great chance at getting Admiral of the Navy's bonus 2500 merit depending on how powered up your equipment is (and if you can rush when new tickets come in).
Like I said before, a lot of OpSi grinding for parts plans and plates.
The pins show just how ridiculous equipment farming can get (just look at the Sniper Fleet image)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/516951413411020819/978494564384010252/Sniper_Fleet_Variants.png
You still have to be choosy about your opponents, but as long as you don't lose more than 5 fights (including losses to overcap because you slept through a re-up) and aren't on Avrora (where you have a lot of high meta troll defenses) you have a good shot at the 2500 bonis even with just your current fleet and some halfway decent equipment.
And what about musashi? Is it possible to somehow squeeze her into my fleet?
Replace Enterprise and put Musashi on flag. With her at a high level and maximized skills, the defensive boost she gives will help you against all the torpedo defense fleets. (Both in terms of surviving and beating them or just surviving long enough to hit the reset button)
Isnt she an off flag?
Her sword swing is position reliant, it'll hit better on everything on flag.
And because there's no Airspace issue, she gets the buff anyway if I'm reading it right 
Yes she always gets it in pvp as you have air parity
||Yeah, I can read!
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You'll want a preloaded carrier for breaking CV stealth imo.
You could also try Hiryuu if you have her, alongside Musashi and Vanguard
Yeah, i have her, ofc
Hiryuu, NJ and Musashi looks quite powerful so far and while Vanguard doesn't quite have the same punch as NJ she's still going to do well enough against most fleet
Hm, so vanguard musashi hiryuu for main, and for vanguard?
Shima and yuudachi for sure
And whom for tank?
Juneau would be your best bet
But really you should work on Anchorage asap. She's not really replaceable by any other ship
The end goal would be to have Anchorage, Shima and Juneau
Juneau is really nice for a slower fleet like Hiryuu plus Musashi
Mhm, mhm
So for now: _ shima yudachii, musashi vanguard hiryuu, and for future -> ancho shima juneau
Yes pretty much
Okok
And if i have shinano, should i put her over hiryuu?
Or is hiryuu better for her invincibility?
Oh if you have Shinano and Hiryuu you can run them both alongside Musashi
Over vanguard?
That fleet really loves Juneau
Yes
It does best with a bit of Operation Siren grinding though as ideally you want 3x Wyvern for it. If you don't have 3 you can put in some of the Breguet from the recent French event instead, they're a weaker but faster launching wyvern really
Sadly i dont have neither bregeut nor the wyvern
Probably better to stick with Vanguard then until you have a few
I'd use Hiryuu over Shinano also in that case, Shinano usually will only get one airstrike so you have to make it count. Hiryuu will get at least 2 guaranteed
A lot of the best pvp gear comes from Operation Siren so I'd definitely recommend grinding there a bit if you want to make your fleet as strong as you can
Aha, okok, thanks
Does anyone have screens of Amagi EoS AotN from this season?
"A bit" is really subjective 
Yeah, congrats on 4th
Thank you
They are posted in ALM so joining there might be a good idea
Rank 1 this season? 
Ok, will check it out
Sounds nice, but with my luck I’ll be happy for top 20
Luck can only get you 1 or 2 points
My luck is always awful, can relate. 
isnt
i've not seen anyone use her yet
aint on the pvp guide
What gun for Musashi, twin410, the kai version, or Izumo gun?
And do i use HSFCR/Table and one of the PvP gears? Or one of the shells instead?
Current fleet is Vanguard (406mle) - WarKai (406mk7) - Perseus - Anchorage (not maxed lvl) - Shimakaze - Noshiro/Yuudachi retro (dunno who)
Currently planning to transition to Vanguard - Musashi - Hiryuu
Twin 410 kai or the blue 356. Izumo probably too slow. Since you're not running a 457 you probably just run the 410 kai since you don't have a clash in reload time
You run Table or HSFCR, the other gear depends on how you want to run your fleet, White Shell and WNT are both good options though
where to get blue356?
if the fight is not looking a clear win after nano as you might aswell reset
really
no point gambling tbh
ive done that, i lost games because of that, wouldnt recommend 
the fleets i have a hardest time with are like
high sextuple fleets or something where my airstrikes dont deal much
i also have recently
but i get it
Gear lab IJN BB
dont think i can improve from here easily
bulge + noshiro sounds like an overkill, but if it works, it works i guess
i gave up on juneau
Quad mag is fine
i rmbr the mark ix sniping, how about that
youd need black aux
But maybe use Boiler over bulge, seems she will die too late no?
recently 125 juneau, maybe i will downgrade soon
shinano has been tanky enough for her to proc tho
well idk what to run
i figured vs shima is fine
boiler/gyro is the usual go-to
my juneau tends to die too late vs shima with bulge but no noshiro
but its all depending on enemy gear tbh
so if it works youre good, just keep in mind if it ever becomes an issue theres easy options to alter it
tweaking hp timing, alr
yeah well, not as strict as salvo timings 
just if you hit a wall and juneau dying too late seems to be an issue
also youll get a lot more damage overtime as you acquire more wyverns
ill keep an alt loadout for juneau then rn
Ayanami outclassed everyone with only 2 torpedoes
no i dont think i will
done 
no probs 
Cutec and captain fluffs (and guildmates) , I know you'll see this (hehe)
Hemlo

