User blog comment:Shinhwalee/Major Event Preparation Guide for Admirals (OUTDATED)/@comment-111.94.75.25-20150510044607/@comment-24430017-20150510050318

If you can kai and modernize them that should help, but you might be able to do it with normal version. I would just kai so you can modernize them without losing stats by modernizing them before kai. Support isnt really needed if you kai them.