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i want uss ships release faster
i like uss
anything i have
since our lvl capped out to 100, using CAs is the best option
since evade impact getting weaker
wichita just sunk 
zombie squad aka akashi, unicorn/shouhou, phoenix
Use kms fleet 
oof
just tested against maxed wasd and had some unconvincing victories there
they were running radar E tho so that proced a few times
eldridge is your friend
Top quality dmg negation 👌
Should i actually start building hms setup 🤔 have warspite, but don't really wanna waste 3 bullins on her ass and we still have no info when dork is coming...
I wish they gave her retrofit, she is sooo niche
I find hms a bit lacking atm
hms is hella strong with neptune and monarch
but i don't think warspite is worth hte investment
I love warspite as a character so maxing her and going with HMS was an easy decision.
she's worth if you like her for sure
what i'm wondering is who should i switch out for aurora between eldridge belfast and juneau
eldridge when there is no enty i guess..
Man, this is super annoying
left most person is exactly 34 points higher than me
which means not enough

Just wait for onslaughter for 6+ more hours

This is fun. When juneau Belfast dies, fortune gets faster

Ye
I'm just gonna set an alarm for shuvi. It's getting late here. Hope he push tho
So get eldridge?
Eeh... isn't it too late for her? Unless you like her as a ship ofc, we've got aurora as a replacement for her for the upcoming torpedo fiesta
no, dont get her, let me play with Ark
I also love how Aurora is "replacing" Eldridge, keep telling people that, so I can play with Ark
With infinite resets it doesn't really matter
the correct answer to the question if you should get Eldridge is: Do you hate losing to Enterprise wiping your front in 70% of your attempts? If yes, get her and level her she is relatively low investment considering all she really needs is blue gun toolbox and another health item which will be boiler/toolbox/pearl or whatever
obviously you can pimp her our but that doesnt matter
Eh I just accept that vanguards get wiped eventually and backlines do all the carrying anyway
disclaimer is that you can only ever LB her with purins and she will eat a lot of blue books so it might not be the best solution for this problem
I'd grab her for collection anyways if you dont need the purins RIGHT NOW
since purins is the only valuable thing you can relly get for the merits anyways
@dark nova have you cleared chapter 9?
Oh, ok. was going to suggest you start preparing for nakaga... at least for now aya+jintsuu will hurt alot
But jintsuu is in chapter 10..
I've been prepping for nakaga for ages now, my foxes are both oathed and 200 and decked out lol 
Whos nakaga? 
nagato + akagi + kaga
just anticipating things
Eldridge is entirely different kind of ship and comparing her to Aurora is really weird.
Its a pick between offense (Aurora) and defense(Eldridge)
enty for hood
don't really remember what was about vanguard with this kind of setup
I dont knew anything about this game i just get what people say me to get
if you're gonna run triple carrier backline you want your frontline alive
Im a new nub
june for aya, bel mid and top is your choice between el/aur iirc
Who shall i listen to
daxam or chrysalis
Hes good?
That nerd knows some serious shit
If you want to make this composition work really well with the least work you kick helena for any other good ship because Helena does nothing for Akagi and Kaga. You will also level your shit to 100
Dont have anough gold bunnys to make them max limit
if you want to improve it, Juneau or Aurora should do it
But anyway, i'm talking from the point of long time investments
Level is a huge factor, if you intend to make pvp easier you'll want to get them to 100 asap since it's a 2% damage dealt/taken difference per level difference
you're literally dealing 20% less damage and taking 20% more with a level 90 vs 100
and limit breaking gives your backline more planes
I dont have anough bunnys
If you lack purins you should check if you can 3 star some maps in pve to get them first instead of worrying about a side activity like pvp

