Well, not exactly protuding since they fold them down during flight ops... Here's a pic of her with said stacks folded: www.navsource.org/archives/02/020427.jpg
She's probably one of the faster ones. Most light carriers are slower Escort Carriers. She's just a poorly laid out Fleet Carrier, which usually have 30+ knots in speed.
Ranger is THICC for a CVL because she is not a CVL, but a fleet carrier. The USN's first purpose-built CV (langley and the lexington class are conversions). She is small for a CV due to the limitations placed on the world's dominant navies by the washington naval treaty (the USN was alloted 137,000 metric tons of displacement for their entire CV fleet. Since the lexington class used up a bit more than half the alloted tonnage for CVs, they made ranger small so the USN can build 5 more CVs within the remaining available tonnage) (also the carriers that were already built or being built (argus, langley, hoshou, and furious) were considered experimental, and did not count). Her reload stat is low due to her flawed design (not so good elevator placement). The lessons learned when operating her was implemented when the USN built her successors the Yorktown class... Her luck stat is high due to her being one of three pre-war CVs that survived WW2 (the other two being sister sara, and Enterprise)...
Unfortunately Lexington my favorite CV was sunk early on during the battle of the coral sea but went down swinging sinking Shoho and damaging another Japanese carrier mere hours before sinking.
Just to point out, HMS Furious also survived the second world war. She was removed from service before the end of the war, but she still survived the war. So there were four CV's that survived the war.
The First Purpose Built Carrier and one of the Best (If not the Best) Low Cost, Low Rarity Carrier in AL (Especially her Retrofit), Great for New Players, Casuals and Veterans alike (I know cause I used her a lot back in the Day alongside Long Island). -Low Oil Cost -Low Rarity -Excellent DPM -Very Good Evasion A few but Welcoming Good Traits! also Good for Low Cost Grinding Fleets She's One of My Top Favorite Low Cost and Rarity Ship Girls On another note... Great and Helpful Review Hawk! I mostly just look and estimate shit when it comes to stats, but with your Reviews, its very nice to know the Exact Numbers on the Stats, especially the Buffs and Debuffs, and it Very *Very* Helpful. Keep the Good Shit and Memes Rolling Hawk, mah boi! And may RNGesus shower you with Blessings! Good luck on your Future Endeavors and Projects!
funny ive been pvping with ranger..with saratoga,unicorn,prinz eugen,san diego, montpelier because most of the damage is done by cv's..Ranger is usually mvp and carries the match while prinz eugen just wont fucking die. and san diego and montpelier swats a crap ton of enemy planes. might swap unicorn for illustrious to make prinz eugen just that much more frustrating xD
Me to my enterprise and other elite and above ships: “Let’s go in and out , 1 minute battle” After the massacre caused by long island and ranger: “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”
Would recommend Langley Retrofit as a partner. Langley has a skill that increases the reload speed of all light-carriers in the fleet, and Langley's two fighters help donate air power.
What you do as soon as you wake up, toss a coin 5x and guess the result. If you managed to guess all of it then put Ranger on your line up that day. Repeat & profit.
I had always assumed Quick Takeoff only works for herself. This is very interesting. Thanks so much for the video! Oh, yeah, RNGer pouts pretty well. Hehe.
I actually like her original artwork more, because her carrier is a crossbow (Centaur has a bow like Enty and that already feels unoriginal). I also like how Ark Royal's carrier is a sniper rifle.
Ranger was my very first retrofit, and I haven't looked back on the choice. Still use her to this day on one of my bossing fleets, as both a method of clearing mobs before the boss (since the only vanguard unit is Phoenix) and as a way to potentially chunk the boss. I also find she just generally fits better on the boss fleet because her fragile health pool and inability to defend from suicide boats seems to make her more suited for shorter fights than longer ones.
Oh right, and also the fact that she has no fighters means she can't defend herself from planes either. She's entirely devoted to saving all her planes for a potential carpet bombing that turns the enemy to ash.
It's not really an Rng meme team until you put Ranger (retrofit) Long Island (retrofit) and Langley (retrofit w/reload command skill maxed) then roll the dice
To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip
...or there's Houshou who has no chill and a gun...and that perfect smug..a great waifu material.. Your thoughts on her made into a video is one i'm lookin forward to master
Excuse me hawk2zer0, I have question, do you use BlueStacks and if so, does BlueStacks link both the data from the PC and phone?, Because my birthday is coming up and I want to start playing azure lane, mostly from getting inspired to play the game from seeing your guide.
