Samvaluations

Laffey (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is very balanced between Main Gun, Torpedo, and skill barrages, and further augmented by her self-buffs. Her bulk is also fine due to her Augment module providing a self-heal. Overall, she is a good ship.

Prinz Eugen is a tank-oriented CA with great stats and meh skills. Her bulk is very high compared to other tank CAs, but her damage is very very low compared to other tank CAs. Her Augment Module armor break is nice, but doesn't fix her abysmal damage output. Overall, she is a good ship, but is outclassed by other easily accessible options in most situations.

Belfast is a damage-oriented CL with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is hindered by 1 MGM, but her self-buffs are enough to bring it up to acceptable levels. She also has a smokescreen, which can situationally be useful. She is ideally equipped with an HE CL gun to take full advantage of her self-buff. Overall, she is a good ship.

Arizona is a support-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is pretty underwhelming, and her healing is too RNG to support a full fleet, even with her Augment module. Collection only.

I-58 is a damage-oriented SS with average stats and great skills. Her personal damage is pretty good for an Elite SS due to her self-buffs. Her buff to other IJN SS is nice, but not needed for her viability. Overall, she is a good SS, especially for newer players, but worse than all the relevant SR SS options.

Jean Bart is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and meh skills. Her Skill 2 self-buff is reliant on using a bad BB gun, and the Augment module doesn't fix it. She also has a preload, but only MGM+1 to compensate for it. Her Augment module barrage is also mediocre at best, but it is free damage. Overall, she is a good ship.

Glorious is a damage-oriented CV with bad stats and skills. Her augment granted her a 20% cooldown reduction on her first airstrike, which mitigates her slow reload somewhat. Her self-damage is also pretty bad due to 7 planes and average efficiencies. Collection only.

Graf Zeppelin is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is pretty good, with her Augment module giving her a carpet-bomb style on-strike barrage, improving her clearing capabilities. She is ideally sortied with an KMS equipment to take full advantage of her self-buffs. Her damage-reduction support to other KMS ships is nice, but not necessary for her to be good. Overall, she is a great ship.

Ayanami (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her Main Gun damage is really awful, but her Torpedo damage is among the best in the game, especially when combined with her self-buffs. She is ideally equipped with a fast-firing Main Gun to trigger her skill and All-out-Assault barrage faster for maximum uptime. Overall, she is a great ship, but susceptible to the deficiencies of Torpedo targetting on auto-battle.

Vampire is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. The heal she provides is not worth the damage loss from using this ship over other options, even with the Augment module enhancing the heal. Collection only.

Karlsruhe (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Her personal damage is awful, even with her Augment Module, due to only 1 MGM and no good barrages. Collection only.

Montpelier is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. She is a very balanced ship, with a great combination of damage, bulk, and AA granted by her skills and Augment Module. She also can buff other CL/CA/CB in the fleet from her Skill 1, however supporting other CL/CA/CB is not required for her to be good. She is ideally sortied with a High Performance Hydraulic Steering Gear for maximum bulk as well as her skill requirement. Overall, she is a great ship.

Illustrious is a support-oriented CV with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good, with 8 planes and an on-strike rocket barrage. Her support is also good, granting a large shield based on her own max HP to the Vanguard Fleet, and some minor healing along with it. Overall, she is a good ship.

U-557 is a damage-oriented SS with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is meh, and her Augment Module trades damage potential for consistency compared to the Dagger. Collection only.

Le Téméraire is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is meh due to an aimed barrage from her Skill 1, but even that isn't 100% guarenteed. Her self-buffs help, but don't bring her up to standard. Collection only.

Taihou is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. She has great personal damage due to her 8 plane loadout, and multiple on-strike barrages, with a 3rd one possible if RNG favors it. One of the barrages offers support to the rest of your Main Fleet as well. She is also very tanky due to possessing Heavy Armor as a CV. Overall, she is a great ship.

Hood is a flagship-oriented BC with good stats and amazing skills. Her barrage is very strong, and has a 100% proc rate, making her a great damage option. She also provides a Reload buff to all Main Fleet ships upon her barrage triggering. Overall, she is a great ship.

Albacore is a damage-oriented SS with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is pretty good for an SR SS, and is further amplified by her DoT and barrages. Overall, she is a great ship; best utilized alongside Archerfish.

Z23 (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to her stats and self-buffs, and her AoA requirement halved. Her bulk is decent, but nothing special. Overall, she is a good ship.

Wichita is a damage-oriented CA with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is really high, especially for Elite/SR ships. However, her bulk is frail even with her Augment module. She also offers a FP buff to other CL/CA/CB in the fleet. Overall, she is a good ship.

Nagara is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Maya is an AA-oriented CA with good stats and skills. Her AA is very high due to an additional AA gun mount from her Augment, and a massive AA self-buff. Her personal damage is also decent now with double Torpedo launches from her Augment module skill upgrade. Her bulk is also good due to her Evasion and Evasion Rate buffs, and stats. Overall, she is a good ship.

Sims (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Her damage is very meh, and her support, while good, is not worth using her for over other damage-oriented options. Collection only.

Javelin (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her bulk is pretty good, especially for a DD. Her damage is very good due to her Augment module barrage, and she has great mixed damage from her Main Guns and Torpedoes as well. Overall, she is a good ship.

Kagerou (Retrofit) is a support-oriented DD with good stats and skills. She has good Torpedo buffs for the Vanguard Fleet, and her own Torpedo damage is pretty good as well. Overall, she is a good ship.

Minneapolis is a mob-tank oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is pretty good due to MGM+1 CA guns and her self-buffs when she sinks an enemy. She has average bulk with her base stats, but her Skill 2 further enhances her bulk (and the Vanguard Fleet's bulk with her Augment module). Her Augment Module isn't that amazing, and is a sidegrade to the default Elite Augment modules. Overall, she is a great ship, but can be redundant with other easily accessible options.

Tirpitz is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is very lackluster, and is only brought up to good levels when paired with Bismarck (which isn't worth building your fleet around). Collection only.

Edinburgh is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Her Augment module is an improvement over the default Augment modules, but doesn't improve her enough to be viable. Collection only.

Émile Bertin (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Her Augment module is an improvement over the default Augment modules, but doesn't improve her enough to be viable. Collection only.

Gneisenau is an off-flag damage-oriented BC with bad stats and skills. Her Augment module is an improvement over the default Augment modules, but doesn't improve her enough to be viable. Collection only.

Kawakaze is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. With her Augment module, she has great personal damage against all armor types due to her Skill 2 and her Augment module barrage. Her bulk is also decent as well due to the Augment module. Overall, she is a great ship.

Littorio is a flagship-oriented BB with good stats and skills. Her barrage is good, but its nothing special in today's time, even with a 75% proc chance. Her self-buffs are good, but only for the first 3 battles of the sortie. Her Torpedo shield is nice to have, but not that relevant against most stages. Overall, she is a good ship.

Z46 is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is really good due to her self-buffs and AoA. She is ideally equipped with an AP main gun to take full advantage of her self-buffs. Overall, she is a great ship.

Saratoga (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and amazing skills. Her personal damage is very good due to great on-strike damage, her on-strike barrage with DoT, and a desynced 10s barrage that also does good damage. Her Vanguard Fleet support is nice, but not necessary for her to be good. Overall, she is a great ship.

L'Opiniâtre is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Her Augment module is an improvement over the default Augment modules, but doesn't improve her enough to be viable. Collection only.

Mutsuki (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with very bad stats and skills. Her Augment module is an improvement over the default Augment modules, but doesn't improve her enough to be viable. Collection only.

Prince of Wales is a off-flag support-oriented BB with good stats and great skills. Her skills buff both USS and HMS ships, as well as giving her great self-buffs when sortied with USS or HMS ships. Overall, she is a great ship.

Houston is a damage-oriented CA with meh stats and skills. Her Augment module is an improvement over the default Augment modules, but doesn't improve her enough to be viable. Collection only.

Algérie is a damage-oriented CA with good stats and great skills. Her personal damage is good due to her high stats and her skill-barrage being able to get spammed repeatedly. Her bulk is fine as well. Overall, she is a good ship.

Surcouf is a damage-oriented SS with bad stats and skills. Her Augment module is an improvement over the default Augment modules, but doesn't improve her enough to be viable. Collection only.

South Dakota is a support-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. She can redirect damage dealt to the Main Fleet to herself, but that has very niche usage, and generally isn't worth using her for, over an option that can outdamage the enemy instead. Her Augment module is an improvement over the default Augment modules, but doesn't improve her enough to be viable. Collection only.

Z2 is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Her Augment module is an improvement over the default Augment modules, but doesn't improve her enough to be viable. Collection only.

U-47 is a damage-oriented SS with great stats and skills. Ignore her "Lone Wolf" skill. She has great damage, especially against single-target enemies, due to her Skill 1. She also has no faction restrictions or requirements like some other SS. Overall, she is a great ship.

Suffolk (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented CA with meh stats and skills. She has great damage for an Elite ship, but her bulk is very frail, even with her self heal. Her Augment module is an improvement over the default Augment modules, but doesn't improve her enough to be viable. Collection only.

Mogami (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is pretty good due to MGM+1 CA guns, as well as her self-buffs. Her Augment module adds to her bulk, making her pretty tanky for an off-tank. Overall, she is a great ship.

Victorious is a damage-oriented CV with good stats and meh skills. Her personal damage is alright, but nothing special due to minor self-buffs and the unrealiability of her Skill 2. Her Reload stat is also low for a CV. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Fusou (Retrofit) is a flagship-oriented BB with good stats and skills. Her Augment Module makes her Retrofit more viable, due to her barrage being good. Her personal damage is decent due to good self-buffs and stats, especially for a lower rarity ship. The cost to get this investment can be a bit steep, however. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Takao is a mob-tank oriented CA with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is decent, thanks to her Augment Module granting her a barrage every 10s that is good. In addition, her bulk is also good due to her high luck and +EVA Rate from her AoA. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

McCall is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Shangri-La is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is very good due to her damage ramping self-buffs, as well as an on-strike barrage (which is unfortunately RNG). Overall, she is a great ship.

Z1 is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her buffs are only for KMS DDs, which makes them very niche. Her personal damage is alright, but nothing special. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade/downgrade to more easily accessible options.

Fortune (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only

Königsberg is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

King George V is a flagship damage-oriented BB with good stats and skills. Her barrage is timed, which gives her more spread out damage when mobbing. Using the Quadruple 356mm Main Gun Mount gives her an almost preload, but is not recommended due to the gun being awful otherwise. Her Augment Module removes this requirement in exchange for losing her self-buffs when sortied with Royal Navy ships, which is an alright tradeoff but nothing special. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Z18 is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Ping Hai (Retrofit) is a tank-oriented CL with good stats and skills. Her bulk when paired with Yat Sen is exceptional; one of the highest in the game. Their AoA becomes both aimed and can ignore shields, which is a great buff. Her personal damage becomes even better when sortied with Yat Sen; however, she loses a lot of bulk as a tradeoff. Overall, she is a great ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Ning Hai (Retrofit) is a tank-oriented CL with good stats and skills. Her bulk when paired with Yat Sen is exceptional; one of the highest in the game. Their AoA becomes both aimed and can ignore shields, which is a great buff. Her personal damage becomes even better when sortied with Yat Sen; however, she loses a lot of bulk as a tradeoff. Overall, she is a great ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Nicholas (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and great skills. Her personal damage is good due to having good FP and a lot of self-buffs, but only 1 MGM and lackluster barrages hurt her potential. Her bulk is nothing special as well. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Dido is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and great skills. Her personal damage is amazing when sortied with at least 1 other HMS ship, due to her AoA barrage being very strong and self-buffs. Her Skill 2 can buff Queen Elizabeth or Queen Elizabeth META, but this isn't required for her to be good. With her Augment, she herself can get those buffs and increased Main Gun CRIT Rate, but since her Main Gun damage is not that massive, it isn't necessary for her to be viable. Her Augment also drastically increases her AoA damage. Overall, she is a great ship.

I-19 is a damage-oriented SS with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is high, due to having a high TRP stat, as well as multiple barrages that enable torpedo pierce. However, her mounts having imbalanced efficiencies can hurt her consistency if torpedoes whiff. Her Skill 2 decreasing torpedo speed is very good when using magnetic torpedoes. Overall, she is a good ship.

Sendai (Retrofit) is a support-oriented CL with good stats and skills. Her Skill 1 buffs the TRP stat of all DDs and CLs in your fleet, which is a solid boost. In addition, it significantly increases her survaviblity with her Augment Module. Her Skill 2 flares are practically useless, as they are both RNG and are hard to sync with other ships, despite the effect being very good. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Le Mars (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Her Skill 1 is very RNG, and building fleets around FFNF or MNF Vanguard Ships is worse than using a union of multiple good ships. The barrage from Skill 1 is a nice bit of damage, but not enough to justify her slot in the fleet. Her Skill 2 is even more RNG than her Skill 1, and only adds to her middling bulk. Collection only.

Comet (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Her Skill 1 barrage is servicable, but that's her only form of damage, making her overall damage mediocre. Her torpedo buff to other DDs is nice, but not that important. Her Skill 2 smokescreen is unreliable due to how smokescreens work. Overall, she is a mediocre ship.

North Carolina is a support-oriented BB with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is very mediocre due to no self-buffs, and a mediocre barrage from her augment-improved Skill 1. Her Augment Module grants her a 5% HP heal to all Vanguard Fleet ships every 10s whenever she fires a Timed Fuze AA Gun, drastically increasing her support value. Even so, she still cannot solo sustain a full fleet in difficult content. Overall, she is a good ship, but worse than Unicorn (Retrofit) for general use.

Scharnhorst is a damage-oriented BB with bad stats and skills. Her Augment Module duplicates her barrage but with your flagship's scaling, which doesn't add enough to make her relevant. Collection only.

San Diego (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented AND AA-oriented CL with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high with MGM+1 DD Guns and great barrages (Skill 1 with Augment, Skill 2, and AoA). In particular, her Skill 1 barrage can ignore shields and is triggered individually per Main Gun, making its frequency very fast. You always want to equip her with a fast-firing and high damage DD Gun; never give her a CL gun. In addition, her ASW stat is one of the highest amongst vanguard ships, allowing her to act as a ASW carry. Her AA stat is very high, and when paired with her Skill 1 and very high AA gun efficiency, allows her to act as an AA carry for the fleet. Her bulk is also solid as well, especially with her Augment Module skill. Overall, she is an amazing ship, if a bit expensive to max fully.

Le Malin is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is fine, but nothing spectacular with only 1 MGM and a good AoA. Her Skill 1 gives a great debuff, but the activation condition is hard to achieve before the enemy dies, and the duration of the debuff is low too. The barrage that it triggers is good, but nothing amazing as well. The stack based on killing enemies is also hard to achieve, since the other 5 ships in the fleet can easily kill steal from her. Her Skill 2 is basically useless since it debuffs her as the battle goes on. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade / downgrade to other easily-accessible options.

Jamaica is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skill. Collection only.

Spence is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and a good skill. Her Skill 1 barrage is good, but it isn't enough to save her. Collection only.