that's fine, it's a progress thing
you should be able to clear ch6 with your stuff
that'll give you another purin
make sure to check medal exchange for gold purins too
ch6 is where you start getting t3 parts
not really meant for boat farming unless you want yuudachi for collection
but yeah if you can't get gold purins at the moment you can always level your elite ships instead
helena may not be super helpful for for fox backline but having her at 100 will be useful
much easier to limit break
@sick jasper that QE would i just switch later or tirpitz cause no tirpiz buff with a 2nd BB/BC
Ah i didnt look at tirpitz skill before 
Dont think tirpitz will be good later so imma switch her out
Dont have that good backrow
QE, hood and dork is a good HMS backline IIRC
with belfast, fortune kai and juneau?
y, but we don't have dork on en atm
aye i hope we get winbter crown next
Would be breddy gud
@sick jasper i would say use QE + 2 other viable HMS backliners and farm fortune/juneau
I jave belfast
And not aurora
I can sent u all my boats if u want
To help me pick
enty, akaga+juneau, belfast and eldrige was a thing too or I'm wrong?
I'm more asking the others^^
juneau/belfast/eldridge should work with enty/akaga backline
goal is to keep frontline alive if you run triple carrier backline
because if your frontline wipes, your carriers are at a huge disadvantage if they still have a frontline
but as mentioned before, your team comp won't matter as much if you don't level up your ships first
aye but her Enety+akaga seems good leveled no diea about frontline^^
*ida
**idea
his foxes are only 90
aye but better then elvel 40^^
Only helena is low lvl
But imma swicth her for eldrige
And switch leffay for juneau
Eld is lvl 1
And jun is lvl 30 i think
Yeah, just work on leveling for now
whats a hms fleet
i got queen 
QE+hood+dork/Monarch/Warspite and belfast+juneau+fortune kai
just look in there^^
@sick jasper
where u get dork/monarch
they aren't out on EN yet
so i cant make it 
/wiki winter crown
No ship found
/wiki duko
No ship found
/wiki duke
I still wonder what is the appeal of monarch, since she is slightly worse than york and absolutelly pain in the ass to get
nope
that silly research shit
where i get them?
/wiki Warspite
@sick jasper i would say jsut go with that akaga setup anyways if ya dunno have good HMS backliners
ent+akaga or hood+akaga?
I don't find much of a difference when there's an abundance of planes for Ent to use as well
operation rainbow procs consistently enough to save the :20 seconds in attacks
though countering akaga with akaga is something I'm stuck on
IIRC ya need JB or WASD to counter akaga
belfast is enough 😄
wasn't belfast only for enty?
jb and essex for nakaga
then what counter WASD?
no, eldridge is for enty
bel is too, but alot less
then what counter WASD?
resets 😄 hms should work just fine
ah, it's just a very solid setup overall. On cn it's even stronger than it is on en
aye but someone said that WASD counter a special setup
aye but JB would then counter akaga again^^
Juneau increases the effective hp of your entire fleet by 25%, you’re at an HP disadvantage if you don’t have Juneau
Ohh
Juneau is a bitch to raise, not worth the effort 
I use bel, eld, aya vanguard which works perfectly fine
juneau is nice too cause she heals when she dies^^
Juneau potentially increases the effective HP by 25% if she dies at the right time
If she dies too early or too late then she doesn't do a lot for you
It's very easy for Juneau to die early on with Enterprise. If she dies on the first lucky e then most of the heal on the back will be wasted
If you pair her with Eldridge then sometimes your backline dies before Juneau does
I often kill her before my first lucky e
But isn't combining with eldridge a bit overkill?
A lot people do that.
Yeah I know but I have my doubts
I feel like Juneau is a bit overrated. She's good but not always good
Exactly
half the time her spot will be wasted because she died at a bad time
And using her with Eldrigde raises the chance she dies too late to do any good
Yup. I ran them together for a while and kept noticing that
Someone in the back would be dying and I'd be hoping my Juneau would die first
Tis why I’m trying to replace either eld or Juneau with Aurora
After a lot of playtesting I found that pearl on Juneau seems to be serving me quite well if I run her with Eldridge, but that might just be a virtue of the wasd enterprise, where all the ships are obnoxiously tanky for one reason or other so even 2 rainbows do not end up delying juneau sinking for long enough that the heal is irrelevant
but I am largely done with wasd enty after this season, this comp is really fucking boring
it wins a lot but man
@grave gale so a HMS backline with QE+fortune, belfast is good and i should replace juneau somehow?
I ran Eldridge instead of Juneau in HMS because with 20% damage boost you usually end up slaying backline in 1-2 volleys so the only factor is "do I die to Enterprise"
Heal didnt seem to do as much as making my belfast/fortune front survive longer than 20 seconds when faced with E
also lets you aim your HMS at Wash which is arguably a better target
I'd stay away from Aurora on HMS because she doesnt do anything for the strategy btw
Aurora is more useful with foxes
unless you really like gambling with 410s shooting the front accurately
Or you are bad enough dude to experiment with shit like Belfast, Aurora, Leander/Suffolk/big damage bote
You can guess which one I am

