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       #Post#: 597--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ranked battles
       By: wows Date: October 10, 2022, 5:35 pm
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       Today on 10-oct at 23:26 i cimpleted the Silver league with Tier
       6-7 ships and i try to save down some data for future debates.
       If you read which ships i planned to use then it was Japanese
       Dds and mainly i did use them to complete the League. But i also
       tried little bit other ships, including the new Australian DD. I
       managed to put my premium commanders to T6-T7 DDs and when i
       earned 400 gold in Rankeds then i used it to retrain my
       commander.
       The main victorious tactics was the same like in Bronze: a DD
       sets smoke for a cruiser. But in Silver there were also CVs so i
       did the Pair DDs tactics often and it was successful mostly. I
       almsot never went straight to cap but most times to the middle
       to scout. With 1 DD i used a torpedo reloader instead of smoke.
       A lot of Random Battles minded people in silver league. For
       example DDs are so obsessed with easy capping that they waste 4
       minutes to swim to cap easy cap with a cruiser who could do it
       alone and then swim back to the difficult cap area but at that
       time the alley DD is already dead there. And very popular is to
       swim far away to the corners of the map, and some like to go
       alone to cap C while all other team went to A in the
       horizontally placed caps map. Most luckiest battle was 4 kills
       which is 66% of enemy ships killed by me. Some Cv killing
       missions. Only 2-3 trolling battles yesterday and today in
       total.
       In gold League there seems to be T10-T11 ships. I use probably
       japanese T11, Japanese T10s, Eu T10 DD, USA T10 DD, but i will
       probably again test many other ship types as well. Becaue part
       of the Rankeds is to test many ships and tactics and after
       testing you nkwo which ones are best for you and you complete
       the league. I believe i am most efficent with T11 Japanese DD,
       but i will try other T11s as well and other ships.
       1. i played silver league 3 days,  8th - 10th October. That made
       total of 26+0+49+23 = 98 battles. So, it took ca 50 battles to
       get Bronze R1 and from there ca 100 battles to get silver R1.
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       2. In the start i tested many ships and most battles did with T6
       premium Pan Asian DD Anshan (8 battles) but also with Japanaese
       T6 DDs, in total 26 battles for the 1st silver league day.
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       3. On the 2nd silver league day i played msotly Japanese T7 DDs
       (18+15 battles) and in total 49 battles.
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       4. On the 3rd Silver league day i played only T7-T6 Japanese Dds
       and in total 23 battles.
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       All images of the Silver league:
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       We can look those pictures and talk about final ship choice i
       made. We can calculate winrates. And we can use those data for
       future debates.
       This time i did many ships ate 60-80% WR if you look and the 3rd
       day WR was 60% which completed the league.
       It seems that i always complete Bronze with ca 50 battles if the
       tiers are less than 9. And Silver league seems to take 100
       battles in case again the tier is less than 9. But if the tier
       get 9-11 then it is usually more complex and takesm ore battles
       to ocmplete.
       Because starting from T9 the cruisers have very strong
       radars/concealment ratio so a DD get almost always radared when
       a cruiser sees that he is spotted and presses the radar button
       and sees a DD at 9km distance and kills him. And T9+ has DDs
       that are extremely specialized in close combat DD duels so it is
       very difficult to progress again in such tiers. And other
       issues, like maps are difficult to cap in MMs that have T9+
       radar cruisers etc.
       If Silver-Gold has T9-T11 ships then probably the league takes
       200 battles in minimum for me. And because it is so big amount
       of battles that one just gets bored and cannot concentrate so
       long.
       So, if one can complete Silver league in first sprint of the
       Ranked Season, then is it again a luck and is he still a Bad
       player like Wows community likes to believe?
       I like the Rankeds system and it clearly filters well out more
       skillful players to higher leagues. There is no way that one can
       just make plenty of battles and get to the Gold league. No such
       things possible and i have experienced and explained it earlier.
       But i would suggest to even adda Diamond league. Even if the
       diamond league would stay empty msot of the time then at the
       last sprints of the Season it should contain some players and
       enable 1 battle during 30 minutes range at least. Why not to
       have such almsot empty leagues.
       #Post#: 598--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ranked battles
       By: wows Date: October 11, 2022, 7:02 am
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       If you try to play T11 DD then 20 minutes of waiting time for a
       battle in Gold league in Season 1 because not enough players
       yet.
       With T10 ship ittakes 1-8 minutes.
       The average skill level i nthe Gold today is very nice. Clearly
       above Randoms and Silver. For me the skill level seems to be
       even little bit high but i totally enjoy skillful teams. After
       few weeks the skill level goes down little bit. but it is very
       fine now.