Centaur is a support-oriented CVL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is good with 8 planes. Her reload stat is on the higher end for CVs, allowing her support to be easily syncable without much effort. Her Skill 1 barrage applies a slow to enemies hit, and her Skill 2 buffs your Main Fleet. She is ideally sortied with 2 more HMS ships, but that is not necessary for her to be good. Overall, she is a great ship.

Leipzig (Retrofit) is a support-oriented CL with good damage and skills. Her personal damage is good, despite only 1 MGM, due to her self buffs, good Torpedoes and the Skill 1 barrage. Her support is also good, but only works on CB / CA / CLs. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade / downgrade to other easily accessible options.

Long Island (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented CVL with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

U-96 is a damage / support oriented SS with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great, especially with her self-buffs to TRP and TRP Crit Rate. She should be sortied in a full SS fleet due to her Skill 1 improving her barrage. Her Skill 2 both buffs other KMS SS and self-buffs herself, incentivizing her to be played in a Wolfpack SS fleet. Overall, she is a great ship, best used in a KMS Wolfpack SS fleet.

U-96 is a damage / support oriented SS with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great, especially with her self-buffs to TRP and TRP Crit Rate. She should be sortied in a full SS fleet due to her Skill 1 improving her barrage. Her Skill 2 both buffs other KMS SS and self-buffs herself, incentivizing her to be played in a Wolfpack SS fleet. Overall, she is a great ship, best used in a KMS Wolfpack SS fleet.

Exeter (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented CA with good stats and meh skills. Her personal damage is good, especially against Medium Armor, due to her barrage and self-buffs. However, only 1 MGM drags her personal damage down. Her Skill 1 procs at the start of the battle and has a decent barrage attached to it, but only has a 60% trigger rate for the rest of the battle, which isn't good enough since it's uptime isn't long enough to justify the RNG involved. Her Skill 2 is nice, but also has an unreliable trigger rate. Overall, she is a meh ship, and can be a sidegrade / downgrade to other easily accessible options.

Dunkerque is a flagship-oriented BC with meh stats and good skills. Her stats are mediocre, and she has a preloaded Main Gun Mount in exchange for only having MGM+1, which isn't a good enough tradeoff. Her Skill 1 is great, but only a 70% chance for the effects to trigger hurts her. Overall, she is a meh ship, and is a sidegrade / downgrade to other easily accessible options.

Shiranui is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Her Augment Module barrage adds some damage but it is not enough. Collection only.

Baltimore is a damage-oriented CA with great stats and skills. She modifies her ammo type, so she prefers guns with the highest raw damage. Can be sortied with or without USS carriers. Her personal damage is also good. Overall, she is a great ship.

Alabama is a flagship-oriented BB with good stats and skills. Her barrage is good, and it is timed, allowing her to stagger her damage more easily. She is best used in a mobbing fleet due to her gaining more buffs as the sortie progresses. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Cavalla is a damage-oriented SS with good stats and skills. She prefers to be paired with Albacore and/or Archerfish for best results. Her personal damage is also pretty good. Overall, she is a good SS.

Allen M. Sumner is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. She has higher AA than most ships, but it is not AA-carry level. She has great damage due to her stats, efficiencies, and barrages, giving her a well-rounded kit suitable for any fleet. Overall, she is a great ship.

Birmingham is a damage-oriented CL with good stats and skills. She is relatively bulky for her hull type, and she has good damage to go along with it. Her Skill 1 even offers minor fleet support due to reducing flagship Burn duration. Overall, she is a good ship.

Stephen Potter is a support-oriented DD with meh stats and great skills. Her personal damage is pretty awful, but her skills more than make up for it. Her Skill 1 gives both other Vanguard ships a great buff, and her Skill 2 gives all CVs a Damage buff of their own. Overall, she is a good ship.

Bataan is a damage-oriented CVL with good stats and skills. She has high efficiency planes, and a solid barrage, but only 6 total planes hinder her. Overall, she is a good ship, but is outclassed by easily accessible options. Gives +1 CV RLD Fleet Technology.

San Juan is an AA-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. She has great AA, but it is not enough to justify using her over a damage option (to outdamage the enemy before their planes kill you). Collection only.

Aylwin is a damage-oriented DD with really bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Formidable is a support / damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. As a support, she offers a timestop that other ships can take advantage of to improve their geometric accuracy against bosses. As a damage-dealer, when equipped with the Fairey Albacore Torpedo Bomber, she has great screen-wide barrages on airstrike, which along with her loadout help clear out enemy waves well. Overall, she is a great ship.

Littorio is a flagship-oriented BB with great stats and skills. She doesn't have many self-buffs compared to other BBs, and 130% Main Gun efficiency hinders her shelling damage. Her barrage is still pretty good, however. Overall, she is a great ship.

Pola is a mob-tank oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to MGM+1 CA guns, plus her skill barrages. Her bulk is also good for mobbing due to her self-buffs. Overall, she is a great ship.

Zara is a mob-tank oriented CA with great stats and good skills. Her personal damage is mediocre since outside of her MGM+1 she has no good skill barrages. Her bulk is decent due to her shields, and her unique Augment Module further giving her evasion and minor healing. Her Skill 2 doesn't affect her Main Gun choices against enemies. Overall, she is a good ship.

Giulio Cesare is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with bad stats and skills. Collection only. Gives +1 BB ACC Fleet Technology.

Carabiniere is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is mediocre, and her support, while nice, is not worth using her over options that do more damage. Collection only.

Vincenzo Gioberti is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Conte di Cavour is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with bad stats and skills. Her unique Augment Module is an improvement over her base form, but it is not enough to save her. Collection only. Gives +1 BB RLD Fleet Technology.

Trento is a damage-oriented CA with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Akagi µ is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her first-strike cooldown reduction allows her to be offset from traditional BBs and CVs. She is ideally sortied with other µ ships for her self-buffs. Overall, she is a great ship.

Gascogne µ is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and meh skills. Due to her ammo changing abilities, you want to equip a BB gun with high raw damage. Her barrages are meh, and her ammo change doesn't allow her to specialize for bosses. Only MGM+1 hurts her damage output compared to other BBs. Her first shot cooldown reduction is nice for desyncing, but not relevant for bosses. Overall she is a good ship.

Admiral Hipper µ is a tank-oriented CA with good stats but bad skills. Her bulk is good, but her bad personal damage doesn't justify using her over other options. Collection only.

Cleveland µ is a damage-oriented CL with meh stats and bad skills. The ammo change to µ Purple actively hinders her damage output, since the armor modifiers are worse than typical CL HE guns. In addition, she lacks any self-buffs to damaging stats. Collection only.

Sheffield µ is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Noshiro is a mob-tank oriented CL with solid stats and great skills. Her personal damage (Main gun + Torpedo + Barrage) is solid. Her blue skill improves her survivability, and her yellow skill provides one of the best torpedo buffs to your fleet. Overall, she is a great option, best used as a torpedo-buffer / mob-tank.

Ryuuhou is a healer-oriented CVL with average stats and good skills. Compared to Perseus and Unicorn (Retrofit), Ryuuhou is better when healing a single-target, but worse at fleet-wide healing. Also compared to Perseus and Unicorn, she doesn't have a preload. Overall good, but not worth using over Unicorn (Retrofit) / Perseus.

Suruga is a flagship-oriented BB with average stats, skills, barrage, and efficiencies. Her timed barrage means that her damage output is staggered. The barrage isn't special due to its pattern and subpar base damage. Overall, she is average, especially in the current landscape of BBs from research and recent new events.

Kazagumo is a support-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her torpedo damage is pretty good, which along with her AoA and torpedo reload reduction make her damage output on the higher end for supports. She prefers to use a fast main gun to get as many All-out-Assault activations as possible. Her CV support is top-notch; her CV/CVL heal is nice in extended fights. Overall, she is a great option.

Kinu (Retrofit) is a good damage-oriented CL, with solid stats and efficiencies. Skills also buff her damage output nicely. Overall, not the best, but certainly not the worst.

Kasumi (Retrofit) is a good torpedo-oriented DD, who is best used as a torpedo buffer for IJN ships. She has decent damage from her barrages and torpedoes. Only use when buffing IJN ships in a torpedo-oriented fleet.

Hibiki doesn't have any relevant stat buffs from her skills to make up for her subpar base stats, and her self heal doesn't add much to her bulk. Collection only.

Shirayuki has FP and TRP boosts from skills, but stats and efficiencies are underwhelming compared to others. Collection only.

Rossiya is a flagship-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. Her self-buff is only for the first 2 battles, which is not relevant when mobbing. Her barrage has high raw damage but a really bad pattern and average proc rate. Overall, she is a meh ship.

Chapayev is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is pretty good with MGM+1, her barrages, and her self-buffs. Her Skill 1 gives a vanguard-wide damage buff to enemies hit by her barrage, but the barrage is not guaranteed, and the buff is short. Her Skill 2 increases her damage against DDs specifically by a large amount, but it is not near the top of all CLs despite the buffs. Overall, she is a great ship.

Tashkent is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is pretty good against Light Armor enemies and mobbing despite having 1 MGM, due to her summon and her barrage. Her Skill 1 summon is a decent part of her overall damage output, and also slows enemies hit which is a nice bonus. Her Augment Module doubles her summons duration and damage, which are massive buffs to her personal damage. Her torpedo damage is pretty bad, limiting her potential against Medium and Heavy armor enemies. Overall, she is a great ship.

Avrora is a support-oriented CL with meh stats and great skills. Her stats and personal damage are mediocre (even with her Unique Augment Module added barrage), but her buff makes up for it by buffing your Vanguard Fleet's damage. Overall, she is a great ship provided her buff is fully utilized.

Gangut is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. When equipped with her signiture Main Gun, she gains cooldown reduction which is nice when mobbing but still worse than other easily accessible options. Against bosses, she is also outclassed by other easily accessible options. Collection only.

Grozny is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Minsk is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Intrepid is a damage-oriented CV with good stats and skills. She has a good loadout (8 planes) and an on-strike barrage; however, the barrage is nothing special compared to other recently released CVs in 2023. She also doesn't have as many self-buffs compared to the top of her hull. Overall, she is a good ship.

Reno is an AA-oriented CL with meh stats and skills. Her AA output is really high, but not good enough to AA carry. Her personal damage and bulk are both average at best. Collection only.

Bremerton is a mob-tank oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her bulk is good enough to mob-tank most content due to her self-buffs. Her personal damage is also good due to her Skill 1 as well. Overall, she is a great ship.

Ingraham is a support-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good, but not amazing. Her support is also good at keeping your Vanguard Fleet healthy. Her AA is good, but not enough to AA carry an entire fleet. There is no need to focus +TRP auxiliary equipment to increase her AA self-buff. Overall, she is a good ship.

Cooper attempts to be an ASW-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Nautilus is a damage-oriented SS with great stats and skills. Her gimmick of resurfacing for a bit before diving back against is not useful, and can make her die earlier than expected. However, her personal damage is still pretty good, making her worth using as a 3rd SS in a USS composition, assuming you have nobody better. Overall, she is a good ship.

Bluegill is a SS with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Casablanca is a support-oriented CVL with meh stats and great skills. Her personal damage is really bad; however she does have fast airstrikes to help mitigate it. Her fleet support for other CV / CVLs is really good, however. Overall, she is a good ship; outclassed by Independence (Retrofit).

Marblehead is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Ark Royal (Retrofit) is a support-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is really high, even without her skill proc, against single target enemies. Her slow support can help all members of your fleet land their shots / airstrikes precisely. Overall, she is a great ship.

Jeanne d'Arc is a support-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is very mediocre at best, but she makes up for it with her Vanguard Fleet supportive capabilities. Against most bosses, her prescence can increase the survaviblity of your Vanguard Fleet by a sizable amount. Overall, she is a great ship.

Richelieu is a flagship-oriented BB with great stats and skills. She buffs all French ships in your fleet, however she is fine without buffing anyone but herself. Her barrage is alright, and her preload helps frontload her damage output. Only MGM+1 hurts her in longer fights. Overall, she is a great ship.

Algérie is a damage-oriented CA with great stats and meh skills. Her damage output is good due to her skill barrage having a proc change on every Main Gun shot. Her bulk is fine, but not enough to tank any hard content reliably. Overall, she is a good ship.

Le Terrible is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her damage is good due to her multiple skill barrages and self-buffs. She is ideally sortied as the only DD in your vanguard for the RLD and DMG reduction buffs. Overall, she is a great ship.

Béarn is a damage-oriented CVL with meh stats and skills. Can equip a secondary gun, which helps with interception. Collection only.

La Galissonnière is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Maillé Brézé is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Vauquelin is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Foch is a damage-oriented CA with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Howe is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and skills. She has a 100% chance timed barrage that does decent damage, while also providing minor RLD support to herself and other BB/BC/BBVs. She is ideally sortied to make full use of her Skill 2 self-buffs; however, that is not fully necessary for her to be good. Overall, she is a great ship.

Perseus is a healer oriented CVL with meh stats and great skills. Her damage is heavily frontloaded due to 2 preloaded airstrikes at the start of the battle. Her personal damage is really bad due to low efficiencies, AVI stat, and 6 planes. In addition, she contributes nothing else to the battle outside of her frontloaded damage and healing due to her airstrikes taking almost twice as long as other CVLs. However, her healing is really good, and heals both the Vanguard and Main Fleets. Her Skill 2 barrage does not have enough damage to subvert her deficiencies. Overall, she is an amazing healer, but redundant due to the existance of Unicorn (Retrofit).

Hermione is a damage-oriented CL with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is mediocre due to 1 MGM and decent barrages. self-buffs. She ideally is not sortied as the Main Tank due to her Skill 2 self-buffs. Overall, she is a mediocre ship. Collection only.

Eagle is a damage-oriented CVL with meh stats and skills. Can equip a secondary gun, which helps with interception. Collection only.

Valiant is a damage-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is mediocre due to a 50% barrage chance, and average Main Gun efficiencies and stats. She offers some fleet support due to a spoecial Armor Break, but that is not worth using her over a better ship that contributes more to the battle. Collection only.

Icarus is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Shinano is an damage-oriented CV with 9 planes, great loadout, high stats/efficiencies, and great skills. She ideally is sortied with 2 other IJN ships for her self-buffs. Her debuffs to enemies are nice as fleet support. Overall, she is an amazing ship, and can fit in any fleet very well.

Kii is a flagship-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her timed barrage means that her damage output is staggered. She is ideally sortied with 2 other IJN ships for her buffs. Uniquely, she also buffs the Torpedo stat from the Main Fleet, however that has situational usage. Overall she is a great ship.

Suzutsuki is a damage-oriented DD with great stats, skills, and barrages, and solid efficiencies. She has MGM+1, alongside solid Torpedo stat/efficiency, giving her great mixed damage. Her self-heal adds to her bulk as well. Smokescreen is a bit situational, but is always nice when it works. Overall she is a great ship.

Has solid bulk, but lack of damage output hurts her a lot. Her potential support capabiliities from Cargo gear are also lackluster. Collection only.

