Talk:Tutorial: FAQ/@comment-71.14.76.177-20131203071552/@comment-1482018-20131203075258

Basically it's either luck stat vs plane capacity. What you choose is up to you in the end, I'll just give out benefit of each.

Luck: Luck is a miraculous stat rumored to have influence in a lot of things, such as crit, higher chance of preventing your ship being sunk, cut-ins, etc.

Plane capacity: Partially dictates the damage the planes do during both torpedo phase and shelling phase.

That being said, Shoukaku excels in neither, so she's out. Which leaves Hiryuu, with high luck stat, or Kaga, with high plane stat. Remember that planes being shot down can be avoided with either using a lot of red planes (since they seldom get shot down) or green planes (which protects blue planes from being shot down ATA).