Talk:List of heavy cruisers by upgraded maximum stats/@comment-210.187.230.155-20150313101554/@comment-16545476-20150316084230

In terms of firepower, the Myoukou and Tone class still wins at the moment. Maya might be useful with her AA cut-ins, but if you look closely enough, you'll realize she sacraficed a lot of firepower just to achieve that thing. At the moment she's like the CA version of Akitsuki, the only difference between them is Maya has a bigger punch and an overall better defensive abilities.

I tend to categorize Maya as a special CA class of her own though. If you use the normal CA setup for her she's "sort of" like Prinz Eugen without the luck. But that means you're sacraficing her AA cut-in abitity for firepower.....which for the moment there are 4+1 CAs and 2CAVs that completely out-gunned Maya on that, and trust me, those 7 are technically better picks if you're just looking for someone to whoop some ass.