She has subpar stats and unreliable skills, along with only 6 planes. Collection only. Gives +1 CV RLD Fleet Technology.

She has subpar stats and unreliable skills, along with only 6 planes. Collection only. Gives +1 CV AVI Fleet Technology.

Dido µ is an AA-oriented CL with good stats and skills. Her AA is really high, but not enough to act as an AA carry. Her personal damage is good due to her skill barrages. Overall, she is a good ship.

Illustrious µ is a damage-oriented CV with good stats and skills. Her damage is heavily skewed towards Light and Medium armor due to possessing 6 Fighters and a Rocket skill barrage. Her support is nice, but unreliable due to the random chance involved. Overall, she is a good ship.

Le Malin µ is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to multiple, reliable skill barrages. Her bulk is also pretty good due to multiple self-buffs and small heals throughout her kit. Overall, she is a good ship.

Roon µ is a tank-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is really good due to MGM+1 CA guns and good skill barrages. Her support is a bit unreliable due to its awkward timing and pattern, but it is nice to have. Overall, she is a great ship.

Taihou µ is a damage-oriented CV with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to multiple skill barrages; however her reliance on other µ ships for self-buffs hinders her damage potential. Overall, she is a good ship.

Tashkent µ is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is pretty good due to multiple skill barrages, and her summon makes up for only having 1 MGM. Her self-buffs are pretty bad outside of the summon, however. Overall, she is a good ship

Albacore µ is a damage-oriented SS with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Baltimore µ is a damage-oriented CA with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is mediocre due to a lack of good self-buffs, and she doesn't have any relevant fleet-wide support. Collection only.

Princeton is a damage-oriented CVL with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Peter Strasser is a damage-oriented CV with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is solid due to good stats and an on-strike barrage, but it is nothing exceptional. Her chance to set enemy speed to 0 is too random to take advantage of, but it is nice to have. She is ideally sortied with other KMS CVs to take advantage of the cooldown reduction she provides. Overall, she is a good ship.

Prinz Heinrich is a tank-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to her skill barrages and high FP stat and efficiencies. She can equip the Triple 283mm CB gun to help deal with shielded enemies. Her bulk is also good enough to Main Tank most content in the game. Overall, she is a great ship.

U-37 is a damage-oriented SS with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is among the top of SS, and her reload requirements allow her to equip a Mark 20 "Bidder" without needing a Snorkel. In addition, she also gains self-buffs when paired with other KMS SS. Overall, she is an amazing SS option.

Nürnberg is an AA-oriented CL with meh stats and skills. Her AA is good but not high enough to AA carry as a dedicated AA unit. Her personal damage is bad, and her SS EXP buff is situational at best, since calling in SS is unreliable on auto-battle. Overall, she is a meh ship.

Weser is a damage-oriented CVL with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Z24 is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Z28 is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Chao Hao is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Her lack of an AA Gun Mount, forcing her to use her Ghost AA Gun, actively hurts your fleet's AA capabilities. Collection only.

Ying Swei is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Her lack of an AA Gun Mount, forcing her to use her Ghost AA Gun, actively hurts your fleet's AA capabilities. Collection only.

Penelope is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

U-410 is a damage-oriented SS with meh stats and skills. Her damage in KMS Submarine Fleets is alright, but worse than all the gold ships. Collection only.

Fu Shun is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Kirov is a damage-oriented CL with good stats and great skills. Her personal damage is pretty good due to multiple skill barrages and her increased Main Gun range. Her bulk is also decent. Overall, she is a good ship.

Sovetskaya Belorussiya is a flagship-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her barrage is strong, and has a good pattern; although, it is a bit farther back than normal. She also has multiple heals for self-sutain over the course of fights, and even helps your Vanguard Fleet a little bit as well. Overall, she is a great ship.

Tallinn is a tank-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is alright due to her self-buffs and barrages, but it is still on the lower end of tank damage. Her bulk is really high due to her stats and barrier, enabling her to Main Tank any content with no issues. She is ideally equipped with a Northern Parliament or Iron Blood Main Gun for her skill. Overall, she is a great ship.

Gremyashchy is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Gromky is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Murmansk is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Pamiat' Merkuria is a tank-oriented CL with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is decent due to MGM+1 DD guns and a solid barrage. Her bulk is really high, especially when RNG rolls her way. Due to the RNG nature of her bulk, her tanking ability, esepcially when bossing, can be in doubt. Overall, she is a great ship.

Aquila is a damage / support oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her per-strike damage is good due to her 8 plane loadout and on-strike barrage. Depending on the equip in her 2nd slot, she can change modes between damage and support. In damage mode, she gains a preload and multiple offensive buffs. In support mode, she grants healing and shield support for the fleet. Overall, she is a great ship regardless of what mode she is in.

Duca degli Abruzzi is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is very balanced due to decent Main Guns, barrages, and her great torpedo damage. Her bulk is also pretty good as well due to her stats, and her Skill 2 adds to it further. Overall, she is a great ship.

Vittorio Veneto is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is high due to multiple self-buffs, good efficiencies, and a great timed barrage. She can reduce her first Main Gun salvo based on the number of other RN ships in the fleet, but that is not necessary for her to be good. The buff from using AP Guns or having RN ships from her Skill 3 is nice, but not necessary for her to be good. Overall, she is a great ship.

Libeccio is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Maestrale is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Nicoloso da Recco is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Torricelli is a damage-oriented SS with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

New Jersey is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with amazing stats and skills. Her shelling damage is really high, and combined with a great barrage makes her personal damage really high. Her self-buffs (especially the Main Gun Spread reduction) are also really good, further boosting her damage. Her crossfleet skill barrage is nice, and the buff is good when using USS CVs in the other fleet. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

San Francisco is a versatile CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is pretty good due to her stats, barrages, and MGM+1, and it is further amplified when in the Off-Tank position. As a Main Tank, she gains damage reduction to further amplify her bulk. In the Middle position, she gives your Vanguard a heal once per battle. As an Off-Tank, she further amplifies the damage your Vanguard Fleet does. Overall, she is a great ship, regardless of which mode she is in.

Ticonderoga is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is pretty good due to 8 planes and an on-strike barrage that can inflict DoT. She also has great bulk with damage mitigation for her first few instances of damage taken, as well as a small shield for your Vanguard. Overall, she is a great ship.

Boise is a damage-oriented CL with average stats and skills. Her personal damage is good with MGM+1 CL guns and a barrage. Her self-buffs are nothing special, however. Overall, she is an alright ship.

Morrison is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Independence (Retrofit) is a support-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is really good due to an 8 plane loadaout and an on-strike barrage. She also buffs CVs both inside and outside of your fleet, and gets a self-cooldown reduction on her first airstrike. Overall, she is an amazing CV.

Shimakaze is a damage-oriented DD with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is really high due to her high torpedo stat, high efficiencies, great self buffs and enemy resistence shread, and multiple good barrages. Since her Main Gun damage is bad, you want to run a very high reload Main Gun on her to maximize her barrage damage. Her bulk is fine, but not the greatest. Her crossfleet support is nice as well, but not required to make her worth using. Overall, she is an amazing DD.

Chikuma is a tank-oriented CA with good stats and skills. Her bulk is really high due to her self buff granting her +EVA Rate whenever her skill conditions activate. Her personal damage is meh due to only 1 MGM and middling barrages. Her support is also lackluster, with the AVI damage taken debuff being RNG reliant. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Katsuragi is a damage-oriented CV with good stats and skills. She has a full 8-plane CV loadout along with good plane efficiencies, making her damage good. Her barrage is very pretty, but each individual petal does a small amount of damage, and the main part of the barrage damage is converging torpedoes, which has an unreliable hit-rate. Her AVI damage reduction support is good, but very situational given that it requires an IJN fleet. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Umikaze is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Yamakaze is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Yura is a support-oriented CL with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage and support have contridicting requirements, forcing you to choose one or the other. Both modes are subpar anyway, making her not worth using. Collection only.

Yuudachi (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high due to MGM+1 DD Guns, high torpedo stat and efficiency, and great self-buffs. In addition, she does more damage to burned enemies, and her barrage applies burns, allowing her kit to be maximized without supports. Her bulk is also high due to her Skill 3 self-buffs as well. Her support is nice, but buffing other ships is not needed to make her worth using. Overall, she is an amazing DD.

Ulrich von Hutten is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high due to great shelling damage along with her self-buffs. When she is placed off-flag, she fires twice as fast, but deals less damage per volley; overall, this is a slight increase from using her at Flagship, due to more overall damage percent and more barrage procs. Her barrage is nice, but it is not worth to sync the slow it provides with anything. Her buff when equipped with an HE Main Gun is nice, but AP is still preferred against Medium/Heavy armored enemies. Her crossfleet is very nice defense for your other fleets, but is not necessary for her to be good. Overall, she is an amazing BB.

Magdeburg is a damage-oriented CL with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is middling due to only 1 MGM. Her barrage can make it better, but it requires winning 2 battles to improve it to a good level. Her self-buffs are also reliant on winning battles throughout the sortie. Her bulk is fine; nothing special but not awful either. Her AA is fine; nothing special. Overall, she is a good CL.

Prinz Adalbert is a tank-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to her skill barrages and high FP stat and efficiencies. She can equip the Triple 283mm CB gun to help deal with shielded enemies. Her bulk is also good enough to Main Tank most content in the game. Her Skill 2 can also redirect damage that was intended for other Vanguard ships, making her have utility even outside of the Main Tank position. Overall, she is a great ship.

Elbe is a damage-oriented CVL with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is middling due to 6 planes. Her airstrike barrage is not 100% proc chance and also middling. The shield she provides is not worth using her for. Collection only.

U-1206 is a damage-oriented SS with meh stats and skills. You would only use her as a transitional KMS submarine while you are trying to build the better KMS submarines. Collection only.

Bristol is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is alright despite 1 MGM, since her barrages are good and she has AoA reduction. Her AA is also good, due to having a relatively high AA stat and efficiencies compared to other DDs. Her lanturn debuff is amazing if it lands, but due to the zone spawing in front of Bristol, it is unreliable to trigger on auto-battle. Overall, she is a good ship.

Charybdis is a support-oriented CL with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is bad due to only 1 MGM and bad barrages. Her AA damage is good, but nothing special. Her Skill 1 whirlpool is very underwhelming and has a small AoE. Collection only.

Hai Chi is a damage-oriented CL with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is alright due to MGM+1 DD Guns. Her smokescreen is unreliable on auto-battle due to your Vanguard Fleet moving in and out of it repeatedly. Her lack of an AA Gun Mount actively hurts your fleets AA output. Collection only.

Hai Tien is a damage-oriented CL with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is alright due to MGM+1 DD Guns and decent barrages. However, her lack of an AA Gun Mount actively hurts your fleets AA output. Collection only.

An Shan (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is amazing due to great self-buffs, MGM+1 DD Guns, a Missile, and multiple good barrages. Never use her in Main Fleet Mode; Vanguard Fleet Mode is a lot better for her self-damage. The Missile Strike is nice, but is not necessary for her viability. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Chang Chun (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is amazing due to great self-buffs, MGM+1 DD Guns, a Missile, and multiple good barrages. Never use her in Main Fleet Mode; Vanguard Fleet Mode is a lot better for her self-damage. Her buff to other Dragon Empery and Northern Parliament ships is nice, but not necessary for her viability. The Missile Strike is nice, but is not necessary for her viability. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Kronshtadt is a tank-oriented CB with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is high due to MGM+1 CB Guns, as well as multiple skill barrages. She should be equipping a high-caliber Main Gun for faster Skill 1 barrages. She should also be equipping a Northern Parliament equipment to massively increase her secondary gun damage. Her bulk is also very high as well due to her raw stats, as well as minor buffs from her Skill 2 and Skill 3 further augmenting it. Her crossfleet is also nice, but not necessary for her viability. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Kiev is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good, despite only 1 MGM, due to multiple good barrages. The Skill 1 barrage is only buffed on the 2nd and 3rd activations, making her slightly more mobbing-oriented. Her Skill 2 gives her minor self-buffs, but you will realistically never use her as a solo vanguard. Overall, she is a good ship.

Volga is a support-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to having the full 8-plane CV loadout, and multiple barrages. She lacks a lot of self-buffs except from her Skill 3, which should be satisfied very easily. Her Skill 2 provides a lot of healing, but two out of the three heals have random targetting. Overall, she is a great ship.

Arkhangelsk is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. Her barrage is 100%, but has mediocre damage. The +ACC buff to your Main Fleet is not that useful as well. Her Skill 2 is just self-buffs, but they aren't large enough to affect her viability. Collection only.

Soobrazitelny is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Her Skill 1 has a smokescreen, which is very rng. Her Skill 2 is alright, but the heal is only to SN DDs, AND limited in activation chances. The Skill 2 barrage is nothing special as well. Collection only.

Impero is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to her 8 plane loadout, and a (unfortunately not 100%) timed barrage. Her first skill gives her a reduced reload for her first airstrike when equipping a fighter, allowing her to desync with the rest of your Main Fleet. However, due to her low reload stat relative to other Main Fleet ships, she will eventually catch up after a few airstrikes. Her Dive Bomber mode is not useful due to the damage bonus only applying to 1 airstrike overall, and making her slow reload even slower. Her Skill 2 is effectively useless, as the HP is just being transferred around instead of outright healing. Overall, she is a great ship.

Pompeo Magno is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to MGM+1 DD Guns and good FP. Her torpedo damage is not good, and neither is her barrage damage. Her Skill 1 special burn is not that special, as it does little damage. Her Skill 2 buffs her torpedo damage, but it isn't enough to make her torpedo damage stand out. Her bulk is also decent due to gaining 30% more stats from auxiliaries. Overall, she is a good ship.

Trieste is a damage-oriented CA with bad stats and skills. Despite her stats being damage-oriented, her skills are bulk-oriented, making her bad at both. Collection only.

Emden is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. She has top CL damage due to her strong barrages and guns, plus an interesting torpedo gimmick. CL gun mode has more damage, but DD gun mode has slightly less damage for solid utility. Either mode works extremely well. Bulk is average, but DD gun mode's heal helps. Overall, she is VERY good. No ghost AA gun, meaning she doesn't drag your fleet down in AA heavy worlds.

Lützow is a flagship-oriented BC, with solid stats and an alright barrage. Has a meh debuff, and is otherwise very "traditional." Overall, seems solid; nothing exceptional, but not awful. No ghost AA gun, meaning she doesn't drag your fleet down in AA heavy worlds.

Seydlitz is an off-flag damage-oriented BC with great stats and skills. She can off-flag if needed. You want her to have a high % of health as possible, although the damage redistribution goes against that. Main gun salvo reduction is great in mobbing, and she can give other SMS BB/BC the same reduction. Damage output is also fairly solid, making her great in bosses. Overall seems great; nothing exceptional, but she has great damage and the first salvo cooldown reduction. Typical event SSR. No ghost AA gun, meaning she doesn't drag your fleet down in AA heavy worlds.

What did you expect from a purple torpedo focused CL with meh stats, skills, and efficiencies? She's bad, just like a typical event purple. Waifu only. No ghost AA gun, meaning she doesn't drag your fleet down in AA heavy worlds.