Ye im thinking the same thing
Been doing some theory testing for the last hour and ive confirmed a few things about fox aurora fleets
It seems with aurora you have to clear enemy vanguard before 2nd airstrike
Otherwise you basically lose
If your second airstrikes bombs are wasted on a 30% hp cleveland or belfast you basically lose
thats my very old strategy for beating foxes, just Phoenix to waste their bombs
so if i dunno should us juneau which to take for HMS fleet with belfast and fortune kai?
*use
Ye its the same for aurora
Though u dont rly need phoenix, just someone beefy like cleveland
3,9k hp and aa mode is enough to fuck up the foxes strat
Doesn't eldridge have the possibility to fck things up too with OP rainbow? Be it less consistent
Eldridge is probably not tanky enough to stand against foxes with 20% less dodge
someone see my question?^^
Yee shes not
Eld belfast juneau type comps arent enough for twinfox aurora
But i fought a cleveland comp and had a lot of trouble
Tested like 8 times
Cleve survives everytime
@native mantle juneau is viable for HMS fleets you can keep her
cause someone said earlier its dunno fit if she died to early/late
any other choices that i ahve for hood/dork?
damn i dunno have dork and hood
welcome to the club
I must say its nice knowing you don't have to tryhard anymore so you can just pvp whenever
you'll still get the top 10 reward anyways
Weren't you the one arguing with me when I said Fortune over Juneau makes tons of sense?
how do i beat eldridge in pvp? shes my worst nightmare to fight currently cause of that autododge
resets and 20% attacker bonus
just use any meta vanguard really
there isn't really a hard counter, well I guess you could use foxes
and also pray eldridge eats yo torps
anything that has high burst damage in the first 10 seconds or so
so ayanami with the heat seekers works?
and i just got terrible rng xD
im currently leveling the fox sisters for when nagato comes out tbh
yeah honestly you can't go wrong with foxes since we know nagato will come eventually
and they're still viable even without nagato atm
they lose hard to wash and sd i noticed tho
i actually openly search for them in pvp since those 2 just tank then delete them
thanks for the info tho
even with aurora?
ive also been wondering why no one is using javelin with an elizabeth fleet
shes really strong now with elizabeth after you restrofit her
it's not Javelin thats the problem, HMS is just sorta outdated
HMS still wins like 95% of the time even against wasd
was gonna say it still feels powerful af for pvp
i can see it being useless after nagato comes out tho tbh
nagato just buffs better ships
she also buffs fox sisters who buff themselves and launch faster
i can see it being a really disgusting 1shot strat
QE retrofit when
QE?
oh i dont think she should get one tbh
her abilities after a retrofit i cant see going well
shell either become so stupid op that shell becomes a second nagato or shell get nerfed
nothing wrong with having an HMS Nagato. Although I might be biased here 
oh xd
i just honestly dont want anymore 100% dodge ships
anything that can just win because you got the better dice roll rather than actual strategy and team building shouldnt ever exist
looking at you enterprise
they give you unlimited resets anyway
so many battles become a who misses lucky e first >~>
anyway i gotta go to work now nice talking to you guys

o7
any good CV/CVL besides enty/akaga?
How much does this fleet make sense? I have no synergy going on
@native mantle Shoukaku/Zuikaku right now (to an extent imo but not as good as akaga meta wise) and Lusty if you want to pair her with Eldridge for maximum cheese
north carolina
actually the fleet looks fine
just don't put enterprise in the middle
otherwise it looks pretty solid actually
Just hood in the middle
solid but second rate to wasd
i think she also have some sort of def skill to protect sd
While in same fleet with South Dakota, increases own FP by 5% (20%) and reduces damage received on South Dakota by 4% (10%)
Ah I’ve seen that advice elsewhere, it’s always Hood as the flagship and Enty at top/bot in other people’s fleets. I know setting Hood as the flagship is beneficial but wouldn’t it work equally as well for Enty because her airstrikes would be boosted even more?
I’m actually surprised how well this fleet works considering how it’s nothing like WashDak/HMS/Eldridge evasion metas yet I end up winning 98-99% of engagements
I’ll try putting Hood as the flagship, question is should Enty be on the top or bottom 
i use E bottom, because the bottom side is more easily hit by cuda and stuff
cause of the increased space
(and torps)
which means you dodge more
torps and stuff disappear off the top side of the screen really easily
imo
Ah
And NC on top for the extra AA coverage then since planes come from top/dead center usually?
Come to think of it, Hood’s barrage would be more effective if she were in the middle
honestly NC doesnt matter too much on location
she's a stat stick that does work by existing
I see, thanks for the two cents

man i need aurora, i think if i do aurora/black heart/(eldridge or belfast) i can just outshoot vanguards
Eldridge meta 
oh, i just mean like ripping through light armor boats with gunfire xD
aurora gets +20% vs destroyers, black heart has +15% on all ignoring armor, belfast has HE boost
just shoot em
xD

