User blog comment:Lici Ui/Guide for cheap kuso teitoku/@comment-26458588-20161228154210

TL;DR I'm just protecting my biasness for my Taihou because everyone seems to bash her since "cranes are better bruh".

Quite iffy that I didn't see Taihou. Not that I'm biased against her or anything, sure she pales in comparison compared to cranes(if you want, I can prove that she can be on par if not better than cranes excluding the jets).

Well, even if she's weaker than cranes, I'd say she's still above all other CV's. The only CV's that could probably be as useful as her excluding cranes is Kaga(still best AS mule IMO but that's a story for another time). Hiryuu mgiht have higher FP than Taihou but once she goes to chuuha, she's useless anymore. By any means, don't underestimate CVB chuhua shelling http://i.imgur.com/FRPFMBK.gif. "But that rarely happens" at least it could happen. That's a Ru Kai which is one of the high-end abyssal you'd see other than hime's. CVB shell can do a lot better against trash(LM DD, Tsu, Ne, etc.) even if they're chuuha. Other CV's that got chuuha at that state would be sitting and doing nothing. And for my experience, I've been save quite often by CVB chuuha shelling.

Also, offensively excluding the jets, Taihou can be on par with the cranes if not better offensively. Taihou 3 balance slot lets her to have 3 bombers safely while cranes can at most, safely carry 2 bombers. 3 bombers would put her on par if not above cranes with 2 bombers. But the extra 10% bonus crit from another plane would increase her damage further.