Playing the WORST Tier 7 Tanks in World of Tanks! 

Next vid should be “worst tier 10 tanks” but going off of QB’s own win rate in those tanks instead of the server average.

Im guessing the reason why the IS has a worse win ratio than the other Tier 7s is because its a famous tank and obviously the newer players would want to go for it and when the newer players play in it, they are inexperienced in using the armor well. The IS overall is a amazing tank at tier 7

It's super annoying in the first game with T71 CMCD. Almost all of the team behind you and no one seems to be hitting anything. Happens to me as well when I do those kinds of run on LTs, bunch of team behind me, I spotted 80% of the enemy team and only did 400 damage on the initial spot while my team loses 3k HP.

A likely reason for the lower winrate on IS could be due to removing KV-85 and the upgraded 85mm that came with it, now you get a stock T7 HT with a tier 5 gun...

The IS is the best tank at Tier 7 besides the T29. It just boggles the mind how it's global stats could be so terrible. :(

im surprised the IS is here. the IS is my 2nd favorite tier 7 heavy after the t29. the gun accuracy can troll sometimes but the meaty alpha is what it's all about while boasting good armor and decent mobility. im surprised i didnt see the black prince instead or the tigers.

I miss the original T-71. Those were fun times. VERY cowboy days. Driving fast, drifting around tanks and unloading 6 rounds in 6 seconds in a cool looking tank.

The IS also has more gun depression with the 100mm. It's why I used it.

Man, those "heavy" shells dropping to the bottom of the aim circle. The most frustrating thing. Genuinely surprised the IS is the worst heavy winrate wise. I found the Black Prince to be an absolute slog by comparison. Felt like it has worse armour, the gun hitting for so little felt like you couldn't pressure people or scare them. and it's a massive box.

It’s a shame the T-43 doesn’t have a better gun imo. Even just the D10-T 100mm gun would definitely add some flavour to what could be a very fun tank

I also think the IS has a bad win ratio due to people using the 122mm so often; the 100 mm is so underrated, that accuracy, aim time, it is so much more flexible than the 122 mm

I personally think that if T-43 canon have some penetration buff (standard ammo) it could be much more better tank. His mobility and turret travel speed is good too. I like it but that penetration is horrible...

Next video suggestion: Worst stock experiences: Play tanks that have horrible modules when full stock

Always love seeing these live gameplays!

I'm guessing that Tiger had HE loaded because he expected to shoot a light tank in that bush and instead you were there in your medium tank.

The only reason why IS has a low winrate is because all 50wn8 newbies grind the IS7 first. Personally I played the IS with the 100mm gun, it is amazing. Better dpm, gun handling, prem pen and perma tracking becomes available.

You are telling me Is is bad

Awesome video QB! Very entertaining and Informative always enjoy watching your knowledge and skills at work live on YT since i don't have/use twitch love videos like these keep up the epicness!

I remember the Ikv90 stock and it was rough but the lil guy really grew on me over time, ended up really enjoying it by the time I upgraded to the next tank

i LOVE that bush line from the t71 with my elc. its always fun there, and interesting if you have opponent lihgts aswell. Always provides some action on that map, love it^^

The Achilles actually has the same 17 pdr as the Sherman Firefly, the other Tier 6 British medium aside from the Cromwell. Hence it's damage roll is really low.

Great Video QB. As from the first day I have the IS I'm lowtier. Mostly -2. Best moment: I'm surrounded by 3 Even90 (platoon) after 3min or so. So QB had a extremly lucky MM with the IS in my opinion. But I will try the 122mm next time.

The CMDC ? That surprised me, that is a descend light tank, the biggest drawback is the cupola which always sticks out

I like the Prokhorovka map but it's really back when the team goes into the top left corner or bottom left corner camping. Teams really should be spreading out and pushing forward.

Really learn and enjoy. Thanks friend

I remember way back in 2012 with my IS in top tier match against tier V's. It's fun watching those tier V td's getting 1 shot.

Regarding the T71 and scouting the one line on Prok. I play lights every day. I stopped scouting the 1 line because its a death trap. You've got a bunch of camping TD's, Meds, and even Heavies behind you screaming for you to move up and spot carelessly in chat. Screw that. I spot the mid. From mid I can still spot guys on the 1 line, and all the way to the 0 line. Also I get tons of spots on the heavies that play mid, and arty eats them alive. I also struggled with T71. But have 2500+ WN8 in the T71DA and other T7 lights like Type 62, Amx 1375.