It’s funny, I remember next to one using her in their pvp fleets (avrora server) and all of a sudden she’s in almost everyone’s defensive... I guess it just took a while for people to raise her to max 
Better to just go for her during dailies, after all she’s in the build pool forever lol
Unless you want to build her quick
gotta start leveling somewhere
xD
i did get Fubuki though, maybe i can meme with her and ayanami
Maximum Nuclear Torpedo
@livid fractal how did you lost 1 game. Attacking half asleep?
first game i lost this season

ive fat fingered the pause button a few times
conclusion, aurora is bad 
still training my baby aurora for akaga duty
aurora is great... if wasd doesn't exist 
I don't know about you but my akagae beats wasd every time excepting when their helena and E proc together AND my E doesn't which is fairly rare
and that's without aurora so I think the matchup will improve with
non-belfast frontlines already kind of just go by the first fox launch, keen to see if aurora makes belfast frontlines go the same way
You tried killing off max oathed wasd hood fortune setups?
Gurren, what’s with your obsession with Oaths?
Oathed =//= Good, vice versa.
Cases where I had more trouble with non-oathed fleets vs full oathed aren’t that rare for me to believe Oaths make a tangible power difference.
I don’t get it, fam. 
To see full potential
It does set a gap to differentiate between those who play a lot and those who don’t, I guess, true.
So oathed fleets would mean said player has invested a lot into the game.
And thus more likely to have good enhanced gears than not
Now it makes sense, it’s not about the oath itself, but the implication of having an oathed fleet.
Those who have multiple oaths are more likely serious players with investments, those who don’t well, not so likely.
WOKE af Boiiiiii
It's really rare to see a max equipped non oathed ships that's why
why are we even making too much effort on pvp again
lets be real, the real effort is trying to actually use all pvp attempts without missing (I still havent done it)
3/4 AM staying up, 
I guess that's a benefit for living in the other side of the planet from the original server location

Fortune Retro, Belfast/Eldridge, Juneau
why fortune retro may i ask?
also juneau cause of her skill?
Yessss, cancer.
well im getting beaver badge
CANCER^2
there's also leander for more offensive option
but eva memes
EVApe, you mean?
also i need to get aurora first
🚬
lol qe with erebus and terror
qe, erebus, terror, juneau, javelin kai, fortune kai?
infinite darkness just isn't strong enough unfortunately 
but double infinite darkness
but for real, which hms vanguard should i use to just do lots of dmg to people

i mean i could use ayanami
Aurora, Belfast, Leander
leander for the bonus smokescreen?
jintsuu aurora and ayaya is a better front then belfap and leander can ever be
but with QE
He wants HMS, Phantom
QE, Warspite, Hood backline
Themed fleet, not Hurr Durr Maximum Metaslave fleet
Winning with metaslave fleet: Duh. Meh,
Winning with Themed fleet: Mad Respecc
i also have akaga over level 90 each, level 99 enterprise
wash and sd are level 90 cause no gold bulins left
the problem with hms front is that there are far in between
most good front are non hms one
then use jintsuu aurora and ayaya
you can just use hms back line
but front hms are not really good enough to deal damage
RIP Themed fleet dream
wait is jintsuu out in en?
in around 2h
i mean i can do themed fleet still cause belfast, leander, eidenburgh
Well, you will win if you metaslave
Like duh
Obvious af
But winning with themed fleet
you are playing a stall comp vs a nuke comp

well i will win if my gear is good too
aurora jintsuu and ayaya going to nuke your front to hell and back
also in order to use jintsuu i actually need to get to ch 10 and then farm that ch
There’s nothing to discuss or flex about metaslave fleet
You will win, if you lose with that, then something is wrong
well i can assue you 100% you going to see full jintsuu aurora and ayaya in top 1k
tbh i still need to get aurora
Beat them metaslaved with themed fleet
if nagato was in the game id be using her with akaga
Ultimate satisfaction
you can still win against them with good RNG
i mean USS fleet could work lol
just that you might reset a bit more

