2020 Equipment Guide Revamp

All existing equipment guide pages are in the process of being revamped. More hidden stats and mechanics will be added and discussed. More importantly, this will also add the new equipments introduced between now and the last update (which was months ago).

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Azur Lane(EN) In-Depth Equipment Guide Series: Auxiliaries

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Return to Index Auxiliaries Overview Auxiliaries usually are the last two equipment slots of your ships. Their functions vary greatly, giving your ships various buffs. The order in which I discuss them is NOT a "tier list" of any kind because that would be comparing apples to oranges. Most of them do drastically different things so do not try to figure out which one is "better" than the other. Auxiliaries Analyses SG Radar Hit +35 Evasion +15 Skill Ambush encounter -12%. Ambush escape chance +12%. Similar skills can't stack(take max effect). Often considered a must-have for each fleet. In later maps there is a lot of requirement for recon values so the chance to encounter ambushes is very high. The equipment skill can significantly help with that. The purple T2 version is also very useful as a transitional substitute. Accuracy buff and evasion buff are also very nice. Obtainable from: US boxes, 6-1, 10-2 Steam C...
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Azur Lane(EN) In-Depth Equipment Guide Series: Secondary Guns

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Return to Index Secondary Guns Overview Some ships in the game can carry secondary guns in addition to main guns. The types of guns they carry and whether they can carry them in the first place are not determined by ship types but rather by specific ships. General trends do exist(i.e. Japanese cruisers don't tend to have secondary gun slots but have torpedo instead), but you should look at your ship to find out what they can equip. CLs and CAs with equippable secondaries tend to use DD guns. BBs/BCs/BMs can equip either CL guns or DD guns depending on the ships. DD guns and CL guns can be equipped as secondary guns for the bigger ships. We already discussed these guns in their respective pages but here we will discuss them in a different context. A few general rules: 1. CL/CA secondaries generally have low slot efficiency(around 50-60%) and they usually can only be DD guns. In this case it is better to pick your best HE gun(most of the time gold twin 127mm). The rea...
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Azur Lane(EN) In-Depth Equipment Guide Series: Dive Bombers

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Return to Index Dive Bomber Overview Dive bombers share the same problem with fighters. Let's reiterate it. First rule of fighters and dive bombers: BASE DAMAGE STAT IS COMPLETELY USELESS BASE DAMAGE STAT IS COMPLETELY USELESS BASE DAMAGE STAT IS COMPLETELY USELESS Base damage stat is boxed in red. The rationale is as follows: For one-dimensional equipments (guns and torpedoes), the damage comes from the equipment as a single entity. Therefore the numbers listed in game are accurate. Planes are not one-dimensional like those. Each plane comes with its own set of weapons(machine guns, bombs, torpedoes etc) that each have stats of their own. The number the game calculates is the theoretical damage based on all weapons assuming they all hit. This is drastically inaccurate because weapons have their own sets of attributes that need to be considered. An (non-perfect)analogy would be like this: In this game, you can tell what a ship is good at, because you can see...
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