Unorthodox - I-225

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Fuel: 20 mins
Ammo: Tracers
Convergence: 600 meters
Vertical Targeting: No
Crew: maxed (lvl 75) + expert
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Outro: A.N.O. - Vanish
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[@shrekrecker]

I too, do fly.

[@natiasvanizde3359]

How do you fly

[@shrekrecker]

@@natiasvanizde3359 sorry not familiar with the "ho-2u5" plane

[@trollking7046]

the is fly.

[@solidsinek14]

The individual of which you kind of are listening to too, for all intents and purposes do basically fly in a subtle way.

[@daviddy1238]

@@shrekrecker F4U

[@delusius3410]

Fun fact about how nuts this plane is: It compresses at such a low speed that I thought it just had a terrible turn in general and I still went 91 and 14 in 57 matches without ever knowing I could stick a dogfight with anyone

[@colorfulnebula]

1:21 that shot was incredible

[@ThinkingOutLoud1.1]

"click him out of the air" this man literally tapped the cannons and absolutely destroyed the K4. Coolest thing ive ever seen on war thunder.

[@jaegarburks3167]

Gnarly, kinda unbelievable

[@lilac_witch]

@@ThinkingOutLoud1.1 whos gonna tell em about war thunder montages

[@taffa4900]

@@lilac_witch dust off the old orange montages lmao

[@dapifog12]

kennyS

[@adam3732]

I've watched a lot of Defyn videos by now and have become a bit more proficient in getting the enemy to stall for my team to swoop up a free kill. 5/7, would 0 kill soft carry again.

[@sassmate89]

Gotta love its high altitude performance, you can energy trap almost everything

[@alexhurlbut]

*annoying P-38 noises* Ran into one in a P-38 and....not knowing that it's actually great at low speed, tried to stall it out.

[@satagaming9144]

I remember 2manning with a friend who had never flown it, he spectated me stall out a 51h, the whole time he's like "what are you doing" lol.

[@0GTXR]

I remember having a space fight with a J2M, we both ended up climbing all the way to 10km alt

[@kingghidorah8106]

@@alexhurlbut it is a low speed monster but the I225 can point the nose anywhere and has a way too strong rudder that helps it do very crazy snapshots

[@degrees7097]

"prop pitch. Or how I like to call it, pp" -idk defyn probably

[@Flayrr872]

pp girth

[@kingwein89]

Had no idea this had good low speed handling, goes to show the majority of the player base doesn't know what they're doing. Always saw this plane as a very easy kill

[@kingghidorah8106]

it actually is, unless you get slow against it

[@robertgaudet7407]

Compared to a 109 it doesn’t handle well slow. But it also doesn’t stay slow so it hardly matters.

[@dartsenderAPFSDS]

I recently discover your channel, and you're doing an excellent content. I never see a pilot like you. You play more than well! Thanks man! 👌👌

[@HighjeX_]

Skipped this thing, might take it out to fly again It so nice to see your channel growing up bro, u deserve it

[@dakotahondalock5621]

P-47M would be great in the future

[@Psiikix]

everyone shooting at defyn has the aim of a toddler, but everyone that shoots at me doing the same defensive maneuvers has the amazing accuracy to hit me from 1.5km away

[@Stupidlyrice]

B-b-ut I can’t stall out a ta152 in this!!!

[@kingghidorah8106]

it can, Ta152H is in my experience one of the easiest aircraft to deal with on the I225. It is also in the J5N1, in a way that every Ta152H I killed with the J5 was a reversal and with the I225 in a vertical one circle stall trap

[@thelonious2213]

@@kingghidorah8106 Ta-152 H-1s, like most fighters, are flown largely by idiots who have no idea what they are doing. If they actually know what to do, like taking advantage of flaps and the insane MER, you are gonna die pretty quickly.