so once nagato is out im gonna be using the hai sisters
i mean uss backline, wash/sd/enterprise
whole point of meta fleets is to save time on pvp by winning more easily
i mean cleve/helena/wichita
there isn't much else to do with exercises aside from getting your merits
the trinity
Yea, but I’m level 89 now. Metaslaving becomes boring to me. 💤
or ppl can just use meme def fleet
Like, you will win, what else is new? It is a metaslave fleet.
there is 0 good thing in trying to piss ppl of using meta def fleet
not like you going to prevent ppl from getting top 10 lol
i just stuff 2 0lb ship in def and call it a day
i should stop doing the event for now and go work on the story
Hah! Sometimes I stuff them full of level 100 ships with no gear
xD
To give lower levels commanders ez xp and levels
im tempted to just use enterprise and ayanami or something
too generous for my taste
might do it on xmas
but for real, who are super good hms ships for vanguard
Aurora, Belfast, Leander, HMS-wise
aurora, belfast, fortune kai, leander
well i just need aurora
They all combo with one another and the main fleet
i have leander kai
Oh yeah, Fortune Retro too
best hms front is just fortune kai belfap and aurora
yea fortune retro protects the back a bit
Can replace FortKai with LeanderXD if you feel more confident
USS Juneau is always a great HMS ship too 
i mean leander is leveled and i dont have fortune rn

pretty sure juneau going to hit the bench tomorrow
jintsuu open too much comp to use with her
jintsuu isn't gonna be super common
now if only i could get aurora as a drop :c
i might need to level fortune when i get her again
pretty sure she will be in around 2 weeks to 1 month time
@odd schooner I lost enty vs enty, enemy enty had like 100 HP left while I have full, his enty proc lucky e while mine didn't, so I thought I might survive but I underestimated it.

just another normal day in RNG town

cant wait for big seven proc
meh you use big 7 for the CV buff not the proc
who give a shit about that loli proc
all she good for is the CV buff
lol
but that proc is strong
nagato
Be more specific maaaan
lol
🤣
you should have know since i specifically said CV buff
and we only have 1 big 7 with a CV buff
pretty sure if he don't got the time to click pause he sure as hell don't got enough time to alt + f4 or even click the close button
if he was on emulator that is


well anyway tomorrow remember to stay away from #gameplay-help
cus 10-4 question on how to create a fleet to farm it
LMFAO
i can see it now
🛢 📉 👈
but yeh #gameplay-help going to have a field day answering question about how to create a fleet to farm w10
glad i am not one of them
zzz
The pause isn't clickable if your ship sank
The only way to save it is by closing app

even with a defeat screen?
i thought those only work if you don't see the defeat screen yet
if your ship already sank, cant save it even with app close tbh
Close it before it loads
if you already saw that screen then it is useless
There's enough time to close it
depends on your connection speed
tried multiple time, the moment ship sank. always count as defeat for me
o yea maybe connection thing

tbh just always either fast finger or hover your mouse over the pause button tbh
You can't pause enty bombs
there is 0 reason why you should not have your mosue / finger near the pause button in pvp
It will automatically delete your ship
If you see a lucky e proc and your vanguard is dead. You might as well immediately reset
From his description, he tried to tank the bombs
unless the enemies enty use fast launch plane
because there's a good chance your entire back will be deleted
ye, unless you have wasd that hasnt proc yet
most of the time my enty can just 100 to 0 a max hp enty if mine proc and their don't
so yes if their proc and you don't put that reset button
no reason to temp fate lol
i might try to do that on last day of season
not if you haven't got gensu for season yet
Winning that would be a mad respecc big dicc moment
Fast AF internet boiiiii
i think that is more of a self roast then anything gurren
might as well not use enty so u get no enty standoffs 
WOKE



https://imgur.com/a/6JI204c the gif speed is fast but eh 
Top tier pvp mechanics
if you use a phone then closing app might be faster due to the button

if you use an emulator then either fast mouse click or rip really
Maybe i should do desktop too
PC just hover the mouse over the pause button lol
the problem is if i lose ill be too stunned to react that fast 

You can't click pause button after the enemy or your fleet sinks
news update, putting hood as my flagship and enty at the bottom has raised my win rate to 200 percent

the amount of roast is unreal lel
z46 is a myth
bullshit
I'm missing z25 too.
its a freakin UR
alright boiz
i've found some success with fox + aurora
the vanguard lineup is belfast - aurora - eldridge
in that order
so far was able to beat 13.4k wasd hood, 13k HMS and other fox comps pretty consistently
need some more testing but the vanguard choice is definitely better than anything with juneau or fortune
Having Eldridge in any vanguard is always good xd
Meta will change again once jintsuu comes

