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basically, you always get at least 30% of the plane damage
but you can get a variable 1-70%
based on current hp
so 30 MAX hp doesnt do anything initially
not sure
EN players are still new. A lot of the guides from CN and JP aren't fully translated
i guess the really smart guys avoid the "mainstream" servers
Also, EN isn't as big as JP or CN, obviously
you should give the whole thing a thorough read
that's waaaay stronker than i thought
Additionally, increases Sakura Empire aircraft carrier damage (does not affect Aviation Battleships) toward enemy by 5% (20%).
since akaga already boosts aviation, it's better to get a direct damage boost than more aviation
i thought she boosted their aviation
xD
who is nagato again tho :V
gasp
quick someone link the loli goddess

ohhh, that one
i love that face
When sortied as the flagship: increases allied Sakura Empire ships' firepower by 4% (10%) and their reload and accuracy by 5% (20%). Additionally, increases Sakura Empire aircraft carrier damage (does not affect Aviation Battleships) toward enemy by 5% (20%).
yikes
xD
Historical reason - Nagato was the flagship for the pearl harbor strike force.
the loli queen
hey now, hyuuga isnt a weirdo
she works hard
although i know why it doesnt work from technical standpoint
i think
it's because it's a ship damage buff
so they cant separate the BBV aviation damage boost
from the gun boost
so if nagato buffed BBV
it would buff ALL of their damage
by 20%
which would be pretty awesome
xD
someone find me and fight my HMS fleet
ive never even seen anyone with a 13k HMS fleet before
lol
curious as to how well theyll perform

plz come to rank 2500
I'm too lazy to level my shit up to +10
man
isnt that ur main pvp fleet tho?
I'm honestly surprised at how few HMS fleets I see in avrora
@delicate shore yeah, but they're mostly all +6-7 gear

So i'm only at 11k/11k
ive seen your fleet syanda
That’s why
who mine?
Naaah
lol
sounds overkill?
You run into weird cycle times
ill use 410 on hood and someone else then
and one 406
since hood has the gold fcr
410 Hood Gold FCR + Autoloader syncs with WS
410 on hood and 406mk6 on warspite means they get to fire in sequence without downtime
To cuck Enty or one half of foxes
QE works best with 406
No, then she'll interfere with WS
Since she has no barrage to speak of
im not using 410s for barrage tho
Nah, WS’s auto shot doesn’t get interrupted
im using 410s to hit ent before she procs
You want the sequence to be WS Skill > Hood Barrage > Hood Shell > WS Shell
WS Skill = Hood Barrage, synced for maximum cucking for me
That baleets Ent on a good day if your backline shells land right
is WS skill and hood barrage enough to kill ent?
No.
Lemme gib screenshot
well, no, but gun follow up
usually does it
unless all your MGM+2 aims for vanguard
WS skill and hood barrage either hits for a minimum of half health (assuming Ent doesn't evade)
Follow up shells will kill
but doesnt she proc lucky E right after?
lucky e aint 200% 
if hood gets all MGM shots
She only procs after the shells have landed
u dont account for the possibility of it not proccing
since its a 70% proc
u assume it procs 100% everytime
lol
Same
it's like a 30% chance of failure
Syanda, I disagree. Look, no Enty. No problem.
what else has 30% chance of activating?
But in any case, Ent cannot dodge the first salvo of MGM shells
what was his fleet power tho
how common is that to happen

Like I said, minimum of half health on average
I have another one of these screenshots
Keyword minimum
i see
Fair enough
aya defense oh boi
👍
You generally need the MGM shots to land kn Ent to outright kill her
xD
It's not impossible, because Ent only launches after all of Warspite's MGM shells land
However, if you do not kill Ent in the first salvo, the second launch from ent WILL evade the next round of MGM shots
if she procs
well, hood is the one shooting E
hmm
ws has same reload as USS BB so her salvos should be landing at same time
You have to hope WS or QE shoots and kills ent after a second launch
yeah, so you'd just have hood with FCR to shoot super early
Hood cannot kill Ent if ent survives after her second launch
And by that time your vanguard is likely already dead
Unless eldridge is doing her spooky shit
hmm
i feel the meta will inevitably shift to 410s at this rate
either 410s or foxes
it's a fork in the road
i mean, you could just do 1 406 and 1 410?
If Ent doesn’t die from first salvo
My WS crits snipes her the 2nd time usually and she dies
Yeah, that's the ideal situation
2nd crit snipe hits just after 1st lucky E ends
@vague token you can, but if you do, try not putting the HFCR on the BB with the 406mm
because if you do it'll cause their timings to overlap
yeah
Ideally yes hahahaha, most ideal would be instagibbing her the 1st time
Ent must die after her first launch if you somehow fail to kill her before she launches
That would be GalaxyBrain levels of metagaming
Nah, I have Eldridge for cucky E
that would be
the heck is that suppose to do?
200 IQ play
dodge bullets
OP Rainbow cuck. Ez
because she already has 49 EVA
Double SG Radar on Enty for memes
WS will end up landing like only 60-70% of hits
can ent make use of the hit tho?
even with 2x SG
recluse about to actually do it
nah lol
Oh shit