       #Post#: 737--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ranked battles
       By: wows Date: October 19, 2022, 4:20 pm
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       This time i managed to get to the gold league in Sprint 1 but i
       doubt that i can complete it in this Season.
       I have completed 1 time T10 Rankeds but this time i don't think
       so. I haven't still found the way to be effective, some phrase
       it as "haven't found the meta yet".
       I mean, i don't know which ship type is the most effective for
       me, and which ship specially, and which locations on the maps
       are productive, etc.
       I worked a lot with the Mild Package system which can be
       published soon i guess. This is going to be a set of rules how
       to play.
       I saw that this time there are so many strong cruisers that have
       strong guns and radars. Not many T11 DDs. I tried all ship types
       but i should stil lstay on DDs but i don't know on which DDs and
       where to go with them on the maps. So, i can't finish the league
       this time with the current knowledge.
       First days of the golden eague showed really high player skills
       which was enjoyable to see. They were mentally very instable of
       course but only those first days when you waited a battle long
       minutes were ca 30 really fine players. I haven't seen such
       quality before.
       For some maps i know some good moves and i can publish them soon
       but not many. When the sprint 2 starts then i can count how many
       battles i need to get for example Rank 5. I am sure i can't get
       Rank 1 at all this time. Maybe things change and the Gold gets
       easier starting from Sprint 4-5 and then i can maybe finish it,
       or when i accidentally find the effective methods.
       #Post#: 1014--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ranked battles
       By: Hanuman Date: January 19, 2023, 10:22 am
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       Season 10 Rankeds started today and that is a good "exam time".
       Wows community has a different exams and times: they don't care
       about first day but first years and all other years in total as
       an average over all ships, secondly, the battle mode must be
       Randoms- so, for the community Exam=RandomsWR and for me
       Exam=Bronze1stDayBattleCount.
       I have been counting how many battles it needs from me to get
       from Bronze rank 10 to Rank 1 without completing the rank 1. So,
       i don't count battles quantity needed to achieve Silver rank 10
       but i count until i complete Bronze Rank 2. This is how i have
       been doing it and i have explanations for that choice.
       1. Bronze Rank 1 status:
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       2. Ships i used. Obviously Tier 11 battles (6x) and Tier 10 (1x)
       are from the previous ols Ranked Season and yesterday's.
       So, in total i did: 18+14+2=34 battles to in this Season's exam.
       Previous seasons i did 40-50 battles.
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       3. The total stats for today include 6+1 yesterday's battles.
       So, if you are interested in the WR then it is not as the
       picture shows 63% but something like that:
       ( 1 299,96 + 700 + 200 ) / (18+14+2) = 2 199,96 / 34 = 64.7 %.
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       4. Hatsuharu captain setup:
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       5. Fubuki captai nsetup:
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       As always i used DDs because DDs and CVs are advanced ship types
       and don't rely on luck as much as primitive ship types. I don't
       think that i am capable to complete the Bronze with a primitive
       ship even with 200 battles. Because it just depends on the luck
       how DDs play and if one of them dies then game over and even if
       the DDs don't die so quickly then which skills a primitive ship
       player can use at all to get the team to win? There are not much
       skills, just shoot out bullets and wait a half minute doing
       basically nothing. So, chosing a DD or CV is an obvious choice
       but i don't have enough experience with CV aiming. It takes long
       time to learn and remember aiming for each CV and it is the most
       complex ship type anyway with other skills. I just can't even
       remember how fast the torpedos swim for each CVs that i have so
       i just can't use them.
       If somebody can complete Bronze with a primitive ship with
       around 50 battles then coem and tell which secret skills did you
       use. I would say that such players jsut chose the most suitable
       ship in current game version, msot times a new premium ship or a
       new tech tree line ship etc. They know which are currently the
       best primitive ships and use them, that is the main nkowledge
       and when primitive ships start to exchange shots then the OP
       ship wind at the end and the skill is to jsut know which are the
       TOP 2 primitive ships right now. Secondly, aiming skill makes a
       slight difference in the ping pong between primitive ships-
       those who have more experience in aiming just win the exchange
       round. Thirdly, there is a skill to don't show broad side and
       that's it. For advanced ship types th skillset is more advanced
       and requires more practice but pays at the end- it is like
       learning MMA fighting quite long instead of Sumo wrestling and
       at the end when MMA feels comfortable enough then it is easier
       to "score" than with Sumo.
