[Azur Lane] Which Destroyer Guns Are Still Worth Using?

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[@Red-io7jg]

Problem with this 3 best guns is they're not easily mass produced and I hate swapping gear everytime I switch ships.

[@fakejin247]

the Only Tech Azur Lane guy and the best

[@bbvids8630]

Great video! Thank you.
The info is all there in the video but a clear and concise TLDR slide at the end would be sweet.

[@rainbowstormgaming]

A very tiny detail, but there are some KMS DDs that have an AP buff skill (25% extra AP damage), and 128mm SK c benefits from this. It may be that this is still the best gun for those DDs.
It can be assumed the pierce would make that slightly better. Most of the DDs with this skill are low tier though, but one of the ships is Z46 who is probably one of the strongest KMS DD (edit here: I just remembered Otto Von Alvensleben got added recently, she is quite strong, probably Tier 0 and the strongest KMS DD - some say CL gun is better on her, but only rainbow one for more all out assault procs). Z46 Augment also buffs AP guns with 10% crit rate, 15% modifier increase against all armours, and buffs her all out assault.
Not worth a full video, but maybe a footnote.

[@mintymint6485]

Z46 pretty much always wants the AP IB gun regardless of if she has her augment, the 25% boost to ap shell damage is that good.

[@rainbowstormgaming]

It's a little more complicated than that. A lot of ships that buff a specific ammo type, often don't have a strong enough buff to make that ammo type Mandatory (e.g. Atago).
If we look at the DPS chart (taken from the Azur Lane Wiki), we can see the following values for DPS vs light - medium - Heavy:
Rainbow: 67.66 33.83 33.83
Ironblood AP: 43.97 34.20 19.54
This means that a 25% increase still isn't enough to match the DPS, with a minor advantage vs medium but that would be irrelevant given that there is a SAP DD gun.
In theory that would mean 128mm SK c is ONLY useful on Z46, especially factoring pierce, but I am not one of those who enjoys doing testing, which is why I appreciate analyses like these so much.

[@EtherSword]

Glad Tashkent gun still works for other ships.

[@olds2011ify]

Comment #2 requesting a look at meta fleet vs Faction Fleet synergy builds comparison.
You’re awesome, I love your videos. I also love faction fleets….

[@fatesimulator]

The Einstein of Azur Lane

[@GrayveStone]

I enjoy these deep dives you do, thanks for sharing
I didn't post on your last vid, sorry! jsut wanted you to know i liked it to

[@KaoruMzk]

Basically, the Tash gun is now just a stat stick for BBs that can't equip CL guns on the aux. slot (i.e NJ)

[@mintymint6485]

The Prototype Twin 137mm Mk 1 gives the same amount of FP plus 10 AA and it's basically BiS for ramming boat protection for BBs that can't use CL guns though it's also locked behind gear labs.

[@KaoruMzk]

@@mintymint6485 oh yeah, you're right. I keep forgetting that gun exists.

[@joezhangmd]

Which camp does laffey 2 fall under? Barrage focus or gunfire focus?

[@antialpaka1186]

All of the guns you have shown here are limited, with the exception being the rainbow one but even that one takes time to farm. So what gun would be the best if you only consider the ones currently farmable? The Single 138.6mm?
Otherwise nice video.

[@JimmyAL]

PR4 gun 114mm was the preferred general use gun before the UR but 128mm skc and 138mm are fine

[@antialpaka1186]

@@JimmyAL Don't know why, but I never liked normal ammo guns.

[@jksupergamer]

All of the are worth using to me because there’s no way I’m ever gonna get the rainbow de gun cuz it takes too long to farm

[@mintymint6485]

You're guaranteed rainbow prints just by doing OpSi and buying out the shops every rotation.

[@jksupergamer]

@@mintymint6485 thats the thing

[@kurosumomo]

this is just for min/maxing, you can play just fine with even the worst gold guns and occasionally even purple guns. Don't worry too much about it. I despise playing OP siren, so farming for those rainbow tech-lab items is nothing but a chore for me, so I don't have very many of them, and I still cleared the whole game with ease.

[@yamatohime2035]

I wonder is UR gun or B-2LM better for Kitakaze?

[@JimmyAL]

take the raw DPS and multiply it by the 15% increase in efficiency she gets for the IJN gun