Talk:Shoukaku/@comment-26334968-20160413160106/@comment-27058477-20160419144034

Totally agree with Admiral Mikado, you can achieve an AS at 4-5 boss node by just putting two best fighters in Shokaku Kai 2 A's smallest slots, while having two absurd torpedo bombers in her largest slots. It's not that hard to achieve fighter power nowadays.

I used to think that CVs are quite useless during shelling phase, due to their comparatively low outputs, but Shokaku (A) proved me wrong. If properly equipped, she can sink a green Ru kai with over 150 crit hit even at moderate damage. The ability to survive and attack the enemies is the most important quality for any ship, so definetly Kai 2 A.

To me Shokaku now functions more like a BB/CA thanks to her insane outputs, if you really want fighter power, Kaga and Akagi are better candidates than CarDiv5