I use Nox. I would imagine Bluestacks would allow you to link your data between PC and phone as Nox allows it to as well. I don't think that's a perk of either emulator...and a design choice for Azur Lane in general.
I'd disagree with putting her in mob fleet, especially for later levels. Mob fleet carrier should at least have a decent armor AND huge health pool, or healing/support skills (in specific case of Uni/Shouhou). You cant do shit with Ranger's paper armor. Might as well give her Pearl's Tear if you try that. Ranger works best in a manual boss fleet or EX stage fleet, since you would be resetting constantly when your RNG sucks.
I'd probably not use her in later levels... It's not worth resetting and losing x amount of oil because RNG doesn't favor that. I'd just use a character with either good stats overall or one with better odds. If one were to reset constantly...then I understand why you'd do that. But are you willing to risk infinite amounts of oil for a ship with a 15% at best chance for a second airstrike and a 25% at best chance for a double damage airstrike? These videos cover early to mid game...I'll cover late game later on.
@@Hawk2zer0 I wouldn't use her in later stage too. And I know the video cover early to mid game. I know which audience these video aimed at. But it is in my honest opinion that she just doesnt fit a mob fleet EVEN in early game. Ranger is just too much of a glass cannon for low level farming. Shouhou with 1 extra cost is far a better choice And losing a tiny amount of oil with resetting is worth it when use as boss fleet. Especially after your mob fleet has given their all in fishing out the boss for your Ranger -equiped boss fleet Just imagine using Ranger in a mob fleet and after 2 or 3 fight, she died. At best, your mob fleet is less effective at fighting and at worst ,your mob fleet gets destroyed and you would need to use your boss fleet to fight mobs. Really sorry but thats just my opinion.
@@ASBA1991 We value oil differently...resetting to me is a no-go. I've only done it a few times before. I still believe she's better at mob than boss. It could be several resets before you even get a chain from her (15% is not likely which is a little better than 1 in 7 tries). Resetting 6 times just for the 7th to chain is a terrible idea. So that is a waste of oil. Especially for people that have incredibly low oil caps due to level...if they did that...they would run out very quickly. If you don't reset...if she never chains, then she will be a bad pick compared to others for bosses for boss DPS. She might get away with it if she still has good equips and/or is over-leveled. Sure in mob fleet she's frail...but not a light armor like the monitors are, so she won't drop that quick. If she's taking damage, then players will learn to either protect backline better with BB/BC positioning, get a stronger vanguard, or remove Ranger entirely. There's value in the lessons learned there. Once those requirements are meant...the RNG is a bit more favorable as you should start having a stronger team to help offset her weakness with RNG. There will be moments that she can shine, but the RNG does not favor it.
@@Hawk2zer0 Yeah, I guess we do value oil differently. I just dont think sacrificing a bit of oil per reset is that bad when you can get that sweet RNG roll on Ranger for those early levels. I always did that in my early days of playing since oil was never an issue in the beginning of the game. But, now my lvl 100 Ranger Kai is permenantly benched ever since passing chapter 8. I have been exclusively using Uni and Shouhou for both mob and boss fleet for chapter 11-1 to 11-3 (while Enty for 11-4). Well, I guess what i am saying is, I can respect that view. Let's just agree to disagree.
I love Ranger! I liked her as soon as I saw her design but I had already assumed "She's common so she's trash" and I just leveled her just to have that one waifu you like but you know she's not good. But when I actually started leveling her skills and gave her good weapons, holy shit, she became my favorite carrier next to Taihou 😍
Yiran Wang That’s because you have better fire rate and infinite ammo, a BATTLESHIP in wows reloads faster than Stalin Refrigerator in WoTs, and it’s only carrying guns a LIGHT CRUISER is shooting. So yeah you find RNG better in WoWs, because the shear amount of volume of fire everyship has RNG is meaningless.
@@manhphuc4335 guess you could say so, but for me personally, when you fire on the move, in wot it would be like "holy s*** how did I hit that" but in world of warship its like "meh". But you can say that in wows the accuracy dispersion is sometimes ridiculous.
