Talk:Artillery Imp/@comment-4981281-20160504152203/@comment-28586982-20160804092013

There's a bit of confirmation bias at work too; people only show their examples of losing huge plane counts to a single Tsu, but never average or below average losses because there's nothing interesting or notable about that.

It's quite unlikely to end up on the really bad end of enemy shipborne AA - dangerous AA enemies need to be present, and then you basically need to get completely screwed by RNG. The most dangerous enemies are the ones with AA equipment - machine guns, HA guns, and air radars. Tsu-class, AV Hime, Imps, CV Hime, etc.

Enemies with good AA equipment also donate AA stat to other ships in the fleet, so even if the Tsu never gets picked as defender you're still losing some extra planes just because she's there.

Base AA is also largely meaningless, as it gets square rooted for abyssals (but not for player side). It's basically just there to scare you. AA Hime III without equipment would have a proportional shot down of 9.87% and a fixed shot down of only 3.