Saratoga

Tier: 1

Very high damage.  Also very easy to gear, as the best Dive bomber drops from 3-2.

 Good AVI stat and plane efficiencies.

 The gun barrage is mostly a cute historical reference (the Lexington class actually carried multiple twin 203mm guns at the start of WW2).  Fires 3 pairs of 203mm HE shots in sequence.  Each pair has its own targeting, which is very derpy and prone to missing.  The damage (if it hits) is actually decent, and a single shot pair has the power to kill suicide boats and weakened production ships.  A nice bonus when it actually hits, and makes Saratoga one of the few CV/Ls that can deal damage without using an airstrike.  (Note that, unlike most gun barrages, this barrage’s damage scales off AVI.  So your catapults actually buff it.)

 The retrofit barrage is where things get REALLY good. Launches several extra planes with homing torpedos that deal high damage AND inflict both Burn and Flooding damage.  Flooding damage is a special type of Damage over Time (DoT), currently only accessible to 4 ships, that stacks with the Burn DoT and Flooding DoTs from other skills.  It is also believed to ignore the damage reduction from AA stat (which would make sense, because Flooding was originally a submarine mechanic), making Saratoga even better against the ch12/13 bosses that have 80%+ damage resistance to planes from AA.  The Burn damage has a very low coefficient, but it stacks with the normal Burn DoT, and is a nice little bonus.

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