Talk:General Discussion/@comment-68.39.67.76-20140603032148/@comment-39.248.204.92-20140604070456

If you consistently use CV/CVLs in every sortie, there will be a period at mid-level (when your ships are at lvl 40-60 range) when the CVs will consistently outperform every other ship  and MVP every battle due to the balance of firepower and accuracy they get around that time vs. the rest of the fleet. Usually around this time the true CVs will shoot up in levels and get to 70+ really easily ahead of everyone else. CVLs take longer because they tend to get critted a lot until they pass 60 and start being able to avoid most shots, thus in the mid-level period they tend to spend their time in the bath, then they start shining. After the BBs pass 75, though, their shots get much more accurate and the combination of kai and big guns give them a clear edge over the CVs, so the CVs tend to stop MVPing battles in favor of BBs. BBs then would shoot up the levels ahead of the CVs. By that time, though, usually the CVs will have broken 75 and some may well be in the 90s.

This is largely how the game has played out for me and my friends (because we play very similarly), so all of us now have high-level CVs. I myself am now in the "BB-advantage" zone with all BBs excepting the Fusou sisters already well past 80. Personally, the only CV I've ever sent into level grinding zones was Hiryuu, because I got her very, very late into the game (by which time even Souryuu was already lvl 72). All the rest went up the levels normally, by just tagging along during sorties.