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especially bad with foxes because foxes are so fragile
almost guaranteed to lose a fox before Juneau dies.
i see her mostly with wasd
also since i use foxes she's not a priority for me
my juneau is still lv24
foxes aren't great for defense right now.
is it bad that i don't use a defense fleet?
not really
i'm using 2 lv1 for fun
a good defense mainly just slows people down. Which is most useful when you're rushing for admiral at the end of the season
i guess i can put my wasd in defense then
maybe i'll get juneau too
what equip should i use as aux for bb in pvp? i have like no clue
Wats a the pvp attack meta now
twin 127s the best i think
wasd + enty, eldridge, something, something
Eldrige is considered gd?
gold twin 127 is best for the US BBs. Triple 155 otherwise.
I thought she works best with lusty
i was asking as auxiliary
Eldridge doesn't need Lusty to proc and Lusty greatly hurts your damage
Better to bring an actual damage CV
eldridge lusty is a meme.
eldridge's skill is basically what pvp is about right now and she doesnt need lusty to guarantee using it
lusty's only good if the vanguard lives to smack opp's backline, but that is rarely the case in most battles
wasd + hood is good too
eldridge is kinda useless against akaga tho
not many people use foxes anymore
i just got mines so i have to use them
Eldridge will definitely be kicked out of the meta when Nagato comes. She'll immediately die to the opening strike.
Belfast is the RNG solution to Foxes
ah
if the girls chill in the smoke, then gg ez
totally not related but always wonder what's flood damage?
its a dot like fire
sooo, you were saying earlier, boiler eldridge is a thing now?
discaimer: I might put too much weight on speed as a stat due to bias
I think Boilers and Gyros are splendid pvp items and Eldridge with toolbox/boiler is what I always used and never really considered any other aux setup on her
fixing edlridge's trash speed does seem pretty sensible.
I wonder how good gyros would be for the triple CL comp
I ran gyro each on leander belfast juneau when I was using those, it seemed pretty effective at the time
been a while tho
current rank: 694, leftmost opponent's rank: 372
not sure if I should attack
kinda sketched out
fuck it, ima attack and use the rest of my attacks in case I oversleep again
haHAAA
LUCKY E
i decided to believe in the botes that believes in me
and not resetting
a perfect akaga enty backline with 200 affection can only reach 12908
hmm
I'm thinking about replacing some helldivers with btd
for what purpose
12908? That sounds wrong. 12.8k is what you get with Hood and Hood has a higher power than Enty.
Are you using double catapult?
ye
That's why. Not optimal
¯_(ツ)_/¯
double cata for the damage
there wont be enough AA for the planes to die
It's pretty easy to destroy planes if you aren't using oil tanks.
whats what now
Damage the plane does when it reaches their back
¯_(ツ)_/¯
well it wouldnt hurt to get some +10 droptanks
I'll test it one of these days
also the enemy doesnt always have AA
for example when its down to backline vs backline
Everybody says you do more with cata × tank in pvp instead of double cata
Wasd + Juneau is very high AA
I've seen my fleet even pop lucky e planes. It's not easy to destroy those though.
Well it depends on their guns. Not everybody is running full gold bofor/roomba
well as I said
depends on multiple elements
if the enemy have good AA or not
also when its down to backline vs backline you would like more damage
I'm fairly sure a good wasd fleet would mince your planes without the extra hp.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Especially one like Recluse and his full roomba. 
I have beaten 13.5k before
¯_(ツ)_/¯
anyone can beat anyone in pvp
its just how many resets
What’s wrong with double cata? Or what’s wrong with Cata + Oil Tank? They both work.
If one way doesn’t work, just change equipment.
There is no complete black and white answer to gear equips.
Not everyone plays the game exactly as anyone else.