Can I spam dock images in here to ask for the fleet 
yes
no hiryuu?
juneau also, or i missed her?
looks awfully familiar to mine so i'll just post what I use
nice names though
harbin is dev 25 useable yes?
Oh yeah I have both, just too low level I lumped them in with the 'ships that I think wouldn't be good'
Also is it worth it if I want to use uni/percy for preload
those 2 are good on pvp so you can consider raising them I guess
Or chise
with that backline I sent, hiryuu just reveals the CVs with her skill before musashi gets to fire
idk, started using her at 30
also percy could work with sushi and vang
welp, guess mines still a long way at dev 17
Juneau would also want that aa skill max?
I have mine max, but I guess she doesn't?
this backline could also work too
Yeah have been running that 
are those fuel tank aux good for pvp? what does it do
So is musashi still flag
I don't know the concept but when I used it over catapult its actually better
Increases HP of Carrier-based aircraft by 140. Increases flight speed of Carrier-based aircraft by 5.
ahh its for crash damage
didnt run sushi flag even once tbh
I would put percy flag and run WNT, fuel tank
with vang sushi? still wnt on a high dmg comp?
oh, and is wnt additive or multiplicative to atk bonus
think additive but dont quote me on that
I forgot to do my exercise before I slept and now I lost 5 try

I heard if you've Kashino as secretary, you won't forget any exercises
real and true

is there any BB main fleet combination that can knock out CV fleets before they launch an airstrike ?
my CVs were still low powered than my BBs
Musashi/NJ/Aquila
NJ/Veneto/Aquila
i don't have veneto but yes i have aquilla,
what's their gears ?
Musashi - twin 410 Kai/Neptune gun/staag/table/white shell
NJ - 457 or mk4/Harbin gun/staag/beaver badge/hsfcr
Aquila - F4U/tenrai/wyvern/aviation fuel/catapult
This is what I use
Replace the tenrai with a helldiver and the wyvern with a cuda or breguet
the bomber cuda or the torp cuda ?
torp
ok
Gonna test my first PVP combination on ReMet
this looks like neither pvp nor META fleet
i don't have much ships in docks
this frontline dies before 1st bb salvo
40% of fail chance
i use the most balanced gun i have in gear storage
success breached some ranks in pvp
but yes, i would need more gears and ships with the right combination
but now the guns is kinda... too big for the small pvp vanguards
i know
too much reload time
any recomends ?
fdg used the twin UR
UvH used NJs gun
457 or twin 406 ap from gearlab
i would need the fastest rld and high damage for preventing CV from launching airstrike
and whats for uvh ?
Uvh is currently using UR MK7
457 ideally, but the UR HE might be fine for now
you want a different aa and secondary gun aswell
all main in the pict currently using the twin 113 AA
which one is Staag ?
put on all main ? im currently have plenty of it
i use full BB to wipe the main fleet
how do you wipe what you cant see
i found many fleet designed with poor Vanguard Movement, making a chance for my fleet to wipe the V before they heal and take the main fleet with the main guns
nice in theory, but can you beat the meta fleets?
And I still haven't got that Musashi gun 
parallel/converging torp bombers for pvp?
o.o no skypirate?
Musashi - Vanguard - Hiryuu retro
or
Musashi - Vanguard - Perseus?
looks like a perse fleet
woulda thinl Shinana too but there's too much "shotgun"
some people were testing ijn fleet with musa shina hiryuu
Hiryuu/Shinano/Musashi is your best option
i think i can reset to win against any fleet now, will have to see against 19k fleets
19k fleets 
3 CB meta. 
still a meme
19k means anything rainbow you can slot in
no matter the actual performance
doesnt that come to tenrais and wyverns on ijn
huh
tbh i only have one tenrai
but my ijn backline is barely 17k
16.8 with purple gun sushi
dont think id reach 18k if i +13d everything i could
hm, interesting
Im planning to run shinano musashi hiryuu so i guess i probably need 2 of those
Or not


