I think people exagerrate how bad the Zao is.... she's a great ship.. with good stealth, and excellent guns.. for me, the major issue is her gun angles, and her health pool... Its admittedly shocking to see a light cruiser of the same nation, recieve almost 50% more health than a Heavy... Zao could do with another 10k or so on her health pool, and a minor adjustment on her firing angles.. and then she'd be an excellent ship!
people do not exagurate how bad Zao is. a ship being good or bad is relative. Zao is objectively at basically the bottom of the stack. Now I love Zao with all my heart, but I'm at least honest with myself, shes not good. Shes one of the worst cruisers of her tier in the entire game, if not actually the worst. her gun angles? bad her AP pen? attrociously bad turret traverse? bad HE DPM? bad. health pool? bad. concealment? basically average, maybe on the better side of average but not outstanding. rudder shift? bad. armour? bad. gun range? so bad that you are forced to take either legendary mod or the range module instead of the dpm module. which knocks her dpm again. shell flight time? average. the ONLY thing that she has going for her is her accuracy, which is only truely of value against DDs. oh and the torpedos that get very little use in most scenarios. I mean really, can you name me 2 or 3 ships that are worse than her?
@@Airtroops83 Don't get me wrong, she's no way near as good as she should be... at least not on paper. But you've had to exagerrate on a few points to make one... Her concealment is hardly average... even considering power creep, she is still one of, if not the stealthily CA in the game... her concealment goes down to what? 9.7km??? That's exceptional, even for CL standards... Her Ballistics are great, with crisp, accurate guns, with incredible HE pen, and decent fire chance. The way I see it, she's basically a light cruiser. Cruiser classifications are based purely upon gun calibre, and seeing as she fires 203mm shells, she's classed as a Heavy cruiser. But in regards to her Hull, she shares more characteristics with CLs... Her gun angles absolutely need improving. Her DPM is.. meh, without considering her ability to melt people.... Her healthpool is pitiful, sure, but then, as I've said, she's basically a CL, with CA guns... One could argue that Stalingrad has a weak health pool for a T10 battleship... But... gun calibre... She also has a great rudder, and she certainly doesn't have poor AP performance. She possesses an average of 30mm more AP pen than Des Moines at most ranges... and has a 5.4k alpha... (64.8k alpha strike).. People definitely exageratte how bad the Zao is... she just needs a few minor tweaks. Namely, gun angles.
@@robbieburtt5942 her concealment is 10 which is on the better side for a heavy cruiser but not exceptional whatsoever. her ballistics are not as good as you think. Anything russian or french has better ballistics, hell even hidenberg somehow feels just as good if not better in this regard. The initial velocity is high yes, but the flight times are honestly just about average when you factor in everything else. Her range is ABYSMAL which factors into the guns as well. incredible He pen? no she pens 32, standard for 203s. hindenberg pens 51 and the goliath pens 59. THOSE are incredible pen. decent fire chance, yes, but her fires per minute is among if not actually the worst because of her extremely low rate of fire, expecially when you factor in that she cannot effectively run the reload module while her contemporaries can. her gun angles are horrible, her armour needs to be 32mm upper belt, and yes her dpm is bad, and fires are no excuse, see above. her rudder is not great by any stretch and YES her AP performance is horrible! play the ship and look at the statistics!! I am not shitting on the ship, I love her and want her to be better. she needs higher stock range at least 17.5km (not unreasonable, basically anything newer than her gets this or higher), and either better turret angles or a little bit faster reload, along with having 32mm upper belt. Her original design was that she had a 30mm upper belt, which allowed her to effectively angle against anything but yamato, but they took this away from her when she could still stealth fire. In fact, the entire reason that the ship is so much worse than her contemporaries is because she USED to be able to stealth fire, and gave up a lot for that privledge, but when that was removed from the game she was never updated. Anyways, with all the damn 457s in the game now, she needs something, and I would propose that be her original design. a good ship without anything majorly standing out, but armour that, if played well, would heavily reward you and allow it to feel tanky, while mistakes still punished heavily. but WG will never do this, because it wont make them money and shes an old ship.
Very nice cruiser. Pretty too!