they both work but one works better than the other
Depends on the opponent as well.
If they have bad AA, Double Cata works better
It’s not a static environment in which you face the same kind of opponent all the time.
doubt hes facing an opponent with trash aa
You never know. Some defense fleet are built for big dicc numbers for intimidation purposes.
Like putting Gold BTD over Purple Helldivers for the numbers alone.
Or double FCR on every single BB.
what does that have to do with bad aa
the best aa is gold aa so the big number thing doesnt matter
It was a response to your statement that you doubt he was facing bad aa.
High level ranks doesn’t mean they all have good AA
they can have trash AAs.
ye thats why i used the word doubt
Fair enough.
well tbh im guessing hes just trying to flex fleet power
since he was thinking about changing helldiver to gold BTD
Perhaps, we can only assume. But he does want to swap out Purple Held- yeah
Or Gold Quad over Triple 406 mm
big dicc fleet power but empty inside.
well going for that high fleet power is always tempting
It does give a sense of intimidation, subconsciously or otherwise
Especially with the shiny hologram effect of Oaths.
More people than not will not know better and refrain from choosing to fight such fleet. Even though they actually have a good chance of winning.
Would replacing SD in WASDE for NC be better?
nah i wouldnt
Does the the aircraft cover stacks with Fortune's?
they already have high aa and one of washs skills is dependent on south dakota being there
Yes, but I wouldn’t replace SD with NoCal.
I’d replace Enty with NoCal
Full BB Backline with monstrous AA that makes enemy airstrikes do tickle damage
issue i found with full bb backline was well
salvos being retarded and missing
like actually missing not the hit stat
That’s the con of a full bb backline, but can’t have it all.
Just try things out and pick your preferred playstyle. No composition is foolproof,
How well is it at taking the opposing backline?
You have infinite resets anyway
Sometimes it deletes the backlines before the vanguard even dies
literally depends on who you are facing
Sometimes they miss everything, but these are two extremes
Usually it’s in the middle by personal experience
There’s also the chance of Washington not proccing her barrage throughout the fight. It’s rare, but it happens

SG or Air Radar for NC?
It’s PvP. I do Double Air Radar, but putting in SG isn’t wrong.
Since my NoCal is for a niche use. Against 2-3 CV Backlines.
if you are doing air radar for damage, dont, just use fcr like a normal person
Being normal is boring.
if you do it for AA, then go ahead
Pick your definition of normal and try things out, Iri. What gives you the result you most prefer.
hitting your shots is cool
Seeing planes combusting and those that survive doing tickle damage is hilariously satisfying and it gives me a win
Win-Win
I mean, you are doing it specyfically for AA against multiple CVs so I dont see anything wrong here
Yea, as mentioned, Niche use.
just doing Air Radars for damage from the passive is very short sighted since this damage will never matter if you miss your shots
I don’t use NoCal against anything less than 2 CVs, her 1st skill is wasted,
Better put in Hood
I'm using same fleet for both defense and offense.
Stressing out how well it holds as defend.
It hasn't been that great for top thousands.
Uh... defense fleet doesn’t actually defend your ranks.
Oh?
Offense is where you want to strategize
For Defense, put whatever, tryhard? Ok. Meme? Ok.
spoiler: while it might be giving someone trouble, attacker gets 20% damage bonus so no matter how strong your defense fleet is, they can probably topple it with just pure luck
I will at least be invested in giving someone trouble, then.
So you pick the 1st option, that’s nice. I was doing that, but I am doing the 3rd one atm.
and if you really want poeple to just waste their time fighting your fleet, Hiryuu will always win 
Now, does Fortune and NC stack?
We answered before, yes, they stack
Alright, thank.
guys, ive wondered why when i finish all my exercises, the top 1 guy always has like 20-30 points higher than me, how did he do it
The difference is farming points whole season. You can do that by waiting for your opponents to play their games first, creating a bigger point gap that awards more points when exercise is completed. Difference has to be about 35 points per one point bonus. Takes a lot of patience, luck and resetting your game.
On more competitive servers it might be necessary if you want admiral of the navy, on servers like Sandy, you can just play your games and be fine
You can lose 8 games on washy and still get top 5 if you play immediately the reset for admiral

It holds true even in Lexington
I missed the DST Abuse period and still got Gensui.
As long as you win consistently and don’t miss too many matches, don’t worry too much about the rank up thing, not worth the hassle ans stress.
Got a second gold sg radar
Who should I put it on
First one is on good
Hood
The event sg radar is on queen because it would make hood proc Royal Navy before radar scan
hood is on flagship and her base acc is weak so second sg on her might turn out rather good
@latent lodge either hood or QE
ok ty