Better than juneau+aurora+belfast ?
her stat is mediocre expt the hp is kinda low which fixed with her retro defense skill
her main selling would be her strong buff, overall shes just a good ship
Why use juneau + aurora?
I would go for something extremely offensive with aurora, but maybe that's just me
No reason to play to long game when you can obliterate the opposing team 
foxes user quote
Sadly I don't have aurora yet
are any of you guys planning to farm for Jintsuu? lol
No 😃 to hell with jap setup
No, i just 3 star world 10 and waiting for danger mode implemented
And another crane T5 box from 10-3
definitely gonna farm jintsuu, not like there's a better thing to do ingame anyway
grinding out d1 😄
Or farming gold 7-2
Oh, right. There's more stage beyond world 8
any good HMS backliner if i dunno have hood/dork?
It's Enterprise
She literally carries teams
Not much point in going HMS if you only have QE though
i have everything for HMS besides hood/dork
Duke isn't even out on EN yet
so QE+enty+LUsty+belfast+fortune+juneau?
I feel like you'd be better off running a different battleship at that point
But it should work
Y, it's kinda pointless if the only bb you have for hms is qe
so without hood its more pointless to run HMS?
Fortune needs retrofit to be useful
Mmm, its less about team comp if your ships aren't leveled
I'd still run Enty Lusty Tirpitz
For backline
If youre just looking to focus on making a full team
and for frontline?
Juneau Belfast and either Fortune Kai or Helena
and ofc i need to level them then^^
what would be the differences from helena vs fortune kai?
Helena synergises with Enterprise if you can time her skill with Enty's airstrikes
Fortune is mainly a dodge tank and helps backline survivability with her skill
and she is later used in HMS while helena isn't?
Yeah, though Helena is used in a lot of pve boss fleets too so she's quite useful regardless
then i think i will just use helena until i got fortune to kai
I'm kinda surprised by how few purple bulins you have
i did some misstakes at the beginning of the game and rentired them
Lol, i did something similar, just used a few of them in a simple enhancement
Good thing you can get them by just farming pvp and completing weeklies+exchange shop
The more you play this game the more purples you will be having. The only rare resource rn is mk2 bulin i think
aye i need a 2nd for my 6star tirpitz
can't level her higher then 90 cause only 5 stars
Battleships are 
ah k. i doing 6-4 atm for 3 stars so that i will get there my 2nd SSR bullin for 6 star tirpitz
ye. i need so or so to proceed the main quest. i stucked at 6-1 before i leveled my phoenix/tirpitz
*aye
@dark nova btw there are any BBV/BM that works well withg that enty, tirpitz setup instead of lusty?
You don't run another BB/BC with Tirpitz since it nullifies her firepower skill
current meta backline is Washington + South Dakota + Enty/Hood
"Aviation Battleship does not count and the skill still activates when sortied with aviation battleships."
That involves running an aviation battleship though
IIRC then monitors and that BBV are dunno count cause it said especialy "BB and BC"
so only ise and hyuuga would be worth to ahve with tirpitz?
and erebus/terror?
monitors would melt quite fast
was just wondering if there are any other options with enty+tirpitz besides lusty
graf maybe
Ye I've been using zeppy/tirp/Big E, it kinda work I'm just missing levels
The downside with Zep is her dmg its MEH(even worse for me she's only lvl80)
zepp clears skies efficiently
luftwaffe masterrace
more efficiently than current near-meta cvs, ex. lusty (with eldridge in the current meta) and a slight bit better than ent with the right aircraft, as well as other more specialised cvs like unicorn
damage to the frontline is harshly lowered, and using zepp in pvp is
...more or less not suggested, having a massive amount of counters due to merely her low reload
Can someone explain explain to me why south dakota is meta? I never really felt her impact.
