T10 Steel Monster Shinano: Completely Unbalanced and Overpowered CV | Tips and Tactics

[@antlerman7644]

5:41 thats the problem, no aircraft should do this. That's what makes fdr, naki and this cv overpowered.

[@ninobixio6156]

Nice game tips sir. I picked up the Shinano even though I'm not the best in carriers. Hopefully these tips will help a bit.

[@grzegorzkapica7930]

6:00 His biggest mistake is to enter a battle against you in an Shinano.

[@N1GHTM4R3W0LF]

I just got her and it's my first T10 CV haha (I wanted to try smth new, and I needed a good ship for that). I'm pretty good with her now, after 60 games or so haha

[@PineApple-vq9xv]

Indian?

[@Stouzough]

Still holding my steel for Bourgogne, but that's hard not to take this one...

[@6uiti]

Bourgogne is not OP anymore just well balanced.. i would think twice

[@Cloudman572]

His biggest mistake was to still play wows in 2025 but most players are quickly learning and finding non broken games to play instead. WG are well aware of the state of their game and that it is in end phase so will take as much money out of players as possible.

[@Xingmey]

how are you suposed to 'kite away' or 'switch flanks' vs an aircraft carrier? hint - you are not, it is impossible. Also playing the easiest shipclass in that game does not make you good. Playing an aircraft carrier in WoWs is as if you input IDKFA and IDDQD into the console there.... (oldgamers will know what that means)

[@Schorch1962]

Mimimi CV OP mimimi 👎 The strength of any CV is the weakness and stupidity of the players. The CV spotting is ok and needed because most DD`s die far too fast to be useful as spotters. Or they sit in smoke, waiting for torpedos to devstrike them. Shinano AP skip bombers are so easy to dogde, just angle your ship some degrees and you get some normal hits and overpens, or some bombs just bounce. And don`t be that stupid island camper like Gouden Leeuw, making yourself an easy target. Play stupid like a toast, then cry salty "CV OP" and Wargaming will listen to you. This is the only broken thing about CV`s. I wish CV`s would get back the strike potential they had in RTS times, just for 1 or 2 weeks. Just to teach the players how stupid they are. In this times, a very good CV player could easy do far above 400K damage with a tier 8 CV, sinking 6 - 8 ships alone. Just to make it clear, i play BB as my main class. CV`s are my 2nd main class, and now i`m coming back to the most OP and broken class ever, DD`s. I learned a few important things from a DD unicum and now my gameplay is far different from my former one. Now i`m able to survive most of my battles in a DD, do much spotting, don`t force anything, just being patient and waiting for my chances. Capping and spotting are now my keys to victory, dealing damage and sinking ships is only the cherry on the cake. It`s so funny to cock a snook at CV`s by switching my AA off and see them fly close to me without getting spotted. This is so broken, a 100 meters long or longer ship can`t be spotted from a plane group passing the DD at 2.2 - 3 KM range while the DD can see the planes from much more distance. I learned early how stupid most CV players are, and my new DD gameplay demonstrated it. I managed to sink a Hornet with my Hatsuharu at the end of a battle. A tier 6 DD against a tier 8 CV. Did the same to a Tschkalow with my Shiratsuyu, playing her with torpedo reload booster, no smoke. Was the final kill for victory. Tried my Yugumo a few days ago, watched the opponent tier 10 CV flying 3 KM away from me while the opponent Gdańsk spotted me with radar for a few seconds until she ran into the torps i launched at a Hizen. CV searched for me for around 1 minute, then gave up because i was invisible for him. Playing a DD in a CV game feels so broken OP for me, and i`m not an unicum player with my 55 % winrate. Knowing how CV`s work is the number 1 key to counter them, playing in a division with 2 other players is another important key. 2 trustworthy buddies knowing their ships and voice communication are the most fun way to play World of Warships. A good choice of ships like DD, BB and CA/CL or a CV to replace the DD is important. Same for subs, playing them myself teached me their weak points so i learned how to fight against them much better. Know your enemy, don`t fear him! usman3300, i expected more from you, not this mainstream CV OP whining!

