Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-26154973-20190329092028/@comment-34343339-20190403224126

Unless they plan to market her as a poor man's Bismarck Drei specifically for use in the escort fleet when combined. On the other hand they might give her her own set of stats to make her viable in some other way like leading a Torpedo Squadron instead of the traditional CL, or even her own gimmick like opening torpedo to counter Re-chan's. I personally think an FBB with opening torp would be pretty cool, but this would undoubtedly be locked behind a Blueprint or BP + AR or whatever.

At the end of the day, as pointed out above, she would need to compete with CA level yasen power to earn a spot in the escort fleet, in which case this remodel might turn her into a really powerful ship. I'm still a Haruna man though, but I really like Kongou so I'll definitely remodel her when the time comes.