[Scarletknive]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

Enterprise: OWARI DA
Akagi + Kaga: The obvious combination, especially if you have Nagato
Illustrious: Her shield thing
Saratoga (Retrofit): As strong, if not stronger... just with no invincibility, as Enterprise

I think these are the most commonly used?
Taihou and Essex only just was released, so their "evaluation" haven't really solidified. Hornet and Yorktown were also recently buffed.
You could try Essex if the Nagato + Akagi + Kaga "meta" team gets on your nerves, I guess.
Hiryuu/Souryuu is pretty much a cheaper version of Akagi + Kaga.

Unicorn is also an obvious choice, but she's a light carrier.

Spoiler for Summary of the CV suggestions:

I can agree with those first 4, but usually that Akagi + Kaga is for PVP (You can also use them in PVE, but not necessary.)

Centaur is mainly used for her double fighters, very useful in one of the Worlds (W12), same for Illustrious, but with shield.

For Essex, if you want to use her, you can pair her with either Enterprise or Saratoga for the yellow skill, her red skill is best utilised against BBs (Not BCs or BBVs). Her blue skill if I recall, is only viable in PVP and you need 4 USS ships.

Taihou can be used in PVE for her red skill, which gives you a plane gacha with 3 possibilities:
1.) Ryuusei - I don't know this one by the way. I didn't get this when I used her.
2.) Suisei - Wipe the right side of the map.
3.) Saiun - Literally one of the bad ones as it increases backline damage dealt by 10% when it launches and does nothing.

Souryuu and Hiryuu are substitutes to Akagi and Kaga yes (Please get Akagi and Kaga.), but Hiryuu has a special gimmick in one of her skills, which renders her invulnerable for some time.

Unicorn and Shouhou are must get as well since they have heals. Ranger is also good for her scramble and plane damage increase.

This is CV(L) only suggestions, but you should get a full picture as CVs don't determine the battles in PVEs (Especially when it comes to suicide boats.)

Originally Posted by vietthai96

i got too much Ise though, well look like the ship's rarity/grade mostly depend on their achievement/fame in the history which Ise-class and Fusou-class is just Blue(Rare)-Grade, and despite is the same class Enterprise is SSR while Yorktown and Hornet is just Elite, also according to wiki Tirpitz is SSR while Bismarck is Legendary

Rarity doesn't mean anything in this game for most of this game.

Some SRs and even SSRs are literally worse than Rs or even Ns.
To give an example from the AL EN side, Leander is a good boat when Kai because her yellow skill and smokescreen gives her some utility with the cruisers, then there is Shigure, with her skill being increase evasion by 30% at SL1, which doesn't really matter, since if the shell hits, it hits, and does not have any much utility with other ships. And not forgetting Warspite, while her skill is very useful against heavy armor enemies, but she has a distance based skill (In this case, she will shoot on the furthest ship, meaning very right side of the screen), so if the furthest ship is a suicide boat for example, she is going to shoot at that suicide boat and it is a wasted critical.

You should get Hyuuga though, her yellow skill is best used with the Battleships.

Originally Posted by Kakurin

It's not time-consuming at all if you are approaching it casually. No need for real leveling grind, just stick them into the ridiculous 9-hour 12k experience expedition and send them to the rest area and watch their levels skyrocket. And once they are on a sufficient level, just use auto-mode to bruteforce maps while doing something else.

Some maps are best done manually, because they are hard, but at the moment on the English server, nothing much. Japanese server on the other hand...

But yes, just stick to expedition and rest area for levels.