Talk:Summer 2014 Event/@comment-24155103-20140824164812/@comment-24332640-20140824232354

They're not just like CAs. Yasen damage is based on combined firepower and torpedo. The highest that stat reaches for a non-Yamato BB with two main guns (not a cut-in setup) is for Kirishima at 156 with two 46cm cannons or 164 with AP ammo as well. But most of them are lower than that.

On the other hand Haguro or Myouko can reach 186 with two 20cm (no. 3) guns. If you're willing to spend a slot on skilled maintenance personnel for Chikuma she can reach as high as 194.

A few extra points may not seem like that big a deal, but the important thing is how much you can do over the BB hime's armor. Which is 160, so you're neck-in-neck with it with Kirishima but have a healthy margin over it with a CA.

You're not just hoping for crits with a CA. They may not be able to one-shot the BB hime (but even a Kitakami cut-in can't do that everytime), but two such equipped CAs (or a CA and Yamato, or a CA and Ooi double attacking, etc.) will do it almost everytime.