Tier List - Best T9 BBs For Ranked 

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Another tier list, another timestamp thank you flamu for animal research peepoHappy 0:05 Daisen 2:09 Hizen 3:47 Iwami 7:09 Izumo 8:09 Musashi 9:54 Tsurugi & Yuminari 9:59 Sun Yat-Sen 15:37 Delaware 19:03 Kearsarge [19:11 Hybrids Rant] 25:01 Georgia 26:19 Iowa 27:22 Minnesota 27:48 Missouri 29:57 Lion & Marlborough 30:06 Duncan 32:55 Scarlet Thunder [33:35 Marlborough Rant] 35:43 ScarThun's Actual Placement 37:20 Friedrich Der Grosse 40:14 Pommern 44:10 Prinz Rupprecht 47:09 Sovetsky Soyuz 48:57 AL Sovetsky Russia 49:24 Navarin 49:42 Alsace 50:26 Jean Bart 51:23 Giuseppe Verdi 54:27 Lepanto & Marco Polo 56:31 FDG Re-Consideration 57:09 Disclaimer 58:14 FDG Re-Ranking 1:01:39 Karl XIV Johan

ANOTHER TIER LIST! Gonna grab my tea and enjoy this fine afternoon. Thanks Flolo.

Schlieffen line in ranked/brawl: -press W -win

Iwami has the best firing angles for bbs in the game, 25 degrees, insane accuracy, amazing armor when angled with 50mm deck and small superstructure...

Haha, he put [Ship] into [Rank]. What a noob

Karl XIV Johann has 10.6km conceal, if you build into secondaries it becomes 10.5 km. Include the torps and you have a really fun "brawler". Sure it doesn't pen but it sets fires really good.

I want to mention that Minnesota is covered in 38mm plating which protects it from a lot of HE spam and also makes it harder for AP to get through, along with being able to mount APRM2 which solves the accuracy issue of kansas, on top of having an underwater citadel

the hybrid combo could be more potent if you shoot then launch planes then shoot again as your planes are striking, it typically takes ~20-40 seconds to launch a strike anyway. Basically free perma fires

Sun Yat Sen is actually accurate but the AP alpha is the worst for the caliber and sometimes there is dual gun syndrome.

Great list! Hope to see you expanded on it and put all tier 9s on a tier list for ranked battles!

Iwami murders in ranked. Armour actually works, guns drill holes at secondaries range and ifhe secondaries melt stuff. Plus, Yolo torps

St. Vincent: S, Duncan: C It was a struggle getting past Duncan, then get Vincent and it was like this is amazing. Made little sense.

Can't wait for more tier lists, love 'em

Giuseppe Verdi is excellent in ranked. Holding a 75% win rate in ranked with it after over 100 battles this sprint.

FDG can kill 1/2 team at start and you team will still throw the game. That is the problem.

Not mentioned but PR having its rear turret be 360 degrees means as long as you're driving at something you can reliably keep 3 turrets on target while taking aggressive maneuvers.

If i am Correct, AL Sovetskaya Rossiya does have have fast DCP, it just has American Dispersion, A Hull of Soyuz and something with turret traverse and rudder i believe.

Flamu, you are basically how i learned to play wow. I loved the videos, and I am always surprised how much you know about the game even after 3 years of playing. you know what you are talking about. Lately, it's been a little bit of turn off, because there are so much negatives in the videos, I understood bashing of wow and someone has to voice what's wrong with the game. what I don't understand is bashing "player base"... I am an average player, I enjoy playing, and I watch you to get better...out of the 117k subscribers....how many are unicorns? even with all the CVs, Subs and all the wrongs in the game that I agree with, why is it players' fault? If we are all being honest with ourselves (117k viewers), you are bashing 90% of your viewers if not more, they are all cracking up with you watching the vid, but most of them don't know you are talking about them. If everyone is pro, who's going to be your paid actors for the videos? there will be no more wow, if only the pros can play, the game will be dead. I don't like it when people brings up win rates and stuff in the game? Average players can't play in Random Battles? It's not Ranked, it's not KoS...maybe there should be a battle mode for "Pros" only.., so, rest of us can play in peace. Game is already dying, you def can't grow the game with players being toxic, and it kind of start with you, since you are the biggest name, like I said, I started by watching you, and I am sure I am not the only one. Just wish the channel can be more positive, my 2 cents, keep up the good work.

I really love Rupprecht. Such a fun ship to play. Schlieffen Line in General is a blast

Hybrid ships are unbelievably OP in the hands of a good player. The amount of pain they can dish out, the annoying plane bomb drops & the attrition they can do to a ship is just...unmatched..maybe apart from a torpedo cruiser with good HE (IJN cruisers).