Stats are meh, and barrage pattern is not that great. Debuff is alright, but still worse than other BB support like Duke of York. She's bad, but it could be worse. Waifu only. No ghost AA gun, meaning she doesn't drag your fleet down in AA heavy worlds.

Has meh bulk for a tank, but damage is lacking. Worse than Portland Kai as a tank, therefore not really worth using outside waifu. She's bad, but it could be worse. Waifu only. No ghost AA gun, meaning she doesn't drag your fleet down in AA heavy worlds.

Little Eugen is basically a normal Eugen sidegrade. Since normal Eugen is only tank and nothing else, Little Eugen falls into the same category. Waifu Protecc only.

Vanguard is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with amazing stats and skills. Her AA is very high, allowing her to help the vanguard in plane-heavy areas situationally. Her debuffs are amazing, allowing the entire fleet to take advantage of them. Her personal damage is pretty good with MGM+2 BB Guns, and a good barrage, especially since she can take advantage of her own debuffs. The Secondary Gun Crit Rate buff looks nice on paper but is useless outside W14. Her crossfleet barrage + buff are nice, but not necessary for her to be good. You want to use an HMS equipment on her, which is most likely going to be Twin 40mm Bofors STAAG, among other great HMS Secondary Gun or AA Gun options. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Indomitable is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Don't pair her with Prince of Wales or Repulse (Repulse META is fine, but not necessary!), and ideally she is sortied without her fellow Illustrious-class sisters as well. Her 6 fighter 2 torpedo bomber loadout is very nice against light and medium armor targets when equipped with the BF-109G, and has a nice balance of damage and AA with a traditional fighter. Her Skill barrages add more free damage as well. Overall she is a great ship.

Jervis is a mob-tank oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her AoA barrage is good, making her damage output solid even though she only has 1 MGM. Her heal is nice, however it's not enough to support an entire fleet on its own. Her Skill 1 buffs are very situational, with the HMS support being practically useless, and the "only in DD/CL fleet" buff being W14 / W15 specific. Her Skill 2 gives her great bulk when placed in the tank position;however, with her low HP her bulk against bosses is in doubt. She also has 30% Aux stat gain which helps add to her bulk. Overall, she is a great ship.

Revenge is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with bad stats and skills. Her stats are bad compared to gold BBs, and the skills don't make up for them. Her Barrage is very meh, the armor break is alright but not worth sacrificing a BB slot for, and the second skill in its entirety is purely a gimmick. Collection only.

Bellona is a support-oriented CL with good stats and great skills. Bulk is alright, AA is pretty high but not carry level, but her damage output is mediocre. The only redeeming factor about her is the Air Raid Assistance CV buff, combined with her higher than average AA. HMS buff is not worth for the most part due to how situational and bad it is. Overall, she is good as a carrier buffer and for AA support, but not worth using outside this niche.

Unicorn (Retrofit) is a healer-oriented CVL with great stats and amazing skills. She gains a preload which helps a lot with mobbing, and also gains backline healing capabilities as well. Her healing amount is also high as well. Overall, she is the best healer in the game, surpassing Perseus.

Little Cheshire is an AA-oriented CA with good stats and skills. Her bulk and surface damage output are alright, and the AA output remains close to normal Cheshire. Has a self-heal skill as well. Overall she's one of the better loli ships, but outside AA heavy areas she is not useful.

Joffre is a solid CV with great stats and efficiencies. Barrages are great; she wants to be in the bottom position for the torpedo bomber barrage. Solid CV, worthy of being an event SR.

L'Indomptable is a solid DD with great FP and Main Gun Efficiency. Her Torpedo Stat and Torpedo Efficiency sucks, but her skills bring them back up to respectable levels. Skill 2 is practically useless in PvE (since if ships are almost dying something has gone wrong), and is mainly for stall memeing. Barrages are solid, and work great with AoA shot reduction. Solid DD, worthy of being an event SR.

What did you expect from a purple torpedo focused CL with meh Stats, Skills, and Efficiencies? Her saving grace is that her AoA barrage is alright. She's bad, just like a typical event purple. Waifu only.

Roma is a great BB, with great stats and skills. Barrage is solid, and doesn't require flagship position; the failed proc benefits are decent as well. She is guarenteed max critical damage/rate stacks at 30s into the battle, which is early enough to be relevant especially versus a boss. The sonar part of her skill is useless. The fast load from sortieing with 3 Italians is nice if you can fulfil the requirements, but it is not mandatory for her to be great. Overall, she is a great off-flag BB; typical event SR.

Giuseppe is a solid CL, with solid stats and skills. Her skills give her great self-buffs, although some expire at 60s into the battle and others only activate 20s in. Due to only 1 MGM, she is torpedo and barrage oriented for her damage output. The instant AoA when sortied with 3 Italians is nice if you can fulfil the requirements, but is not mandatory.Overall seems great, but is nothing exceptional; typical event SR

Leonardo is a great SS, with high TRP and OXY. Her OXY and RLD are high enough to use a Mark 20 "Bidder" without a Snorkel. Due to her first skill, using one of Twin 135mm (Model 1938), or Twin 120mm (Model 1936) is highly recommended. Remember to check your Depot -> Craft menu as well. Her summon and barrages are nice added bonuses as well. Her third skill is situational at best, but is always nice to have. Overall, she is a very good SS, and is a great option in any Submarine Fleet.

Alfredo is a bad DD with alright FP, but meh/bad other stats. Her efficiencies, coupled with only 1 MGM, make her damage output bad as well. The flares are situational at best, and so is the smokescreen. Overall, she is bad; collection only.

Bolzano is a bad CA with meh/bad stats. Her skills improve her bulk a decent bit, but she is still not tanky enough to main tank most content. Her damage ouput is average at best as well. Overall, she is bad; collection only.

Emanuele Pessagno is a bad DD with alright FP, but meh/bad other stats. Her skills are decent, and her high main gun efficiency give her decent damage despite 1 MGM. The second skill is all situational at best. Overall she is bad, but it could be worse; collection only.

Brünhilde is a great off-flag BC. She has great damage output due to her solid stats and double barrages. She has multiple forms of BB support from her slow and her BB accuracy buffs as well. Her barrages are not position dependent, which is always nice to see. Ideally, she is sortied with both her self-buff skill requirements met. Overall, she is a very solid BC. Typical event SR.

Blücher is a great tank-oriented CA. She has great damage output from her self-buffs, barrages, and ghost guns. She also has decent bulk from her stats and skills. Due to her damage absorption, she might not tank high-damage output bosses that well; this needs more testing. Overall, she is a very solid tank. Typical event SR.

Z16 is a mixed bag. Her stats are not high, and 1 Main Gun with subpar barrages makes her damage output meh. She boosts her AP gun damage, but has low base FP. She gains the Torpedo spread reduction Limit Break benefit, but has subpar torpedos. Her mines are a neat gimmick, but are practically useless in standard gameplay. Overall, she is collection only. Gives +1 DD FP Fleet Technology.

Charles Ausburne (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Since Beaver Squadron Tag is wasted on DDs compared to tank cruisers, all aspects requiring it are practically useless. Her damage got buffed from her base form, and she gained a new barrage to further improve it, but it still doesn't make her better than starter retrofits. Overall, she is a good ship.

Musashi is an off-flag capable BB with top tier damage and bulk. She has a guaranteed barrage on main gun fire, a variety of very strong self-buffs, and a crossfleet barrage to boot. She still prefers flagship due to barrage pattern, but can work off-flag. For the IJN Main Gun requirement, the best options are the Twin 410mm Kai (HE, no syncing), the Triple 460mm (AP, no syncing), or Triple 410mm (AP, syncing). The enhanced barrage is a sizable upgrade, but since Musashi overkills most content in a good fleet regardless, it's fine to ignore it. For the IJN gear requirement, use the Type 1 AP Shell as an Auxilary. Overall, Musashi is amazing, and is highly worth getting.

Sakawa is a torpedo-oriented CL, best used as an off-tank/Mob main-tank. While she only has 1 MGM, her 2 barrages help keep her damage at respectable levels. She also has great bulk, and great potential to increase both her bulk and damage as the battle drags on. Overall, she is solid; nothing spectacular but not awful either.

Wakatsuki is a hybrid-oriented DD best used as a middle-position damage dealer. She has solid stats with multiple barrages and MGM+1, which give her great bullet spam. She also has a secondary built-in ASW mount, which is nice in submarine-heavy areas but useless outside of that. Ignore the Akizuki-class sortie buff when using her, it is not needed at all for her to be good. Overall, she is solid; one of the best DDs currently.

Haguro is a tank-oriented CA best used as a main tank. She has good enough HP, which coupled with her great Luck and Evasion (which can get boosted further from her torpedoes!) gives her high bulk. She also has a self-heal when the skill barrage activation fails. Her barrages and MGM are very mediocre for the role, however. Overall, she is a great pure tank, but has bad damage output for the role.

Miyuki is a torpedo-oriented DD with meh stats compared to other ships in her role. Her guns and AA aren't good, and her torpedoes and skills are not good enough to make her noticable. In particular, ramming and evasion reliant skills are huge gimmicks for low HP ships like Miyuki. Collection only.

Juneau (Retrofit) is an AA-oriented CL with surprisingly decent damage on the side. The retrofit doubled her surface damage output, while also increasing her AA capabilities further. She is now vastly more viable in PvE than before. Overall, she is great as an AA ship, with decent damage to go along with it.

Shropshire (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented CA best used as a middle-position damage dealer. The retrofit improved her damage drastically, giving her a London Retrofit-esque slot 2 and a vanguard-wide support skill. However, her bulk still remains especially frail, which can be a concern on certain stages. Overall, she is a solid option; nothing special, but not bad either.

Albion is a damage-oriented CVL with great stats and skills.
Positives: Her damage per strike is very high, due to both her loadout being good and the barrage being amazing. Her debuff is great as well, although targetting can be a bit wack against multiple enemies. In addition, she helps keep herself and other Main Fleet ships hidden, and reduces their burn damage, which is always nice.
Negatives': The ASW part of her skill is situational at best, and so is the overhealing shield.
Verdict': Above average damage-oriented CV; not top-tier but certainly very good.

Janus is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and barrages, but average skills.
Positives: Skill 2 is amazing, and when coupled with her stats and amazing barrages make her damage output (both direct and indirect) on the higher end for DDs.
Negatives': Only 1 Main Gun Mount hinders damage output a bit. Skill requirements ruin fleetbuilding. The shield benefit is nice but requires 2 other HMS ships in the fleet, and the self-buff requires her sister, which is impractical in most cases.
Verdict': Above average DD; starter level or better.

Royal Fortune is a Frigate (basically Submarine), that surfaces instantly and shoots guns at enemies instead of staying underwater and shooting torpedoes like normal Submarines.
Positives: Assuming she is on the field for the full 60s duration, her damage on paper vs Light/Med enemies is really strong/comparable to traditional Submarines (especially in the first 30s), and extra support in the form of the slow is always nice to see.
Negatives': Her damage against heavy armor is very mediocre/bad compared to traditional Submarines. Her bulk is also on the lower side, so how long she stays on the field in practice is to be determined.
Verdict': Top non-faction dependent submarine.

Manchester is a damage-oriented CL with average FP, bad Torpedoes, and good skills.
Positives: Both her skills are very good; boosting her self damage and faster torpedoes are great.
Negatives': Her personal damage is lackluster due to a mediocre AoA and only 1 CL Main Gun Mount. The Torpedo stat is so bad that it doesn't make up for the lack of bullet damage.
Verdict': Waifu only.

Yorktown II is an amazing CV with amazing stats and skills. She has 9 planes, and great stats and efficiencies, making her damage output about equal to the other Rainbow CVs. Due to her barrages, she is best used against Light or Medium armor enemies, but still holds up very well against Heavy overall. Her support is amazing as well, with her AA resistance decrease, and additional USS CV damage buffs on top of it. Crossfleet is always nice to have as well. For the USS plane requirement, there are a lot of great options, check out a gear guide for more information. Amazing CV, highly worth getting.

Hornet II is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. There is nothing special here, it's just typical CV self-buffs and barrages, making her damage really good. She is ideally used against Light/Medium armor enemies due to her barrages. She even has a survivability bonus. Great CV, highly worth getting.

Northampton is a damage/support-oriented CA. She has enough bulk to off-tank most content. She buffs other cruisers in the same fleet (inlcuding herself), and has a 50% slow when used in a fleet that has a USS CV/CVL as flagship. In addition, MGM+1 coupled with great stats and barrages make her damage really high for a CA. Great CA, highly worth getting.

Hammann II is a support-oriented DD that has bad surface damage but more than makes up for it with utility. She has a CV damage buff, flagship protection, and high enough AA to keep CVs hidden most of the time. She even has a special ASW mount to buff her damage there. Bad surface damage drags her down, along with subpar bulk. Great CV buffer.

Langley II is a support-oriented CVL that has decent damage and great support. Due to her personal damage being mediocre, she is most likely not worth using over other damage options, despite the CV support. Decent, but you probably have something better.

Kuybyshev is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. She has MGM+1 along with multiple decent barrages, giving her great damage. She also has decent bulk, especially when paired with another SN ship. The Northern Parliament vanguard critical damage boost, while nice, is not a game-changer in practice. Great event SSR, highly worth getting.

Theseus is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. She has a full 8-plane CV loadout along with great plane efficiencies, giving her good damage. In addition, she also has multiple barrages, which give her good built-in damage stagger. She also buffs her own bulk, although in most cases those effects are not relevant. Typical event SSR, not amazing but not awful either.

Hwa-Jah is supposed to be a damage-oriented CVL, but with 6 Seaplanes her personal damage is awful. The barrage isn't good enough to carry. Collection-only. Note: She has CV RLD+1 fleet technology at Level 120.

Ting An is a support-oriented AE with bad personal damage. Her stats are not very good, since her AVI is too low to do any personal damage even with barrages. In addition, her HP is too low for her to main tank. Her Skill 1 buffs are very rng reliant on getting the right ones, and even then other buffers can do the job way better. Just use a ship that has high personal damage instead. Collection only.

Yat Sen (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. She always had enough bulk to main tank most mob content, but now that doesn't require Ning/Ping Hai. Her personal damage is vastly increased due to higher gun efficiencies and FP stat. In addition, she loses reliance on Ning/Ping Hai for her own bulk, although you still need her to buff Ning/Pings bulk in China Wall teams. Retrofit skill fires a decent barrage every 12s as well, which is decent free damage. Great improvement over base Yat Sen, and an above-average CL overall.

Implacable is a support-oriented CV with great damage and amazing skills. Her skills are confusing, but for the most part your fleet is guaranteed max stacks of "No Mercy" every airstrike, giving her great damage output. Her support freezes the enemy, which is amazing for other BBs and CVs alike to land their shots/bombs/torpedoes. The crossfleet is basically negligible for most intentd and purposes though, since the effect is only once per battle. Overall, she is an amazing ship; highly worth getting.

