Thread:クッキー/@comment-25962175-20160501195529

Reminder: Do not use a AA cut-in setup if it lowers your ships damage output. Ships like Akizuki or other DDs with AA cut-on setups are fine since the setup is one of their optimal outputs anyways. However, you should avoid using Maya's AA cut-in setup which trades a ton of damage output for the AA cut-in.

This reasoning is because there is too much randomness to AA combat. Let's take a glance at this randomness:

1. Random ship out of your fleet is selected to be the target of the bomber, this ship is going to be the one doing the AA combat. Higher AA is better so this is already a 1/6 chance of choosing your best AA ship. This is repeated for every enemy bomber and the likelihood of every bomber attacking your best AA ship is tiny.

2. 50% chance for AA damage based on a set number of planes shot down and 50% chance for a percentage based one. Both are independent of one another so 25% for both and 25% for neither.

3. AA cut-in chance

That's a lot reliant on random chance! Even for Kancolle.

Also consider that a carrier's damage output is only plane count based on the initial strike, normal shelling phase combat is not affected by plane slots and even if they have one plane remaining, they will do 100% of their damage.

What about destroying all the carrier's planes and making them unable to attack? Yes, it's a cool thing but consider the carriers that show up in event maps have plane slots such as 32/32/27/5, 36/36/36/36 (Airfield princess is 98/98/98/98 lol). There is just no way you are going to be able to kill all their planes reliably.

Then consider that worse AA-cut in setups override better setups, it's just better to use Akizuki class's setup exclusively.

If you want to use Maya's AA cut in then a consideration would be to increase her luck and merge a torpedo cut-in setup with it to at least make her useful damage wise. 