Talk:Abukuma/@comment-211.133.203.19-20150817010941/@comment-3319722-20150819183448

She's actually not as great as how most people make her out to be. Is she great? Yes, her opening torpedo strike helps your BB to focus on the flagship rather than the trash mob DD/CLs. Is she irreplaceable? No...definitely not, her opening torpedo is good enough to take out a non-elite abyssal DD/CL on pre-boss nodes, that's about it. On boss nodes you often have less than 4 bars of ammo left, in which case she deals scratch damage to everything she hits.

By using a Ko-hyoteki you also give up the scout seaplane, which means no day-time double attack, I don't think she has killed a single thing with her shelling this event.

What about night time combat? She's the weakest CL in terms of firepower and her torpedo stat is worse than Jintsuu's, so you are probably going to get better results from most of the other modernized CLs.

TL,DR, if you have a blueprint, by all means Kai Ni her and use her, but bear in mind that she's usually dead weight by the boss node or when you have less than 4 bars of ammo. I usually switch her out for Jintsuu on the final dance.