Royal Oak is a off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and interesting skills. Her barrage is based upon taking damage or after 20s has passed, both of which allow her to run a shelling gun instead of a barrage gun. Her damage redirection is niche and her self heal is useless for most purposes since backline ships rarely take meaningful damage. She technically prefers flagship but is fine as an off-flag. Overall, typical event SSR. Not horrible but not top tier.

Scylla is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her equipment loadout is nothing to write home about, but her barrages are all very good, making her damage really high. Her supportive capabilities are all worse than existing good ships. Her AA is above average. Overall, highly worth getting.

Argus is a support-oriented CVL with average stats but amazing skills. She buffs carriers inside and outside of the fleet, and has a self airstrike cooldown reduction for damage desyncing. Her personal damage is very mediocre however, especially if the barrage does not proc. Solid ship all around.

Hero attempts to be a damage-oriented DD but has terrible stats. The skill are nice, especially the barrages (either of them), but it's not enough to get her over the hump. Collection only.

Kursk is a damage-oriented CA with decent stats and very unique skills. Her damage is above average, but nothing exceptional. The AoA is decent, the bombs are also decent, and the special submarines fire a decent number of torpedoes, all giving her great damage alongside the MGM+1 main gun. Overall, she is a great CA.

Voroshilov is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her special secondary gun is really good, and mostly compensates for her lack of a 2nd MGM. Her barrages are also really good, and her bulk is excellent to boot. Her Frozen debuff is nice, but not needed for her to be amazing. Overall, she is a great ship.

Sevastopol is a barrage-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. Her barrage would be nice if the proc rate was higher, but 50% is too rng to be reliable. In addition, the heal is very minor compared to using a dedicated healer (like Unicorn). Overall, she is collection only.

Bismarck Zwei is an amazing damage-oriented BB. Her Skill 1 gives her great self-buffs, along with a barrage that is able to take advantage of the zone it creates. Her Skill 2, especially the Release part, gives her a summon that does great, consistent, damage to enemies on the field. Her crossfleet skill is decent, but KMS CVs aren't good enough yet to make a KMS CV fleet worthwhile. Overall, she is an amazing BB; highly worth getting.

Regensburg is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and interesting skills. Her skills incentivize her being in a KMS fleet, which is suboptimal. In addition, her skill locks on to enemies every 15s, which doesn't sync well with current options. Furthermore, her skills give her more bonuses if there is a locked on enemy alive at the time of activation, which is unreliable outside of bossing. Her barrages are pretty good, but only 1 MGM hurts her damage. Overall, she is a good CL.

Otto von Alvensleben is a mob-tank oriented DD with great damage and skills. Her Skill 1 gives her a great barrage every 15s, which is where the majority of her damage comes from. Her Skill 2 greately increases her bulk along with the 30% auxiliary stat boost from max limit-break. Despite the AoA reduction when using a CL gun, a DD gun will be better the majority of the time. Overall, she is a great DD.

U-556 META is an amazing damage-dealer SS with great stats and skills. Her stats are pretty typical for an SSR SS. She gets torpedo crit rate and self torpedo buffs from her skills, further boosting her damage. In addition, her Skill 3 allows her to spam a torpedo barrage, albeit a weak one. You do NOT need Bismarck / Bismarck Zwei in the fleet for her to be viable. Overall, she is an amazing SS.

Jade is a damage-oriented CVL that has meh damage and stats. Collection only.

Nelson (Retrofit) is a flagship-oriented BB with great stats and skills. She gains 15% more main gun efficiency, bringing her gun damage up to par with other SSR BBs. Her barrage proc rate also increases to 100%, although it still suffers the same issues as the original Big Seven (not arcing, not as single-target oriented). The single target barrage is decent, but nothing amazing. Overall, she is a great ship; one of the best easily acquirable BBs for new players.

Taihou-chan is a damage oriented CV with average stats and great skills. Her stats are lower than other good CVs due to being elite rarity, but they are still good enough. Her skills give her a self AVI boost, as well as a timed barrage and Main Fleet support. Overall, she is a good CV.

Regolo is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. She has MGM+1 with AoA reduction, making her gun damage pretty good. In addition, her Skill 1 further adds on to her gun damage. Improving the proc chance of her Skill 2 by using RN ships is not relevant to her viability. Her AoA is also pretty good. Overall, she is a great DD.

Goriza is a mob-tank/damage-oriented CA with great stats and and skills. Her main gun damage is pretty solid since she has MGM+1 with good FP. She is ideally sortied with an RN equipment to improve the proc chance of her Skill 1 barrage. Her Skill 2 also adds to her bulk a bit. Overall, she is a great CA.

Doria is a flagship-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. Her barrage proc chance is only 50%, which is not good. Her supportive capabilities do not justify using her over other easily accessible BB options. Collection only.

Marseillaise is a mob-tank oriented CL with good stats and great skills. Her stats are pretty average for a gold CL, but her skills give her a lot of bulk to make up for it. Her damage is alright due to her barrages but only 1 MGM hurts. She also buffs French ships in the same fleet, however there aren't enough French ships currently to make this worthwhile. Overall she is a great CL, especially given that she is free for everyone!

Clemenceau is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and skills. She trades 1 Main Gun Mount for a preloaded shot, which is nice for short fights, but hinders her damage output in longer fights. She is ideally sortied with French equipment in order to increase her barrage proc rate. Her self-buffs from having French ships in the fleet are not worth building around. Overall, she is a good BB.

Guichen is a mob-tank oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her damage is above average for a 1 MGM CL due to a good AoA which ignores shields and pierces, as well as her Skill 1. Her bulk is good enough to mob-tank, but not good enough against bosses. Her stop is not worth building a fleet around. Overall, she is a good CL.

Painleve is a healer-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her Skill 1 is great support for your fleet regardless of which version is triggered. Her Skill 2 heals both herself and the vanguard a good amount, but 5s after an airstrike is fired might be too slow for some fleet compositions. Compared to other healers, having 8 planes is a huge benefit to her own personal damage. Overall she is a great CV.

Kersaint is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Her skill is alright, but the heal is useless and the other two are useless when her base damage is already really low. Collection only.

Lyon is a damage-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. Her Main Gun damage is meh, and her barrage is only a 50% proc rate making her average damage even worse. Collection only.

Suffren is a damage-oriented CA with meh stats and skills. Her skills boost her damage by a decent bit, however her base damage is so low with only 1 MGM and low torpedo stats that it doesn't really make a difference. Her bulk is also not good enough to act as a tank for neither a boss nor mob fleet. Collection only.

West Virgina (Retrofit) is a flagship damage-oriented BB with great stats and good skills. Her barrage is only a 70% proc rate, which is not ideal; however her shelling damage is above average to make up for it. She is ideally sortied with another BB/BC to enhance both her barrage and supportive capabilities as well. Overall, she is a good BB option.

Unzen is a damage-oriented CA with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high due to MGM+1 CA Guns, multiple barrages, and amazing torpedo self-buffs. Her torpedo damage is very high due to the CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG bonuses given to them. Her bulk is not good enough to Main Tank hard content, but it is more than enough to Off-Tank or put her in the middle Vanguard position. Due to her low base torpedo stat when compared to other torpedo ships, using a Type 93 Pure Oxygen Torpedo gives her a very sizable damage increase compared to using it on other ships, and she has enough bulk even while equipping one to be fine, especially in the middle position. Her crossfleet skill is nice but unimportant. Overall, she is an amazing CA, suitable for any fleet.

Owari is a off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is high due to her high self-buffs, good main gun efficiency, and great barrages. Her barrage has a lot of its damage aimed, but since some of it is centered, she is slightly better as a Flagship than as an Off-Flag. Her "Best Buds" support given to other ships is nice but unreliable in its targetting. She is ideally sortied such that her Skill 2 condition for barrage activation chance is satisfied. Overall, she is a great ship.

Hatsuzuki is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is very balanced, with MGM+1 and solid torpedoes, as well as multiple barrages comprised of both shells and torpedoes. Her bulk is also pretty good for a DD, as she has some EVA and EVARate self buffs; however, her HP is still somewhat low. Her fleetwide damage-reduction is nice to have. She is ideally sortied with multiple IJN ships to make use of her Skill 1 Stack requirements. Overall, she is a great ship.

Natori is a damage-oriented CL with meh stats and good skills. During the first 30s of battle, her personal damage is actually pretty good due to multiple great barrages, including a mini carpet-bomb that does great damage. Her bulk is also pretty good as well, with a good shield as well as damage reduction for all CLs in the fleet. Overall, she is a good ship, especially when mobbing.

Asanagi is a support-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Her personal damage is bad, and her support is useless due to the 10s cooldown not justifying a 0.3s duration. Collection only.

Nachi (Retrofit) is a tank-oriented CA with good stats and skills. Her bulk is good enough to tank most content, and she has great fleet support, especially with other CA/CL/CB. Her personal damage is meh due to only 1 MGM. Her Skill 1 can be both situationally good or bad, depending on the damage of the stage she is on, so be wary. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

São Martinho is an off-flag oriented IXM with great stats and great skills. Her damage is heavily hindered by her equipment options, but is still good despite that, due to MGM+5 and good barrages and self-buffs. In addition, she even has a almost-Preloaded Main Gun, helping clear mob fights faster. Her Tempesta Faction buff is nice, but not necessary to take advantage of for her viability. Her bulk against AVI damage is very bad, due to having 0 base AA stat. Overall, she is a great ship.

Golden Hind is a damage-oriented IXV with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great, with MGM+2 DD guns as well as a great barrage. Her bulk is a bit on the frail side, but that is made up for by 3 auxiliary slots. In addition, she has no AA support, and has very decreased bulk against AVI damage due to her 0 base AA stat. Overall, she is a great ship.

Mary Celeste is a damage-oriented IXS with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high, but it is heavily skewed towards Light and Medium Armor enemies. Her support is also decent, although the effectiveness of her "Ghost Ship" at redirecting enemy damage is to be determined. Overall, she is a great ship.

Adventure Galley is a damage-oriented IXV with good stats and skills. Her damage is alright due to MGM+1, as well as a decent skill barrage. Her bulk is on the frailer side, but 3 auxiliary equipment slots somewhat offset that. In addition, she has no AA support, and has very decreased bulk against AVI damage due to her 0 base AA stat. Overall, she is a good ship, but at best she is a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Whydah is a damage-oriented IXS with meh stats and skills. Her damage is heavily skewed towards Light Armor, due to her DD Guns. Her bulk is also suspect, especially in longer fights. Overall, she is good, but not comparable to SR Submarines.

Houston II is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to MGM+1 supplemented with good barrages. Her bulk is pretty good as well, with her Skill 2 giving her a lifeline once she is at low health. Overall, she is a great ship.

Guam is a tank-oriented CB with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is high due to MGM+1 CB Guns, as well as multiple skill barrages. Her bulk is also very high as well due to her raw stats, as well as her Skill 2 barrier further augmenting it. Her AA capabilities are near the top of the game due to AA+1, as well as her raw AA stat plus her self-buffs. The 15% buff to AA that Guam grants to low AA ships is nice, but not necessary for her to be viable. Her crossfleet is also nice, but not necessary for her viability. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Laffey II is a damage-oriented DD with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high; despite only having 1 MGM, she has 2 summons as well as multiple skill barrages to augment her damage further. Her Skill 2 grants her a special AA gun, as well as AA self-buffs, that raise her AA to very high levels when combined with her existing 180% AA mount. You want to equip her with a USS equipment due to her Skill 2. In addition, she can also keep USS CVs hidden more easily due to reducing their detection gauge. Her Skill 3 adds to her bulk significantly. Despite her Skill 1 self barrage starting at 70%, for all procs after the first one it is very easy for it to maintain 100% proc chance. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Constellation is an off-flag oriented BC with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is very good due to an effective 100% proc chance barrage when equipped with a USS gear, as well as her self-buffs. Since most trash mobs are very slow, the buff to enemies with lower speed is nice, but trash mobs die quickly anyway so this buff's effectiveness is diminished. Overall, she is a great ship.

Flasher is a damage-oriented SS with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is very good, especially since she can debuff multiple enemies at once to take more damage from her. Her buffs for other Gato-class SS are nice, but not required to build the entire fleet around since she can trigger the requirement herself. The extra hunting range is nice, but not necessary for her viability. Overall, she is a great ship.

San Jacinto is a damage-oriented CVL with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is hindered somewhat by 6 planes, but she gets increased slot efficiency and skill barrages to compensate. The ASW strike from her Skill 1 is alright, but very niche since current ASW content is very easy to deal with. Her Skill 2 is nice, but reliant on her taking damage, which as a backline ship is somewhat rare. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Louisville is a damage-oriented CA with good stats and meh skills. Her personal damage is alright due to MGM+1 CA guns, but only 60% chance for her skill barrage is not ideal. Her bulk is mediocre even when accounting for her Skill 1 shields. Overall, she is a meh ship; at best a sidegrade to more easily available options.

Huan Ch'ang is a flagship-oriented BC with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to MGM+2 BB Guns and a good barrage. She is ideally sortied with another Dragon Empery ship to increase her barrage trigger chance to 100%. Her buff to either the Vanguard or Main Fleet is nice, but the Main Fleet buff is significantly more impactful than the Vanguard Fleet buff. Her Skill 2 allows her to ignore the Out-Of-Ammo debuff, making her more effective in a mob fleet compared to a boss fleet. Overall, she is a good ship.

Chi An is a damage-oriented CL with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Lung Wu is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. She has double the torpedo launches of a normal ship, but because of her stats being bad, this doesn't improve her viability. Collection only.

Hu Pen is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. She has double the torpedo launches of a normal ship, but because of her stats being bad, this doesn't improve her viability. Collection only.

Fei Yuan is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. She has double the torpedo launches of a normal ship, but because of her stats being bad, this doesn't improve her viability. Collection only.

Chen Hai (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented CVL with meh stats and good skills. Her loadout is drastically improved, but only 5 planes is still bad, despite the high efficiencies. She has multiple good barrages, but they don't make up for the lack of planes. Overall, she is a meh ship, and is outclassed by other easily accessible options.

Tai Yuan (Retrofit) is a damage-oriented DD with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is amazing due to great self-buffs, MGM+1 DD Guns, a Missile, and multiple good barrages. The shield from her Skill 2 barrage is nice, but not necessary for her viability. Never use her in Main Fleet Mode; Vanguard Fleet Mode is a lot better for her self-damage. The Missile Strike is nice, but is not necessary for her viability. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Sovetsky Soyuz is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is amazing due to very high self-buffs, very high Main Gun efficiencies, and a barrage that always procs and always lands on its target. Her Skill 1 applies debuffs to enemies hit by her barrage, increasing the damage of the entire fleet. Her Skill 2 grants buffs depending on the Main Fleet composition; both are very good and don't affect her usage at all. Her Skill 3 is defensive oriented, but not relevant in PvE content. Her crossfleet barrage is nice, but since it only triggers once per battle the other fleet cannot take advantage of the support from the barrage relaibly. Overall, she is an amazing ship; highly worth getting.