Her skill aegis always feel out of sync
mainly cause she has high stats, and the invincibility frames from being paired with washington can let her soak up a lot of damage that could otherwise go to your other ships
Aegis is nothing, Sodako is meta because her AA is stupid high, she has resonable FP and she will randomly just kill ships, sometimes multiple
She consistently outdamages enterprise
synergy with Wash is a bonus
Sodako consistently out-damaging Enterprise could be considered normal for an equally specialised BB
Not every BB has 30% chance to just vaporise things
One accurate shot>multiple torpedoes from a golden barracuda
Ent is better at survivability when it comes to rng numbers as well
double damage applies to the whole volley so instead of hitting like 1-2k shells you start hitting like 3-4k and that really, really makes a huge impact, wins fights on its own
And Sodak has not only 5 seconds of invulnerablity that buffs Wash on top of it, she also starts taking 30% less damage after (transfered to Wash) that and in my experience running Eldridge/Juneau, after sodak gets low enough to proc the Iron Bottom for Wash or loses her invuln, my Juneau finally sinks healing both of them for a chunk
wasd is really dumb and feel sort of unfair, I dont really have a way to test it, but Focused Assult shots seem to have higher velocity too since they always magically hit the front despite the fact that I use 410s
SoDak is great since her base is already good and her skills/synergies just make her better.
Aegis is a "sometimes nice" bonus for now, but becomes amazing in the NAKaga meta since high-level NAKaga's second strike runs face-first into it (AKaga already almost runs into it, and Nagato further buffs reload, and with level uncap, they get more reload). With invulnerability from Wash, it means NAKaga does less than half-damage on second strike, giving you a round to return fire (At 2 to 2 rounds of Backline fire, NAKaga teams are worse, they rely on winning at 2:1 rounds from the accelerated launch).
NAKaga teams have trouble trying to get around this by delaying the strike, since they need to maintain parity in reload to win the mirror matchup.
The invulnerability from Wash will often allow you to get an extra round of fire off of her, which is clearly amazing. Plus, she buffs Wash at low HP.
Focused Assault is unreliable, but can turn matches around on a dime if it hits, since it often just deletes ships. Good for offense in winning otherwise unwinnable situations (since we can reset), great on defense to randomly surprise people/stall matches.
so to buy sodako even without washington is good?
No, there's better options then, usually
Aegis is correction: can be a negative if Wash isn't around, and her invul is critical overall
She's still good, just not your best option anymore, in most cases
Yeah, you're right, it's a unique skill anyways and so will always have some applications I guess
Hiryuu and Soryuu are getting retrofits which has funny implications for pvp. While EN wont see them for a while just like Nagato, it is something to talk about I guess
dunno, hard to tell from art they posted on twitter, and its also in chinesee
but its gonna be a stat and efficency boost on top of their sister ship damage boost, and their individual skills that are pretty strong on their own
How much oil [ whole fleet ] should i use on C2?
I need to reach D4 with only 3500 oil.
but C and D are event maps so it should be pve^^
Uhh they told me to ask on pvp
lol wat
kek
oh. is it that time of season again? i missed so many pvps
so, urakaze thoughts?
as like an alternative or extra juneau
pity it isnt 100% activation
also wondering if it activates when she herself sinks
14min till gensui 
All you need is 
had bad luck with my own 
I stopped paying attention momentarily this morning, and lost two (!) rounds 
Otherwise, I might've made it last reset, now I can't even make it this reset

