Ranked Battles Season 15

[Taipan17]

I am curious. With 5 days left to run,  I would like to know how Ranked Battle Season 15 is going. My primary question is:

What are the most effective Ships in this Ranked Battle season:

1. CV
2. BB
3. CL/CA
4. DD

If possible, please provide a short description of the what strengths the nominated ships have in Ranked Battles.

Thank You for your constructive input.

Please don't be (an arse) a pain. Please do not indulge in criticism of other players selections.

 

[EULA_violator]

CVs are worthless, you have much less control over the game and you wont save star if you lose unless you play to lose in the first place

CAs and CLs are really strong since after a few buffs they can stand toe to toe with BBs in the case that you get into a superior position

BBs are still quite the same, this season is still hard for them since ven will blap you hard, but you are about the only ships on your team that can blap them back, so if you are good at aiming and have good game sense (and can blindfire into smoke) then go for it

DDs are still smoke and cap slaves for the teams, it's not pretty, you wont save a star no matter what, but you win games if you are good, conversely you lose them outright if you die early

[Verytis]

With only a few days left, you're gonna encounter all the bad players that have crawled out of rank 11. There are people at rank 5 with 500+ matches.

Play ships that can farm for their star if the match goes wrong. DM and Venezia comes to mind.

[RalphTheTheatreCat]

I played about 18 games, got to R12 and then lost interest.   Its a lot more fun when you don't care about ranked and still play it.  

Feeling cute, may play it later.

[dejiko_nyo]

1 hour ago, RalphTheTheatreCat said:

I played about 18 games, got to R12 and then lost interest.   Its a lot more fun when you don't care about ranked and still play it.  

Feeling cute, may play it later.

I top that. I was considering a few rounds but haven't even tried ONE GAME EVEN. 😛 Have a tiny bit of interest that evaporates, then recondenses; repeat.

 

[Nork22]

Reply to your question:

CV - sorry no opinion since I don't have any T10 CVs.
BB - only have Kurfurst so I just go with my CA/CL and fighting mid range.
CA/CL - Minotaur - OK, run radar for fun times. Hindenburg - very solid (spec with DE and is solid fire starter). Smolensk - good utility but braindead gameplay (sit in smoke and HE spam). Yoshino - OK, solid guns and good fire starter, but big and clumsy. De Moines - Solid, has radar and rapid fire guns.
DD - no opinion as I don't have any T10 DDs.

Honestly though, once I hit Rank 11, I just don't care too much. I'm in rank to get Steel as much as I can mentally tolerate playing with team members of certain skills.

[S4pp3R]

I hit rank 10 the first day and in a handful of matches... Up and down from 12 to 10 so many times I lost count.

From there things got painful because it's cut throat and fighting to save a star over fighting to win.

It's sad. I don't really have that in me, I'll give every ounce, including my ship to try and get any better chance for my team to win.

But the default setting is to do a yolo torpedo rush to top the board or ignore the cap and farm damage from safety.

Save a star isn't the problem, the way the XP system is configured is.

I found Conqueror to be good due to stealth, Yamato because of guns.

Venezia, Hindy and Yoshi worked well as flankers and Radar Mino was a lot of fun if there were DDs in queue (or noob Smolensks).

Z-52 did surprisingly well, bait them into overextending, use hydro to punish them. Biggest trick was managing Zs poor concealment against hordes of Shimas and Darings.

[dejiko_nyo]

20 minutes ago, S4pp3R said:

Save a star isn't the problem, the way the XP system is configured is.

Quite right. Saving stars is the symptom of the main problem, the XP system. There are two ways to go around it: 1) Fix the XP system which wg so doesn't want to put effort into it so we have choice 2) Stop this star saving stupidness, WHICH wg also is too lazy to put an effort into it.

The way I see it is that wg doesn't interact with the players IN GAME and see the realities of the issues that are plaguing the game. Instead they are relying in hearsay and the heretical god that is their spreadshits.