Iwami has same hull as Hizen but better armor. The deck has thicker armor.

Marco Polo AP pen is insane. If you love Izumo guns, Marco's will also feel pretty good.

i think illinois also needs no brain to play cause you just park nose into an island and farm everyone without getting overmatched or citadelled, also claps a lot of cruisers and dds

What's French vertical dispersion my jb always has 2/8 salvos with 1km gaps between the shells

Based on my experience, its easier to climb with Delaware, Ruppretch or even Duncan than Kearsarge. I believe Kearsarge should be at A tier coz it eat damage alot compared to Delaware that can just nose in to use 2/3 of its fire power & it has better plane to hunt DD too.

Question for the ppl. In ranked would you rather have an ok player who doesn’t listen at all or a average player who will do whatever you ask of him?

Thanks to your ranking. I picked Kearsarge, which I buyed for coal during Anniversary, but didn't played it yet till now. This ship hilariously opressing. I am about to try Delaware too. I expect S. Soyuz to work well too. I just could not enjoy german battlecruisers much, although I see some guys can make it shine. My old love - Pommern really seems to loose bit breath. Again, thanks for recommendation.

Giuseppe Verdi is is great in ranked imo. The tankiness, extended duration smoke, speed of 37kts with brisk, AP overmatch with italian ballistics (while having better accuracy than the other italian bbs), the SAP secondaries are brutal to everything they pen, all combine to make a surprisingly flexible and consistent t9 BB. Added benefit is the majority of the playerbase has absolutely no idea how to deal with it 🙌

The secret with the Kersage is to just keep reminding yourself that it is a battleship first. Don't get too carried away with the aircraft.

You could throw the Marlborough into tier 7 and it'd still suck Donkey balls

I would enjoy more of these.

Sun yat sen is fun sometimes. If anyone shows you broadside at 17/18 you can crush them but the dispersion is terrible for a t9 and only 6 guns bad dispersion is hard to destroy ships. It’s easy to get damage but can’t really finish anyone off without cits

How is lion e?

Dude, Alsace is very versatile since you have 32mm plating, a low citadel, and good speed, not to mention 8 barrels of 15 inch at the front, even if you cannot citadel people 8 pen at close / medium range where you shoot at other's people guns / upper belt still deal more consistent damage than 4 or 6 barrels of bigger caliber, the only thing that can over match 32mm is Musashi which if you get into a match could be difficult to fight but not impossible. I can't count how many time where in Ranked and it turned into a rock throwing contest the 8 barrels in the front deal more consistent pen damage than bigger caliber but low shell density, If you can disable one or 2 of their barrels in the front you can then use speed boost to flank and get those 4+ citadel at close range. Putting her at C is a mistake man Alsace must be at B at least

I’m actually on a 17 win streak in ranked on Kearsarge. That ship is stupid busted, people just can’t deal with the dmg output.

Funny... during that season I smashed every Rupprecht with my Pommern easily. Pommern was so much better imo, but I understand why Flamu put them in S and B respectively

I think kearsarge even in randoms is S tier

I killed a Marlborough from almost 100% in Agir in ranked last week. Then went on to finish of their FDG and Jager to win the battle.

Tbh, I feel like Illinois eats crapton of damage, regardless of angling. And since she has lower health and worse heal than Iowa (or at least comperatively worse since her hp pool is lower), it often feels like she melts faster than is melting others. I mean yeah, I am not really that good of a player, but I feel like she is way more fragile than people think.

man as a kearsage player its SUCH a good ship i can consistently do well over 100k damage in it the plane are AMAZING but really hard to master

French BB is the first line i grinded. Alsace sucks terribly in random. Your guns have no accuracy. Compared to Richelieu that have a good dispersion and can bow tank easily, going to Alsace feels like a punishment and a downgrade. Plus you've a bad concealment, it's a big ship that easily takes fire. In ranked it's slightly better. With a lower number of players you're less likely to be cross fired, and in brawling situation the 16 guns are unrivalled.

Ah yes, big flolo video. Wednesday fixed

Average KM BB enjoyer: what is google? Flamu: -_-

There should be a M tier for marlborough

I bought Kearsarge with my birthday coupon and then sold it for the credits a couple months later -_- Dumbest thing I’ve ever done

Hybrids are not that strong cause the ones using them always play so far back that you often get a 3v2 advantage against their other bbs around the cap.

sun yat sen can't dev strike itself too btw, not enough ap alpha

The new IJN BC T9 is Adatara, not Yumihari. Tsurugi is a tragedy btw

Flamu make more lists with more tiers and more game modes. These are very useful for players and not alot of them on youtube. YOu can also update them every half a year as game changes over time, surely good youtube content for you.