Regarding the T-43, I think the issue is that it's just basically the T-43-85 with some more armor and health. You have the same top gun, which ain't bad at tier 6, but at tier 7 it feels like you're shooting nerf darts against tier 8's and god help you if you're going against tier 9s. Plus, in order to get the top gun on the T-43, you have to get both the tracks and the turret. If you have a lot of free xp it's not bad, but if you're newer and don't have the free xp, you have to play a weaker tank at a higher tier. I'm still pretty new to WOT and I finished up the T-43 and T-43-85 a couple weeks ago and it was a surprise shift for me in terms of play style. I had to play the T-43 much more passively, even after it was fully upgraded, because the gun, health, and armor just didn't feel competitive at the tier. So tldr, I think the issue with the T-43 are: even when fully upgraded you're still pretty much playing a T-43-85 but at a higher tier, facing higher opponents; Before it's fully upgraded, you're playing an arguably worse version of the T-43-85; and, with how under powered the T-43 is initially, it forces you to play differently than you did in the T-43-85, which may take longer for some players to realize based on their skill levels.

9:25 "No Forrest?" "No gump" 😂

A suggestion for future videos, why not do your most favourite / least favourite Tier 4-10 tanks and explain why they are your favourites or how you deal with your least favourites to make them bearable.

I was so sure that the tank in the thumbnail was the kv-122, the only reason I can see for the IS doing worse is people playing it stock

Ensk. Tiger ammo tactic: Load HE at start of game to destroy rushing lights. 2nd round standard AP.

Thank you so much Quicky Baby, i complete forget the cruise control key: R and F

That su-130 jump scare was pretty good ngl

In the first game I was amazed at what the artillery was doing. Charging the enemy alone?

When starting a KV-1 was scary for a T3 tank. Then when I got a KV-1, I faced an IS. Same thing. Now IS mostly meets 8's and 9's and it's like a big medium, without enough mobility. Or armor.

I was able to 3 mark the T71 cmcd on console, I loved it because of how agile it was, I could compare it to a wheel tank, almost on the dot turning so it made getting hit a lot harder, and yea the gun is a little underperforming but if you play like a real scout and start a clean up crew towards the end game I don’t doubt you’ll get great games and results with it

I actually enjoyed my time with the T71 CMCD, I feel like it's a better tank tier-for-tier than the M41 Bulldog at tier 8 because the M41 is just a bigger/fatter version of the CMCD.

Those new player never knew how "IS" with 122mm is, its a great tank wayback at 2013 XD

5:45 classic QB play. He shoots the hellcat, he gets immediately spotted and starts driving forward saying "hopefully they won't spot me" just to get shot to death seconds later. Instead of going back or into the dip to have a high chance of winning the game out. Skill issue I guess

I love the IS2. Loads of fun in it. I prefer the 100mm though. Vents, rammer and spall liner.

Thanks QB. Any idea when those Italian TD's are coming out? May want to come back to play those.

I last played back in 2017, then a few games here and there from 2020-now. When I first unlocked the T-43 I grinded it to fully upgrade it. I loved playing the T-43, It is the first tank I got my 1st and 2nd Marks of Excellence on. I dunno how good it is now as I rarely play but back then I loved it!

Weirdly enough i actually really enjoyed the below average t71 Cmcd on my grind for the t49. I played it mostly as a support light and scouted whenever possible. Managed to get top 5 ranked in dpg and wr and 2 marks in just about 40 games xD.

T71 CMCD is such an underrated light. Not only has it one of the highest tier 7 DPMs. But put grousers and a turbo on it and slap on smooth ride on your driver with a combat course directive, and it will outmaneuver just about anything with 86.60 degrees per second traverse speed.

Reason the IS also performs poorly is because its pretty bad when stock. I remember the grind felt like forever to fully upgrade it.

love when u play tier 7. Very entertaining.

Ikv shell velocity is a nice thing to reconsider its performance

The IS tanks are my favorite tier 7 heavies in NA (Tech Tree & Premium Variants). Great for completing marathons and general grinds. Just use the 122mm in the tech tree tank and blow 💩 up! 👍

"I'm not gonna spend the free experience" - HE SAYS WITH 1.5MIL FREE EXPERIENCE SITTING AROUND

Love the longer videos 🥹

Wow QB, when you said you don't know how to camp, you meant it! When you played the IKV90 i swear you intentionally avoided using that bush for cover! 🤣🤣🤪🤪

The fact that that first team won just shows how bad the teams are lately.