Ognevoy is a damage-oriented DD with good stats and great skills. Her self-buffs are great due to all 3 of her skills granting her an FP buff of some sort. Combined with her barrages, and her damage is great. Her Skill 2 triggering multiple times due to sinking enemies is nice, but unreliable due to the 70% proc rate of the original barrage. Her bulk is on the frailer end, so she is ideally sortied in the middle position of the Vanguard Fleet. Her Skill 1 heal is basically equivalent to a Repair Toolkit for the majority of battles, and is unable to solo-sustain a fleet during difficult content. Overall, she is a great ship.

Pamiat' Merkuria META is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to MGM+1 DD Guns, and multiple barrages (including her AoA that can ignore shields!). Her Skill 3 slows enemies within a reasonably sized radius of her, which is nice but somewhat unreliable. Her bulk is also very good due to her Skill 2 allowing her to evade damage, but her relatively lower bulk stats compared to other tanks makes her overall bulk worse than it seems. Overall, she is a great ship.

Poltava is an off-flag support-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is very lackluster due to low Main Gun efficiencies and FP stat. Her barrage is decent, but is unreliable due to requiring her to take damage. Since each Main Gun shell is counted individually, her Skiil 1 support will almost always trigger. Despite this, it is very mediocre due to the slow being a small amount and the damage buffs being for niche ships. Collection only.

Svirepy is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. She has few self-buffs, and only 1 MGM, making her damage mediocre. Her barrages are alright, but nothing special. Collection only.

Friedrich Carl is a tank-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is high, despite only having 1 MGM, due to possessing a special secondary gun, and having multiple aimed barrages from her Skill 2. She can equip the Triple 283mm CB Gun to bypass shields more effectively, along with her barrages already ignoring shields inherantly. She is ideally sortied in a full vanguard so she can give the off-tank Tuning. The heal from her Skill 1 is negligable, due to how little it will contribute over the course of the battle. Her bulk is also high due to her high HP, EVA self-buffs, and EVA Rate self-buffs. Overall, she is a great ship.

Nubian is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to MGM+1 DD Guns, and multiple barrages. She gains increased CRIT Rate / DMG as the battle goes on for longer, which is a solid buff. The slash attack is nice as it ignores shields, and clears bullets / torpedoes in its way. Her Skill 2 debuff is good, but the sonar is not that useful for the majority of content in the game. Furthermore, the debuff does not have a 100% proc rate. Overall, she is a great ship.

Devonshire is a damage-oriented CA with meh stats and skills. Her damage is mediocre outside of her Skill 1 barrage, but that alone is not enough to carry her. Her heal is alright, but nothing special as it's only 8% of her HP once per battle. Her Skill 2 is great, but doesn't have a 100% proc rate, and her equipped weapons are not strong enough to take advantage significantly. Overall, she is a meh ship, and is a sidegrade to other easily accessible options.

Liverpool is a damage-oriented CL with meh stats and skills. Her damage is mediocre outside of her Skill 1 barrage. She is ideally equipped with a fast torpedo to trigger her Skill 1 barrage more often. Her Skill 2 can generate a barrier when she is at low health, but she is still on the average side in terms of bulk. Her FP buff to other Vanguard Fleet ships is nice, but not worth her slot in the fleet. Overall, she is a meh ship, and is a sidegrade to other easily accessible options.

Noshiro μ is a support-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is good, despite only 1 MGM, due to her skill barrages and torpedoes. Her bulk is also fairly high due to her Skill 1, although it is not high enough to main tank hard content. Her Skill 2 is very good, inflicting a torpedo damage taken debuff to all enemies guaranteed. Overall, she is a great ship, best used in torpedo-oriented vanguards.

Formidable μ is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and good skills. Her personal damage is pretty good with 8 planes, an AVI self-buff, and a good skill barrage from her Skill 3. Her Skill 1 grants her a preloaded airstrike, but only if there are other μ ships in the fleet, making it somewhat difficult to build around since most μ ships are not good. Her Skill 2 is niche since it's impossible to sync up the stop with other Main Fleets ships, and its not a 100% proc chance. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options if she doesn't have a preload.

Eugen μ is a mob tank-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to her skill barrages and AoA. Her Skill 1 drains her own HP to give buffs to your other characters, which can hinder her bulk if not paired with a healer. Despite this, her bulk is still fairly good. Her Skill 2 increases her personal damage by a sizable amount, and has a chance to fire a barrage; unfortunately the barrage doesn't have a 100% proc chance. Overall, she is a great ship.

Boise μ is a damage-oriented CL with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to MGM+1 CL guns and a 100% chance barrage from her Skill 1. Her Skill 2 offers a small heal to all ships in your fleet, which can be nice but is unreliable if used as the only heal in the fleet. The reload buff it gives is a nice minor buff as well. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Le Téméraire μ is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is alright due to good self-buffs and great barrages, but they don't have 100% proc rate. Her heal is good but unreliable if used as the only heal in the fleet. Collection only.

Kongou μ is a support-oriented BC with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is fairly mediocre due to her stats and barrage numbers being mediocre. The support she offers your Vanguard Fleet and μ ships is not worth slotting her into a fleet. Collection only.

Shinano-chan is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to 9 planes and a timed Skill 1 barrage. The AA debuff from her Skill 1 is nice when buffing other CVs in your fleet. Her Skill 2 should NOT be built around when deciding who to use in the fleet. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Alsace is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high with MGM+2 BB Guns, and an aimed barrage as well. She has a preloaded Main Gun, which helps both when mobbing and bossing to deal with early wave enemies. Her increase to Main Gun capacity is nice for avoiding delays, but overall irrelevant in most content. Her Skill 1 inflicts a nice debuff to enemies, although due to its random targetting its more useful against single-target bosses. Her Skill 2 improves her Skill 1 to last for longer, but the extension isn't as useful since it already syncs with the Main Fleet; sortieing her with FFNF/MNF ships isn't necessary for this condition. Her Skill 3 barrage does no damage, and the heal can only trigger once per battle, making it only useful for the CRIT Rate buffs. Her crossfleet is nice, but not necessary for her viability. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Mogador is a damage-oriented DD with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is high with MGM+1 DD Guns, a good AoA, and multiple additional Main Gun shots from her skills. Her bulk can be suspect due to her Skill 1 lunging her forward, but any form of minor healing is enough to negate this. Her Skill 2 improves her bulk by a decent amount, and also allows her to fire 1 additional Main Gun shot every 3s. Her Skill 3 is also mainly for the additional Main Gun shot every 2s when hitting an enemy afflicted with a DoT. Overall, Mogador is an amazing ship.

Béarn META is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her Skill 1 gives her a 70% on-strike barrage, with a guaranteed trigger every 2 launches, which is good but not ideal. Her Skill 2 tornado isn't really relevant due to the 3 activation limit per battle, as well as it dealing almost no damage. Her Skill 3 can improve her Skill 1 barrage based on whether a CL gun or Dive Bomber is equipped in slot 3. In addition, her Skill 3 grants her a fast-load, which can be improved even further when equipped with a Dive Bomber. Due to this, equipping a Dive Bomber in slot 3 is generally preferred, due to the improved fast-load, Béarn META having better AVI scaling compared to FP scaling, and the barrage not getting blocked by shields. Overall, she is a great ship.

Brennus is a mob-tank oriented CA with great stats and good skills. Her personal damage is great due to MGM+1 CA Guns, and a good AoA. Her skills orient around her summoning swords (shields), and depending on how many of them remain intact, triggering certain effects. Due to the nature of shields in Azur Lane, chances are the majority of them will get destroyed before the 20s check, causing her Skill 2 barrage to do barely any damage. Due to the timings of the swords and the skill check not lining up, she will only have the swords active for 15s out of a 20s skill rotation. Her bulk is also good, but nothing exceptional, especially without any shields. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Épée is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Fleuret is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Collection only.

Colorado (Retrofit) is a flagship damage-oriented BB with great stats and good skills. Her damage is great due to MGM+2 BB guns, and an amazing barrage from her Skill 1; only a 70% barrage trigger chance is not ideal, however. Her Skill 2 self-buffs her FP and ACC by quite a bit. Overall, she is a great ship, but can be a sidegrade to other easily accessible options.

Little Friedrich is a flagship damage-oriented BB with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to MGM+2 BB Guns, and a solid proximity barrage. Her skill 2 barrage is weak, and it is not necessary to sortie her with other Little ships to improve its effectiveness. Overall, she is a good ship.

Alvitr is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to MGM+2 BB guns and 2 good barrages (one timed, one on Main Gun salvos). However, both barrages aren't 100% activation chance, and when the Skill 1 "spear" is moving backwards any shield will immediately destroy it. The special burn from her Skill 1 barrage is a nice bit of free damage as well. Her Skill 2 gives her CRIT self-buffs if her Skill 2 barrage hits enemies, which is doable to achieve if it procs. Overall, she is a great ship.

Z47 is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great despite 1 MGM due to a really good AoA barrage, with her Skill 1 Torpedoes adding on to it. It's recommended to equip a fast-firing Main Gun on her to maximize her barrage damage, such as the Twin 100 Kai or Twin 114; the blue fast guns are also not bad as transitional options. Her Skill 1 can increase her Torpedo Efficiency by 10% when equipped with any KMS weapon, which is easily doable with her Torpedoes. Her Skill 2 increases her damage against Light Armor enemies by a large amount if they are nearby, which is very good when it can activate. Overall, she is a great ship.

Z43 is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

U-31 is a damage-oriented SS with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Strasbourg is an off-flag damage-oriented BC with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good since she has decent self-buffs MGM+1 BB Guns, a preloaded Main Gun, and a cooldown reduction 2nd shot too. However, her barrage requirements are annoying to satisfy since you need 2 other MNF ships in the fleet to guarantee it. Her support to other MNF ships is nice, but not necessary for her to be viable. Her stats are on the lower side for a gold BB as well. Overall, she is a great ship.

L'Audacieux is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great, despite only 1 MGM, due to multiple good barrages and AoA reduction. Her skill 1 applies a debuff to enemies every 10s, indirectly increasing her own personal damage. Her skill 1 also gives her a self-buff that stacks as the battle goes on, which is really good. Her skill 2 is nice, but unreliable to proc. Overall, she is a great ship.

Dupleix is a damage-oriented CA with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Indiana is a off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to MGM+2 BB Guns, and multiple solid barrages. Her Skill 1 barrage isn't locked to her position, but does different damage amounts based on the trigger condition. The trigger condition for the second barrage is also annoying to hit, and both barrages do not ignore shields. Her Skill 2 barrage is decent, and can be triggered 3 times per proc due to the shield regenerating. Overall, she is a great ship, but can be a sidegrade to other easily accessible options.

Pittsburgh is a damage-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to MGM+1 CA Guns and her Skill 1 barrage. Her bulk is also good enough to off-tank. Her Skill 1 also inflicts a special burn on enemies, which can then trigger Armor Break when your flagship BB/BC/BBV fires a Main Gun shot, which is nice. Her Skill 2 AA gun is nice, but her AA is still not at the level of other AA carriers. Overall, she is a great ship.

Fargo is a support-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to MGM+1 CL Guns, and her Skill 2 barrage. Unfortunately, the Skill 2 barrage being a 70% trigger rate is not ideal. Her Skill 1 drops cargo on the field, which gives nice supplemental healing to your fleet. Her Skill 2 also provides a small buff to your Flagship's damage, which is better than nothing. Overall, she is a great ship.

Bell is a support-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Her TRP buff to other ships is RNG, so she's not even usable in that role compared to other TRP buffers like Kasumi META. Collection only.

Herring is a damage-oriented SS with bad stats and skills. Her heal to the surface fleet is RNG, and so is her retreat speed. Collection only.

Eldridge (Retrofit) is a support-oriented DD with good stats and amazing skills. Despite having 2 AA Guns post-retrofit, her AA is not enough to solo-carry a fleet; however, it is still above average. Upon retrofit, she gains a special ASW weapon with stats similar to a +10 Hedgehog, which drastically increases her ASW capabilities. Her Skill 1 provides complete immunity for all Vanguard damage taken, although the trigger condition can be hard to satisfy if she is in the center of the Vanguard Fleet. Her retrofit enhances this skill to prevent DoT or other self-damage from happening. The Skill 1 Barrage is also good. Her Skill 2 gives her a barrage whenever the Flagship launches their main weapons, which is aimed and does good damage. Her AoA is improved upon retrofit to also do more damage, which is nice; no AoA reduction hurts though. Overall, she is a great ship.

Zuihou is a healer-oriented CVL with average stats and good skills. Compared to Unicorn (Retrofit), Zuihou heals less overall, but part of her healing is based on her own HP, and all of her healing targets lower HP ships within the fleet (except 1 random tick from her Skill 1). Her Skill 1 barrage is good, but her personal damage is still mediocre due to a 6-plane loadout. Her Skill 2 buffs your Submarine Fleet and Main Fleet by a decent amount as well. Overall she is a great ship, but not worth using over Unicorn (Retrofit).

Neptune is a mob-tank oriented CL with good stats and skills. She only has 1 MGM, but her skill that boosts her AP damage makes up for it. Her AoA barrage is very good; however no pierce despite being AP hurts a bit. Her bulk is also fine, and supplemented by her self-heal. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to other easily accessible options.

Monarch is a flagship damage-oriented BB with great stats and good skills. Her main gun damage is great, and supplemented by a great barrage that can slow enemies hit. The barrage being 70% is not ideal, however. Her Skill 2 is effectively negligable for almost all battles, and the FS5 does not improve it much at all. Overall, she is a great ship, but can be a sidegrade to most modern event BBs.

Ibuki is a damage-oriented CA with good stats and great skills. She only has 1 MGM, but her double preloaded torpedoes allow her to frontload a large portion of damage. Her self-buffs to her torpedo damage boost it from middling to amazing, especially when combined with her high torpedo mount efficiency. Her Skill 2 barrage is amazing, especially after her Augment Module improved its damage and increased its trigger rate to 100%. The invulrunability gained from her Skill 2 is nice, but not too relevant for her. Overall, she is a great ship.

Izumo is a flagship damage-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her shelling damage is good, and combined with her barrage gives her great damage output. Her barrage has a 100% activation chance, which is very good considering how wide the barrge is. Her barrage can get partially blocked by enemy shields, but that shouldn't be an issue on most stages. Her AP damage taken reduction skill is nice to have, but not necessary for her viability. Overall, she is a great ship.

Roon is a tank-oriented CA with good stats and skills. Her bulk is good, which combined with her shields give her a solid amount of survivability. Her personal damage is also good, with MGM+1 CA guns combined with her self-buffs that get larger as the battle progresses. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to other easily accessible options.

Saint Louis is a mob-tank / damage-oriented CA with good stats and skills. Her bulk is good while her Skill 2 is up, but middling after. Her personal damage is good, with MGM+1 CA guns combined with her self-buffs when equipping an HE gun. You want to equip an HE gun to get the most value from her Skill 1. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to other easily accessible options.

Azuma is a tank-oriented CB with amazing stats and skills. Her bulk is very high, and she can equip the VH Armor Plating to situationally improve it. Her personal damage is also very good, with MGM+1 CB Guns and good barrages. She is ideally equipped with a CB gun to take full advantage of her self-buffs. Overall, she is an amazing ship, but not high priority if you have other UR CBs already.

