Talk:Ryuujou/@comment-25110733-20140911201007/@comment-25361436-20140911222620

MVP isn't a good indicator for who is doing the most damage in a sortie. Even if a ship has a gigantic amount of shelling they can still have MVP stolen away. The answer is actually kinda simple. If the weaker ship targets ships with lower armor, and the stronger ship targets ships with higher armor the weaker ship is likely to do more "damage" (adding up the numbers that are displayed) than the stronger ship, despite the fact that the stronger ship is doing more damage to the higher armor ship, than what would be possible for the weaker ship. Additionally this is an RNG based game, so criticals, misses/scratches hidden under other plane attacks, and randomly dampened attacks do happen. In any case it's especially hard to keep track of CV's damage due it being impossible to keep track of the damage done by each individual plane slot.

But anyway, shelling does make a huge difference in combat, and the 6 or 11 (effectively 9 or 17 points after formulas) points of damage RJ has over other fast CVLs plays a huge part in the difference between random scratch damage and an OHKO. As for the "Okay to main point I will tell you shelling stat for CV doesn't really make her strongest" part of your post, it's a fact that higher shelling means higher damage potential. I also wouldn't call RJ the strongest CVL, but it's still a fact that among fast CVLs she has the potential to do the most damage during the shelling phase, even if RNG occasionally just says no.

Forgive the wall of text.