Talk:List of fleet standard aircraft carriers by upgraded maximum stats/@comment-108.82.111.58-20141012011954/@comment-175.156.182.214-20141014073256

I've got mine up to 95 and I think she's pretty good.. While you definitely need Kaga for the 46 slot with Reppuu-Kai, Taiho is a good second-choice carrier in most situations. To my mind, she's tied with Hiryuu-Kai2 as the second best carrier at HQ lvl100+. The reason being that between Hiryuu-Kai2 and Taiho-Kai, the main tradeoff is evasion and some damage(the firepower difference is only significant when you get head-on engagements, if you are running saiun) for slightly more armour/HP and the ability to launch planes at mid-damage. However, for extreme-difficulty maps (over ten stars like 5-5, e5/e6 maps), that evasion is so damn important because they always make you sail through a gauntlet of princess-class, re-class, demon-class bosses that will definitely one-shot any carrier. The only reasonable solution is to hope for evasion, or abandon the saiuns and hope for evasion and T-disadvantage during the gauntlet. In these cases Taiho's lack of evasion is somewhat problematic. But sometimes she won't even be targetted. So in the end, it's just a luck game, or you can pay money and get some repair goddesses to just tank through it. Taiho is also slightly less fuel-efficient.