Oath Numbers are just for flexing. 
yeah
to be fair hms is a bit less expensive to train up
so they might be higher up
while people who dive the ranks
probably are invested on other stuff
at this point
so it could be that
Pls don’t tell me you marry for stats and not love.
mostly because i stopped using pvp ships in pve xD
i have 17 oathed ships
🙏
🐳
That means you married non-metaslave ships
Good man
Marry for stats?
Point and laugh
6% OmegaLUL
ooooooof
Actually it’s good
The less people like your waifu
The more exclusive she’ll be to you
QE mine.
shoo
who would that be
Your pfp
oh lol
lol
Someone made her actually look kinda cute


Her Party Skin will boost that up
All part of Akashi’s plan to make you buy her party skin
I marry for love. I just love good stats.
true

have you seen nozo's hms on jp 
no I just mean his ships
Blam blam. 
well I'm not too sure how much shells affect hms since at least in CN people stack evasion
on backline BBs
shells give hit though dont they?
oh just the white
anyway here is some of nozo's hms ships https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/352975182065041410/515101032372764692/unknown.png
i stack evasion on my bb's all dai
EN meme will evolve accordingly
oh, hit rate adds to crit rate
No need to stress out servers we don’t even play in
wouldnt shell + radar be pretty oof?
no he just likes jav
See?
i dont like her enough to lvl her up tho
Better phoenix paid by oil coist
what a g
So they are both love love
Ships flexing as a result of gems is meh tbh
Like ofc duh
yeah but 120 takes a long ass time
Wow
Lvl 120 yes, hard work
OmegaLUL
lol
Canuck: alright ur in
Makes sense
All those Oaths mean he has given Yostar money
And some of those money surely goes to Canuck-kun’s salary
So...
He didnt even name duke dork
well I only really mentioned this as part of the marrying for love thing
it's ok we also don't have wis here to hate on hms
Id also name javelin worst starter
LOL



it's ok I bully aya instead 
Wait is that the party QE art
I love everything about Newcastle
Except
The fact how lazy they made her Kai art to be
Like yo
Seriously
Such wasted potential


QE also wasted tbh
the front loading screen looks cute af
Oh, just buy her party skin
but the real ship 
Especially ws
black panties 
how to +10 dildo 
Keep this channel for pvp discussion only, folks

Must be wholesome
Keep help’s degeneracy in help

my real nick name tells everything 
#help isnt as degenerate without me there
nope
mod pongers
I just realized zooming in ur profile is mikan
siscon too eh
cya
Seeyaaaa kiroshimaaa 
speaking of exercises cn just gottheir new batch of 5, let's see if I can get non meme/non outdated teams
(then again I guess i'm not helping that cause either because my defense is also meme)
mikan best loli 
almost all +10
altough i nvr notice how much is it
now i run out of plates
i mean the rainbow dildo one


