Ranked Season 6: The Best Ships

Another commentary for the upcoming ranked season, dividing each T7 ship into 4 different categories, Top tier, Good tier, Competitive Tier and Not recommended. You can find a more concise list in the pinned comment below.

[Flamuu]

Timestamps; BBs: 1:20, CVs: 5:45, CAs: 6:48, DDs: 13:58

TOP TIER:
CV: Saipan, Hiryu
BB: Nagato
CA: Belfast, Flint
DD: Leningrad, Blyskawica

Good tier:
BB: Scharnhorst
CA: Myoko, Fiji,
DD: Sims, Shiratsuyu

Competitive tier:
BB: Colorado, Gneisenau
CA: Atlanta
DD: Mahan

Not recommended:
CV: Ranger
CA: Pensacola, Indianapolis, Shchors, Yorck
DD: Akatsuki, Kiev, Maass

[Lassaro]

Premiums really need to be excluded from ranked. Unnerfable ships just shouldn't be in a competitive mode.

[TheHardwareGuru]

Drinking game: take a shot of vodka each time Flamu says " definitively" instead of "definitely". Major props if you make it out alive.

[daftrhetoric]

Flamu, the Scharnhorst's guns are wonderful firestarters with battleship range. All you have to do to appreciate the guns is to forget that euphoric BB feeling of big numbers popping up.

[mrholmes]

Thanks for putting them up and the opinions, I was debating moving my cpt to the Nagato or doing solely Blyska so this helps me know I'm not a complete potato haha o7

[mylenewhalen]

I lived in Japan for 13 years as a kid, and have to say you pronounced Shiratsuyu pretty well. You got it right :)

[nighthawkf]

You know, I have been in a argument with several people, who think the Nagato doesnt stand a Chance against the Scharn twins. Glad to see someone who agrees with my point of view.

[nosajmartinez]

Thanks for the video! :) Completely agree with all of your picks. Great job on all the work keep it up! :)

[TheJuan]

They need to give torpedoes and healing to Belfast and spotting plane.

[DEAN]

love the nagato one of my favorite ships in the game. great guns nice armor and decent accuracy on the guns such a nice overall package :D

[Dukhanstmichmal]

Thanks Lord for Tier7 Ranked. Tier 8 we would have had to deal with all the IFHE Kutuzovs.... I am happy - My Scharnhorst, Belfast, Leningrad and Shira are ready and this is going to be a good season :)

[Taorakis]

Thanks, nice video.
I was looking to Scharnhorst it up for a while now.

[Gyphon]

Got my Blys and 19pt capt ready and waiting....thanks for the list. *Salute*

[Alrion]

best CV Premium, best CA Premium, best DD premium...

[Rogue]

Actually gotten citadel hits on both Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. It was a surprise for me since I'd never citadeled any German BB before.

The first time it happened I was being chased in my Nagato by a Gneisenau who was bow on to me. I think a shell I fired penetrated the deck armour on the bow and hit the citadel there or perhaps overmatched the bow armour.

The second time was with a Scharnhorst. Again it was in my Nagato, but I nailed him while he was broadside on so I'm not sure which shell of the many I hit that actually reached his citadel.

So yes it is quite rare, but it's apparently possible to citadel a Tier VII German BB.

[JericoLeslie]

Premium Ranked! for wallet warriors :V

[KermitTheGamer]

Excellent, my only two Tier 7's, the Scharnhorst and Blyskawica, are among the top picks...probably will stick more to Scharn as I still need to learn a lot in the Blys, especially like when to use smoke for anyone but myself

[scheimong]

I played about 20 ranked games on SEA now and I feel Atlanta is so underappreciated. WG actually began selling the Belfast again during ranked and lots of noobs simply bought it and took it into ranked thinking they will be so powerful. And to a certain extent it is, since many Belfasts is nightmare for any BB player, especially for Nagato and Colorado, since their 25mm armor is paper against 152mm IFHE. So what happened is that ranked is filled with CA(L) (I'll just refer to them all as CA for convenience) with very few BBs and DDs. This makes the Atlanta super strong. HE does so much damage against CAs and DDs, and your rate of fire and radar hard counters any smoke play.
Against BBs Atlanta is actually equally good. Side by side, Atlanta is so much thinner than any other CA. In fact, its width is more similar to a DD than to a CA. Therefore most AP overpens it and does negligible damage. Added to this, Atlanta doesn't have citadel under its turrets, so it can actually use the edge of an island to shoot with half of its turrets while spotted. Any AP shots will do normal penetration damage at worst and overpen damage in most cases.
Finally USN arcs become an advantage in ranked, since Atlanta can still fire over islands at extremely close ranges. Whereas Belfast has to come out to the open, smoke, and shoot, risking being radared and taking torpedoes, Atlanta can use almost any island as cover because of the high shell arcs. This takes away the danger of torpedoes and radar completely. Although positioning in Atlanta is more difficult than in Belfast due to the lack of smoke, once in an optimal position, the Atlanta is actually more effective than Belfast.
Atlanta is not nearly as strong in random battle, as locking down one cap zone is usually not enough to secure a win, and teammates have a tendency of dying for no reason. Added to this Atlanta can't really do long range sniping. However in ranked none of those is an issue. Even better, there is so much cover in ranked (surprisingly) as WG chose many island filled small maps, and there are so many smoke ships at tier 7. When battles happen at close range all the time, Atlanta is a monster. Therefore personally, I think Atlanta should be in the good tier at worst, and possibly even considered a top tier.

[tonkatoytruck]

So do the Flint and the Belfast have contemporary counterparts in 2019? I find your Best ships in Ranked some of your most informative videos that are short and concise. Doing the different Tiers is awesome for those who are still working our way through the lower tiers. Thank you for all your hard work. Saves a lot of us wasted free xp in research.

[mshuC]

This video is like a Wargaming premium ships commercial. FeelsBatman