IS A SHIP GOOD OR BAD? How I Determine Ship Performances | Azur Lane 

for me is, if i like it, is good

Probably one of the few games out there where you don't need THE meta to enjoy all the content or most of it. And you can enjoy having your waifus in your main without any issue at all. Nowadays where in any game you install, ppl tell you use this unit, this one, this one and that one, and most of the times if you don't use them you will hit a hard wall. Lately I enjoy more the gachas by choosing waifus over meta and trying to make them work.

Good news is that you can use just about any ship on most maps. The min max stuff only matters for the hardest content. I am running the new dragon empery ships in world 12 to level them now.

I think a lot of the future UR BBs will have more specific requirements than the ones we have right now. Iowas will be best used with NJ, Yamato best with Musashi, and Lion will probably be best used in an HMS fleet. They'll all have a specific niche within that, rather than being OP generalists like Vanguard/Musashi/NJ.

I agree with your assessment of which BB will be kicked first and how it’s most likely we get more Iowa’s before Yamato but we could have the super Yamato with 20 inch guns as a DR as she’s been in world of warships for a while. So I can see loads of IJN Yamato derivatives or prototypes being added more often than Iowa’s with Yamato being after everyone else. Japan had loads of competing designs for Yamato and lots of retrofit and successor ideas which is why in world of warships the IJN has more high tier battleships than everyone else because most of their designs were for the Yamato. So if AL adds say Missouri who works well with New Jersey Musashi might be kicked but if they add say a super Yamato or another super battleship concept as a research ship NJ might be kicked first. The US navy definitely have more UR gacha potential but the IJN definitely has more DR research potential.

Everything is good as long as unicorn is there.

I hate seeing NJ in fleets just because I don't have her since I joined late. I hope Bismarck get a unique augment and makes her competitive worth bringing atleast to IB fleets.

Most of the time i don`t realistically know. I just use those that skills i read are useful and sounded OP.

I follow a different algorithm: Is a shipgirl? Yes = good, make into a waifu No = check if female. Is female Yes = good, make into a waifu (more Anzeel art please 😍) No = not good.

To me, a person can be seen as oldbie. A "good" ship is when she has a role that no one does better/only she can do. Even if that role is extremely rarely needed, as long as she can do it, I will still prioritize her. Although an extremely strong ship, but if all of her roles had better options, I would still rate her as "bad" at the moment. A prime example is FDG, a once-monster, now powercreeped on all fronts. Include fighting boss and clear map, exercise,....

I have faith that all ships are good if equipped with suitable enhanced gears.

There are some ships that I need to analyze first before I know how useful they are. But there are also some cases when I just need to bring them to a sortie once, and I already know how good they are. Musashi is the example of the latter lol

What I recommend is looking at Main gun efficiency and multiplying with MGM. The thing why plymouth is op and why I was pretty sure she was from the start is, if you do that with her: Good CLs have about ~150% Efficiency or ~125% with MGM+1, which means a total of 250%. Plymouth has MGM+2, so fires 3 salvos a 120%, which makes a total of 360%. Combine that with a good FP stat and voila, you get something as strong as plymouth

Good discussion. I have a question. Nagato sadly lacks consistency and yet still is sort of part of premium at least before York II for IJN carriers is she still in a good spot or was it a case of need to?

Learn so much from this Much thanks

About the JJA comp, how can you complete the fleet? I was thinking if going full HMS, King George V and Queen Elizabeth, or Unicorn+Perseus and add Bellona for the air raid assistance

The best ship is the one you love the most.... looking at you Taihou . Of course this maxim doesn't a apply for a meta fleet.

Hey Kimo, I wanna ask a simple question. HMS Victorious equipping the gold TBM Avenger, do you think it is good or not?

Got most of the ships to lv 120. Now i just use whoever i like or have cool skill like super heavy shells from South Dakota

I know that you don’t like tier lists Kimo, but, how is New Jersey? Can you tell me the pros and cons she has? Like a update on her cause she will have a rerun and it would be nice to know what is happening to her. Since you know, many meta changes.

But what about those of us that missed the first few URs? I unfortunately only have Ulrich, Musashi, and Implacable of the non retrofit URs.

I only Played this Game for Lore and Waifu Purposes haha and 1st Gacha Game

GO A TAKE ALL OF NJ equipment. man, i done some running(lvling other ships) she outperform everyone without any guns

Azure lane is hard to make a meta list. Most of the roster will do just fine. It goes down really to their synergy. Role. And content your going for. Fleet setup matter more than just the ships themselves

Wtf, how you get 11 Hornets ?

I mean...if your level 100+ ship with level 10+ equipment is blasting apart ships in an event where the max level is maybe 75 for the AI enemy... I'd be confident in saying its a good ship. You cant really have good or bad ships in the game because everything can be defeated by just being a higher level.

Kimo, unfortunately I couldn't get Shinano. Which other ships have good synergy with Hakuryuu?

People need to try full nation fleet

You can get away with some goofy ship builds, and still dominate w13-w14 ive seen many who did that

If I like her she's good PERIOD

Yg cmn main BB enjoyer

now How to Determine Guns Performances. jk but would be nice