Talk:Ryuujou/@comment-84.90.161.45-20141212230005/@comment-24978536-20141213071551

Ryuujou is popular mostly due to reasons outside of stats - her personality, looks, and whatnot. Her personality is often liked a lot even by those who are generally not into cute characters that much. And she is very cute too, among the top 3 cutest CVLs pretty much, so it is no wonder a lot of people like her. There is also her wonderful Kansai-ben... Anyway, I personally love her too, but if you don't like her all that much, I really can't convince you to grind her.

However, in some very specific event maps with high LoS requirements Ryuujou with her second highest stats can be the second best CVL around. Ryuujou's two highest slots combined make up the most plane slots out of all CVL, 46 in total (second highest would be Jun'you with 44). If you are forced to use two yellow planes on a CVL to get enough LoS, it doesn't matter how low the last 2 slots are, all that matters is those two higher slots.

The problem is though, that kind of maps don't come out very often: Last time when I was forced to use 2 yellow planes on a CVL was in Summer E-2. In that map Ryuujou really shined though... her combat performance was spectacular.

In other maps Ryuujou is quite difficult to use... as a Wo-chan counter you'd want to use green planes on her higher slots, but the thing is the smaller slots are pretty much useless for bombers, making her useless for shelling. For maps where Air Superiority is easy to achieve (such as 2-5 with light fleet) or not needed (or in other words impossible no matter what you do, such as in summer E-2), Ryuujou can be very nice though. Run a bomber in the 28 slot, a green plane in the second highest, Saiun accompanied with a yellow gun or wrench in smaller slot (or just 2 yellow guns instead of a Saiun), and she'll do pretty good work.