Are your procing eld skill oftenly?
Yeah usually when ent procs she does too
i personally use bulge and toolkit
But i keep switching with my akaga team sometimes and change vang too
i have no problems with her heal there
Guess i gotta max another bulge
also, you should not put eldridge in the middle
Tnx
if you want to increase your rainbow proc chance
i put her at the bottom
More or less juneau front Belfast mid Eldridge back
top for most safe

yea
juneau > eldridge > belfast priority
Well i wont be using that team till everything is maxed.. tnx again ill do just that
BiS?
you're like
4 enhancements away
3-4
or maybe 2 max affections away
so that's why you're basically maxed 
Yeah havent married ent
I usually use hood not ent
Just took a picture
For reference
ok
One sec
Your ent is using double cata on the pic?
+67 per 3%
or maybe that was rainbow dildo +1
What i use atm
Ooo pretty similar
Ohh hood is 410
to counter ent and eldridge timing
Somewhere like this. Should be 12.6 excluding oxy on vanguard
You could run 3 410 too
my sodak has the HFCR

imo i recommend 1-2
Alryt
Mmmm
more foxes? more 406s
Avrora be like
so you don't need to itemize 406s
avrora is like
well
kinda hard to tell
we'll find out when gensui is attainable

yea
we should just have a pact where
everyone in this channel should put their max fleets on defense at 2200 points

that way we can find out what the meta is
more easily


That was seiki's offensive fleet
He's almost done with Uzuki

Sp4 was a nice place to farm affection for them
A sandy army 
Nothing ever goes wrong with having fun 
Anyways
Tnx for the advice
Time to head back to farming

I decided to marry 4 more ships to have my full pvp fleet done. 
only reason I work to begin with is to have luxury money (aside from paying utility bills of course) 
LOL
Man of culture right there
lol
So we've got:
Red hair
Green hair
White Hair
Chocolate
Lolicon
What else?
armpit fleet 
Glasses fleet
some weird things we see on pvp list everyday

oh and the most important fleet.
the fleet with all ships renamed with nuke codes
I wonder how many fleets I see everyday that I just get whooshed on and don't recognize the theme
wink fleet
Wedding dress fleet?
If you were to use the rainbow dildo on belfast, which aux do you take? Bulge or Repair Tools?
Took a long time to +10 everything but I did it. There's no way I'm gonna take the time to 200 affinity them all though.
Kind of tempted to use the dildo just to push the power over 12k for the vanguard. It's at 11.8k without it.
you dont have sg radar?
Both Washington and South Dakota have one
Oh, you mean on the CLs? I'm not sure about that
That's what I think too
like, assuming she gets hit by only 1 preloaded torp from another belfast
you should have blocked about 100-200
which means the net hp difference is already covered
any further torp hits easily cover the toolbox repair ticks
sadly, torp bulge has no effect on torp planes
which would be fun
xD
(for main fleet)
If it did then people would put torp bulges on everybody. Even the backline.
could make it so you take more from dive bomber or something
gotta check the simple calc
Calcium!
ah wait i think i made some mistake
xD
Radar also increases hit, don't forget
And that hit goes towards countering enemy evasion
is the ehp of +%evasion stat gear calculated expecting standard or enhanced (FCR, Radar, etc.) enemy accuracy
and is the T0 Rudder's ehp calculation just [Total Damage over 20s]*0.03?
I checked the calc.
It only computes item hp and eva and didn't calculate other effects 
Torp reduction sure is big
Eg. 1k Torp would just do 700
dafuq is eHP
effective health points
as in
if you have 100 hp and take only 50% damage, its like having 200 hp
Torpedo reduction is less relevant atm due to we only having straight and spread torpedoes
Once the German ship event comes and we get the homing rainbow torpedoes, all your vanguard will want to be wearing them
What's the assumed enemy acc and luck on those values?
thats un fortunate
that's rare lol
anyone know a player in Avrora called Essendre?
Nope
If name doesn't appear here means he's on local AL groups or reddit
I-it's not that I'm stalking or anything 