[@kingghidorah8106]

@@thelonious2213 yea but j5n1 is just so good. I'm probably one of the fourteen people in total that fly it and I'm on the highest KD of any aircraft I flew, and it's mostly dogfights and furball handling. I don't kill bombers, unless Ju288, which are ironically on my side most times. Check my J5N1 montage and see what I do. Thing can stall fight well, almost like I225 and once it hits 15 minutes of fuel or less, it is superior to i225

[@2552legoboy]

@@kingghidorah8106 yeah j5 underated and can do wicked reversals

[@kingghidorah8106]

@@2552legoboy 9G pulls at 800 IAS and no roll compression, crazy one circle performance on corsairs and out rates spitfires under certain situations. Absolutely love it. The best absolute best is how much damage it can take!!

[@redsun9261]

Should have called it Mig-3U for Ultra. Nice flying as always.

[@martijn9568]

That was the designation for another plane wasn't it?

[@johnathancooper3897]

@@martijn9568 Yeah. In a nutshell: It's an upgraded MiG-3 with better aerodynamics. The difference between the MiG-3U and the MiG-3 is kind of like between MiG-1 and MiG-3. (Or between La-5FN and La-7.) Performance is roughly similar to Yak-3 I guess.

[@TeenWithACarrotIDK]

@@johnathancooper3897 there’s a few planes that are Mig 3 upgrades. God knows the mig 3 needs them.

[@caplar3322]

Wunderschönes Video von dir über dieses Flugzeug! 😃 Mach gerne weitere zu diesem Flugzeug!

[@Jaeger_89]

The running away thing is a serious problem lately. I remember it being annoying back then but it seems like it got a lot worse. People just utterly shit their pants and run to "mommy airfield" as soon as they spot an enemy...

[@0kisshun0]

like what else would you do when you are in no position to win the fight? run away? or give free kill to the enemy?

[@thelonious2213]

@@0kisshun0 I expect you to not abuse game mechanics. You probably made mistakes that got you in that shit position. You won't learn anything from running back, you are gonna make the same mistakes again, and again. Play without using the airfield as a failsafe, and you have a chance to become a better player.

[@0kisshun0]

@@thelonious2213 so basicaly you say i have to let the enemy kill me freely, you are not going to be better in anything if you just keep getting clubbed all day...

[@Jaeger_89]

@@0kisshun0 Which is the point you have to stop and think "Why am I getting into this situation every match and how can I change this?" instead of just repeating the same mistakes and running back to the airfield if things go sour. You simply won't learn anything that way. That kind of mentality is why 90% of the playerbase is stuck pulling full commit head-ons and never improving...

[@0kisshun0]

@@Jaeger_89 thank you to proving my point, in order to learn from our mistakes we have to stay alive by any means, even if we have to hug the airfield for 25 minute, no one in his sane mind gona stay in the underdog position just for some stupid chivalry mentality. until gajjin drasticaly change the current elitist meta plane gameplay, this is what you going to get, no mater how you complain againts the airfield hugging.

[@grayson7980]

A pt 2 for the defensive flying vid would be dope. I actually started to turn some fights around in the f2g-1 after watching that.

[@roberttauzer7042]

These vids, amazing as they are, are quite disheartening. I know no matter what I do I'll never be 1/4 as good as this guy.

[@fluke5464]

We definitely wouldn't mind paid actors for guides, love your vids

[@TransportSupremo]

Wish i saw this video when i tried to fly this plane when i was newer to the game. Great stuff 👍

[@galvaniclegend917]

I love this thing, it's a monster of an energy fighter, so long as you stay out of those compression zones. o7 DEFYN!

[@reillyrussell4022]

One of my favorite aircraft to fly in WT, and the one that gave me the most enjoyable game I've ever had. Typical american team got steamrolled in minutes, so just me left against most of the enemy team. Turned and climbed away from the furball, getting chased by 2 zeros, a FW190 and BF109 all the way up to 8-9km. Then I just turned around and started doing doughnuts on the them with all my energy lmao, they were so helpless it was funny. Killed them all before having to rtb and getting killed by a spitfire, but still fun.

[@thedissatisfactoryman114]

I am definitely far from the above average bracket, but your defensive flying analyses helped me get me out of furballs easier - I'm getting 3 kills each game which is an improvement from my usual 1 kill ground pounding before I get killed by trying to head on

[@cyberdroid2300]

I got a few questions: What are your MEC settings? (I saw you adjust prop pitch to 100% at some point) How do you micromanage your engine to stop it overheating in the long run?

