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so im just gonna run an essex fleet once she comes out
aye but only if ya have level 50 ships as opponent^1^
amagi needs a few buffs to be really good
sticking her randomly wont work
but a Namagi + warspite kai comp
seems funny
will try
8s barrage wipe vanguard. I'm okay with that 
or namagi+taiho
i already run namagi taihou
I am actually leveling KMS atm just to see if I can beat people with it, which I will be able to surely, ther's nothing wrong with that plan
i can't meme KMS. no zeppelin
u only win sometimes because enty carried
real ships
Ya'll enjoy your theory crafting. Imma run. 
centaur
it's KMS in spirit ok
On EN it wont be a problem because EN fleets suck
nah i mean
i tried the kms meme wayback when JP was 100
we didnt have amagi
we didnt have FW
and u just autolose 
so with fw and amagi mixed in
gl sir
I have not seen a single FW fleet played right on defense
not one
since I started playing
it's all stalling
suicide fw harder to pull off on def cuz of stat nerf
Nobody seems to be really trying. If I find one FW without belfast I will let you know (you will never hear from me)
that would be what? WASD+???
Wasd seems to be most powerful with a carrier backing up their shit inconsistent damage, so its probably just Enterprise or Centaur
Amagi works on EN because you can still afford not using Juneau
so you can play for barrage with a dumb frontline
I was using Takao for a couple of days and it's amusing me a lot
after 120 the heal will be way too much to just power through
and why is WASDE with belfast not a FW fleet?
it is a FW fleet, just a slow as fuck one. You want your frontline to die so wasd kills theirs so you win because all shells and enterprise strike will trade with their backline very efficently
if you run belfast they dont die
People are too scared of losing their VG despite having 5 second grace timer to reset on sodak even if something does go to shit
Hiryuu can work, but her damage is hot trash compared to what Enterprise and Centaur can do
Taiho in FW, hmm
have you tried just running Centaur in Namagi with 2IJN frontliners?
sodak's 5 second "grace time" is what caused my loss this season ๐
There isn't really a good 2nd ijn front liner that works really well with namagi without giving up another important slot
Jintsuu kinda works if you want torp memes but namagi doesn't really care much about it
torps are bad on offense, I kinda knew the answer to that already
but maybe Centaur makes it so obscene that bad VG is not an issue
I may be able to test next season but i don't see a 2nd ijn frontline being worth replacing the other frontline
I wish I had a better perspective on the jp/cn pvp
Guessing something like this (nothing is married on the fleet and some don't have PvP equips on ofc)
Ibuki might also work if you want to be more aggressive but if you want to meme that way jb+full torp probably better in that regard
Well, I tried.. Till next season again
You forgot to attack?
yea 

I'm finding what I thought to be a meme team, hiryuu/amagi/enty, to be actually quite good on offense
Seems to very consistently destroy foxes at least (Hiryuu MVP)
Though, it's not as fast as foxes, and and you risk
Enty duels, so unless everyone you face is running optimized foxes, and maybe even still then, not worth running probably
I'm just so happy that foxes are solid again
Life was so shit after wasde entered meta for hood foxes
Now with amagi enterprise can just pack her shit and go owarida home
I am happy I chose Lex. PvP being easy is a plus ๐๐ป
Done with da rush
i got mine after this reset and ive missed like 6 or 7 games

manage to get gensui with 3 miss pvp
phew
use your force of will to push through
where's bun bun
someone tell him to do his pvps pls https://puu.sh/CFUZn/284fcdd41e.png
still not done rushing?
then just wait
he's offline NotLikeThis
Done! Started 15 minutes late and missed one but finished at 9 ๐
fuck it, ill just rush gensui then. even though i'm confident ill end season top 10 anyways.
Post gensui is just merit point farming so chill mode on lol
does aurora skill works on eldridge???
Yes, unless you mean during operation rainbow in which case no
they should make a boat with a skill / buff nullifier
^
rushing is rather easy
when there are ppl who have already got it last reset
they put on weak fleet so that you can blitz thru
i always use weak fleet in def lel
i change to a hard fleet on rush day
just to delay them
for a few seconds
in other days its themed fleets

complete opposite for me. Lost 4 points cause no one did their pvp :<
although was last reset
Is 12784 the max fleet power u can get on amakaga?
With max aff
With proper pvp items
I was hoping it would reach 12.8:(
Is there a list of how much power a certain item gives?
He's referring to double cata roon
+10 gear and all maxed skills and only 2 purple items on each cv oil tank and helldiver
Oh
So with proper pvp gear u canr reach 13 ๐ฆ
It feels so low when u see wasd with 13.5k
I use sg + fcr