Washington, South Dakota, Enterprise, Belfast, Juneau/Eldridge, Helena. Use 410mm on Washington and South Dakota instead of the triple 406 MK6 to avoid lucky e duels when you go up against enterprise.
No wash
Oh. I thought I saw her there.
Your next best option is probably HMS. QE, Warspite, Hood, Eldridge, Retrofit Fortune, Belfast.
I've heard good things about using Eldridge in HMS instead of Juneau
Warspite & fortune arent max lvld tho
Alrighr
Thanks, ill work on fortune retro
And i meant max skill wise
i love preying on hms fleets for easy merits
It's hard to judge fleets as a whole because most people aren't that geared.
Ive very nice gear
No tear?
that causes overhealing. give it to somebody else
front
Alright
@tight vessel used to be Foxes-Hood for me, but now WASD Enty for ez merit targets.
If somebody doesn't have a max fleet with the best units, they're all easy merit targets for me. 
The people who insist on using Lusty and Prinz especially so
So many people on Sandy use them.
The 20% attack bonus lets them win so they never learn better.
Not just sandy
The number of sandys and prinzs on Avrora too
Or takao 4 second memes
TAKAOWO
alright
just confirmed assuming identical fleets in wasd
having an eldridge is definitively better than having a fortune
I did a bunch of tests with Fortune a few days ago. The mitigation from her is negligible. and the slightest rng will make it not relevant.
yea
my tests showed the same
doesn't matter if eldridge procs at 20s, 25s, or 30s
even if enterprise doesn't proc
the team with eldridge will still win
i was gonna do a 20 run test but i accidentally won on the 11th
but watever here is the test anyways
Essendre (Washington, South Dakota, Enterprise | Juneau, Fortune, Belfast) 13.2/12.8
current fleet (south dakota, washington, enterprise | juneau, belfast, eldridge) 13.2/12.3
game 1 - win
game 2 - win
game 3 - win
game 4 - win
game 5 - win
game 6 - win
game 7 - win
game 8 - win
game 9 - win
game 10 - win
game 11 - win
i believe his fleet was fully maxed
so the only variance was the 20% attack boost and fortune
probably as close to accurate as i can get
Yeah.. I'm not really a fan of Fortune and once she's dead, that mitigation disappears. She's almost going to die by the 4:00 mark. So the last stand off between the backlines doesn't take the mitigation into account
Eldrige on the other hand can completely save your vanguard. The easiest lose condition is losing your vanguard too quickly.
If an enemy helena has radar and lucky e goes off, your vanguard is dead as fuck unless you have eldridge for rainbow
that can happen as early as 24 seconds into the match
if you lose your vanguard there, you've pretty much lost unless you simultaneously took out theirs.
Pretty sure wasd with fortune fleets are for akaga hood at this point
Wasd Eldridge are for enterprise/skk zkk fleets
I prefer stalling fox fleets more than washi fleets but that's just me
Because they're more of a threat in Gensui Rush
Or does Wasd Hood a bigger threat for fox fleets than wasd E?
Any max oath fox users there who could share their experience
I am trying out this def fleet if it survives 2nd airstrike on akaga
Somewhat like slotting Beaver on E
I have yet to be found by other discord players this season tho. Feels like we're sitting on the same rank so we never meet. Maybe 3-4 more days when a lot of players miss their pvp tries
what is your name on avrora? xD
Same name i use here
Okay, I'll keep the beaver up on E. For now gonna suffer beaverless on my hood wasd offensive fleet 
what rank position are you atm? xD
kk
WASDNoCal + Fortune turn the Foxes’ airstrikes into a meme.
But that’s like saying a fire extinguisher will extinguish fire
Duh. 🤣
I haven't really seen ppl complain on that fleet yet
It’s one in a thousand
Since hood does the sniping on one of the foxes
Actually maybe i could ask someone. I think he oathed norcar too
Also keeps me from the One Trick Pony syndrome
Oaths doesn’t matter. The difference is negligible
If you’re the type to marry for stats, not Love/Affection
i have a both command ready
point and laugh

god i see essendre and he has E on bottom spot
i hate wash top
with a fiery passion
cause barracudas never hit top

Anyways, I guess I'll have to look for him cause he got a full oathed washi norcar fleet
xD
My foxes aren't max affection tho
fleeeet power stats
You can test it with a Non-Oathed maxed fleet and the results will be similar.
xD
Gold BTD >>> Purple Helldiver cause big dicc numbers
Fleet Power is deceptive, the game doesn’t know how to calculate them
There's a huge difference between married and non married fox but we're too far for that
6%
If you’re a statistics guy, I guess
I’m more of a practical guy
I see no difference in practical results, then it’s negligible.
i found a potato
🥔
wasd/hood
There it is
Cygnet rianda shares same timer iirc
DOUBLE VAPE!! 
what auxes do you use on your BBs for HMS?
Double FCR on Warspite, Gold FCR and Autoloader on Hood.
Torp Bulge and Beaver on QE cause she my bae and I want her to live.