Individual Ship Points are added when shooting down planes ya?
People actually use this combo?
neither TBH. for PVP you would want a very durable vanguard with the most killy backline
wichita and suffolk isn't durable enough
... suffolk kai is a solid solo damage dealer tho, while wichita is more of a buffer
a glass cannon that provide buff
Right now, CAs just don’t work well in PvP. They eat up too many stuff to be useful.
A fact I cry about everyday.
And likely not going to be fixed any time soon
fair enough
just expanding options since i run Aya/javelin + juneau/Helena/eldridge
you are better off using a DD vanguard for PVP. dodge tank is a thing afterall
@grand sluice shouldn't it be E Essex Centaur for triple CV
@slow totem w11 is just around the corner 
And what’s in W11? 
CAs will be fixed when they increase our cap to 120 Harcourt no sad
You can probably get away with a CA if you run Eldridge
I will be testing that today
Not against akaga, but uss and most other... Unusual comps should be fine
Only problem I see is that Eldridge with CA will barely move
@odd schooner Essex works well with USS carriers.
And the only pretty decent USS carrier out of the main 2 is Saratoga Kai
@wise summit gasp...?! Really...? Thank you!
@modern tree Yea... it doesn’t work... well, sometimes it works, but not consistent enough. But there’s that 120 level cap so I’m okay now.
I will check for myself, just like I did with everything else
It's like they want bicc numbers but can't shoot down targets because it's within the invincible status as to why E vs E became a thing again
its like they are reading internet guides to pvp that are all written for chinese or translated from it
It's because the ppl here worship the game gurus
Which is basically why I verify everything myself, or as much as my limited time allows me
And treat their word like its the law
And game gurus telling everyone to only use 410s for barrage
And that's its only purpose
Lol
I am pretty sure general advice should be 410 for barrage/burn damage, 406 for burst and aoe
but pvp is just different
That's true but there's another purpose for it now
But people can't think for themselves
Lol
I dont like badmouthing people in general but the trend I see is people join this discord in hopes of saving themselves time by not doing any experimenting and just being told everything. It's probably not a horrible thing to do. You can imagine how much time I dumped to rise 3 sets of pvp ships just to have informed opinions. Doing things that do not follow "established" conventions like cutting Juneau from HMS is scary and time consuming, but hey, someone did it. It was me. Now I can tell all of you about how it's not as crazy as it sounds.
Desync is real
time to put my Suffolk to work and see if she holds up
There's one guy that eats up everything that wis says
And vomits it back out like it's absolute truth
And that guy is ender
Lol

What Daxam says
And nah, letting other people dictate you how to play your single-player waifu game is a frankly idiotic idea.
They can advice, but should be your conscious decision to follow that advice or not.

That's what I'm saying lol
You're better off following aripanda's pvp guide than what #gameplay-help says.
But you should never go 100% by a guide. The meta is really about countering what's popular.
And the meta for each server may differ. Hence different counters
Yea, like we don’t have NaKaGa here yet
ye with eldridge @modern tree
@delicate shore Let's refrain from insulting other server members please
ill prob level them anyway cause gotta 3-4 spam
Alright, let's refrain from shit talking other server members please
I've gotten complaints about people using this channel as a place to badmouth others. PvP discussion is about two fleets fighting each other, not individual people :-)
It's funny how that works
At any rate, please keep your animosity towards others to yourself or at least outside of this server.
The way you talk about those people says otherwise
I'm just saying he's a straight arrow
Regardless, this is a channel for discussion of the PVP meta
not commentary on other server members

I did a bunch of tests yesterday with recorded footage and discovered I do not like the Juneau + Eldridge combination. Most runs Juneau died at inopportune times and was a waste. I think Helena works better with wasd + Eldridge feets.
I recall reading a while back that radar only hits the vanguard. Which is bs. I checked. It always hit the back.
Radar hits all enemies present
The argument was radar only affects on screen enemies
The juneau Eldridge combo is the longest stall ive encountered so far so maybe in my opinion, works as intended
I don't remember. Something I saw in #gameplay-help a while back

Aftrr the first 20 secs, Jun will only take damage 10 secs between each proc
ive been trying juneau eldridge
But it only counters wasd fleet
not a fan
juneau eldridge is just watching your main fleet wither while your front line takes barely any damage and praying for juneau to finally sink to save everyone
its more stressful than big e duels
Jesusnau
I also tested Fortune and noticed no real difference in my HP at 4:00 with and without her throughout many runs.
The mitigation is negligible
biased but i find fortune fleets just a pushover
they just get insta deleted
washy server is hardly developed so idk whats going on in other servers