I'm still 20 affection away from maxing both
u could use twin380mm gun on amagi for higher fleet power
Lol fk no
I'll pass on that too 
lol yes, it's perfectly valid
Is it tho
+120 iirc
I switched from 410mm after trying 380mm
double gold cata fcr + rader
it works a lot better in mirror matchup
cause everyone uses 410mm but 380mm is faster
But what about shell dmg
AP does more dmg on ships iwth medium & heavy armor
Burn dmg?
Hmm
I've been trying it out for a while and it's been working better for me anyway
Boy. Am I tempted to try lol
Just try 
it's more important to shoot faster and sink enemys amagi than hope for some extra burn dmg, cause enemy amagi wont sink with fire
How many main gun plates for gold main guns? After +6?
144
I need 100 for my hais
Shieet. I only have 220 total
Time to dissemble some gold weps
I doubt I eill need 8 skc
12897
Hmm its like 1-2 secs faster
I dunno about this lol
by the 2nd or 3rd shell, u'll outpace the other amagi enough that she won't have time to shoot lol
ones with 0 procs ๐
oh wait is that you? xD
ive seen that fleet lol
or maybe just someone else with that theme
Ye he dumped his Washington smh
wait i didnt know amakaga hit basically 13k
xD
i need another debuff vanguard that isnt helena
and i already have aurora
hmm
Amakaga shouldn't be hitting 13k tho
Its only 12.8 with gold gun
He must be using cata or bts
yeah
honestly double cata is probably fine
not like anyone can really anti air that strike xD
Is there an argument for that gun
the 380?
Honestly. I just +10 it like hour ago
And the bonus damage from having more hp on suicide outweighs the aviation bonus generally
Its like 1 sec faster than 410
It's not about not losing the planes it's about them landing with as much hp on the end of the screen
i think it does more bottom slot damage
when you have more aviation for torp planes
you trade suicide on middle
for side torps
or vanguard dive bombs
who dont take suicide damage
Its like 30 aviation vs 30 hp
like, not my thing
More fleet power looks scarier tho xD
yeah, although it'll be 40ish times 2
because of the akaga skill
30 *1.35
on 2 carriers
i wouldnt say it's good but if it works for him
he is donald trump
xD
First the sea. Then the space
plus it's still amakaga so
it's gonna hurt
whether it's BTD, double cata, w/e
too bad CA doesnt have a jintsuu buff ship, although i guess leipzig counts
managed aotn with 5 attempts behind

If Jintsuu buff CA Ibuki would be even more insane 
i like ibuki quite a lot but i think u wouldn't really use her for much outside of pvp. the only place she would shine is against elites tbh
Warspite's sniping skill after retrofit is pretty much tuned for Pvp lol
Yeah the devs do care, if only a little about pvp
amagi i think is pvp tuned too but she's so good she works for pve as well
i got it with 5 attempts behind so not that impossible, but the 5 battles were really bad for me to get it. 1st gurren comp took me 46secs to beat then 3 consecutive battles i got no amagi barrage on 1st shoot so more time wasted and last attempt having to get a +9 because of reset trolls
yeah i got lots of dem resets
problem for me this season is like
i didnt really have enuf bonus points
even with no losses

i think amakaga with torp front is pretty consistent at winning under almost any circumstances tbh
i mean there's a case where suicide their torps
beat you
because sometimes the rng says bye to whichever main fleet
otherwise yeah
20%
i think i only lost or reset like 3 battles this season so even with really bad rng u should still be able to win
i dont have jintsuu nor akagi so not an option
i have to rely on everything lining up atm
xD

it's hard to lose anything on offense tbh
I don't even know how I reached Admiral today.. I thought I wouldn't cause I overslept and didn't use 3 matches..

that's not suicide amakaga then
not as much on offense yeah, but if you dont mirror parts it is for them defense lol
honestly, it's just jintsuu
but then again maybe that's cuz im still using aya and beaver
without jintsuu torps arent scary
and eats every torp
i didnt get aurora until new ships released
about 1/4 hp of all ships
Ok so we have intern kun, quack kun and solo kun now