Double SG
Gold FCR SG
Beaver SG for QE
Too bad i didn't marry warspite cause she's not on my waifu list. I follow a wife list 
A man of culture
Marrying for love. A rare gem in the sea of metaslaves
You have my respecc, sir.
Basically why i try to find oathed fleets cause i know they're at 200 and they're fully geared hence the manhunt for nor car dude

i just killed a nor cal guy
Like the gold btd-1 and gold quad
So they actually perform worse
If you see a too high fleet power, be suspicious
that and i swapped to full aim torps on ark royal ;)
Ark Royal can subtitue Warspite in HMS yes, forgot to mention
Lolicon Lady actually stronk. Pog
Too high looks like this
Suspicious
The ceiling for wasd E optimal fleet looks like this
It stays at 13.2
Foxes are at 12.9
Any fox fleet higher than 12.9 uses either gold diver planes or doublr cata
implying people have a +10 356
Ah hecc i deleted the ss. If you could find a suspicious Hood Wasd fleet on Avrora, it's him


any in depth pvp comp guide? 
well there's aristya+panda's guide but that's more cn/jp focused
and includes quite a lot of equips that aren't inen
they just throw in t0 comp
no, not yours 
what torpedos are best for ayanami until the magnet ones come out?
Purple uhh the triple
I forgot the name
Ye i forgot the name and already sold it on my inventory

@abstract cypress #pvp for you
oh wait...
i tot i was in #gameplay-help
im sorry

well, i can finally complete sodak now
instead of being stuck with a purple +6 radar
oof
ill probably go back to 9-3 for nich now that i got my radars
my oil has been piling up anyways
You guys were mentioning this earlier right. He's using oxytorp idk on who tho
oh yeah

no eldridge means you can just out trade him at the 20
and he cant stop it
with that defense fleet
xD
shh you
june have a high aa tho
juneau's aa can never shoot down enough of akaga nor owari da
to stop the front from eating dive bombs
I bet both her Juneau and Fortune aren't max oath
i guess now i just need a gold belgun
i need everything 
Juneau skill is there to deplete plane hp
Cause dmg rcvd when planes pass by depends on their remaining hp
oh yeah, for sure, i just meant the vanguard damage isnt blocked
because no eldridge means tanking a full helldiver
to the face
and random number of torpedos
whelp, time to save aux plates for gold radar
T_T
reeeeeee have a meeting at rollover
Feels weird having mirror match with him 
Won't be able to rush pvp
Already did
dev should increase the cap by 20 or smth
they force us to be a neet login 2 times a day 
That's the point bub.
Mobile games are designed so you check in often or miss benefits
the things we do for waifus.
Christ, just fought the cancer defense fleet
Juneau/Eldridge/Belfast frontline, WASD/Hiryuu backline
That was...actually more annoying than I expected to fight
why hiryuu tho?
Wash centre, hiryuu and SD on the sides
Both sides will proc immortality to waste your time
Dude also stuffed juneau full of evades and put his pearls on belfast
sounds funny
should I give 406 to washy or sodak? and give 410 to the other? so their cds dosnt overlap
Took a long while to kill.
sounds very irritating luls
I'd give the 406 to wash tbh. Wash's barrage is independent from her firing, while SD wants to shoot more to increase her chances of focused assault proccing
ohhh true ty
belfast usually is enough to let her survive 1 airstrike
for now at least
once evasion debuffers come eldridge will almost always be dead by first airstrike