That EBR Hotchkiss proves that 1 single unicum on a team can tip the balance… Hard to digest.

14:37 its because that Achilles is using the "stock" 17 pounder, the SH SH version, that thing have the premium AP that is essentially the standard round of the "top" 17 pounder.

Great video!

I'm sweating and borderline in tears trying to level up my tanks, and QB plays the worst ones better than me

Thnx, gives me an idea what tank to use in tier 7. I am currently using tier 4 tanks grinding my way up.

The IS is my most played tank and not because I like it, but because it's my most grindiest tank I ever had. The win rate of that thing is appalling and I have to grind for a tiny amount of xp just to move up to the next tier. I did learn how to use its advantage and when it shows, you're golden. The thing I hate the most is the reload time of the 122mm. The 100 is just perfect for it.

The IS was one of my favorite tanks to grind I loved the 390 alpha at tier 7

Played the IS to get through te tech tree and got a ace tanker in my 5th game playing it. Did 3,5k dmg and almost 1k spotting. Was very suprised to see this tank in this video

I usually played Ikv 90 as a surprise scout with binocs and camo net, only using the gun when an opportunity presented itself.

The IS, which in real life is an IS-122 or IS-2 model 1943 with the 122mm D-25T cannon, is my favorite tank at level 7...I played it both with the 100mm cannon and with the 122 Balalaika cannon I think the 122mm cannon is better, especially for trading, and I also like the high alpha damage! The armor is relatively trolley and is very forgiving of mistakes. What the tank can do very well is reverse sidescraping, which works very well, even against higher MM levels. The 122mm cannon is more accurate than you might think, pixel shots are fine with it. The mobility is really not bad with a turbo....successfully traded a few months ago and a stable 55% win rate! A very underrated tank that can also perform well in low tier matches. I've already taken one or two BZ-176s apart with the IS, and I've also done that with the KV-2 (r)...just through the turret roof xexe )) Great Tank, i love it❤ I play the IS with Experimental tubo, bond gun rammer and target guidance and I had very positive experiences! 👍🏼

Hi QB, you should play those "worst tanks" stock, with a 50% crew and no field mod, that would be interesting (well maybe not fun for you...)

When i started with the IS i hated it, the first gun is trash, the armor is meeh, but as soon you got the 100mm or the 122mm, it makes a lot of fun, when you can master this tank, its a beast. Just got my first M.O.E with it as well.

i personally like to use the 100mm gun on the IS, specially when facing higher tier tanks... but as QB said, it needs a lot of gold rounds... the rest of the tanks, i prefer to skip them all...

The one who sat behind you was probably Jingles ... I can hear him chorteling now 'hello Quicky Baby ... I'm baaaack'.

CMCD was a fun tank but eventually I decided to sell it due to lack of camo rating, which really sucks bad for a light tank.

I think the reason the IS does so poorly is because a lot of new players play it without a good crew, i love the IS its one of my favorite tanks because its so reliable and it can even trade with higher tier heavies which is what makes it so comfortable to play for me at least

the feeling when the udes 03 is the only swedish TD i cant get too work, i love all the strv's (103-B,103-O,S1) and the ikv is one of the 4 tanks i have ace on XD

The IS and the KV-3 are both good tanks that get dragged down by bad players.

I assume the german heavy line leading to the FAMOUS Tiger 1 is kinda the same, all the new « not good yet » players wanting the tank. That would explain the vk’s camping at the back of the map with the TD’s in pretty much all my tier 6 and below games…

don't know if it's still true, but the IKV is meant to stay behind hills, what with the gun way up on the top, but the autolock spot for your opponents is dead center of the top superstructure :/. It means anyone can autolock you and no matter how carefully you use cover, they can hit you. I had fun with it and liked it other than those snapshots at long distance that lasered me just peeking over the ridgeline.