Maybe i should wait for my left side on giving +12
that'll bite you
if the guy was sitting at 0/10
and currently 5/10
when he decides to not do pvps for a reset
I gotta check how big is the difference after getting hit by a +0 gain on 2nd reset day 1
What's current PVP meta? Haven't done PVP for quite some while
You will mostly see Amagi with Agagi and Kaga
Last time I ranked is Washy, SD and enter
Its either belfast juneau X for stalling or aurora jintsuu ayaya for torps
Kaga BB or Kaga CV?
Ah thanks
I have seen exactly one BB kaga
Mine is still in level 1 lol
mines at like 40 from doing random comissions, but yea
I actually think that boat is not that bad and it could totally work in the lineup by the virtue of torp spam and barrage being not awful
but its gonna be less consistent han preemptive strike with shitload of bonus power Kaga
Well yeah, I may level her soon, but I got too many ships to train right now. Namely West Virginia, Amagi, POW...
And the cranes
I'm working on KMS just to see how they do in pvp before they become actually impossible to use
Well good luck, but see how the PVP is dominated by metas, I don't think KMS can stand a chance lol
I think they will be fine, and if they wont be, I have things I have been doing forever either way
i run Amagi/Akagi/Kaga with Belfast/Aurora/Jintsuu, even outside mirror match it feels like Belfast is a much more reliable boat than Aya
Well bel rly helps alot in strike

