Azur Lane Simplified AA Equipment Guide v.20180901

This is a simplified guide. To see full AA mechanics, see the overview in AA equipment page:
http://azurlanesanctuarygrossweebskeepout.blogspot.com/2018/09/azur-laneen-in-depth-equipment-guide_23.html

WHICH AA GUNS SHOULD I USE?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I get this question a lot so let's get it over with. I promise I'll keep it simple.


There are 3 things you look for in an AA gun: range, damage, and rate of fire.
A gun is usually only good in one or two of these things.
Your AA performance in battle depends on the average/combination of most stats in your AA guns and they fire as if they are a single gun. Range and ROF stats are averaged, while damage is additive. However, damage on a single gun usually becomes lower as the other stats get higher.

In practice, you can usually only "PICK TWO" out of the three attributes to maximize.

Which two?
1. In auto mode, pick range and damage
2. In manual mode, pick rate of fire and damage.

Rationale is that range is more forgiving if you are controlling the ships yourself because you can just tell them to move to where the planes are.

But damage is important in both cases. Therefore I'm attaching a chart form the Chinese wiki that ranks AA guns by damage per shot.


Range and rate of fire you can compare in game.
(For the more tryhard players, if you're curious, damage per second stats are in the column with red numbers. The column with purple numbers are the average AA defense score based on damage, RoF and range.)

Have fun.

Reference: Azur Lane Chinese Wiki http://wiki.joyme.com/blhx/%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5

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