Friedrich der Große is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high due to high Main Gun efficiencies, great self buffs, and multiple barrages. Her proximity barrage, combined with its frequency, is one of the best ways to defend the backline from threats. Overall, she is an amazing BB; highly worth getting.

Seattle is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to MGM+1 CL Guns, self-buffs, and a good AoA barrage. Her bulk (when placed in the off-tank position), is also high, despite her being Light Armor. Her AA is not at the same level as AA carries, but is still above average. Overall, she is a great ship.

Georgia is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with good stats and good skills. Her shelling damage is nothing special since she only has MGM+1 Main Guns, instead of the usual MGM+2. Her barrage is very strong when it lands, but it is very narrow and prone to missing, not to mention it not having a 100% proc chance. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to most modern event BBs.

Kitakaze is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is very good due to MGM+1 DD Guns, good torpedoes, and good barrages. Her skill changes her Main Guns to do drastically more against Heavy Armored enemies in exchange for being slightly worse against Light Armored enemies, which is a worthwhile tradeoff. She is ideally equipped with a Sakura Empire (IJN) Main Gun for her Skill 1 buff. You do NOT want her to be in the frontmost (tank) position for her skill condition; FS5 removes it anyways. Overall, she is a great ship.

Gascogne is a flagship damage-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is good, despite MGM+1 Main Guns, since her barrage has a 100% proc rate and her Main Guns independently aim. Her Skill 1 healing is nice, and can help her stay alive slightly more easily against stages with significant backline pressure. Overall, she is a great ship, but can be a sidegrade to some modern Event BBs.

Drake is a damage-oriented CA with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high due to MGM+1 CA Guns, plus her improved Ammo Modifiers from her Skill 1. Her Skill 1 changing her secondary gun modifiers is not that useful, however. She is ideally sortied with a Normal or HE ammo Main Gun to take advantage of the improved armor modifiers. Her Skill 2 barrage is very nice, but the heal is minor in practice. Her bulk is good, but isn't enough to Main Tank in very hard bossing content. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Cheshire is a tank-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her bulk is high, and is more than sufficient to off-tank all content, and main-tank most content. Her AA is amazing, and is enough to AA-carry all content by herself. Her personal damage is mediocre, despite her skill barrages. Her fast-loaded torpedoes are nice, but since her torpedo damage is mediocre it is nothing special. You will likely max stack her Skill 2 effect in all battles. Overall, she is a great ship.

Mainz is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is high due to MGM+1 CL Guns, multiple good skill barrages, and her self-buffs. Her bulk is high enough to tank most content in the game, but isn't enough to main-tank in very hard bossing content. Her Fate Simulation removes her positional requirements, which is a very nice bonus to her personal damage when tanking. Overall, she is a great ship.

Odin is an off-flag damage-oriented BC with great stats and skills. Her Skill 1 moves her to a unique position right in front of the Flagship, which can help tank damage otherwise intended for your flagship. Her personal damage is very good due to MGM+2 Main Guns, a timed barrage, and her special-secondary gun. Her Skill 1's submarine scan is very niche, and not relevant. Overall, she is a great ship.

Champagne is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good, despite only 1 MGM, due to her preloaded BB shot as well as drastically reduced Main Gun cooldown. Her barrages are nice, but nothing special. She can be a bit frailer than other BBs due to being Medium armor as well as having damage-redirection from the flagship. Her Main Gun ammo choice should be based on the enemy armor types, not her Skill 2. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily available options.

Agir is a tank-oriented CB with amazing stats and skills. Her bulk is one of the highest in the game, allowing her to tank every single difficult fight in the game. Her slow support from her torpedo launches and Armor Break from her Main Guns is nice overall support for a fleet. Her personal damage is still very solid with MGM+1 CB guns and a good Skill 3 barrage. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Hakuryuu is a damage-oriented CV with amazing stats and skills. Her damage is among the highest in the game, especially when paired with other CV supporters (ex. Shinano, Kazagumo, etc.). Her support is nice to have, but underwhelming. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Anchorage is a tank-oriented CA with great stats and amazing skills. Her bulk is very high due to her skills giving her barriers and invincibility throughout the fight, as well as a smokescreen. Her damage is still good as well due to MGM+1 CA guns and multiple barrages. You want to level her "Riddle Me This" skill due to the increase in damage you gain from it. Overall, she is the gold standard for tank CAs: an amazing ship.

August von Parseval is a support-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is very good, especially in single-target scenarios against cruiser enemies. Her support is also very good, with a timestop improving your other ships's geometric accuracy against single-target enemies / bosses, as well as her aviation damage debuff. Overall, she is an amazing ship when her support is fully taken advantage of.

Marco Polo is a flagship-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her barrage is very good, and has a very high proc rate. Her main guns are also very strong for a barrage-oriented BB, which allow her to be less reliant on RNG for her damage output. Her crossfleet skill is nice but nothing special. Overall, she is a great BB.

Plymouth is a damage-oriented CL with high stats, great bulk, great skills, and an amazing loadout. She has MGM+2 CL guns with two strong barrages, making her a top overall damage vanguard in the entire game. Her skills give your flagship a huge damage boost as well. As one of the highest damage vanguard ships in the game, she is very worth getting.

Brest is an extremely tanky CB with great stats and skills. Her damage output is around the other CBs due to MGM+1 CB Guns, but is still high in the grand scheme of tanks. She has a heal that can support the fleet, but it shouldn't be the only heal used. Her backwards secondary gun is effectively useless for all intents and purposes. Overall, she is an amazing ship, but not high priority if you have other UR CBs already.

Chkalov is a damage-oriented CV with high stats, solid skills, and a solid loadout. Her airstrike barrage is very strong (especially when enhanced), and her debuff barrage, despite the bullets being weak, has a good enough pattern to proc it reliably. Her slow is nice, but the short duration makes it hard to sync with other ships in the same fleet. Lack of a Fighter hurts her in AA areas unless you have an intercept-capable Torpedo Bomber. Overall, she is an amazing CV.

Prinz Rupprecht is a flagship-oriented BC with solid stats and skills. Her barrage is solid, and has a high proc chance. She has a long range ghost gun for more free damage, as well as a great torpedo barrage off of it. She ideally prefers to be flagship due to her barrage pattern. Her heal is irrelevant when paired with a good healer like Unicorn. Overall, she is a great BB/BC option.

Harbin is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and amazing skills. She has great balanced damage from her MGM+1 DD guns, double Torpedo Launches, and double solid barrages. Her bulk is a bit on the frailer side, but her smokescreens help mitogate it and offer decent fleet support as well. Overall, she is an amazing CL.

Kearsarge is a off-flag damage-oriented BB with amazing stats and skills. She has amazing damage output with her BB guns, planes, and stat buffs. Her slow reload can be an issue in certain fleet compositions, but it can be built around without major issues. Her special secondary guns are awful for interception, but are better than not having them at all. Her Skill 2 buffs all CV and CVL damage in the fleet outright when paired with a USS Main Fleet ship, which is a very good buff. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Hindenburg is a damage-oriented CA with amazing stats and skills. She has enough bulk to mob-tank in a pinch, but it is not recommended for her to tank over other good options. Her damage output is among the best in the game for vanguard ships due to multiple main gun mounts, as well as her shield-ignoring ability from her skills. Her Skill 2's special attack is very consistent especially against boss enemies. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Felix Schultz is a mob-tank oriented DD with a great combination of damage and bulk. Her bulk is great due to her high HP, 30% Auxiliary stat boosts, and her skills. Her damage is not to be scoffed at as well due to multiple barrages. Her Skill 1 grants her great Crit buffs, as well as frontloading her barrage. Her Skill 2 drastically adds to her bulk as it gives her +EVA Rate very consistently. She can be equipped with either the Quadruple 152mm or the Twin 150mm TbtsK C42T0 due to her self-buffs from equipping a CL gun. Overall, she is a great ship.

Shimanto is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her damage is great with MGM+1, double torpedo reloads, and multiple barrages. Her AA is also really good; using her gun to proc her skill can be useful situationally, but is not recommended for general use. Her Skill 1 can be situationally useful, especially when protecting backline ships. Her Skill 2 ghost AA gun is good, and the stacking from the third part of it should happen very fast. Her Fate Simulation unconditionally grants her the Skill 2 self-buffs, and adds minor shields. Overall, she is a great ship.

Flandre is an amazing off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats, skills, and a preloaded main gun to boot. Her Skill 1 gives her a timed, 100% chance, priority target barrage, which does a lot of damage, and is improved by her Fate Simulation. The marking effect from her Skill 1 is nice, but not necessary to play around for her to be good. Her Skill 2 is defensive-focused only, which is not useful for the majority of content. Overall, she is a amazing ship, but can be worse than UR BBs for some content.

Admiral Nakhimov is a damage-oriented CV with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high with 9 planes, self-buffs to AVI and CRIT Rate, and a great on-strike barrage. Her Skill 1 inflicts a 60% slow on all enemies on field, but it is delayed to 1.5s after her airstrike is launched, meaning that she herself won't be able to benefit from it as much. This can be buffed to stop all enemies on field when paired with another SN ship that can slow, but all SN ships that can slow currently don't have enough personal damage to make them worth using over other options. In addition, she gains a CRIT DMG buff when hitting enemies that are slowed by other SN ships, but timing it can be a hassle. Her Skill 3 gives her good defensive capabilities against being revealed, indirectly increasing her damage. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Napoli is a tank-oriented CA with amazing stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to 1 MGM CA Guns, MGM+1 CL Guns, and her special secondary gun. However, all her barrages have very mediocre damage and have slow activation conditions, dragging her damage potential down. Her Skill 1 allows her to ignore shields when an enemy is close by, which is very handy. Her Skill 2 drastically increases her bulk, as while the smokescreen that helps all Vanguard Fleet is nice, the smokescreen that is only for herself lasts longer and buffs her CL Gun damage drastically. It also follows her around, meaning she is in the smokescreen longer. These smokescreens, along with her base stats, allow her to be the tankiest ship in the game, able to tank every single fight. Overall, she is an amazing ship.

Halford is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great, despite only 1 MGM, due to her ability to equip the F8F Bearcat (Floatplane), and take advantage of its skill. Her Skill 1 additionally grants her a 15s Seaplane barrage, which both has good damage and has a guaranteed debuff when it lands. Due to how great the F8F Bearcat (Floatplane) is, you want to always be equipping one in Slot 3 over AA guns. Her Skill 2 has self-buffs and an additional barrage when not equipping a Seaplane, but the benefits of the Seaplane (damage, passive interception, screen-clear), outweigh the gains from Skill 2. The benefits from Skill 2 when equipping a Seaplane are nice, but nothing exceptional. Overall, she is a great ship.

Daisen is an off-flag damage-oriented / support-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to MGM+2 BB Guns, and a guaranteed, priority-target barrage. Her Skill 1 improves this barrage with different effects, both of which are great. The toggle when equipped with an IJN AA Gun is not relevant; there is no need to build around it. Her Skill 2 launches a recon plane which increases Daisen's personal damage to that enemy by a large amount, but it doesn't have priority targetting. When this palne is shot down, she heals the entire Vanguard Fleet by 8% HP, which is enough to solo-sustain a mob-fleet. Overall, she is a great ship.

Bayard is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is high due to MGM+1 CL Guns, her Skill 1 barrage, and her AoA. Her Skill 1 drastically increases her survivability for half her uptime, in addition to firing a great barrage. Her Skill 2 gives her great self-buffs, although the lower HP -> +DMG Dealt buff is unreliable due to how relatively tanky she is. The decrease all enemy ACC debuff is useless due to it's effect and activation condition being awful. Overall, she is a great ship.

Hiryuu META is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her per-strike damage is great due to multiple skill barrages, and her 8 plane loadout. Since the barrages are centered around her, she ideally prefers flagship position for maximum effectiveness, but is still fine off-flag, especially when you are using Flagship BBs. She ideally is sortied with IJN Equipment to trigger her self-buffs. Overall, she is a great ship.

Ark Royal META is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and good skills. Her per strike damage is very high, especially against single-target enemies where all her Torpedo Bombers can land. Her slow support is nice, but the slow percentage is too small to enable consistent CV support. Her on-strike barrages are a bit weak as well. Overall, she is a good ship, but outclassed by Ark Royal (Retrofit).

Helena META is a damage dealer / support-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her Skill 2 zone is useless due to how unreliable it is to set up, especially on auto-battle. Her Skill 1 allows her to support her entire fleet, however you want to not be equipping an Eagle Union gear to enable 20s timing, as 15s timing is very niche to sync around. Her personal damage and bulk are both pretty good, especially due to her self-buffs and her skill barrages. Overall, she is a great ship.

Souryuu META is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. Her per-strike damage is great due to multiple skill barrages, and her 8 plane loadout. Since the barrages are centered around her, she ideally prefers flagship position for maximum effectiveness, but is still fine off-flag, especially when you are using Flagship BBs. She ideally is sortied with IJN Equipment to trigger her self-buffs. Overall, she is a great ship.

Gneisenau META is an off-flag damage-oriented BC with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high due to multiple aimed barrages and good main guns. The debuff from her Skill 2 Torpedo Barrage is situational due to its awkward timing. She is ideally sortied with a KMS Equipment to maximize her Skill 3 self-buffs. Only 1 Auxiliary Gun means her interception is weaker than most other BBs, but she has a unique long-range ghost gun to compensate for this. Overall, she is a great ship.

Scharnhorst META is an off-flag damage-oriented BC with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is average due to her barrages weak base damage, and her average Main Guns. Her equipped torpedo damage is bad, even with the increased range and spread buffs, so she is ideally equipped with a fast torpedo to trigger her barrage more often. No Auxiliary gun means her interception is weaker than other BBs, but she has a unique long-range ghost gun to compensate for this. Overall, she is a good ship.

Repulse META is an off-flag damage-oriented BC with good stats and great skills. Stats are alright, but her barrages are very good and more than make up for them. She is still good as an off-flag, but for maximum performance you want her in the Flagship slot. Overall, she is a great BC, very worthy of being an SR.

Renown META is a great mobbing-oriented off-flag BC with solid stats. Her barrages have a nice pattern but are pretty underwhelming in base power. Due to her skill, she effectively gets a free salvo compared to the average BB/BC, which is always nice. Shields for the vanguard are always welcome as well. Overall, she seems solid; nothing exceptional but not bad either.

Arizona META is a damage-oriented BB with great stats, proximity barrages and great support. The zone from Skill 1 is decently big as well. Good BB overall.

Queen Elizabeth META is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with good stats and skills. Her shelling damage is average, but her barrages more than make up for it. The marking for META/HMS ships is pointless, and so is the random META ship in the fleet dealing more damage. You can sortie her with other META ships to get all her buffs, but that is not necessary for her to be viable. Overall, she is a great BB.

Algérie META is a damage-oriented CA with great stats and interesting skills. Since she only has 1 MGM, her damage is average at best. Her skills are also decent, with good barrages and burns, but they are unreliable and don't improve her damage that much. Overall, she is an average CA.

