Board Thread:Fleet's Prepared-ness/@comment-31583651-20170323151435/@comment-31314029-20170327044603

Lupusregina wrote: Jffgvzl wrote: @lupusregina

Nah, Shimakaze is a goddess. She is matchless up from level 20 .wayyyy before you k2 everyone. and even after you k2 everyone, her evade and hp means she will get recked way less than all other DDs on events while having comparable FP.

Just compare her to poi k2, -8 in taiha, +6 Hp, +I0 eva, same aa. I think those are pretty good numbers for an "useless" DD VS an "amazingly op" DD shimakaze is useless and overrated ship. her hp and evade don't mean a shit since ever 99 evade not save you vs rng or any cut ins. and her fp just mediocre meaning her dmg in day will always be shitty compared to poi who has fp similar to CL and in yasen poi not lose in dmg or will be way better if dealing with instalations ok, now you´ve been picky. We are all know this game is like those old tabletop RPG games and no matter which godly stats you have, there is always a posibility of a bad roll that gets you killed, or in this case taihaed. NOW Shimakaze´s superior evade, hp and armor are all things that tilt the odds on her survival, instead of being recked on a mid-node. I think we can all agree that our usual take on the maps is to lay low on the mid-nodes (i.e survive) and then go all out on the boss node. Shimakaze´s stats led her to  get to the boss node of  any map with more consistency than any other DD. OFC, one bad roll on the hundreds of calculations of any given attack can get her recked, but again, the probability of it happening is LOWER than with any other DD since she can survive first by evading, then with a good roll on defense and as a last stand, soak up more damage than any other DD with her superior HP. This means yeah, rng and cut-in will taiha her BUT that same attack with those same numbers would taiha EVERY OTHER DD, be it kasumi, ayanami, poi or whatever. WHILE some attacks and cut ins that would taiha most DDs, sometimes will leave Shimakaze on yellow or orange, allowing you to continue and saving you some salt and a fleet recall that hurts like a bitch on events maps. BTW, as a good TTK you shouldn´t be dealing with abbysals cut-ins before boss nodes, since you´ve got aerial superiority and ain´t going to night battles. Right?

The day FP is undisputable, she is weak in day. as is any DD except poi. But not even poi can damage seriously anything more than CL and non-flagships ca. DDs as a class have weak firepower, by design. Saying she is useless because of that is like saying Kongo is s#it since she can´t use torpedos or do asw, or like saying Imuya is crap because her weak aa. Not even poi can stand up to BBs and CV, which are the queens of day. Poi is sub-par on day battle, compared with other types of ships. DDs are designed to survive at day and break havok at night, and in that (as you said) poi, shimakaze, kasumi, shigure, yukikaze, ayanami and others stand shoulder to shoulder. With one difference: Shimakaze can do it from level 20 onwards.

Poi is superior to Shimakaze, I give her that, in that she may occasionally finish off or kill some heavy-duty stuff on day, eliminating the threat and avoiding the necesity to evade altogether, but if she doesn´t, then she, and all other DDs, has worst posibilities than Shimakaze surviving the counter attack.