Man i play kearsarge and its super easy to win unless your team is just bots. So to have fun i run a secondary build on it and brawl when i know i will win anyway and its just pure fun to watch the lightshow of the highest amount of secondaries in all US ships just melt ships

Actually sad to see Iwami get disrespected like that. She is a beast in ranked. Some of the best secondary hitting dpm with ifhe, the gun angles are amazing and decent deck armor and yolo/zoning torps.

7 mins in and I’m already triggered putting iwami same tier as Hizen. You should play the Iwami - I’m sure you’ll enjoy it!

Just fyi the yumihari is the new T8, Adatara is the t9

I mean.. Georgia ftw cause most dd player get so damn confused when a Iowa sized ship catches up with them and its secondaries goes BRRRRR. 😅

Delaware is definitely not S tier. It only works best when your team is smart enough to shoot the DD you are spotting and/or don't die in a couple seconds. Otherwise it's guns feel kind of weak. Plus most of the time you can only bring 6 guns to bear without giving full broadside. I'd say it fluctuates between A and B depending on how smart your team is.

I "accidently" went with Marlborough into a Ranked Round, Karma Punished me directly with a Pommern DevStruck (71k DMG Salvo) over 18km :) What a Piece of Crap

Tsurugi E tier, awful af tried to love it but is it really bad

Johan is another S tier in my book

Iowa should be in B. Better than Pommern, that's for sure.

Iowa and Missouri irl: Can smash almost every other battleship in existence Iowa and Missouri in wows: weak mid tier ships. 4 of 30 ships here were actually built and finished. See where I'm going with this?

I’m a mintour player and when in see a hybrid. Hoho free damage.

Im usually A DD or CA player, but nooprecht is si broken in rnaked that i have way better wr in it that kita, zf, alaska ect.

Pommern is overrated imho, but it can certainly work... sometimes. I rather have Iwami, Georgia, even Lepanto. Rupprecht is just ez win.

Imo musashi has toilet paper armor, me in an iowa i citadeled this thing through the back DECK while it showed its stern to me and proceeded to drain its hp while the other guy was wondering why i had gotten so many citadels (for reference i citadeled him twice with the back turret and the first one was through the deck as well after I chonked him with two cuts and forced him to turn). It honestly never scared me much unless im in a cruiser and too drunk to have self awareness. Sun yat sen at the very least has a MUCH better armor structure and is pretty tanky especially considering that you don't have a limited amount of charges for damage con and can overmatch nearly any cruiser with it. Especially if played like a secondary bb the shells are a bit more accurate than I used to think and fairly enjoy it more than I thought I would

Delaware is farmable to 8inch ap.

Fdg is a B behind izumo, really, just spam 406

Georgia is S tier, no doubt in my mind.

Daisen could be good ranked BB, but his giant citadel

JB is A

There is only TWO ships in WoWS which have lower sigma than Marlborough tier 6 USSR BB novorossisk and tier 4 USSR BB gangut yeah, Marlborough is absolute tragedy The Most Horrible Ship in WoWS

who cares what ship you take, when MM will dump you with the ripest turds it can find and (in their OP premium ships) they can all hide at the back and farm their way to a solid 3rd place and whinge why they didnt save a star. this game is so broken (i went afk from a random game for the first 10 mins earlier and still top scored by a mile! i was almost double the second place score). i honestly just laugh and log out of a lot of games.

Marlborough is a bit too high ngl

LMAO iwami D tier and daizen better than him in B tier LOL iwami have beter gun angle (one of the best for T9) , better secondaries and more accurate , better protection for the citadel and the torp are more protected because on the back of the ship Stop underestimate a ship that you dont know the power , iwami should be in A tier or probably S tier

I enjoy the Iwami and Lion, have good games in them in ranked.

I have actually smashed a Delaware with citadels in Yamato. It was broadside at like 23km so I definitely had some shell impact angle to have a better chance to cit that thing but I took him from full HP to about 8k in one salvo, I think I whacked him with 4 cits and a few pens and overpens. You basically have to shoot short and hope the shells don’t just dunk into the water a little too far away. Anyways the Delaware’s cit is way too hard to hit and it needs to be at the same level as Iowa so it can be punished regularly for being an idiot hybrid player.

Diasen 4 min spotter plane with low cooldown also torps

ive used marlborough in ranked, its kind of fun and ive had some good games. you are for sure trolling though.

Minnesota is aColorado 2.0, meh.

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Why would anyone want an Iwami? Because she’s a pretty boat XD

all tier 9 is trash because tier 11 exist and people play tier 10 and above always

rupert smashes