Huh, your server has sandbagged less than avrora has it seems
2217 with 2 more left for me, but no way to top 10 even though I got all sub 1-min battles for the first three after reset
And it was going so well, before I forgot Eldridge's skill doesn't protect from ramming 
Oh well, guess I'll get it next few days instead
is solo eldridge frontline actually a good defense? ive seen a lot of people doing this
No? My defense is Santaprise + Santadridge
thats too strong
wow i just got probably the worst luck possible with a pvp match
everything that could hit hit and crit

solo anything isn't much of a defense unless the player fighting it is extremely outleveled
ive had more trouble against solo laffey than a group with laffey
i think because she moved at top speed rather than a nerfed speed
so she just stalled forever by dodging everything
I don't think I've ever had that issue
i think for me it was bad rng
Imma try Fletcher Trio + Beaver Nao
top speed only does so much in the hands of AI
it doesnt happen now that i have heat seeking missiles
i can see solo eldridge being good before heat seekers came out because she could constantly proc rainbow
but with heat seekers she just kinda would get deleted
Lilya, please don’t tell me that you unironically think that solo Vanguard + Backline defense fleets are actually tryhard defense fleets.

solo eldridge is just gonna get nuked by belfast/X/X
she's slow so she eats all the shots
so yeah, dont solo
is team game
/says that but is trying out Black Heart/Ayanami/X, which is about as selfish as it gets lol
if only MGM+1 or lacy dance was an All Out Assault T_T
hi ive seen so many meme defense fleets. is there a particular reason for that?
because in the end, it doesnt stop people from winning
just forces them to waste time
if they have to reset
so why care basically
er it stops plenty of peeps from defeating you
And then there's the assholes who put top geared shit while they're ranked 3k
does it not matter
It matters, for the top 1k
For the casual, which is most of the players, it's pretty meaningless
like, it doesnt stop them from defeating you, it forces them to hit pause
then exit
then rematch
for better rng
no one should ever lose in the top set
because there are no mirror matches
20% and positional differences
so you CAN just not care about defense
not a big deal
It harms the casual merit income. It only bother the srus buziness players
yeah, so if you use a meme fleet you can help other casuals get their merits easier
and then they use a meme fleet and you get merits
so woo
Also makes other have a smile on their face seeing your name and your meme fleet 
i see
Yeah, it's... It's a goddamn common cliche
I've seen ark royal + vert + dds
So, the important point is, powaful defense fleet would cockblock the casuals and newb source of merit, while only wasting the seriuz buzinezs top ranker time
I get it, if you are in top 1k you want to make others fight for your spot
But could you please don't do that when you are a fricking rank 2k or more?
@ionic magnet
yea i get your point but from what i see, it still matters for top rankers even if its just a tiny bit. cos sometimes a few points is all you need to get to the next rank
world 10 is as painful as I expected it to be. Fox Mines 2.0 is gonna be rough. 
Dedicating all my oil to Jintsuu aside from the daily raid

world 10 is indeed difficult
i've almost given up on saving oil
i forgot to rush for gensui rank 1 earlier today
oh well
i'll do it in about 1:10 hours
and try to get rank 1
Pvp defense on gensui day means you're stalling someone who's aiming at you
you're giving others a chance while the player atking you is stuck for a minute or two

LOOL
wait do we know if we are also in the same lobby as the people we have in our lobby?
Refresh will sometimes betray you on top 100

also building full offense with fox + aurora won't work
you can maybe beat shitty wasd e fleets but once they have cleveland, fortune, hood, or anyone with AA
ur fucked
also wiping their vanguard fast is completely pointless if your vanguard is just going to run into 3x 200% efficiency twin 127mms
that will wipe your vanguard in 2 seconds
you need to wipe their vanguard before 4:24, and either survive until 2nd torp round and give your foxes free touchdown
because without a vanguard a wasd fleet will shit on your foxes
ye
good news is eldridge has 314 torp stat
so with aurora, it's much easier (at least with 20% attack) to wipe enemy vanguard before 4:24
ALSO, with aurora, juneau dies insanely fast against twinfox aurora fleets now
like guaranteed death by first airstrike
One time this happened 
before planes even touchdown on enemy
i think because of that i'd drop juneau tierlist from 0 to 1
as in, she's still decent in wasd and HMS fleets VS wasd and HMS
but against foxes she just gets deleted
ye gurren that's why eldridge is good
because she procs between 4:40 and 4:30
which is just around the time after 4:46 (first airstrike) and 4:35 (2nd torp) and 4:24 (2nd airstrike)
she'll cloak your vanguard while they magtorp the shit out of backline
I guess she's safe till nagato arrives
Whats up with people in rank 100 having meme fleets lately? Is there some strategy that is going on?
What's wrong with people giving you free wins 
Cant complain I guess. I thought theres some strategy going on
they aim to etch their name in your minds as their meme fleet is etched into your mind
My Santa Fleet shall be etched into your minds, forever.
Also, done with Gensui for the season, now I’m off to chill torture myself at W10.
ow, getting dunked by this akaga/wash fleet 13.1k
guess ill just dodge that person
dont feel like rigging rng
@glacial spire some ppl after getting gensui rank changes their def to meme for other ppl to have a better chance in getting gensui
probably won't make it this season, i missed way too many
yea me too, first half of the season went really well then boom lol
still no belfap gun or belfap
daily 6-2 hard mode m8
they'll rack up
and if we're going by personal anecdotal evidence. hard mode has higher drop rates.
has anyone used shokaku/zuikaku in high lvl pvp before? xD
They are alright and work with helena to steal some wins. SKK buff is really good too, but foxes are faster and you can't buff sunk ships so warying degrees of mileage
I think i missed 1 battle
@livid fractal how much battles did you missed and what's your current rank points?
Dang. I didnt know they were going to do a meme fleet. I was hard stuck rank 200~ then got lucky and manages to get rank 100. I decided then its impossible for me to get rank 50 with people running 11k/11k.


