I think my problem with running Akagi + Kaga is the absolute overload on plane damage to the vanguard.
Running BB Kaga fixes this some while still allowing both her torps and barrage to splash into vanguard some. And Akagi does enough.
But I need to really get my score back up in the next season to start seeing how it plays out against better built fleets.
I think 2BBs and CV is the best lineup for the main fleet in general provided the BBs have a way to pressure the backline outside of their guns, like barrages. BBKaga is honestly just fine for that. You still get to abuse the preemptive strike and fast Amagi barrage, with added benefit of your damage being a lot more focused once the frontline is dead. It probably works super well with how happily everyone suicides their frontlines nowadays because even if you lose yours, you have 2 BB auxes to clean up and then you might just straight up outgun your opponent.
Anything i need to change? I have pretty much every ship in the game
yes, Laffey for Aurora
possibly Aya for Jintsuu but its a preference imho
Aurora does too much for the carriers, however while Laffey doesnt do much in general
Aya for jintsuu kai?
Well idk if i want to change aya but ill change laffey to aurora
its a preference, like I said. Ayanami has some neat benefits like DD speed and x factor of demon dance, Jintsuu is just a stable pick with her abilities boosting your entire front
All that matters is getting 4th IJN
Kk ty
hi I have these ships
I was wondering whats a good fleet I can make with these ships
For pvp, not much you can do here right now, easiest would be to level up Amagi, kaga and akagi to just get those merits
I'd just worry about pve until you have more things
Based also on the ships, you prob don't have a lot of equipment either
uh I've been in fox mines
For a week now
I can try exchanging for enterprise
There's still 11 days or so
you dont even need foxes
any fleet that you can make is probably going to be the highest level ships you have because ther's really not much more that you can do. Leveling Amagi and Hood, Portland Helena and Cleveland should be a decent investment for the future
Should probably focus on getting ships for pve up first because otherwise you will never be able to farm gear/parts to level it
pvp is honestly in every possible way a side activity so dont worry too much about it
Pretty much
amakaga, aurora/jintsu/aya = best pvp set up?
It's the most popular at the moment so "best" would probably be something that beats it easily
isn't it the most popular because it's hard/can't be beaten?
its popular because it wins games fast on offense but then you have to tank a mirror and that sucks
the mirror sucks especially badly because torps are better when defending
also, its nowhere close to "unbeatable" so I have no idea what warrants its popularity aside for "its fast dude"
maybe I am just a hipster tho
there are no comps that are unbeatable anyway with the 20% dmg buff on offense
Nagato Akagi and Kaga were unbeatable on other servers for quite a bit, we do not have a lineup that forces playing a mirror or losing
funny thing is it beats itself easily
hows the meta now in cn/jp? has nagato amagi + wildcard ijn completely taken over or is it mixed up?
Overall, on EN, pretty much any of the top teams clearly wins on offense.
Amaka with torp-suicide-fl is the fastest of them all, so it's probably the "best" offense team right now
It works equally well with defensive frontline instead, but slower
WASDA/WASDE is as good as always better imo with torp/sui over defensive, but either works fine really
Have not tried WASDH yet, is next on list
Screw HMS until we get DoY
Recently, I've been trying out Amagi/Hiryuu/Enty as offense (Hood probably a fine sub for either Amagi or Ent), and with either suicide or stall frontline, to my surprise, it actually wins versus most anything (does especially well vs Akaga-type teams, which is what I originally designed it to target) with very high winrate, and a bonus of Hiryuu's 15 s immunity giving a much larger reset window in the rare case where things go really wrong
In other other news, woot, hit rank 4 (temporarily) even though I missed 4 PvP matches 
how do you keep Hiryuu alive in this lineup? I tried running it in wasd but she just gets triggered on second strike despite aegis so her niche is sort of useless
Well, the team kills on 2nd strike, even without enty activations, and sometimes cripples (i.e. kills a ship) on 1st strike
are you using Ryuusei on Hiryuu?
Only times I've needed to reset is when Hiryuu procs on first strike wave (usually due to lucky torps) from non-converging torp teams (converging torps leave other ships on too high HP) and my return strike doesn't cripple
Nope, barracudas
hm
I place her in centre, opposite amagi, so my backline stays alive mostly evenly
the timings work out to her skill covering AKaga strike even if the 2nd amagi barrage procs her
15 s is a really long time 
You might be right on her overall utility being low in WASD, if Aegis can't keep her unproc'd to 3rd strike wave
I was just experimenting with weird carriers in this slot
the problem is that her damage is low so her only real utility is getting another strike and invuln, but it doesnt carrye nough weight in wasd I think
Well, her skill basically gives her an extra strike per match if you need it, so I suspect she's better in non-grindy teams
I kinda fell asleep doing it so I never tried Saratoga which I suspect might be just good enough, maybe
With 2-strike matches, If she procs and enty fails to proc 1/2 times, my not-quite-yet-lv100 Hiryuu already often out-damages enty somehow
I'm not quite sure what's up with that actually
thats probably untrue, Enterprise is like 50 aviation over her base and has better efficencies
But, 3/2/3 is a better setup than 3/3/2 F/DB/TB for PvP
might be that Enty launches first, so AA effects
its faster, but not "better" for what the carrier needs to do in wasd, which is clear out the front
TBs are the main heavy-hitters, with their suicide damage
Well, that goes into "effective damage", damage numbers are highest vs backline ships but matter a bit less there
yeah, its sort of the issue, wasd doesnt need this backline pressure from barracudas if the frontline is dead, which extra helldiver and extra efficencies on all the bombs are better at achieving
is basically my impression
Hmm, interesting, that's opposite my impression that dmg vs enemy frontline barely matters with the sui/torp frontline, as long as yours dies fast enough BB secs make short work of any remaining enemy frontliners
I am running Juneau Belfast Portland just so I can see how Portland is doing with the lineup
its okay
I am winning
which doesnt mean much at all
if I ran torps then maybe Hiryuu would be better, with converging torps too
just stack the backline damage
Yeah, that's kinda the problem, winning happens too much to be able to easily tell nuances of choices apart 
I think that offense is slightly too easy atm, you can get away with basically anything
I have beaten HMS with wasd unicorn
Well, HMS on def is kinda
right now
I have beaten wasd e with wasd unicorn too,
once
in like 7 tries
but it won
which makes me feel really bad about putting too much thought into optimising thins because it really doesnt seem to matter
you have competent backline and gear, you win
well, I usually go by per-match winrate and match speed/time-per-win as my usual final metrics
The second is easy enough to get a mostly objective feel for
The first is nearly impossible to directly measure, so I just have to go with very subjective feelings
not everyone is running maxed out fleets either so it's hard to gauge
To give an idea of how hard it is measure winrate by looking only at win/loss,
to tell a 70% winrate team from a 80% winrate team vs top teams (which are hard to identify to begin with) takes 30+ matches if you want to be reasonably certain about the conclusion
Which is why I laugh at anyone trying to do "objective" studies, and don't really take most conclusions (including my own) that seriously
I will be honest, I went from trying to optimise to trying to find how close can you cut it to still win reasonably often, so I dont fall into the "farm akaga because its the best" hole
so far I have found that defense aint shit
so I am putting together a KMS just to see if you can actually just run whatever synergy
running out of bulins for purple ships tho 
I have almost all the retroifits, thats how I ate all my bulins
i want to be a cancerous eldridge user, what aux do i put on her?
Hiryuu is mostly there to launch twice with ryusei, hopefully towards the backline in most cases, works better than enterprise
For Eldridge its probably just Boiler and Toolbox
On offense I can just wipe with akaga hiryuu because of the suicide dmg 
and just saying Hiryuu is better than Enterprise doesnt make it so considering I have like 20 games of experience in the matter
Eldridge has been out memed
Akaga just triggers her skill on the second strike through aegis and you have a dead boat
True, it really depends how the vanguad situation is, sometimes the sakura torps just go full pepega
I tried it with stall and suicide, for some reason she just tanks all of the damage and getting hit by one torp just ends her hopes of doing much
hiryuu's stats are pretty trash before retro
You're screwed if their vanguard survives and manages to torp the backline and also if your frontline doesn't die fast enough
its really weird because when I played against it she was surviving super long

but saw it like once
maybe its better on defense where your vanguard just gets trashed