       From primitive ships in MMS i saw one time a BB with planes
       which spotted my DD very effectively and killed. I personally
       think that was the best BB choice. Other times i saw msotly
       premium BBs which. I would think that the BB should have short
       firering range and not long one, that should help deciding, and
       as fast guns reload as possible. From cruisers i guess Hydro and
       Smoke are effective and probably Smoke little bit more. So,
       maybe UK's cruisers because they seem to have both those items.
       But this is only my guess about primitive ships and i saw so
       many different so i couldn't understand which is the best
       choice. But i repeat that even if you chose the best suitable
       cruiser/BB then what would you do if your DD jsut dies?
       From CVs was effective the one which specializes to frog bombs.
       Those are always the best for Rankeds. Immelman, russian Cv, and
       one premium french T6 CV. But such CV player must understand
       that he msut hunt mostly DDs to be effective. From my 34 battles
       i had around 4 battles with CVs.
       From DDs i saw Japanese premium T6 DD Shimome and i don't
       understand why people use it because it is worse than standard
       Japanese DDs. At least i didn't see any russian DDs. I can't say
       which DD was the msot popular, maybe premiums Anshan and
       Shinome.
       I used appearantly Japanese DDs which have the longest torpedo
       range and best concealment. As always i almsot never went to
       cap. I don't play primitive Randoms tactics. But i didn't do
       anything special. Maybe what appeared special was that i don't
       almsot ever sit in my smoke. Other DDS like to sit in smoek and
       cap liek you see in Randoms but i never do that. I set smoke for
       cruisers and others often of course. I use mostly wide range
       torpedos which is also a different than the commnuity does. I
       think the victory formula was like the following:
       1. good concealment and long range torps make it safe to spot
       and make lot of damage to the enemies. So, choose long torpedo
       range DDS, only Japanese.
       2. set smoke for cruisers.
       3. general knowledge, like, stay together with the team and
       don't go far away, avoid using guns, before hiding behind a rock
       shoot bulelts, find some rocks sometiems to be behind not
       spotted and shoot bullets. Etc.
       It required 14 stars to complete the league and i spent 2-3
       battles for each star- 34 battles in total. The best would be 14
       battles of course.
       Obviously i end the exam mode now and just play casually next
       weeks. But i documented it again and i can use it in
       argumentations later.
       I try sometimes one more exam when i am in gold league but not
       very often. I remember it takes 200 battles from me to complete
       gold if i reallt try. But i don't liek to try, so i prefer to do
       thousands of battles isntead.
       I suggest everyone to do the same exam. There really is no point
       to play Randoms because they are so random and primitive. Play
       first day Rankeds with best players around to see how good you
       actually are. Building RandomsWR is like "r-a-p-i-n-g" children
       and mentally ill people and later being proud of the results-
       something like that. If you care about any skill measuring then
       do some exams/fight in real leagues.
       #Post#: 1015--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ranked battles
       By: Hanuman Date: January 20, 2023, 5:11 am
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       To see popular ship choices i psot T8 Silver league MMs
       screenshots.
       From DDs obviously the premium Cossack is the most popular. But
       i don't have it. I have Loyang which has very weak guns but does
       almsot as good as Cossack. But i think the best is still
       Japanese gunboat DD andn ot the torpedo DD, 2nd best is Cossack,
       then Loyang, then Brittish DD. Grom CVs probably Kaga, and
       russian CVs. From primitive ships i am not sure yet, that's why
       i post screenshots next. In T8 radar cruisers should be most
       suitable, and low range fast reload BBs i guess, maybe german
       BBs. Let's see after screenshots.
       1. Seems like in T8/Silver CVs are more popular than in
       T6/Bronze. Cossack obviously the most popular DD.
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       2. In this MM players chose bad ships because they are obsessed
       with nationalities perhaps. for example, Ukraine and other
       slavic/russian countries prefer to speak russian,be russian
       minded, and use russian ships. All know that russian DDs are the
       worst but if you are a "Ukrainian" then obviously you like
       russia and russian ships. From russian DDs only T10 Grozovoi is
       usable but all other russian ships are unusable. Also in this
       battle the russian DD couldn't do anything good than easycapping
       which is forbidden for advanced players. Italian DDs are the 2nd
       worst choice, the 3rd worst choice is french DDs. So, this MM
       had only 2 wise DD choices. From CVs the Implacable is bad
       because Brittish CVs don't have frog bombs which are essential
       in Rankeds where the winner is who kills first one DD and not
       the one who kills a cruiser/BB. American DD Benson is a good
       choice because long lasting smoke but his goal must be
       imemdiately to set smoke in front of a cruiser, if he don't do
       that then his team loses.