I think people exagerrate how bad the Zao is.... she's a great ship.. with good stealth, and excellent guns.. for me, the major issue is her gun angles, and her health pool... Its admittedly shocking to see a light cruiser of the same nation, recieve almost 50% more health than a Heavy... Zao could do with another 10k or so on her health pool, and a minor adjustment on her firing angles.. and then she'd be an excellent ship!
people do not exagurate how bad Zao is.
a ship being good or bad is relative. Zao is objectively at basically the bottom of the stack. Now I love Zao with all my heart, but I'm at least honest with myself, shes not good.
Shes one of the worst cruisers of her tier in the entire game, if not actually the worst.
her gun angles? bad
her AP pen? attrociously bad
turret traverse? bad
HE DPM? bad.
health pool? bad.
concealment? basically average, maybe on the better side of average but not outstanding.
rudder shift? bad.
armour? bad.
gun range? so bad that you are forced to take either legendary mod or the range module instead of the dpm module. which knocks her dpm again.
shell flight time? average.
the ONLY thing that she has going for her is her accuracy, which is only truely of value against DDs.
oh and the torpedos that get very little use in most scenarios.
I mean really, can you name me 2 or 3 ships that are worse than her?
@@Airtroops83 Don't get me wrong, she's no way near as good as she should be... at least not on paper. But you've had to exagerrate on a few points to make one...
Her concealment is hardly average... even considering power creep, she is still one of, if not the stealthily CA in the game... her concealment goes down to what? 9.7km??? That's exceptional, even for CL standards...
Her Ballistics are great, with crisp, accurate guns, with incredible HE pen, and decent fire chance.
The way I see it, she's basically a light cruiser. Cruiser classifications are based purely upon gun calibre, and seeing as she fires 203mm shells, she's classed as a Heavy cruiser. But in regards to her Hull, she shares more characteristics with CLs...
Her gun angles absolutely need improving.
Her DPM is.. meh, without considering her ability to melt people....
Her healthpool is pitiful, sure, but then, as I've said, she's basically a CL, with CA guns...
One could argue that Stalingrad has a weak health pool for a T10 battleship... But... gun calibre...
She also has a great rudder, and she certainly doesn't have poor AP performance. She possesses an average of 30mm more AP pen than Des Moines at most ranges... and has a 5.4k alpha... (64.8k alpha strike)..
People definitely exageratte how bad the Zao is... she just needs a few minor tweaks. Namely, gun angles.
@@robbieburtt5942 her concealment is 10 which is on the better side for a heavy cruiser but not exceptional whatsoever.
her ballistics are not as good as you think. Anything russian or french has better ballistics, hell even hidenberg somehow feels just as good if not better in this regard. The initial velocity is high yes, but the flight times are honestly just about average when you factor in everything else.
Her range is ABYSMAL which factors into the guns as well.
incredible He pen? no she pens 32, standard for 203s. hindenberg pens 51 and the goliath pens 59. THOSE are incredible pen.
decent fire chance, yes, but her fires per minute is among if not actually the worst because of her extremely low rate of fire, expecially when you factor in that she cannot effectively run the reload module while her contemporaries can.
her gun angles are horrible, her armour needs to be 32mm upper belt, and yes her dpm is bad, and fires are no excuse, see above.
her rudder is not great by any stretch and YES her AP performance is horrible! play the ship and look at the statistics!!
I am not shitting on the ship, I love her and want her to be better.
she needs higher stock range at least 17.5km (not unreasonable, basically anything newer than her gets this or higher), and either better turret angles or a little bit faster reload, along with having 32mm upper belt.
Her original design was that she had a 30mm upper belt, which allowed her to effectively angle against anything but yamato, but they took this away from her when she could still stealth fire. In fact, the entire reason that the ship is so much worse than her contemporaries is because she USED to be able to stealth fire, and gave up a lot for that privledge, but when that was removed from the game she was never updated.
Anyways, with all the damn 457s in the game now, she needs something, and I would propose that be her original design. a good ship without anything majorly standing out, but armour that, if played well, would heavily reward you and allow it to feel tanky, while mistakes still punished heavily.
but WG will never do this, because it wont make them money and shes an old ship.
sadly this just is not a question the zao has just been power creeped so hard that u should not even bother
Bro yodo is objectively worse
Everyone has been asking for W.G to buff the zao. Yodo was made to buff the zao
Lucky game. To many mystake.
Not a good gqme to compare, zoa might do pretty good in this matchmaking with that reload.
When i heard her name i felt lewd, because it means the urethra in korean ☺
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@@user-saintcho93cuz it’s Japanese and there’s a Japanese thing called yodo?
Europe must close internet with russia !