How much is your backline getting hit from torps at the start?
I assume not much at all since you're using boilers
sodak never gets hit, my flanks eat like singular or no torps on opening, never get torped again
so how do i get my frontline to not just eat every torp?

should i not be running beaver on amagi?
w/ bel/aya/jint frontline

does aya w/ beaver just make them too fast?
frontline eating all the torps is the best case scenario because they take reduced damage from them and have actual evasion to migrate the damage
backline just dies
yeah it's better than them hitting backline
but not if they eat
literally every torp
and die
it doesnt happen a whole lot and if you eat all the opening torps you can just reset, whole 3 seconds of your life wasted
I wish wasd actually did more dmg 
I wish HMS did more damage 
i kinda want hiryuu kai to come before nagato
so i can play around with it w/o just running into namagi every time and losing
...actually i guess we still wouldnt have ykkz
so maybe i still could

Maybe if we had hms and mass/essex beforehand also
I jus want nagato so pvp becomes full bull 
Nakaga mirror is pretty painless I find overall, attacker almost always wins 
Nothing like the hell that is WASDE mirror, which is all about skill activation %, and the occasional 3+ min Enty duel
Well, WASDH was always a thing
WASDA being the new improved version of that setup
Though we're in the meta where the attacker just consistently wins matches with any of a bunch of setups, with only the occasional reset
DoY likely makes HMS join that equally-viable list, I hope; I like variety
Hope so. Got a ring prepared for her too. Just need QE to 200 affection now
Time to delete tons of screenshots since i guess it's useless. ppl want longer matches anyways 
In any case, I've found my new favorite team when not Gensui rushing, since Hiryuu gives a nice, fat, predictable reset window
none of that losing matches to not being fully awake, hopefully
Hello, should I equip anti torpedo bulge to all my vanguard ships for pvp?

So, anti torpedo bulge is better than repair tools?
Also, what other gear should I equip on vanguard ships for pvp?
For DDs?
I just ran like an hour of testing for hms vs decked amakaga and there are 2 problems with the lineup that make it barely possible to run. You can't snipe a fox before second strike because Amagi exists and you cant keep your vg alive for the second strike. You win every game in which you manage either of those, but lose about everything else.
Amagi blue and yellow skills 
If you could use a carrier to wipe opponents vg before second strike you would win every game with hms, but we have like Ark, and that's it
I could try it I guess
Second strike happens before second hood barrage, and because of the evasion, you can't reliably snipe a fox without getting lucky with mgm shots
Where's my Warspite kai, damnit
I find AL rng on the weird side tbh
And I do have whole main fleet at 200 affection so there's actually no way that I know of to get more damage
Ark double cuda right
Double Cuda Fulmar so it launches just before QE fires
Ark is more consistent than Warspite
But here is the real thing that makes you win the matchup
Fucking totally unironic Autoloader on Hood 
It makes her fire just fast enough to kill a fox before second strike
Then I will learn that this guy used some weird fighters and it doesn't actually work against anyone else. Stupid weapon skins
I hate them so much
The Tactical Advantage of Weapon Skins 
using suseis to get millsecond faster launch 
@hot creek Oath your ships, ree 
I'm on a budget here m8. I only oath if I really like them or if they are OP in both pve and pvp.
well, I guess Amagi fits that bill. but meh. I don't like her design very much.
when I was a working, i dropped like $250 on Fire Emblem gacha. still regret that
now i'm cheap af.
I had that with the db dokkan
yeah there's nothing that will ever get me to spend on gacha ever again
unless its for garaunteed reward

if i do maxumim AA memes with the two new maids. would it actually do anything to stop foxes I wonder.