u alrdy running feather wnt?
washington naval treaty from northampton group or smth
hiryuu flag is supposed to tank most of it
Oh i used to run nagato flag
Switched her out for musashi
But didnt change position
idk what shina runs without feather
@floral wave come back
So it is better to run hiryuu flag musashi offflag?
yeah
since she will never die fast enough to not get first airstrike
which means she gets 2 strikes guaranteed
I used to run nagato, now musashi flag
So hiryuu and shinano usually live a little longer
hiryuu is there to "die" fast
This is attack fleet right now
Still raising musashi lvl
While my ancho is dev22 115 too so she isnt ready yet

If i can craft only one wyvern who has priority for that
Hiryuu with counter or shinano
shinano

hiryuu gets prio for tenrai tho 
Oh im still at 15/50 for that

What about aux if i run hiryuu flag
Is medal or wnt better with fuel?
Medal would be better if i was running triple cv
But there is musashi

wnt
medal means opponent cvs deal more damage aswell
and sushis dmg is pretty important
What main gun is good for sushi in pvp?
I was trying this
Oh
wnt works if you flag her
I dont have table so i guess the other one
hpfcr year
I gave wnt to hiryuu
im running table+beaver
Beaver is on my vanguard 
She is only 115 right now i still need to work on those 5-10 levels

Thanks
I left juneau lvl 100 with pearl + manjuu
Would she be better at higher level + retro + no manjuu?
higher lvl sure
but im not sure about manjuu
its really up to your own testing/liking
also whether you maintank or offtank her
I'll test when i have ancho ready then
And leave her as is for the meantime
My shinano seems slows without nagato rld buff with hornet helldiver wyvern setup
I cant do much about that right
Since she is slow to begin with

Uh whats the site calc again
yeah thats super slow
How do you check in game
do you have breguet?
So missed everything in the middle
Cant do it for now

And feather i dont know when it will come back
I have only one wyvern
or even helldiver db if cuda first
generally you want as much crash dmg out of shinano as possible
issue here is wyvern also intercepts while cuda doesnt
so id test hornet vs cuda
On first slot right?
So cuda vs hornet timing wise isnt that different but need to see which one has higher crash dmg

Does pvp fleet power count fleet tech?
I heard it doesnt
In battle fleet tech is not applied
In pve, Lowering fleet tech doesn't affect ship power, but ship power includes fleet tech
So in pvp, defense fleet power includes fleet tech?
It applies your fleet tech values to the opposing fleet, not sure why
But that's why for the same fleet built the exact same way, two people will see two different fleet powers
I mostly evade those kind of fleet, there's a bug where phone become lagging by Barrages and making my fleet won't fire its main guns
who thinks it's best for the community that we encourage only meme fleets for defense fleets.
Sorry,what is the link name?
i decided to sandbag this season
and when i reset, no one's doing their exercises

That's part of the reason why jp, kr and tw have better scores than us
they all troll?
weaker def fleets
ye
Easier for rushers to win
More rushers that win mean they get higher scores
Allowing the baggers to reap the benefits
win win
let's do that, i don't like strong defense fleets
how high are the scores in other servers?
how much am i supposed to bag even
how do u even sandbag