Up to you.
Some people prefer for the barrage to proc as fast as possible, but eldridge's barrage doesn't do all that much damage. And you're running eld for her evade anyway, not damage.
tru
but doesnt it not matter since it doesnt affect her eva?
nvm ill just stick with twin
Is it fine for Wash to have a gold Quad 356??
Or should I use something else for her
hi
BBs only revolve on 406mk6 and purple 410mm right now
Current Gold BB mainguns are kinda 🚮
Bad spread, long CD, shell typing (heck one does fireworks which is gold 410mm)
okay me ask question senpai
akaga + hood or sodak + washy + enty... which one is better?
What
ohh, so you need to balance the vanguard now then right? if you have akaga hood attack then you would need something for defence?
If you can kill the vanguard quickly maybe offense is better but I think higher rank have high hp so defense its meta there. I dont really know much but thats the impression I get.
@potent lion akaga hood is still the fastest offense so far for EN.
You don't really need to put much attention on defense if you don't have any spare gears or you could slap your foxes in defense too just to stall the attacking fleet for a bit
If you got spare for defense, washi fleet tends to stall them a lot, just pick the proper ships depending on what type of fleet you would want to stall
HMS is also good offense defense but you didn't mention it so ye
Washington meta is currently stronger for both offense and defense assuming you have the gear and skill levels to support it
Washington > HMS > Foxes for EN
I disagree
Unless you mean the conventional hms that uses Juneau or Edinburgh, then I guess that's fair
Neither Washington nor Foxes setup have a fixed vanguard
Meaning you can use the same caused setup for all three
HMS giving certain vanguard setups a boost
But other than that, you are essentially comparing the main fleets
Washington/South Dakota/X
vs Queen Elizabeth/Hood/Warspite
vs Akagi/Kaga/X
Between those three setups, Washington is stronger than the other two, and HMS is stronger than foxes
Assuming equal/equivalent vanguard
Pick your vanguards from Juneau, Belfast, Fortune, Helena, Aynami, Eldridge, etc. based on your main fleet choices, but the main players are still the main fleet
I think that uss relies on killing front for it's damage too much, which gives hms a decent edge since royal ships will shell the back no matter what. This weakness can be fairly easily exploited with Eldridge that swings the matchup in hms favour pretty hard
My Washington fleet always kills someone on the backline first, not sure what your setup is lol
But yes, Eldridge does counter certain setups hard
Eldridge is the only hard counter. Belfast is the foxes soft counter and HMS has no direct counter
My wash fleet with bis on everything was struggling in the mirror precisely because they couldn't consistently snipe ships, yea you can rng helena wash barrage and focus that lands well for kills but that's just gambling
I would argue Helena is the same level of gambling as Eldridge
HMS defensive setup is probably the least gamble
But due to the reset system, gambling isn't a big issue when you're dealing with 40-70% proc rates in the various ship skills
My Eldridge is up front because everyone's stall fleets can't possibly kill her while I am on offense, the cases in which rainbow doesn't proc when being targeted by 3 ships are rather rare, definitely rarer than getting couple procs in succession
But I guess if you assume you have time to just reset, why not play with Ark slapped on uss and laugh
You're comparing vanguard vs vanguard though. Let's say we compare Washington vs HMS
Washington is Washington South Dakota X
HMS is QE Hood Warspite
Let's make that X be Hood
Do it's Washington South Dakota vs QE and Warspite
Both Washington and Warspite's barrages are single target backline
Warspite has a QE boost, but Washington's stats are higher I believe
South Dakota vs QE. South Dakota has a huge stat advantage and offensive and defensive skill
I am pretty sure that in this comparison the only factor is uss getting their procs, if we assume hoods do the same thing
Overall Washington + South Dakota's synergy and damage output is much higher than QE and Warspite's even if you include HMS's Hood getting in the QE bonus
Washington's barrage is on a timer, as is Warspite's
Because warspite will shoot either way and qe will probably do comparable damage to sd if shr does not proc
Do not proc related
Warspite only hits adjacent
Same with Washington
Their barrages I mean
One other major factor is Washington and South Dakota's defensive passives
South Dakota gaining that death immunity and Washington gaining that stat boost
So in a pure face-off, they will outdamage and outsurvive
The scenario where I imagine the HMS fleet winning is if both side's Hood procs their skills every time
Since then the QE side has the HMS passive stat boost
In this setup hms would target wash because of that specifically, usually dealing with her before she gets bonus damage from chipping SD. Aegis would have little impact because it's horribly mistimed for everything except every other Warspite shot
But that would require South Dakota's skill never proccing once
Yeah Aegis is 99% useless lol
And it comes down purely to SD getting focused assaults, basically
If we assume Warspite would have about the same damage numbers as Wash barrage despite it being random