Jintsuu META is a support-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her torpedo support is slightly worse than original Jintsuu, but her bulk and personal damage are a lot higher to compensate for it. Both her barrages (S1, AoA) have priority targetting, which also help her personal damage out. Overall, she is a great CL.

Kirov META is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is high due to her summon, in addition to a aimed barrage every 15s. Her AoA is also good as well. Her bulk is fine; nothing special. The increased range to her Main Gun makes her damage more consistent. Overall, she is a great ship.

Rodney META is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her Skill 1 creates 2 summons, who individually deal decent amounts of damage. She has great damage with MGM+2 BB Guns, and 2 barrages: one with a high (but not 100%) proc rate that has priority aiming, and one every 12s from her summons. The heal when her summons die is irrelevant, you want them alive as long as possible. Overall, she is a great ship.

Wichita META is a damage-oriented CA with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is high with MGM+1 Main Guns and good barrages. Her bulk is very frail, being light armor and having HP drain in her skills. She does have a zombie-skill, but that tanks her damage a lot after it activates, so if she remains at low HP she is dead weight. Overall, she is a good ship, but due to her frailty she can be a sidegrade to other easily accessible options.

Nagato META is a flagship-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to MGM+2 BB Guns, and an amazing barrage. Her Skill 1 is good, but the IJN benefits gained are outweighted from the benefits from not using an IJN ship in her Skill 3. Her Skill 2 gives a nice buff to all Vanguard Ships, and can even trigger on equipment heals like Repair Toolkit. Her Skill 3 gives her a guaranteed on-fire barrage. Ideally, she is sortied with no IJN ships to maximize the power of this barrage, as it removes the RNG requirement. Overall, she is a great ship.

Fusou META is a flagship-oriented BB with meh stats and skills. Her gun damage is alright, but her barrage damage is pretty bad, and has a very wide pattern such that it is bad against single-target enemies. She has a crossfleet skill, but that doesn't improve her viability nor make her worth using. Overall, she is a meh ship, and is outclassed by other easily accessible options.

Hiyou META is a damage-oriented CVL with bad stats and skills. She has an on-strike barrage, but her personal damage is still really bad despite it. Collection only.

Junyou META is a damage-oriented CVL with bad stats and skills. She has an on-strike barrage, but her personal damage is still really bad despite it. Collection only.

Yamishiro META is a damage-oriented BB with good stats and meh skills. She only has 2 MGM, but compensates for this with reduced cooldown on her first 2 Main Gun shots. She also has a decent on-fire barrage. Overall, she is a meh ship, and is outclassed by other easily accessible options.

Memphis META is a damage-oriented CL with meh stats and skills. Stats are okay, but damage is lackluster, and skills are bad. The slow is gimmicky, as well as the damage boost to certain factions. The +EVA to some meta ships is a joke since it doesn't improve their survivability significantly. Collection tier only.

Trento META is a damage-oriented CA with meh stats, bad bulk, only 1 MGM, and a barrage that isn't good enough to take her over the hump. Overall, she is bad; collection only.

Hunter META is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Fortune META is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats, middling skills, middling barrages, only 1 MGM. Collection only.

Sheffield META is a damage-oriented CL with a bit of support on the side. Since she only has 1 MGM, her barrages aren't good enough to make up for the lack of damage compared to other CLs. Collection only.

La Galissonnière META is a damage-oriented CL with decent stats and skills. Her damage seems decent despite only 1 MGM due to her barrage, but it is nothing exceptional. Her bulk is also very average for a CL. Overall, she's meh.

The opportunity cost of using Vestal META over any other easily-acquirable backline ship is not worth it, due to her support not being that worthwhile and her damage being lackluster. Collection only.

Hatakaze META is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Princeton META is a damage-oriented CVL with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is meh due to only having 6 planes, but her (unfortunately RNG) barrages add to it. She also offers no additional fleetwide support. Overall, she is a good ship, but at best she is a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Erebus META is a flagship-oriented BB with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is very RNG reliant on her barrage, but it is a very very good barrage, especially for a lower rarity BB. Her self-buffs are decent, but only MGM+1 makes her shelling damage weak. Her heal is nice, but not relevant to her viability. Her bulk is also more suspect, due to her being Light Armor and her low HP relative to other BBs. Overall, she is a good ship, but at best she is a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Kimberly META is a damage-oriented DD with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is alright despite 1 MGM, due to multiple good barrages. Overall, she is a meh ship, and is outclassed by other easily accessible options.

Vampire META is a damage-oriented DD with bad stats and skills. Overall, she is a bad ship, and is outclassed by other easily accessible options.

Foch META is a damage-oriented CA with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is mediocre at best, due to a solid barrage but only 1 MGM. Her out-of-ammo penalty reduction is nice, but not enough to save her. Her bulk is also nothing special. Collection only.

Foch META is a damage-oriented CA with meh stats and skills. Her personal damage is mediocre at best, due to a solid barrage but only 1 MGM. Her out-of-ammo penalty reduction is nice, but not enough to save her. Her bulk is also nothing special. Collection only.

Kasumi META is a support-oriented DD with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good, despite only 1 MGM, due to her Torpedo stat being very high. Her Skill 1 both supports all Torpedo DDs, and gives her a decent barrage. Her Skill 2 is basically useless since your Vanguard Fleet rarely dies every battle. Overall, she is a good ship, best used in manual-battle Torpedo-oriented fleets.

Marie Rose is a damage-oriented DD with great stats and skills. Her Skill 1 has a barrage that will proc every 10s in most content, and her Skill 2 buffs her torpedo damage even more. Her augment skill buffs her own damage more as well. Her additional support is nice, but is not necessary. Overall, she is a great ship.

Honoka is a flagship-oriented BB with great stats and interesting skills. Her Skill 1 has good self-buffs; although some of the possible barrages are better than others. Her Skill 2 has a nice damage 100% proc rate barrage which does good damage. The healing is unreliable, but it is a nice cushion alongside an actual healer-oriented ship. Overall, she is a great ship.

Misaki is a damage-oriented CL with good stats and skills. Her damage is pretty good with MGM+1 coupled with the self-buffs and augments, and her bulk is fine as well. Overall, she is a great ship.

Kasumi (DoA) is a tank-oriented CA with good stats and great skills. Her damage is below average for a tank, but her bulk is amazing to compensate. You want to use magnetic torpedoes to help proc her Skill 1. Her augment greatly improves her tank ability. Overall, she is a great ship.

Luna is a damage-oriented CVL with good stats and interesting skills. Due to her nature of being fast loaded, she is much better in mob fleets when compared to boss fleets. Only 6 total planes hurts her overall damage output, so after her first two launches her worth is reduced. Do NOT run an ASW plane in her slot 3, it is useless. Needs more testing.

Tamaki is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her Skill 1 has a nice debuff to all enemies on the field. In addition, since her secondary gun range is increased, she has more capable interception. Her barrage is aimed, and has a 100% chance to proc with her augment. Overall, she is a great ship.

Nagisa is worse than easily acquirable good ships at her role. Collection only.

Monica is worse than easily acquirable good ships at her role. Collection only.

Nyotengu is worse than easily acquirable good ships at her role. Collection only.

Azusa Miura is a tank-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her bulk is a bit on the lower side for a tank. However, she has MGM+1 CA Guns, great self-buffs, and a skill barrage to make her damage above average for a tank. She is ideally sortied with multiple other Vanguard ships to avoid the negative effect of her Skill 3. Overall, she is a great ship.

Chihaya Kisaragi is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. She has a first-strike cooldown reduction, allowing her to desync her damage from the rest of your Main Fleet easily. She has 8 planes, and that combined with her on-strike barrage makes her damage really good. Overall, she is a great ship.

Haruka Amami is a support-oriented CL with average stats and skills. Her personal damage is a bit lackluster due to only 1 MGM and the skill barrage not being enough to make up for it. Her support is also not enough to justify using her over other damage options that can kill the enemy faster. Overall, she is a good ship, but she is a sidegrade / downgrade to easily accessible options.

Iori Minase is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with good stats and meh skills. Her stats are alright, but a lack of self-buffs hinders her damage output. Her barrage is also good, and has priority targetting. Overall, she is a good ship, but she is a sidegarde / downgrade to easily accessible options.

Ami Futami is a damage-oriented SS with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Mami Futami is a damage-oriented SS with meh stats and skills. Collection only.

Ritsuko is a support-oriented AE with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is decent due to her high FP stat, and she can equip Cargo gear to offer fleet support. Overall, she is a good ship.

Akane Shinjo is a flagship-oriented BB with great stats and skills. She has multiple 100% trigger chance barrages, as well as MGM+2 and good Main Gun damgae to go alongside them. Her Augment Module also grants her a summon for the early part of the battle, which adds to her damage further. She ideally prefers flagship for maximum barrage impact, but she can work at a slightly worse level when off-flag. Overall, she is a great ship.

Chise Asukagawa is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. She has great personal damage with 8 planes and good stats, as well as an on-strike barrage. She also offers additional damage and support on her 1st (preloaded!) and 3rd airstrikes, which are nice to have. The Augment interaction between her and Rikka is not worth using them together for. Overall, she is a great ship.

Princess Hime is a tank / support-oriented AE with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is alright due to MGM+1 DD guns and some self-buffs. Her support is really good, allowing her to equip both normal Cargo and Gridman specific Cargo at the same time. She also has enough bulk to Main Tank most content, however her being Light Armor leaves her a bit suspect to high damage HE bullets. Overall, she is a great ship.

Rikka Takarada is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and amazing skills. She possesses multiple strong, piercing laser barrages that deal great damage against huge waves of enemies in a row; however, during her downtime her damage is pretty underwhelming. In addition, she can equip multiple Auxiliary equipment at once, although ideally 3 of those slots are the Battle Tracto Max, Buster Borr, and Gridman Calibur to get the most barrage benefits possible. Her bulk is also good enough to mob-tank most content reliably. The Augment interaction between her and Chise / Yume is not worth using them together for. Overall, she is an amazing ships when mobbing, and a great ship outside of it.

Nibanme is a flagship-oriented BB with great stats and skills. No aux guns hurts her interception capability, but her damage is very good, and comes from multiple sources. Overall, she is a great ship.

Yume Minami is a tank-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her bulk is a bit on the lower side for a tank, but she has above average damage to make up for it. She has multiple barrages tied to both her guns and skills, giving her great damage variety. The Augment interaction between her and Rikka is not worth using them together for. Overall, she is a great ship.

Hass is a damage-oriented CL with meh stats and skills. Using her to activate Rikka's skill requirement is not recommended. Collection only.

Mujina is a flagship-oriented BB with meh stats and good skills. Her personal damage is good due to multiple barrages upon Main Gun Fire, but the damage is unremarkable compared to good SR BBs currently available. Overall, she is a good ship.

Namiko is a damage-oriented CA with meh stats and skills. Using her to actiate Rikka's skill requirement is not recommended. Collection only.

Ryza is a damage-oriented mobbing CL with amazing clearing potential within the first 30s of a battle. Her stats are very solid, and coupled with MGM+1 give her good damage output from her Main Guns. Her skills immensely buff the damage potential of all her Auxiliary barrages, and her unique Augment Module adds more barrages to the mix. You want all the Atelier Ryza Bombs equipped on Ryza, due to the +20% crit rate buff to by barrages when equipped by her for applying "Item Mark" to enemies, and for the "Fatal Drive" unique Augment Module barrage. After all her barrages are exhausted, she is painfully average. Amazing CL for mobbing.

Klaudia is a support-oriented CVL with interesting skills. The stats are average for a good CV, so no issues there. Her skills make her act like a healer, especially for Ryza ships. Her skill and augment barrages add to her damage, but compared to other 8-plane damage-oriented CVs, her damage is lacking due to only having 7-planes. Due to her heal being spread out, and having a pseudo preload (from the barrage activation at the start of the battle), and having better per-strike damage, she is an amazing support. Unicorn Retrofit is better than her regardless. Amazing Healer CVL.

Patricia is a flagship-oriented damage-dealer BB with great stats and amazing skills. Her stats are very standard for a good BB, and are buffed further through her skills. She has a very wide pattern, decent damage, guarenteed barrage every main gun shot, which is amazing for clearing potential. Great BB overall.

Kala is a tank-oriented CB with amazing bulk and decent damage. Her stats and skills make her very tanky, and her damage output is alright with MGM+1 CB guns and some barrages. The RNG element from her Augment Skill to save her from death is a nice bonus. Top non-rainbow tank option.

Lila is a damage-oriented CA with decent bulk but high damage potential. Her stats, skills, and Augment give her decent bulk. With enough stacks of her skills, her damage can really ramp up over time. She is ideally sortied with other Ryza ships to give her maximum damage potential. Overall, she is a good ship.

Serri is a damage-oriented CV with average stats and average skills. As a solo-CV, her damage is decent, with an 8-plane loadout, barrage on Airstrike, and the damage dealt buffs she gains throughout the battle from skills and Augments. In an Atelier fleet, her 2nd skill can activate way more frequently, and her 3rd skill can grant more AP overall to the fleet, thus increasing her contribution by a fair bit. Inside Atelier fleet: Great CV option. Outside Atelier fleet: Meh CV option.

Asuka is a damage-oriented CL with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is high due to MGM+1, multiple barrages, and great self-buffs. To gain the most value of her self-buffs, she needs to be sortied in a Senran Kagura fleet. Even outside of a Senran Kagura fleet, she is still good. Her bulk is also fine due to her stats combined with the life-steal from her Skill 2. Overall, she is a great ship.

Yumi is a damage-oriented CV with great stats and skills. She has a full 8-plane CV loadout along with great plane efficiencies and self-buffs, making her damage good. Her barrage is also good. Her slow support is nice when it happens, but not relevant for her to be good. Overall, she is a great ship.

Fubuki is an off-flag damage-oriented BB with great stats and skills. Her Skill 1 has a nice debuff to enemies, in addition to buffing her initial Main Gun shot. Her Skill 2 is also a good debuff as well. Her barrage is mostly aimed, and has a 100% chance to proc with her augment. Overall, she is a great ship.

Ikaruga is a tank-oriented CA with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is great due to MGM+1, and good barrages. Her bulk is also good due to her stat spread, as well as her self-buffs and Skill 1 barrier. Overall, she is a great ship.

Homura is a damage-oriented SS with great stats and skills. Her personal damage is very high for an SS due to her stats, efficiencies, and multiple barrages. Her survivability can be an issue due to her Augment-buffed Skill 1, but the damage gains from it are too good to pass up. Overall, she is a great ship.

Yūyaki is a damage-oriented CA with good stats and skills. Her personal damage is good due to MGM+1, good self-buffs, and her Skill 2's second main gun shot. Her barrage is good, but the range is very short so its hard to hit. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.

Murasaki is a damage-oriented CVL with good stats and skills. She only has 6 planes, but her barrages are good, making her personal damage good. In addition, she has a fast-load, and inflicts DoT on enemies hit by her barrage, further adding to her utility. Overall, she is a good ship, but can be a sidegrade to more easily accessible options.