Talk:Yuubari/@comment-114.179.18.37-20131015191827/@comment-16916378-20131016024601

Rarity is usually determined by historical feats. This is also the case with Maikaze, Abukuma, Zuikaku, etc.

Yubari gets a gold background due to being an experiment of trying to arm CLs to the teeth. It succeeded, but at the cost of thinning her hull and getting rid of other standard CL components in order to stay light. This is reflected ingame with her ability to equip 4 armanents at the cost of weaker stats.

Her designs were also used for the Furutaka-class CAs so that makes her a lot more significant than your other CLs (barring Isuzu I guess).