Talk:General Discussion/@comment-189.4.203.198-20140716160111/@comment-25077189-20140717110609

Choice for the top DD fleet is plain simple: Shimakaze, Yuudachi, Shigure, Bep, Ayanami and Yukikaze, those are the best performing DD, the others are just for show or to fill up the ranks just in case you need more (When? Never happened to me). I personally scrap most DD i don't use for long periods, hell i even scrapped my level 37 Ayanami and had to start from scratch her levelling lol. I'm keeping around some for their rarity (Tanikaze, Hamakaze, Amatsukaze, Urakaze, Hatsukaze, Maikaze, Akigurmo, Yuugumo, Naganami and Makigumo), Murakumo (my starter) and 6 Mutsuki's for expeditions.

Regarding "Hiryuu not being better than Kaga", she doesn't need to be, since she's actually better than most CV: Shoukaku-class was completely wiped, Akagi is barely better thanks to her planes count and even Taihou was surpassed, but she's still the best thanks to her Armored Flight Deck. As for her small slot, you can use that to improve her performance even further by adding a 15.5cm secondary gun (more FP, Acc and Attack Range changes to Medium rather than Short), put 2 strong AS planes in the big slots and the Tomonaga torpedo on the first slot.