User blog comment:Faeriedust/How I choose planes for my CVs/@comment-26458588-20150721174127/@comment-11780006-20150806085604

Yeah they're different ideas entirely. :P

I mean if you replace lvl 150 Hiryuu with lvl 150 Taihou, you're basically trading:

Hiryuu: 30 evasion, ~5 accuracy (i hear 50 luck == 5 accuracy?), 5 FP, 17 less fuel consumption,

Taihou: 4 HP, 8 armor, launch planes at orange (subject to 70% dmg reduction)

So I mean yeah, Taihou can probably tank a fair amount more dmg (probably great for 5-5).. but Hiryuu can dish out significantly more, especially on challenging maps, and uses less rsc/has better chance to come through unscathed (great for maps like 5-4 which you'll probably be spending most of your time doing anyways). :)

So I'd say Hiryuu is more general purpose god. <3 And I'm huge fan general purpose ships since they make the most out of the time I spend training them. :)