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WoWs Legends ship picks

Best battleships in WoWs Legends

The battleships that anchor a flank: durable armor, dependable guns, and the positioning tools to carry, ranked across tiers.

These picks are guide-fit recommendations, not raw win-rate rankings. For live Community Data, use GamingDiver's win-rate confidence ranges to separate proven performance from small-sample noise.

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Germany · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Großer Kurfürst

Built to brawl: the sloped belt bounces point-blank shells while secondaries work.

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Germany · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Preussen

Sloped armor bounces close-range shells; brawl with secondaries inside the citadel-safe band.

Italy · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Ruggiero di Lauria

Main guns fire high-alpha SAP instead of AP: farm reliable chunks into broadsides and superstructures rather than fishing citadels, and angle to survive while picki…

Germany · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Schlieffen

Close inside secondary range and let the auto-fire battery work with the mains.

Italy · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Cristoforo Colombo

Push into secondary range so the auto-battery adds to your main-gun damage.

U.S.A. · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Ohio

Close inside secondary range and let the auto-fire battery work with the mains.

U.S.A. · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Rhode Island

Push into secondary range so the auto-battery adds to your main-gun damage.

U.K. · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Thunderer

Improved-HE guns farm fires and chip angled targets your AP can't crack; heals sustain the trade.

Japan · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Aki

Airstrikes hit without line of sight; bait broadsides, then cash in with the mains.

Japan · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Aki SE 25

Airstrikes hit without line of sight; bait broadsides, then cash in with the mains.

France · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Bourgogne

Punish every broadside with main-battery throughput; keep the guns reloading on targets.

U.K. · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Conqueror

Improved HE means fires and chip damage on anything angled; heal back the trade.

U.S.A. · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Vermont

A sniper: farm AP citadels from range, repositioning before the line closes.

Japan · Tier ★ · Battleship · Premium

Yamato

Long-range guns citadel broadsides from a backline peers cannot match.