main arguments for fortune is that she is hms with pretty high torp stat and really high speed
ability is good to have but its unlikely to make a real difference if you do not have need for her other things
the most painful one i ran into was some aya+juneau+helena
where aya basically 1 shotted my front line on 2nd torp
lol
You can notice fortune saving enty from akaga 2nd airstrike on a 200 oath matches 
Did you use all CL vanguard?
javelin/belfast/minnea at that time i believe
Fortune is good against CV Backlines, even more with NoCal around
AkaGa and Lucky E do tickle damage
today I had a game where opening torps have slain both vanguards instantly
i've been wondering if fortune is worth raising, I was planning a helena/jeanuea and last would either be belfast/eldridge/fortune
I was really confused
But against BB backlines, not so much
they just went inside eachother and both died
Fortune is even more worth raising if you use QE.
im gonna try a CA fleet with eldridge
probably hate it
and regret it
then self loath until 120 comes out
I'm still 10 affection away for max affection ayaya but right now she is doing 2.6 on backline
She can actually tank-dodge Lucky E and Akaga on her own with double repair toolboxes
3.7-3.9k with supernatural
I'm thinking belfast, eldridge/juneau and helena is the best non hms vanguard
is laffey actually t0 for pvp
Demon dance does 1.5k per torp
And Enty and Akaga
tankyish with lots of reload
Aya and Laffey are good if they hit
DDs actually pops a lot with max BBs nowadays
Double sg backliners 
Should be cata tanker
its just tank and catapult
i feel like theyre all missing pieces of gear or just not gearing correctly
hood is my only BC/BB
I dont think you can justify any other gear on cvs right now, maybe beaver badge if you are really worried but why
i just run 2x cata
You'll have long time experiencing big fights since the main gate on new servers are skills
Another is fox mining bad runs
There's a person in avrora who took more than 2 months to finish 🦊
ive still yet to get a fox
im not too worried since i dont really plan on using them
just collection purposes
Usually ppl go lvl 5 on most ships then go back to main ship and max
At least that's how it happened on first server
Don’t sweat over SR drops, not gonna get them any faster anyway
Skill lvl
I think skill level is fine at 7 if you do not have an explicit purpose for it to be maxed, saves like half of the books this way
leveling to max is so boring
Unless its damage scales with level. There's not a big difference between 7 and 10 skills
Definitely
what main gun for suffolk
203 mounted
only gold ca atm is 203 skc afaik, but AP is really not gonna cut it
yea i have that maxed for minnea in pve
in context of this chat, HE will just otperform AP in every way because most of the vanguard ships that you'd want to smash with Suffolk rock light armour that you have 140% damage against with HE
Hood’s barrage also scales significantly with levels
washy is good for nuking backline right

i want a backline to destroy foxes 
seemsgood
so if i run hood/washy/?
i was thinking warspite for that free skill nuke
but most of the time i see it as qe/ws/hood
yea
i just hate the aesthetic of qe

just hand out more gold fcr 
i could just wasd/hood
I hate qes default sprite, anniversary skin waiting room
I've seen some people running wash hood enterprise, its probably not bad
if you just really hate main fleets
i'd prob do that but i invested into lusty+eldridge
washy server is still too weak atm
half of the vanguards die to helena+e proc
cause theyre still running no retrofit starter, prinz
top 10
this never changes tbh, eugen, starter retro and eldridge on lusty is what I see way too often for how effective it seems
As much as I love QE
I have to say, her default skin is no match to her party skin
That white dress and higher quality art
And multiple expressions
And an actual throne
10/10
i think ill drop lusty eventually
?boobtierlist
T0: Illustrious
i dont have enough bulins
like 9 months left till anniversary or something
No, she’s T0, see?

Suggestions on how to optimize my PVP team?
Replace Akagi with Hood and you’re done for now.

Maybe San Diego with Eldridge too
But one step at a time
My other SSR ships.
Okay... then Akagi with Hood

I mean Hood
And you have Eldridge, great! Use her for Sandy’s spot
And last page.
Okay, I’ll give that a try. Thank you very much.

so after a bunch of tests on Suffolk
the gun hits hilariously hard but it seems to only shoot straight forward which is a problem since it feels less reliable than torps
I didnt expect much from 40 fiering angle to CL's 120 but darn it just never lands

Welcome, fam!
This guy almost did everything right

You can put whatever in defense fleet anyway
Makes sense actually
SoDak’s Aegis doesn’t affect herself
And the flagship takes the most damage, Aegis covers Washy so...