maybe, but then you'll get shredded by torps :x
they're so cute, wish they weren't so useless
go Isuzu instead if you wanna meme with aa
<
It's actually easier to keep my front alive vs Amakaga, when playing HMS. To the point that I am stealing wins by torping the last fox in the face while everyone is dead. I think something went wrong somewhere
It's probably just HMS backline having no AA to speak of sans Hood. It's still strange to see
everyone is sandbagging so hard can't seem to get any bonus. not that it matters but still so annoying
This late in the season it's easier to farm your rerolls than just wait for a miracle. 
craptastic system ๐
i'm 5 behind and still no one moves in my list
You must have some amazing competitive drive to still be concerned with farming points after dropping 5 games and getting gensui
i never looked at my rank at the end of a season before so i want to see it now
if i can get anything top 300 i'll be happy
feels so pointless when ur endscore isn't recorded anywhere 
You can screenshot it, that's what I do 
Nobody but me has to know what I did because I am doing it for nobody else
do it for the fans
Cintiq has a three point lead on us
but i don't see any other rankers around us
he'll probably take 1st barring he doesnt fuck up final day
but three points isn't all that much of a buffer on final day tbh
I hate feeling that I dropped a game somewhere but I can't remember
i always remember my losses for the season. I get chills down my spine and a distinct feeling of "fuuuuuuuuuck" whenever I see that "D Annihilation"
followed by a feeling of relief cause i don't have to tryhard anymore
and then i still tryhard anyways lol
Which is why I am so bothered that whenever I check the ledearbord on the reset.I dont think I lost anything, but you are still at exactly my points. I am either doing something wrong or I need to start killing my sleep for 3am resets 
perhaps we'll have to start tracking our early season performance
I'm currently tracking how big is the point difference on screwing day 1 pvp

So far it's 20 points from fren's last season points
A total of 6 resets without gain
And one -1
1 reset fron day 1
1 from +20 days
1 from +12 days
And the rest on +10 days

+4 on this reset, I am feeling rather confident in my ability to take nr1 despite my apparently shitty season start
meanwhile, im still stuck at 10/10 cause nobody's movin NotLikeThis
actually, right most guy did his pvps
but its not enough
rip
I used 2 rerolls to get that so it's actually all skill. 
I am gonna save one or two, but I am unlikely to need all five. Besides, if I roll +8 into +9 then I gain exactly as many points as I would rolling 10 into 11
math checks out
You can get a constant +3s without resetting on ast day 
on your server
we are on Sandy
This season actually nobody got gensui on first reset it was possible in. Nobody went for it in 6 hours
That bad 
and not like all of those people are omega tryhards

Sandy has its own pvp rules. Avrora is more populated and competitive about this whole pvp thing. I know about every name I see in top 100 right now and I probably have enough fingers on my both hands to count the ones that will play, everyone else is alredy done or gonna camp until last second
finally. someone did their pvp
Memorizing azur lane pvp names 
you can also remember names on Washington to some extent, same people everytime on top 10-ish
just blew two refreshes, couldn't hit the sweet spot
but I did land on Blackie
hopefully he hasn't done his pvps yet
What's the pvp meta team currently?
Its the same it has been since FW, you play foxes or wash and sodak and if you have way too much time on your hands, you can try HMS
Amagi didnt change it or anything?
Amagi made Foxes a little better but it's still same old
Also, no matter how OP Amakaga seems to be, they cant run 4 ships in the VG
lmao
The only thing that really changed is that HMS will struggle to get wins, so if you are an unfortunate soul that missed both Crimson Echoes and FW, you are stuck grinding your ass off to get weird boats and gear

I think QE/Hood/Enty:Belfast/Aurora/Leander should work pretty well as (nearly) HMS as enemy vanguards are mostly DD and CL
I don't have Hood and my Aurora is underleveled though, so I've got Rodney and Javelin as replacements instead, and I could get to Admiral with them
She has high anti air doesn't need queen's buff

She actually took out my Edinburgh before

Juneau Belfast Leander are actually tanky enough with QE buff to survive longer than the main fleet
I was never the same ever since
also leveling Arizona and Oklahoma for the Pearl's Tears
You can probably afford running Belfast Fortune Leander if you wanna be a purist, all that really matters is Hood shooting fast enough to 2x barrage a fox before second strike
you can just rely on that
VG doesnt matter much then
Obviously if you run a carrier or get lucky you can one barrage a fox and win this way. It is possible that cutting QE out of HMS for flagship enterprise is proper, but I have not tested it and I dont have a fleet to run this into atm
forgot to tell, I got Amagi lvl 99, will use her next season since I messed up this one already by not pausing and exiting in the split second my ships died way too many times curses slow fingers
and carrier foxes are at lvl 90 and 86, but not enough gold bulins to mlb them
so I think I'll switch to Amakaga + Ayanami + Aurora + Leander for torp-based frontline if they show promising results, but this will require getting Jintsuu afterwards for better torpedo performance
and swap out Leander for Juneau when the enemy fleet is tough enough
@modern tree lol, did u actually check? I took gensui with 2-3h left, saw plenty of other ppl taking gensui as well on the first reset it was possible
ik cause I lost 4 pts taking it while everyone was still hanging around 218x...