       I'm not sure about those BBs in the MM, one looks liek a russian
       armor-oriented BB- such BBs have no benefit in Rankeds. The
       other BB seems german one which is a good wise choice.
       The CV Kaga is a good CV but msot suitable CVs should be
       frog-oriented.
       This MM had 2 primitive ship types and 4 advanced ship types,
       not bad. Often MM has primitives in majority.
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       3.
       This MM has an italian cruiser which is fine in case the player
       holds his fire and uses it only when he sees first DD and
       understands that his goal is the same like frog-ships have- hunt
       DDs. If no luck with DD spotting then they become useless but
       this is common to all primitive ships. In this MM iset 2 times
       smoke for the italian cruiser and he farmed a lot behind the
       smoke. So, the victory came from swimming in front of the
       cruiser and setting smoke forgetting any obsessive thougths
       about capping or DD splitting or other wrong tactics.
       The MM has the tech tree newest add-on Japanese light cruiser.
       Usually new ships have some good aspects to make them popular in
       the beginning months but i don't think that light cruisers and
       torpedo cruisers are suitable for Rankeds. In Rankeds the
       cruisers should use radars and smoke.
       You see in the picture also american BB. I'm not sure about such
       choice, probably an average choice. I would suggest to chose
       something that kills DDs well (Italian BB, German BB) and not
       such that make citadel hits to enemy BBs. There is no need to
       focus on BB killing.
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       4.
       This MM paired my Loyang with enemy Loyang, other choices the MM
       tries are Cossack and english DD as i understand.
       You see american radar cruisers here- Clevelands/Baltimore.
       Radarers are the most suitable ships for Rankeds. But remember
       that cruisers are still primates, but you may call them smart
       primates if you like.
       The premium CV enterprize doesn't have frog-bombs and it had
       other non-suitable aspects like some bombs are only AP which
       makes them totally useless against DDs. So, it is a bad choice
       CV.
       Russian BBs have armor which is useless for BBs in Rankeds, and
       low guns reload time which is again a useless thing in Rankeds.
       Better fire more frequently to take out the first DD which
       declares the team as a winner. I think all russian BBs are not
       suitable for Rankeds and mostly people who are obsessed with
       nationality and premiums use them. Of course also those peopel
       who don't have anything else.
       You see on the picture also a Japanese BB which is a bad choice.
       Because long guns range is useless in Rankeds. Such ships should
       just wait and hold fire when the enemy CV is spotted and then
       shoot first salvo towards the CV. But such long range HE shot
       doesn't make much damage anyway. Japanese BBs have no place in
       Rankeds.
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       Re: Ranked battles
       By: Hanuman Date: January 20, 2023, 7:06 am
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       So, i try to write shortly some suggestions.
       1. Use advanced ship types. CVs, DDs.
       2. Frog-bombs CVs. In Bronze use DDs with good concealment and
       long torpedo range. In Silver use DDs with radar/hydro or good
       concealment and smoke. Just avoid those DDs: russian, italian,
       french, european. In Gold avoid only those: russian (except
       Grozovoi), italian.
       3. The main way to win is to be first to kill a DD. So,
       primitive ships should hold fire until first enemy DD gets
       spotted and shoot him then as their first salvo in the game.
       Chose ships that are msot suitable for DD huntig: fast guns
       reload and less armor and less shooting range, SAP bulelts, long
       range secondaries.
       4. Don't use Randoms/brainwashed tactics in Rankeds and Clan
       battles. The reason is the same why you don't use a fork to eat
       a soup. Use right tactics/tools for right things. Randoms
       tactics are suitable for Randoms, a spoon is suitable for soups.
       So, forget brainwashed believes. There is no need for DDs to
       split, there is no need for DDs to sit i ntheir own smoke while
       their cruisers die outside any smokes, no need to shoot as soon
       as possible but instead hold your fire until a more valuable
       target becomes visible, some maps have easycaps that DDs should
       never visit, etc. Those suggestions are difficult to comprehend
       for the racist community. Also, don't demoralize your team with
       debunked slogans about Karma Soup etc.
       Shortly so.
       #Post#: 1019--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ranked battles
       By: Hanuman Date: January 20, 2023, 8:38 am
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       A picture of my 9 ships to chose from for Silvers.
       Obviously i don't prefer to chose cruisers because they are
       primitive ships but specially light cruisers die very quickly in
       Rankeds. so, the premium Irian is useless, and torpedo cruisers
       are most useless cruisers anyway in rankeds, specially the ones
       with deep water torps. So, such cruiser is totally unsuitable
       for Rankeds.
