Talk:Hayasui/@comment-26334968-20150829104520/@comment-24978536-20150830221419

She can actually equip Sonars on Kai, which when combined with her actually existing ASW stat makes her surprisingly strong for ASW. Also, with 36 Firepower, SCAMP and a Torpedo Bomber equipped, she can actually deal very high damage, assuming those bombers don't get shot down. In PVP, my Hayasui has actually been stealing MVP from my CV, BB and CA.

With her pathetic armor stats and low evasion, her survivability is many times worse than a DD's though. She is definitely out from any normal map, but I think she'd do good as second fleet flagship in a combined fleet map with a Torpedo Bomber, SCAMP and a Underway Repleshment equipped (if that is needed). Below, it was said that her planes are basically immune in the Escort fleet, and if that is true she doesn't have to fear of not being able to attack, unless she gets heavily damaged.