ye ur right, I stopped checking after 3 hours because I fell asleep, I should not have exaggerated quite this much because someone was going to call me out on it
Nah you're quite right
There were 8-9ppl on gensui after 5-6 hours
I don't think that really counts as "plenty"

less than 10 people is not even enough to make it impossible for anyone to get it, just get the points, you are there
we live on a weird server
You do have to hit top 10, but if less than 10 people are at 2200, then you get top 10 after reaching the points required for gensui
so it wasnt contested at all, you just hit the point requirement and there you have it
woo
as long as u hit top 10 and have at least 2200 pts, u get gensui. Doesn't matter order :p
@modern tree wada have HMS to do with much time on the hands?
using the lineup is time consuming because figuring out the correct ships might require a lot of swaps, bizarre gear and resets because you just got unlucky
they work just fine, you can beat anthing with them without changing the lineup
I have entire backline at 200 affection and I can afford to play them without dork and I am unsure if Dork will actually help absolutely anthing without even weirder choices than Reloader on Hood to kill a fox faster
Juneau Belfast Leander really fucks with foxes tho, insanely much
dont know if you can run it in any lineup because QE buff is probably significant, but oh boy, they just dont sink to anything foxes can do
Funnily enough, Dork has even shittier AA than Warspite, which is rather bad unless she can pump way more damage
But yeah "too much time on your hands" basically means all of the above, it's still a line to go if you missed all the events or just hate playing event ships, but boy, does it require WORK when you could just slap 2 foxes together and call it a fleet
2 foxes and an aurora
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/270787651978788864/541713944377557022/image0.png
the wall falls once again
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Nothing unbeatable in exercise 
there are so many mirrors i reset that i prob would win
just cuz it's too close for comfort

I think Juneau is better than Bel in the Amkaga mirror, at least for offense
With that sub, I've almost never had to reset, with every win being pretty clear
Is it just me or does Amakaga just seem to work better when Amagi is bot?
foxes are softer so putting her on the flank in a mirror might actually let you snipe the backline instead of playing for the usual 2 strikes gameplan
because nothing is there to stop the barraga and plane suicide will still happen
depends on luck with cuda torps
middle is usually screened a bit
so you take suicide damage mostly
bottom wont eat suicide but gets hit by cuda easily
and amagi has uh... less than stellar aa
Funny thing i remember once
Sandy with noca wiped my planes but my vanguard wiped their team

Also, Amagi centre has her barrage hit the frontline more (since her barrage also splashes the enemy frontline)
is amagi cranes better than amagi foxes
or same
In PvP, worse, cranes take too long to power up in the short length of PvP matches
They need at least 1.5 min to reach the same damage potential, which is wayy too long
umm....did Daxam forget to do his pvps? monkaS
So season reset is upon us again
Do we get bonus points from the very first fight
I dont even know

you certainly can
So i need to wait till ppl have so much more ranks before i do first fight i guess?
Hell yeah I slept over my charges again because 3 am is a perfect hour to have a reset. See you next fucking season. Good night.

I prefer to skip waiting on the first fight and try to catch people climbing after 1 win
Soooo many people are inactive/wait on PvP
you can either do 1 fight first or refresh until you know there is active people in your list
Ooo tyty
U can get bonuses five times per daily reset right
Or more than that early rounds?
You can get + whenever the person you fight is above you in pt count by some amount (for start-of -season, amount is unknown, but you don't know their pt count either so w/e)
At start of season +2/3 or even the occasional +4 is possible
honestly I haven't really test around on early days, usually I just wait with 10/10 till the last few mins and get that big delicious numbers
If you play it right, an average of more than +1 per match is possible for the first few days

I thought I might get cucked this season, having missed 4 matches
Still somehow hit rank 1 during one of the rushes

I did my charges per hour last season
basically my goal, trying to somehow get more than +40 not sure if possible
But i never managed to get so mch bonus

I think im doing somethinv fundamentally wrong
Never lost too
tbh as a long as you do them all and win (assuming you don't take -1 matches of course), gensui should be easy to get with a rush during a later reset
Got gensui this season
But kinda want more stable way
My team isnt that fast for rushes
I might have blocked OJ from his gensui then cause I was spending my attacks
I'm at 2513 right now, so can't blame me 