       The italian BB doesn't have SAP shells which might be help in
       damaging DDs but has a HE shells which have low fire rate and
       long reload time. The tech tree italian BB is more suitable, but
       in general all BBs are primitive ships and italian ones are not
       the best among those. So i would never use that ship. I got it
       from a container.
       Japanese torpedo boat Kagero has the best concealment compared
       to other DDs so it scouts well and torpedos are good but guns
       are very weak and have very short range. So, it is not my first
       and 2nd choice, but a 3rd preference one from my list.
       I have a radar DD but i don't have a captain in it and i don't
       feel yet well in it. The T10 brother for that ship feels more
       comfortable to me but that T8 version i don't feel well to use
       so i don't use it. I think German DD is more universal in my
       opinion and with almost the same range Hydrophone plus also
       smoke. So, i would use German one instead that Pan Asian in T8,
       but in T10 the Pan Asian is fine but still i don't prefer very
       often. In T8 you hit other DDs with torps quite often so it is
       wiser to use other DDs than Pan-Asian deep water DDs. And, in
       T6-8 setting smoke for cruisers has such a big profit compared
       to a 7km radar. So, i don't think that in Silver that deep water
       DD is a good choice and certainly German and British DDs with
       Hydrophones and smoke are better.
       I have american t8 CV but you need 2 CVs to play because if one
       is dead i nthe battle then you don't wait but take the 2nd one.
       And i don't have enough skills on CVs, i need to practice 1 week
       with 2 CVs to remember aimings for them and after that i can use
       them in average level. Maybe i will try such week one day. But
       right now i can't use CVs.
       The american DD Kidd has long lasting smoke and long range guns
       so it means you have to sit in your own smoke. But who spots for
       you then and who spots for the team then? And sitting in smoke
       is forbidden anyway foradvanced players. So, i don't use that
       DD. And that gunboat has only 5 torps with a huge reload time
       and compared to Japanese gunboat the guns are weaker.
       TOP 1 is Japanese gunboat and the 2nd is Pan Asian Hydrophone
       DD. From my choices. I use what i have. I don't have credits and
       prem account to make credits and i don't play Randoms usually
       with dummy premium ships to make credits, so i can't afford to
       buy a German T8 DD and use it.
       2 boats are fine. As a DD player those 2 DDs are enough for me
       to complete the Silver.
       If you play dummy ship types like cruisers, then also ensure you
       have 2 of them. For example, have a Cleveland and Baltimore. As
       a CV player, have a russian CV and Kaga, as a BB player have
       something which is not russian, japanese, french, i'm not sure
       which BBs are good DD hunters perhaps german ones.
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       #Post#: 1023--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ranked battles
       By: Moderator1 Date: January 20, 2023, 10:52 am
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       Appears like 70% of battles in Silvers have CVs which is smart
       because those are the most advanced ship types.
       In Bronze only 10% of battles had CVs.
       #Post#: 1057--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Ranked battles
       By: Hanuman Date: February 5, 2023, 6:39 am
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       I completed the silver league with 3 ships as you see in the
       screenshot.
       TOP 3 ships for Rankeds are: Cossack, Akizuki, Loyang, but i
       don't have the Akizuki.
       The Cossack makes playing quite easy but not so easy that one
       would call it "over easy" or "over powered". It is the strongest
       DD in T8 right now but in Rankeds most chose that ship so it the
       MM balances things and makes fair if you want to phrase so.
       I can write about that ship and Rankeds later.
       But now i have an argument for debates: How can a Sprint 2 gold
       Member be bad human? I have earlier also completed the Gold
       league in Sprint 1 but this time i got 1 month ban so i couldn't
       do it in Sprint 1 but 2. I can talk about the ban next
       somewhere.
       We can talk about other ship type choices next in silver too.
       But there is no need to talk endlessly, if we talk we talk, if
       we don't there is no need either. It is what it is.
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       Re: Ranked battles
       By: Hanuman Date: February 5, 2023, 8:17 am
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       On the picture are my available ships for the Gold league for
       next sprints.
       I tried first time a torpedoless DD and seems it is quite easy
       to complete with it the league.
       I don't use cruisers and BBs obviously, but all 4 DDs o nthe
       picture i will use.
       My first thought is that Firesland is the strongest TOP 1 ship
       for this Rankeds. I'm not sure about TOP 2-3 yet.
       About cruisers cruisers hydrophone ships are the best, like
       always.
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