So the only factors left are rng and uss being targetable with ship choices like Eldridge
So you're saying HMS has an advantage here because it's Warspite's + Hood focus fire will be slightly faster than Washington + Hood's focus fire?
Due to the QE buff?
Running my HMS fleet, it pretty much boils down to backline positioning
Wash and Hood are not really focusing the same targets like Warspite Hood
Yeah
That is true
Basically warspite/hood focusing on a specific target outdamages wasd in terms of deleting a specific ship - which edges it out
So if we assume comparable damage, then qe buff makes hms deliver it faster while also removing threats faster
However, sodak on the wings and wash centre is incredibly fucking annoying to fight against with a HMS fleet
Because typically the other flank is going to be either Enty or Hood
You can peel the other flank for Warspite to target Wash middle after they're dead
I personally run Enterprise over Hood as I timing align to Helena, but I've been wanting to test Washington flag vs South Dakota flag
Sodak ends up doing not much
It's not so simple - that actually gives Sodak aegis an option to extend Wash's life
Enterprise should be an easier snipe than either of the two no?
It's...pretty weird and unexpected, but every time i've run into a sodak flank, they've managed to proc aegis at a bad time.for me
Ent still takes a maximum of 35 seconds to put down, unless you're galactically lucky with the MGM shots
Unless uss fleets start altering their approach, like running 410s to not get messed up by Eldridge as bad, I firmly believe hms has a decent edge
You can't position to kill sodak forst because it procs her immortality and nullifies your second round salvoes. This allows the other flank to fire at least twice unopposed
If you position to kill the other flank first, aegis procs on wash
And wash basically will be merrily shelling you the entire time
Taking shells on qe is acceptable tbh, she doesn't have to be alive for the buff
Except due to the compressed distance, an opposing wash's barrage hits your vanguard too
Basically why a defense fleet of wasd hood is annoying to fight - hood and wash's barrage will hit your vanguards as long as enemt vanguard is alive
Rainbows
Rainbow procs after 20s. 1st hood salvo will hit regardless.
Second hood salvo launches immediately after rainbow goes on cd
@lime rivet now that I think about it, wouldn't Washington make for a better flagship than South Dakota? Washington's frontal part of her barrage has some spread so putting her in the center should hit more vanguard. And South Dakota being on the side is hard to snipe due to what you said with Washington giving her immunity
I've constantly thought about it but never found an ideal opponent to A/B test against
This is for defense, though - to make your defense fleet as much of a pain to fight
Defending Hood and attacking Eldridge cycles go like this, assuming +10 gear.
15s, Hood fires. Shells land in about a second or two.
20s Rainbow is set to trigger. It has to delay triggering for at least 2-3 seconds or else...
30s this is the soonest rainbow comes on cooldown. This is also when hood fires her second salvo, taking a couple of seconds for the shells to land.
When I ran uss I put wash in front of the thing I wanted to die the most, but flagship position with beaver and sg is probably the most consistently good for her
You want to use 410 guns on everybody for wasd. 406 mk6 is not good because it lines up with rainbow and lucky e. Otherwise you will have to deal with lucky e duels whenever you do mirror matches.
And over time I swapped my auxes specifically for my hms bbs to make bigger impact in frontline fight because it doesn't trade their ability to shell the back
Which on top of 20% bonus is rather effective
I tried out wasd for a while, kept getting rng lucky e duels, went back to foxes as a result. Then finally tried out the 410 guns a few people were recommending and went back to wasd. The lucky e duels are a thing of the past now. 
Since first shelling always seems to target front and mgm shots fire little more rabdomly, you can play with the timings
@charred sable Nah. You want sodak to take the most damage to power up washington. Washington also runs the risk of dying early if you run her in the middle while sodak has her skill that lets her survive for a while.
406 with gold fcr will fire as fast as 410 would, if you put reloader on 410 you get 5 mean shells targeting the front and only real defense is speed
406 with gold fcr will create timing overlap with the 410
That's why you offset it with a reloader
that's waste of an aux slot
it's better to give everybody 410 guns
more chances to shoot at enterprise when she doesn't have invulnerability up
@grave gale putting South Dakota on the side though should make her take more damage than in the center no?
Against snipe teams
nah. center takes the most damage in pvp unless you're fighting HMS
I don't think it matters for hms cuz it's not like you are giving up a gold shell, it's either sg or purple fcr
Yeah, that's what I want to test. Against both HMS snipe teams and against non-snipe teams, and weigh it out
HMS isn't that common anymore.
BBs do not have many good aux options
Just haven't had a good chance cause I'm actually trying to get Fleet Admiral this season (no screw ups yet)
I will continue pretending people use hms on offense but not on defense. Number of people that oathed hms core when there was nothing btter has to be huge

