Talk:List of fleet standard aircraft carriers by upgraded maximum stats/@comment-26225416-20150925092212/@comment-76.218.12.224-20150926151445

Kaga's position of "best carrier" was lost because of Aircraft Proficency, not because some the stats of any carrier. With double chevron fighters you can get Air Superiority using cheaper to operate carriers (even just a single light carrier) whereas before you had to bring Kaga loaded with nothing but Reppuu.

Since Aircraft Proficiency, Taihou can handle Air Superiority on a lot of main quest world maps, do some strikes, and still do it all at medium damage, or you could run Unryuus because their resource-consumption is low.

So it's more than Shoukaku threatens Taihou's position. Shoukaku's smaller slots in armored carrier form don't matter quite as much anymore as chevrons on the planes rival the actual slot sizes for determining how effective a carrier is, while Shoukaku Kai Ni B naturally being able to attack at medium range is a huge advantage over Taihou.

Should the need arise to bring lots and lots of planes on a single ship, there's still no carrier can blacken the sky like Kaga.