[@WhiteBaron777]

I'm writing this under the assumption that nothing has changed in the few months since I last played the plane. The prop pitch seems to be bugged. The performance loss doesn't start until you lower it down to ~70%, but the engine temp benefits remain, so keep it at around 75%. Keep the oil rad at 100% and water rad at 65%. This way you should be able to WEP almost indefinitely at standard temperature maps. Worth noting that this is one of the few aircraft that has both a properly modelled mixture and no auto control for it, so you'll need to micro it as you change altitude. Below 4k 35% is fine, then switch to 25% until you reach 6.5k, then 20% above. For dogfights taking place between 3.5k and 5.5k you can just keep it at 30%

[@S0me_Aussie_Guy]

Some guy did a mec cooling chart for the 5 majors in the war thunder forums. Very handy

[@0GTXR]

@@WhiteBaron777 I just took it to test flight, and you do lose a bit of HP (~100) and thrust, at least on the deck, according to localhost:8111.

[@WhiteBaron777]

@@0GTXR Given that my test method was less than ideal, it seems that I wasn't far off lol. Could you test what the lowest prop pitch with no power/thrust loss is?

[@0GTXR]

@@WhiteBaron777 Starting with 95% you lose a couple of horses

[@covfefe6023]

The shot at 1:20 is just insane

[@virginalflowers6759]

"two of my teammates are crippled". Two thirds of the player base are crippled.

[@number7red619]

1:21 holy shit what a shot man

[@rifwann]

I kind of agree that you making video, sharing awareness might influence future match, but i also think people has been running away since forever so maybe i wouldnt notice

[@ghtwghtw7197]

Great flying

[@SkipToMyLou_]

that was beautiful to watch

[@_GODSFIGHTER]

Awesoke video man

[@fliphsie4763]

"The P-47 is showing signs of brain activity" xD

[@foxhunter9547]

1:22 Ok stop it Defyn, go outside and touch some gras

[@kingghidorah8106]

Before he kills some people in this game he saves people in the ambulance. He's also a biker, so he probably touches more grass in a week than most of you together in a year. and I've seen pics of him on Discord and he's the dreamy blond boy everyone imagined when thinking about "handsome blond boy" . In a community made of stinky weebs and anencephalic wehraboos, he's not only normal but also mentally mature.

[@kingghidorah8106]

Also not a simp just facts

[@eliamilani1368]

I want to thank u very much, thanks to you i was able to claim my first ace with Re2001 thanks a lot!!!

[@DEFYN]

Great to hear!

[@desertfalcon1539]

Congratulations pilot

[@eliamilani1368]

Thank u all a lot! O7 Pilots!

[@JetFan_]

1:17 absolutely slammed omegalol

[@danielmostert993]

Honestly, I did not have fun playing this one. Very rare to get a high altitude match at that time. Enemy was always low down and in a dive the I225 is very unreliable. Managed to spade it and even got the hang of the low speed fight but I just do not like it.

[@kingghidorah8106]

it's mostly useless because it plays the slow speed dogfight on a high speed boom and zoom meta; even the high BR spitfires turn worse than a Yak3 and are better for BnZ

[@cia6286]

Hey defyn, can you please fly the Yak 3 vk 107, it's my most favorite plane and I would love to see how you fly it :)

[@meepmeep2588]

a fellow man of culture

[@sherlocksinha2435]

Treat it like a Yak -3 with a better engine , Low rip speed is a issue . A brilliant brawler that can brawl in the vertical and horizontal .

[@DEFYN]

Video on it soon

[@cia6286]

@@DEFYN thx dude, hope you doing good 👍

[@user-ov8pc1yz4q]

Nice Job Defyn.

[@spiritdon2206]

I remember Defyn's first video on this thing when he kinda bashed it as an "ok" aircraft when I thought it was basically pure magic and a complete joy to fly. I guess that shVAK damage buff finally pushed him over. Glad he loves the plane as much as i do now :D.