[@uravgwargamer3300]

Well, I do play CVs and some of your points are correct, I have given great tips and tactics in this video and didnot whine about them there. Still there are issues with Shinano fundamentally because of how AP skips work in general and How the HE dive bombers work like an RNG based damage in destroyers now, compared to the rockets which with their delay tends to be more towards skill based now. Atleast the CV sniping capability is too much in the case of Shinano, which can be really a horrible experience for the enemy cvs, specially Nakhimov. Giving smokes to the already very tanky carrier is also a questionable stuff that I dont like in general for this design, so there are still some designs issues, apart from the playerbase issue that you are correct about.

[@Schorch1962]

@@uravgwargamer3300 Sorry for my rant! You should try to see things more with the eyes of average players. Unicum players like you make every ship OP, no matter which class it is. But look at the playerbase where 45 - 48 % winrate is the standard now. The problem with CV sniping is easy to solve: give them the most powerful AA of all ships, with more range. Let them fire their AA just when the enemy planes get in sight. CV sniping should hurt much more. But it looks like Wargaming don`t want to do something about it. Some tier 8 CV`s have 3.5 KM AA, this is a very bad joke. The rocket delay is too much on some CV`s, just think about Ryujo, Shokaku and Hakuryu. Not much rockets, bad RNG on them, long delay. They`re painful to handle, and hitting a DD is nearly impossible when it rejects to sail in a straight line. The most useless rocket planes are on Franklin D. Roosevelt, more than 6 seconds delay. Even BB´s laugh at them because they spread out so much that only a few rockets hit. I met 3 Shinano as opponents in my Manfred von Richthofen. They had not more impact than other tier 10 carriers, and trying to snipe my MvR with the skip bombs went bad - for them! Moving my carrier and dropping fighters worked very good for me, so they gave up after some huge plane losses. Told my team to angle to the skip bombers so they took not much damage. Worked good. And sometimes i was able to protect a DD with fighters against the tactical squadron with the HE bombs, so they took only slight or no damage. Most Shinano players were bad with winrates between 35 and 45 % and low PR on CV`s. I could drop fighters into their flight path and they just kept flying through them, so i got some extra plane kills.Players who are too bad to handle a tier 6 CV got Shinano and hoped they would perform on a very good level, but reality catched them very fast. If you suck with tier 6 CV`s, you`ll suck with Shinano, too. I saw them losing huge amounts of their tier 8 planes to AA, drop AP skip bombs at DD`s and more funny things. One got nearly de-planed. They tried to farm damage on BB`s while i was bullying opponent DD`s with my AP rockets (yes, it works) and torpedos, helping my DD`s at 1 cap to get it and then on the next one. My focus targets are DD`s and cruisers close or in a cap, and if there`s a radar cruiser, i focus it hard and mark it as a focus target. Works very good most times. No big damage, but better chances to win my battles. I refused to get Shinano now, i`m salty about FDR`s huge nerfs after paying so much steel for it. Yes, i feel cheated. I could play FDR without any armor against AA and used captains skill points for more attack power. After the huge nerf on hit points, i had to take my Lexington captain, losing attack power and even with all armor skills, i lose much more planes than before. I fear that Shinano will get a huge beat with Warganings nerfhammer so she`ll lose much of her attack power. And why? Just because most players are too stupid to learn how to counterplay against CV`s, crying loud and salty for Nerfs. WG should say "learn to play", but listens to the noobs. So i got another historical ship, the Gato. I love historical ships much more than the fantasy ones with that "i have no skill but F-Skill" fun button. For the actual playerbase, CV`s are ok as they are. No rework needed. Some like the british ones need buffs.

[@Le_Chibre_Tordu]

@@Schorch1962🤢🤮

[@dodgedaytona7435]

I got her for her historic significance( i have Mushashi and Yamato already) but looks like i picked well.

[@6uiti]

your ping is very unstable in recording

[@shantu129]

being a Nakhimov I instantly want to exit the game whenever I see Shinano in opposite team

[@antlerman7644]

As if naki isn't still absolutely broken

[@shantu129]

@ not anymore! Doesnt stand a chance with shinano. In one go it takes down 60k health with skip ap bombers.