For pvp purposes what would be the best secondary gun to equip to Amagi?
Isnt it always gold dd gun
That's what i'm currently running but I thought I'd ask to see if there was a better alternative
Belgun gives better firepower and provides more shelling on enemy frontline when yours is still alive due to longer range and higher burst
That burst means it cleans up leaked frontline ships just as well
But, if your frontline decisively loses,the gold 127 is better
The 127 also helps a bit with its AA stat
you can use triple 152 if you want to poke enemy (aka on offense), but generally people use belgun or 127 twin
I personally prefer the belgun, but it really doesn't matter too much
In case you haven't heard yet, the in-game listed gun range are lies, true gun-range is the same for all the viable CL guns, and every DD gun is shorter range than that (the DD guns do have different ranges, but still not what's listed in-game)
Cool, thanks for the info. I'l mess around with swaping my twin 127 and the Belgun and see what I like more.
Exact opposite for me, more than enough Belguns (since I prefer the tbtsk/triple 152) but never enough gold 127s 
Is doing pvp right after season reset worth it?
does anyone know how many points u get without bonuses in a season?
i can do that i'm just lazy
2496 with base gain without bonuses
i have 2552 with 5 less attempts so 106 bonus points this season
yes
lol i just went up against you https://puu.sh/CGXGA/533ba40940.png
can't wait for doy. either people start using hms or i start suing it
I for one love this meta, no more stalling wasd so pvp is much faster now
https://puu.sh/CGXLe/2367c491c9.png why do i get the feeling Cintiq is sitting on one charge right now
mirror is unfun tbh
for u maybe i liked it before everyone used amakaga
i just like amakaga cuz it's fast
i just don't like the mirror i have nothing against amakaga
the mirror is ez tho
unless u get hard fucked by rng and ur vanguard dies in 2 secs
that does happen, but not that often. ive only had to reset the mirror only two or three times this season.
if ur vanguard dies in 2 secs, then it has nothing to do with amakaga lol
might as well have been a wasd backline with torp front
sendai is just another torp boat i don't want her at all even if want w11
New season, are you going to sandbaging or just attack once time ??
Sirius seems like a good aurora substitute, especially for amakagas comps
maybe for full defensive vanguards but for offensive ones aurora still too good
yea, I think aurora is still better, but for ppl who are unlucky and still don't have her, sirius will be a good enough replacement
she also has slightly higher AA and bit more hp, so theres that. Not sure if it matters too much tho
i would run like aurora sirius jintsuu on def to try
imma replace jintsuu
bel sirius aurora, +akaga damage trading for a -torp buff and -first amagi salvo
Man, everyone's score sucks too. I want my 2 charges back
feelsbadman. I didn't want to take 1st like this
I probably should have expected that I will fall asleep playing my pvp out at 2 am and then sleep through an alarm
Oh well
I lost 2 charges that are enough to take 1st even at 8 on both

That's what I get for being human.
But hey, we are at the top again. All luck, am I right?
aren't you in EST?
could try again next season
Cet
Oh that makes a lot more sense
HMS is way better than I thought they would be, but Amagi is still probably the most unfun boat to go against
Also, noticed something interesting today, which is that CL guns on BBs are still bound by firing angles so if your boats sneak behind them, they are not getting shot at anymore. Sounds useless but might be a difference between facetorping them or not
CL guns are stat sticks saga continues
the hiryuu experience 
tho with this mirror you only lose if you dont get more barrage procs
does it need both amagi and nagato or nagato barrage is more important
just need good rates from both
What a boring way to play, there's the best team and it also wins tje mirror rather decisively
mirror is actulaly pretty president sleeper
but that's every mirror
where u have to rly on barrages
lmfao
junny's like "fuck my job im going home today"


I lose 3 games just now
I didn't pay attention since I was eating lunch lool
Yeah full and upset

at this point, I can say that amagi foxes is cancer mirror match
Pretty much even, 20% attacker doesn't even matter
Its pretty much even at this point
Ok I'm done
after all those +0 gains 
depends who get bomb
ye it was always clutch
like im ready to close the app if it went south

New season, are you going to sandbaging or just attack once at the first time ??
For me, if someone attacks and aims higher rank then I'll attack him then sandbag again..
I don't like sandbagging during 6 hour period
gonna attacc when they push 
hope i wont get that +0 gain on day 1 again like this season

lmao he's very consistent on 2602

i was top 100 from what i saw like 61
not bad with 5 less attempts i guess
i got a nice +-256 by attacking nr6 after reset. nice bug
so how much are you at right now
im 2/10, 88 points rn
it was a mere +25 but interesting visual bug
On unofficial one? Allrighty, thanks!
wonder why he left
I didn't mind having him around
anyone who has a oathed QE is good in my book 

probably got in an argument with mod, just like that one enty fanboy. Over censorship offtopic











that's a lot lmao