I am gonna toss out hood for dork and continue getting carried by Warspite while also retaining my hipster status
Pretty sure the most commonly oathed ships are ones with wedding skins.
At least belfap is a pretty good value for gems. Hood oath skin is meh and has no extra lines. Still salty
Only good thing about hood oath is her chibi riding the gun like a roomba
I wish I could replay oath scenes
Cause I married a bunch of ships before their oath skin came out :(
So no nice wedding skin + oath line screenshot
aren't they in archive?
Additionally, players can re-watch the pledge scene by clicking on the oath button for each ship in the Archives.
Tried it. It works
You click the ring oath icon on the character profile in the achive
will it be with a skin if your original scene didnt have one tho
@modern tree they change depending on what skin your ship is currently wearing 
That's what I hoped and assumed it would be
That's one thing I have not thought about, but will end up doing 100% now
👌
The reason washi cannot take flag ship is that some fox users uses ryuusei and it targets the flagship most of the time. I've tested this out too.
Should i switch out fortune for juneau?

And also
Is eld vs eld adviceable?
Or should i change my attack to foxes when attacking?
i do eld vs eld if my backline is better
This enty with btd + double cata lol
I'm just wondering... Why do people choose a double purple catapult and not do a purple aviation tank and purple catapult???
this isn't double purple cata
this is double gold cata
lol
also fuck
i wasnt paying attentions and lost a pvp game
can i still get gensui after losing 2
probably
I know it's double gold
depends on the server but I dont think EN is fierce enough just yet to kill this possibility even after like 5 dropped games
I'm asking about double purple
Some people think that double catapult is better for damage
Because RNG hates some people and doesn't give gold catapults
See that person a few days ago that argued with me about it
I know it's false
But some stubbornly think that
Stat wise... Purple cata and oil tank is the same but why is double purp cata prefered?? Is it because there's something I don't get or is it that there's something they don't get??
Not sure why you think it's preferred
It's just that a few friends recommend me that.
I see...
Full gold enty

@untold folio depends how many ppl are actually bagging but more or less you'll drop at rank 150+ so you'll need to do first minute rush when reset happens
yeah i'll probably go that
if u are on washington u can get gensui with only losing
hi
i'm looking for a vanguard that may delay enemy ships in order for my akaga + hood attack
Fortune, Eldridge, and Cygnet
@untold folio You can still get it even after losing 3 battles (past season), but 5 seems impossible (the season before that).
Source: Me being an idiot last two seasons, leaving battles to last-minute, and falling asleep before doing them...
Rushing always works anyway if all you're aiming for is the highest rank achieved on your profile thing
nah i just fucked up 2 battles
@lime rivet if imma gonna rush, what's a good vanguard to compliment akaga + hood
just use aya
i was thinking of a defensive, but anything goes as long as i can get up to 1000 rating
What's your current ranking at?
about 5000
akaga + hood (backline) frontline: (sandy, laffey and belfast) idk what ship to replace sandy with as well as laffey
why are you being a rarity whore
5000 to 1000 is pretty hard to do right now. Might want to wait for next week's season.
A typical defensive frontline is Juneau/Eldridge/Belfast. Fortune Kai works as well, to some extent, as does Cygnet kai
rianda kai too
Leander kai is more for an offensive frontline - basically running her with two other CLs so they actually do something
Juneau/Leander/Belfast, for example
does juneau have a kai?
No
i see, her stats are kinda more useful than sandy, imma level her up now... so does belfast juneau work?
y
Juneau's role is to sink first to heal other ships, to state the obvious (it's amazing how many people seem to not realize that. judging based on the defense fleets I face...)
Juneau Kai 
The rebirth of Jesus
Quick, think of a meme skill to complement!
15% dmg reduction to vanguard while still alive
Actually my Juneau's main purpose is to do the fleet protection of AA skill and eating torps

When Juneau sinks she makes all ships invulnerable to damage for 5s
missed 3 exercises jn, whats the chances of me still hitting gensui this season?
0 
You still can if you sandbag now
i have been sandbagging but not much luck.
If you're 50 points away with current top 10, then it's too late
or ~47-49
I still have 10 exercises left tho hmmm
I have 1537 now
thats higher than mine
and im already at 0/10 
You guys are on the same server ya?
I'm same as u
I'm at 1621 right now on sandy and I'm tied with rank 1 in points. 1 play left.
june is a thing
no the invul for 5s
no. Just naming a possible skill her retrofit could have
read more bruh
But seriously, i don't just see her as sacrifice boat especially when oathed and 200 affection
She still does dmg cause 127mm and AA skill

But if you want damage, Helena is a better option since she boosts everybody's damage by 40% when it procs and it usually does
put 100mm,toolbox, and bulge +10 and she wont die 
any of u guys tried fusou/yamashiro retros?