[@DEFYN]

I loved it back then too though I just hated the guns

[@kingghidorah8106]

I preferred it back when it was 5.7, it did not get sucked into the 6.3 spam where everyone has to keep their speed. Getting dogfights against F4U-4B or K4 was much more rewarding than chasing down He162 or getting outplayed by numbskull f2gs for the sole fact the F2G climbs almost as good and turns better at mid and high speed

[@geostorm2860]

Alright so I wouldn't mind custom battles as long as the scenarios are accurate recreations of what might happen in a war thunder match. I could even be better as you can emulate both experienced an not so experienced pilots. I think both are important because sometimes not so experienced pilots use tactics that have counters that aren't the most apparent.

[@adoplwt]

yeah, i hate this aircraft when i fight against this XD

[@alexgiurescu7553]

Will we get to see the Ta152H soon too? I swear that plane is absolutely gorgeous

[@W_T.VENDETTA]

How come I just searching up planes and then I think if this plane is good so I try to search it up and bam. THE VIDEO IS RIGHT What I accepted for plus it was posted five days ago which means this plane is still playable. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO. I GIVE A SUB. 👍

[@lajus-debattheo1745]

i find the tracer ammo to spark way too much, so i usually use API or mixed i believe the API also have a higher velocity but it might be biased idk

[@Miles26545]

You can check in the protection analysis thing

[@multigenderpissoir6599]

FI-T is fixed. Tracers are way to go on ShVAKs but it depends on what are your main targets.

[@overro]

Oh yes, soviet climb monster! Really like this one

[@no-legjohnny3691]

I would rather fly this thing than that damn F-82e, gonna be real. The only downside is that the guns are _slightly_ less potent, as far as I can tell. Also, I 100% agree with 2:30. The _worst_ thing you can do when an enemy is on your tail and there's an ally nearby is dive. You're just putting yourself further away from help while hopelessly trying to escape an enemy that can keep up with you.

[@kingghidorah8106]

i honestly prefer the f82, I225 is very contradictory. It's one of the fastest props at any altitude in the game and yet you can barely dodge past 340kmh and a single hit is enough to put it into a flat spin you can't recover from.

[@issakawalit490]

13:20 showing signs of brain activity i laughed so hard

[@verzache-]

i'm having alot of trouble with headons (when to dodge especially) any tips on that the situation is usually when the other prop comes from a higher energy position and dives down to me

[@DEFYN]

Main thing is mostly you want to be fast enough to dodge Once you have speed it's just a matter of timing it Try to do it later instead of sooner

[@gazzol9787]

yea i like this one!!!!!!!!

[@gregdearmond3309]

i appreciate you humiliating airfield campers

[@GotlandViking]

bussin

[@MrMikrace]

So the Ki83 did good for their team? Apart from going for the bomber out of boredom, so you think they didn't know they were such a key chess piece?

[@schlangenvogel2647]

Can you make a video about the re2005? Recently flew this plane again and it's absolutely beautiful to play

[@desertfalcon1539]

It's also really really broken in 1v1 I also found a little detail that makes me laugh a lot: your minimal fuel load is 26 minutes which still allows you to have good performance, and as you burn your fuel in wep, your flight model becomes absolutely cracked (I use WTRTI and I shit you not, at 26 mins my climb rate is 26 m/s and on lower fuel (20 minutes) I can climb 30 m/s at much lower speeds

[@siemeknumberone]

Can You get p51A from gaijin to show us its performance? I am talking about mustang that is hidden in usa tech tree

[@judet2992]

1:19 Damn this dude’s aim. Oof.

