User blog comment:Shinhwalee/World 4-3 Power Level Guide for DD & CL/@comment-145.53.88.193-20150928153323

I tried with the CV-not-CVL setup, but I find that the CV still often steals MVP on the sub nodes with surface ships (and I'm not prepared to take off any more bombers - insurance against J), but in addition, the fleet often has insufficient firepower to kill all the subs too unless everything goes perfectly (so no head-on, no CLT targeting and failing to kill an elite instead of a mook, your flag targeting a mook instead of an elite, the list goes on and on). So yeah, your flag makes MVP slightly more often - but you also have to be willing to accept frequent A ranks instead of S, and the occasional parting shot from an enraged Yo elite. Personally, I'm going back to using CVLs, but to each their own.