The old t71 looks so much better compared to when they split the chassis from the turret

I completely agree with the IS, my dad use to tell me i was bad at the game, but its just such a poorly armoured tank

First game you should have seen that at most they had 3 tanks over there while you had about 10 the enemies team was completely spotted besides 2 tanks I think

Im only a few days off from being able to play this tank ( omw to the Obj 705 A ) and i think it is not bad, and ppl just play it like a traditional heavy tank ( ex. T29 ) and it is supposed to be a SUPPORT tank which has a good gun, and not the greatest armor, so you peek when the enemies are looking at another tank. Looks like a great gun, and better mobility than the KV 3

I actually love the T-43, and here's why. I was going up the Soviet medium line around the same time the T-34-85M was introduced. Even after I got through the T-34-85's awful stock grind, the fully-upgraded tank (minus fancy equipment and a well-trained crew, because I'm mostly free to play) was still really frustrating to play. It had a poor gun handling and a reload time on the long side for a tier 6 medium; it was just completely outclassed by all the T-34-85Ms that had just been injected into the matchmaker. So when I unlocked the T-43, I was pleasantly surprised; it used the same top gun from the 34-85 but with a much better stats. Compared to its predecessor, the T-43 was a very straightforward grind and overall such a breath of fresh air; not an outstanding tank by any means, but perfectly competent in the support role. I'm disappointed so few people play it, but I guess that means more for me!

The problem with T-43 is that it is basically just a marginal improvement over T-34-85 and in aspects that do not matter. You get better hull and side and armour, but they are still worthless against you opposition at higher tier. You get better DPM, but only by about 200. You get better gun handling on the move and traverse, but it is inconsequential, considering mediocre mobility. On top of that - T-43 is extremely crammed inside, and eats critical damage like candy. Case and point - a premium T-34-85M is a better tank in all aspects that matter, and on lower tier - it gets even better DPM, still comparable mobility, more ammor, better aim time, same frontal armour thickness but better angle. T-43 would not even be spectacular on Tier 6, let alone Tier 7.

That first game seems to be a good synopsis of how my entire night went last night. Still better than I used to play, but there's a ton of room for improvement.

IS is all about the gun and the agility, the armor overall is quite poor for a heavy, both turret and hull, so it can't be played like a tanking heavy, which is probably why the WR is poor on it. And the fact that the IS-7 line is by far the most popular tank line to play first when new players start.

stuck in t43 for like 4 months, since I'm playing only couple hours a week, when watching the video I practically guessed it at the beginning of the video

When I played thru the t43, albeit that was like, a decade ago, it was a complete tinder box. Like most games I burned up

Lol as a good player it becomes a different kind of meta trying to work with/support a crumbling random battles team at lower tiers considering more or less of them can be a good team, it can be fun. IS has troll armor and reverse side scrape tier for tier and its painful not to utilize the reload

I think I have a 67% win rate in the IS. It was the second heavy line I grinder after the traditional German Tiger I line. I don't know why I had good stats in it, I'm not the best player but we just gelled.

1st game wasnt about playing the worst tier 7 lt, it was about playing the worst tier 7 team.

Is 'the less played tier per tier' an idea?

Well you were blessed with decent teams during these games, can I ask can you hold on to your battle pass tokens until battle pass nine so I can try for the cobra?????😀

Tier7 is a lovely place to play. So many awesome tanks there, VK45.03 being my absolute favorite.

Quickybaby have you ever tried marking what tanks you play in the scrubbing bar??

Tier 7 tech tree IS has low win rate because when you just unlocked IS and you buy it, it has only one gun open, the 85mm gun with 120mm of penetration, while the chinese tier 7 tech tree IS-2, starts with the 100m gun that has 175mm of penetration Wargaming needs to adjust the stock IS a bit, to start with the 85mm gun that has 144mm+ pen, but i guess is not a priority atm

Even new players think of an IKV 90B as a XP pinata, that just how bad it is when players who dont use bush mechanic drive that vehicle.

T-43 was already a hard tank to be played back when it had 100mm gun. It was just a t-34-85 + hp... but now seeing tier 9s

It has been ages since I touched the T-34-85 (!M), and it struggles with aiming, if memory serves me correctly. That the T-43 doesnt have increased pen and its one tier higher, I wouldnt want to play T7.

The IKV90B is actually good though. You just can't carry with it at all. Well, you can't really carry with that whole line at all, which is why the whole line has a low WR. It has really good camo, so you have to rely on that. It's way better than the tier 6 is.

instead the t-43, I was thinking that Leo is the worst tier7 medium tank

Here's a challenge: play 5 tier 10 games and make a profit. I can make more credits playing tier 5 than tier 10. WTH WG

I'm a >50% WR player, but my WR in the IS is around 43%. It's not a heavy. Everything pens it. But it counts as a heavy in matchmaking, and so you're a total liability to your team, given that they probably have something against you that has armour. Horrible.

Been a while since I played. How is the Tiger P now worse then the base Tiger? Used to be a quicker more heavily armored version pretty much.

Hey! In the 2nd battle, the two skoda t 27s killed each other!