[@tillerzeit]

I watched the defensive flying video. I now enjoy dunking on all kinds of enemies in the F8-U most matches I get are easy 2 kill or more games

[@kingghidorah8106]

MiG19 is laughing at you from above

[@tillerzeit]

@@kingghidorah8106 tbh most players even mig 19 drivers generally play below me ie under 6-8k meters I just duck in pick em off and any fans I pick up I lose either climbing out or if it gets slow enough put em in a mix of two circle and vertical scissoring

[@kingghidorah8106]

@@tillerzeit mig19 has to play low when it has an uptier. Down below it can dodge nearly all the missiles and the unspotted SARH just don't track down low, plus it can pull it's infamous 14g complete circles. It has also a wicked roll rate so it has no problem reversing ppl

[@tillerzeit]

@@kingghidorah8106 that might be the next plane I research I'm taking a break right now after grinding both the F4D and the Leopard. That summer quest was a toll. Getting some work done on the pile of minis I've collected but haven't painted

[@Sneeksmcgee]

I’ve been taking this plane out and I was interested in the mec controls of this plane if you have any suggestions I would love to hear them I know there are some mec settings in the info on war thunder but I feel like I lose performance with them

[@lixlivlxxxiv714]

Well of course it's not going to be Orthodox, it was built by a soviet state!

[@jetpoweredpirate]

How do you get to high altitude so quickly? When I run this plane I usually have spitfires diving on me from orbit before I get to 4000m. Is there a way to climb faster at the start of a game that I don’t know about?

[@Juggy00]

Can you do a video on the Yak-3p or 9p those things especially the 3p are monsters

[@ibanana1871]

❤

[@crayolaconsumerofcrayons1597]

This plane is my favorite Tier 4 Russian plane. It’s cannons may not be great but it’s one of the few who can go after spaceclimbing bombers.

[@Xiphactinus]

Run tracers on ShVaks and you'll have a good time with the guns.

[@crayolaconsumerofcrayons1597]

@@Xiphactinus oh the problem isn’t the belts it’s that I cannot for the life of me aim with them.

[@jonathankramer259]

hello DEFYN, i have got a question for you, are you dutch?

[@user-vb7fc8xx1d]

lol matrix 17:40

[@leonflorence118]

So tracers for the shvaks what belt do you use for the berezin

[@SheridanM551]

Fly the G56

[@SheridanM551]

Collaboration with Jengar? The Dutch men unite

[@schonka2]

I swear its always the Ki-83 players that refuse to engage

[@certaindeath7776]

the russian planes seem to have just sureal energy retention

[@sauldemo666]

last video about ta 152 h1 from 2 years ago

[@JayNDFTL]

You should fly the Ki-83 rn rn

[@pedromedeiros4955]

Is this thing capable of taking griffon spitfires at high altitude?

[@thefunnyguyfromtheburgerki3334]

Another thing about this plane is that its rudder is absolutely autistic. I often dodge out of headons by just outright forcing a mild flatspin with just a moment of keyboard input, it's hilarious.

[@anthill360lol]

How do you know if they are in a squad?

[@celticspear]

When you open the scoreboard you can see tiny emblems with a number in them next to people's names, people of the same number are in the same squad, people without emblems are playing solo.

[@aprilius3348]

So basically one of the most powerful planes in the game is a prototype, Russian (Soviet) prototype ...

[@yoshimitsu1260]

One of the most powerfull planes in the game? What are you on, bro? This plane literally face spitfires 24/7 which are better in high altitudes and turn way better. You literally have to pray that people at low altitude don't see you otherwise they'll just get away with better turning while you are in a dive trying to BnZ and you have to pray spitfire aren't looking for you lol also this plane compress a lot, if you go above 700km/h it literally become a brick and it has no damn ammo and those aren't even that strong in comparison to the planes it faces. Tbh the only real thing this plane could be good at is killing bombers, but not by going to their tail because even there you can get pilot sniped since this plane doesn't have a bulletproof glass. But then again, you're gonna have in your team some XP 50 and they'll kill bombers faster than this plane🤣 soo... not "one of the most powerfull" for sure.

[@jamesdavies7891]

TRUE SPITS KILL ME 100% OF THE TIME AND DEFYN DIDNT EVEN TALK ABOUT THEM WELL I DUN THINK HE DID @@yoshimitsu1260

[@ivanov1276]

@@yoshimitsu1260 I guess this plane isn’t for everyone. I can’t even reach bombers half the time without being attacked by other fighter. Of course then I’m not BnZ-ing so I lose the fight most of the time. I just skipped this trash and went for the Tier 4 Yaks instead.