It would be kinda nifty if you'd say a little bit about a ship's history in these videos. I'm not saying you need to do a history essay, but a sentence or two would be appreciated!
heh the ranger fleet ive been pvping and pretty much anything with is Prinz eugen(tank),Sandiego (because planes murder a carrier backline),Montepelier, And backline is Arizona (heals), Ranger (retrofit), Saratoga (retrofit). Its pretty rare for this team to loose in PvP against anything close to its fleet power. And watching Enty get rotflstomped by ranger because enty is one of the most OP carriers and sandy shut down the majority of Enty's planes. Been fun using this team. Considering sandy is generally regarded as trash except in AA..and seriously Enty is everywhere in(exercises) PvP and for good reason. But sandy/ranger generally work really well Sandy keeps planes away from the backline and ranger goes ship genocide on the enemy backline lol.
She's definitely not a Crane because her name means Kawa - River, Kaze - Wind so River Wind or something and as for her char design not sure why they choose Wolf (definitely not a Fox because of her not fluffy tail and the fact she's grey) but its probably reference on the Story of her being a guardian/protector of Nagato in AL
Hawk2Zero: If you’re the type of person that likes the power of RNG go for it. Me: jojoyes.gif Also me: Kagerou retrofit when? Need to buff Ayanami even more with the power of both Foxtician and Shiranui’s sister. Also Ayanami’s oath skin facial expression for skill activation and boss fight is scary.
San Diego detected! lol I think her evade is good as Enterprise, Zepplin-chan, Unicorn and Souryu. And her fuel cost is cheap and can fight against mobs or mid-boss Siren fights.
*ahem* You forgot that Sirius can synergies with her to get more crit rate on her dive bombers air strike and also Shouhou retrofit can boost her AVI (Sirius and Shouhou can synergies with all CV actually)
hello, a question to hawk: what are your thougfhts on z-36, I got her from bisko event and aside from her chunibyou antics she seems to be my best dd after laffey,,, also what are your thoughts on having "3 starter dd" frontline fleet? and, what are your thoughts on the belfast, just got her and she seems really nice between he-fire skill and smokescreen
really need ranger in Warthunder for much better soft landings to lessen the crashing then slowly sliding off the edge of the aircraft carrier. (this is a really big problem in Warthunder, people(including me) dont know how to land on carriers in that game.)
Hey Hawk2zer0, just found your channel last week, I like your thoughts videos and lets plays, I was wondering any chance you'll do weapons and equipment guides for Azur Lane.
Eventually I can, I'm still kinda seeing how they work...and I know a decent amount are to be added soon...as for now...character and eventually a formations video are my main goals
4th comment is me just wanting to say thank you for the new vid Hawk this is sum gud shizz, nice vid m8 keep it and i will also attempt to see if i might maybe probably try and start to catch moar of your live streams. fuk wher the hell am i goin with this... anyway gud vid man we need moar and keep it up it's sum good shit man.
I just have an exercise between the trio HMS and Enterprise. It got so close that it became a long range fight. Enterprise proc her OWARI DA! annihilated my QE and Hood, leaving a no HP bar warspite. She literally have no bar left, even the burn damaged is 0.
It does not give that benefit to any other carrier...only those that have the skill can get bonus airstrikes. This is why I've mentioned Long Island stealing MVP from Enterprise....because her chains can outperform Enterprise.
Gotta work out the final pieces in my (Oathed) Ranger (Insert BB with CL gun here) Akashi Shiranui Admiral Graf Spee (Insert Random ship that does stuff or not) fleet.... I wonder if Nowaki is gonna be the saviour of the Vanguard... but even Nelson seems to reliable at the moment... got any better RNG ships to push into the 2 open slots?
People dismiss Ranger because of the fact you need to have RNG on your side. Though she is a powerhouse. Those who refuse to use her or dump her. They are losers....I should put RNGer into the fleet. Maybe with Enty.
No cap but my strongest BB keeps loosing mvp from Ranger Not only that I mix her with saratoga for more dmg Meme damage You Got assault carrier and quicktakeoff then also got assault carrier
I know what you're thinking. "Will she launch six supercharged airstrikes or only one?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement its impossible to track them. But being these are 2 slots of Helldivers and torpedo bomber, the most powerful combo you can load onto ship and 3 of them would blow your fleet clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?