With Eldridge and Cleveland around, it’s clearly made to counter Foxes and Enterprises.
5 seconds over making Aegis useless? Naaaah

Mine survives the first brunt with Belfast. 
I found out that as long as you win consistently
The waiting for rank up thingy don’t matter much
You’ll get Gensui
provided you don’t miss too much rounds but that’s obvious
I got... 3 or 4 last seasson, end of season, 5 minutes before reset.
Without tryharding on the rank up wait.
Missing rounds is the oof one tho
this season literally nobody blows their matches anymore
so i just end up waiting and waiting and i forget
People are getting smart
it's legit tragic 
So don’t bother with rank up
watever
i think i can still make it if i go twinfox and fight 5 memefleets on reset
i'll win 5 games in like 3 mins

@untold folio Also, just sayin’, chill out on the attitude. “pvp-ers” already have a bad rep for being ‘elitist, snob, tryhards’ around here, don’t need to actually make it true.
But it isn’t wrong. SoDak as flagship actually has cons (since Aegis doesn’t affect herself). But that’s not my point anyway.
Hope I’m wrong on my assumption, which would be good.
well, the reason i put sodak mid isnt for aegis
it's to force her to proc wash
if you're against akaga, you can get her to under 30 with some luck
There is that point true, but Sodak on the side also has its merits.
With Washy on the side, I usually kill washy first before Iron Bottom procs.
Iron Bottom (heh)
xD
since akaga E can be memed pretty hard
Akaga E is pretty memey anyway
true
but it does force me to restart a lot when helena E triggers
but if it doesnt it literally crumbles so fast
3 CV Backline doesn’t work until Essex comes around.
also yea izurich is right
But defense fleet, whatever.
i mean, you could counter triple CV
we should try to make civil PVP discussion without resorting to roasting each other when someone makes a "wrong" move
or a "bad" play
What Sirreq said
NoCal + Fortune makes Akaga E do tickle damage, I confirmed over multiple runs.
honestly ill be glad to swap E out for essex with wasd
not all of us are snobs 
you wait
put up a bad fleet and rng roll a huge difference?
you basically get lucky
you camp on your attempts and get lucky
No, your defense fleet actually doesn’t matter
just camp PVP lobby as often as possible
flood damage can kill right?
But as I said, the camping isn’t needed anymore
You will get Gensui by the end
lol

even then i will still try
Provided
-You don’t lose too much
-You don’t miss too many matches
if u research/ask for help/get criticism
you can probably still get it if you rush it on the reset as soon as you are in range
u only lose to rng on washy
I never bothered with rank up and got Gensui every season (except my very first)
Inc missing the PvP Abuse DST moment
washy server fairly weak
I’m in Lexington
@vague token I don’t know tbh. I don’t even know how Flood Damage works

Enlighten me
rip
cause i hate when evade skills dont die to 1 hp fire
melting that E with 700 damage ticks?
na
isnt flood only on sara kai?
yep
essex has flood
i hate that too
Dork has it too(?)
ah
that's why u ideally want vanguard to survive
and super nope to all air
When Essex launches an airstrike: launch an additional TBF Avenger squadron that inflicts flood damage on hit. Damage against BBs (BCs and BBVs do not count) is increased by 4% (10%).
glorious
During battle, if the fleet contains 4 or more Eagle Union ships: 4.5% (12%) chance to reduce aircraft torpedo and bomb damage to 1.
amaaaazing
xD
gimmmeeee
So flood damage just means a lesser version of Helena’s radar scan...?
well, i dunno how much flood ticks for
Flood tics?
flood is a form of burn

Ooooooh
yeae
I see
Imagine being in a burning ship that’s sinking.
not that hard to imagine honestly
oil/fuel
but yeah, essex solo should be fine with wasd
as a utility carrier
reduce damage from akaga
reduce from E
and BASED ON wiki wording
you only lose 10% aviation
from fielding her solo
she still counts as 1 of the carriers in fleet
so she'll get 5%
and she can still get the temporary buff
by shooting down planes
She doesn’t have to be in an all CV lineup then, wunderbar
Unlike Nagato who has to be in the flagship position.
xD
I dislike Double E mexican standoff either
w8 do we have floods now
i always trade wash
or cn/jp only mechanic atm
cn/jp
Not available yet here
we dont have any of the flood skills
ah
which is like, sara kai, some subs, essex
Not anywhere close I think
i mean, that's the point
im guessing not EN yet?
jk
We don’t even have subs yet

^
Ryusei for pvp
depends
Tenzan for pvp
you can use aim torps if they arent using eldridge
but if they are you're better with cuda
cause then maybe they'll skip
mehhhh
fires faster
cuda is for main fleet damage
i dont have ryuusei atm 
I used to use Ryuusei
ryuusei is just if you want to have a chance at landing all 12 torps
Then I switched to Gold Cuda
idk the options available for washy server since it came late
i was using ark royal but she just doesnt trade well at the 23






















