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This month is a straight DPS and reading check Light status shielded healing 1% HP per second Dark status easy mode Bring vanguard ships that spam a lot of shells to break the shield as fast as possible because you do not want to let Katsuragi heal 15% HP for every 30% lost Other than the vanguard shell spam there are no other gimmicks so bring typical good anti medium DPS We only provide examples of fleets with good synergy and sync to attain high DPS If you do not know how to set up high DPS fleets in the absence of boss gimmicks by yourself we recommend asking or lurking in ALO Discord #gameplay help Note Katsuragi s movement cycle is approximately 28 45s long so you should bring your own slow freeze Although Katsuragi s skill descriptions imply that the five rotating shields can each block 70 shells in reality they share the same hit count So if 70 shells each hit any of the shields all five shields disappear and Katsuragi enters Dark status Furthermore like typical rotating shields her shields will not block arcing shells from BB guns CB guns torpedos and bombs Katsuragi also often moves back to the far right of the screen as 13 4 Taihou does when carpet bombing Taking this information into consideration some example favored and unfavored things are listed here Things that are good against Katsuragi Twin 138 6mm and both Twin 130mm s have high range and shells per second Twin 100mm Kai has high shells per second and spams barrages but is more inconsistent due to low range Plymouth has 3 main gun mounts MGMs and a guaranteed aimed barrage every 10s San Diego and Scylla spam shells and have good AA to keep carriers concealed though Sandy s augment barrage ignores shields Helena has 2 CL MGMs and 1 DD mount Barrage or MGM spammers like Mogador Harbin Tai Yuan > other DDGs or Tashkent s Things that may be good in general but are less so against Katsuragi Triple 155mm Kai or any other slow gun CA guns have low shells per second CBs and basically all CAs have poor shield breaking capabilities and their tankiness is not needed Hindenburg s guns ignore shields Z52 s barrages pass through shields and she only has 1 MGM Tempesta submarine frigates can also help break one shield cycle Summon them a few seconds before you will pass the 30% HP difference since Katsuragi last had shields Just put cheap gear no need to spend core data on all the 12 pounders and Round Shots Tempesta example fleet

This fleet won in 9 58 with half tech mid cats and no submarine fleet Please bring submarines and a bit more 13 or tech Fritz is not using double BF109G because that would make her too fast To keep Fritz before AvP do not exceed 50 CV RLD but get as high as you can so that Fritz stays synced for longer Enterprise will desync eventually but not much we can do about it San Diego may sink after 8 or 9 minutes level 125 is very important to extend her lifetime Mid End CV example fleet

None Even the High End BB fleet will take over 6 minutes with half tech and mid cats Try your best to copy it and make substitutes

This fleet won in 4 52 with half tech mid cats and no subs For this specific gear and oaths Nakhimov syncs with Soyuz at 56 CV RLD and 17 BB RLD or you can subtract an equal amount of RLD from both CVs and BBs but you lose Helena sync if you subtract too much Don t forget to decrease your CV tech to use cats with CV RLD Flandre gun was chosen to keep Helena sync You may also use Champagne gun with 45 CV RLD and 17 BB RLD Calculator Link Plymouth can main tank for 7 minutes with just one toolkit Scylla has been unavailable for a while now so pick a substitute from above if you don t have her Since Scylla s torpedos are too hard to sync for 10 minutes we opt for the fastest torps to spam more barrage High End CV example fleet

This fleet won in 6 20 with half tech mid CV buffing cats and no subs There s not much else to explain at this point As usual for CM block Bismarck behind Soyuz and or Alsace so that they stay synced High End BB example fleet