[@calebcarridine8025]

hey defyn can you fly the p-39n

[@JadsterNZ1]

Low speed flying huh? I've always hated this thing because slow speeds aren't in my playstyle

[@Kevinuncletf2]

Some one tips just in all planes like p51 if some one whit more alt

[@user-ni4dn2ml3h]

Good plane I guess, too bad no one wants to fight at high alt.

[@kingghidorah8106]

I love this plane for 1v1, but on air RB the engine just cooks before reaching altitude so I'm left being an absolute brick and taking an L. It's so fun to out dogfight J2Ms at low speed lol

[@sherlocksinha2435]

A Russian engine that has wep and an high altitude supercharger? You don't get that with a dependable cooling system .

[@eb3yr]

MEC, and if the engine starts overheating in climb it's probably best to just restart the engine instead of trying to juggle the temps.

[@kingghidorah8106]

@@eb3yr that's what I often do on heat maps. The time I reach 5km I glide (is ironically a fantastic glider) and then restart the engine. I still struggle with the mixture getting very little power at high altitude. I don't like the I225 for RB, but it's my solid number one favorite 1v1 aircraft. Mec to control the temperature of a Mikulin engine is useless.

[@MrLampes]

@@kingghidorah8106 if u win against j2m in this it only means the j2m is an idiot ;)

[@eb3yr]

@@kingghidorah8106 MEC is always worth it, if only to prolong your engine from overheating for an extra 30s or so by always fully opening rads. I think on the I-225 when I briefly played it I'd increase mixture slightly on takeoff and steadily decrease with alt - it's a plane that really benefits from using WTRTI overlays to watch engine power. Lowering prop pitch to 90% or a bit below also helps reduce overheating.

[@rocketqueen232]

You should fly the J6K again.

[@gandora0738]

Probably beacuse I still haven't played anyhting in the russian tech tree, but this plane is among those I hate the most to fight against.

[@mani3708]

make a video on the p51h5 please

[@clarvin146]

please do a f86 A5 video

[@radius507]

do do do do two things

[@radius507]

haha

[@imainhunter]

usually i try to get the most of every aircraft that you like or think is good. but this one? i can't. i just cant. the fact that i barely ever got killed by it nor impressed by people flying it(though i've never been in match together with u using i225), doesn't help either.

[@epictwix26]

Can you please fly the p51d5 or d20

[@StepaTalis]

hi defyn

[@rain-er6537]

So if it shits on k4, and has better guns, why the fuck is it 5.3?

[@andythesaladgod4578]

Because it has a shitty damage model and compresses like a mother fucker

[@HeyBigChriss]

Day 12 of asking for F4U 1C or XP50

[@mig29gaming]

Yo

[@stuff4511]

Where calories

[@nikolasroberts3161]

Day 2 of asking defyn to play the f4u-4 as he has never featured it

[@martijn9568]

Pretty much a decently better F4U-1 at a deservedly higher Br too.

[@tatgrimm8581]

Can you fly I185-m71?

[@airfryer9184]

Boom and zoom with it. Watch your speed, dont go over 700km/h+

[@scottcronin5485]

Hello

[@anthonymoe5280]

hey defyn gaijin should start paying you for help it's player base>>??

[@oIX3N0NIo]

i225 and Yak3 are in my personal opinion the most annoying Russian UFOs at that BR gap. They either severely outclimb everything, outrun everything or outturn everything…the only downside they all share is poor diving characteristics but as long as you can spaceclimb everything you want…well you get to dictate the engagement. Thus I never show credit to any player getting an ace with them since in my book, it‘s mostly playing WT on semi-easy mode. Just my personal opinion on them, then again I‘m certainly not as invested into WT as much as Defyn is and certainly am thus not that aware of every plane‘s strength and weaknesses. Perhaps I‘m also just biased from the old days where the Yak3s were literal UFOs x)

[@georgivanev7466]

Are you german?

[@m_zbrv3967]

First!! (Actually 369th 😔)

[@davidfans5852]

Cringe plane, but i blame gaijin not players

[@flandrescarlet8040]

Noob