User blog comment:BasakaNZ/Thoughts and musings on effective ship levelling/@comment-115.65.84.80-20140508081020/@comment-24237563-20140508091311

Thats good enough (i assume you want to grind Kongou). Lv 33 KTKM is enough to oneshot any 3-2 A enemy anyway. Level doesn't matter as long as everyone reach kai form. If you don't have any turbine for your Goya, don't equip her anything so she can't steal MVP

You can just pretend slot 2 doesn't exist and run 5 girls fleet, still works but you might not able to kill everyone before shelling phase ends. Pretty sure you have at least 1 CVL too.