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Yukikaze is a Tier VI Japanese torpedo destroyer reaching 8 km. The torpedoes travel at 76 kt, so target reaction time is shorter than peer DDs; this is a torpedo-spam kit, not a gun trade kit. Standout traits: top-decile AP shell velocity in T6 DDs (915) and top-decile flat HE shells in T6 DDs (915).
Sit at the edge of a contested cap from concealment and cycle torpedo waves into lanes the enemy has to use - 8 km reach at 76 kt means the wall arrives before targets can react. Drop on probable lanes from cover, stay unspotted between waves, and let the wall do the work. Your guns lose penetration at range, so aim AP at broadsides you can still citadel and put HE into superstructures and upper-hull sections, rather than the bow-in or belt armor your shells bounce and shatter on.
The kit pays out by saturating lanes, not by waiting for guaranteed broadsides; missed waves still force rotations and protect your team's flank. Idle torpedo tubes are the worst output state.
+8% speed, 120 s duration. Engine Boost consumable temporarily raises top speed. Mobility on demand to reposition, chase a kill, or break contact.
76.0 kt torpedo speed, top decile of T6 DDs. Less reaction time for targets to dodge.
7.5 s reload, bottom decile of T6 DDs. Salvos punish more, but cycle is slower than peers.
1.8 km torpedo detect, bottom decile of T6 DDs. Easy to dodge if targets are looking.
Yukikaze is a Premium ship and not available to unlock in the Tech Tree. Acquisition paths: Containers and Global XP. Container chances are shown as the listed odds of receiving this exact ship, dividing grouped ship-pool odds across the resolved ships and including nested container paths when a crate can drop another crate.
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Where Yukikaze sits among Tier VI DDs (41 ships). Notable standouts are shown first; the rest of the cohort-ranked stats are in the expand below. Acquisition variants (Black Friday, Founders Edition) are counted once with their base ship, not as separate peers.
Not standouts for Yukikaze -- here's where she sits on every other ranked stat in the cohort. Stats tagged NORM are tied across more than half the cohort, so the value is the cohort default rather than a standout.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 40 s reload · 5 s active
Smoke Generator2 charges · 240 s reload · 20 s emit / 89 s cloud active
Engine Boost2 charges · 180 s reload · 120 s active · +8% speed bonusAll values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.
Numbers the spec table cannot show directly: alpha-strike math, DPM, dispersion, AP penetration. Click the formula chip on any row to reveal how it is calculated.
Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the verified WoWS dispersion model: $\sigma_H = \left(\dfrac{R}{30}\cdot\dfrac{\text{idealRadius}-\text{minRadius}}{\text{idealDistance}} + \text{minRadius}\right)\cdot 30$ $= \left(\dfrac{10445}{30}\cdot\dfrac{8-0.5}{1000} + 0.5\right)\cdot 30 = 93.3\,\text{m}$How wide your shells scatter at 10 km, from the same dispersion model as the max-range figure above. Picking a fixed range makes this number directly comparable from ship to ship: max-range dispersion makes a longer-range gun look worse even when it's tighter at any common range. The interactive Dispersion tab on the Charts card plots the full curve from 0 to max range.Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range: $\sigma_V = \sigma_H \cdot \text{radiusOnMax}$ $= 93.3 \cdot 0.6 = 56\,\text{m}$How tall the same scatter ellipse is at 10 km. Comparable from ship to ship for the same reason as the width value above.50%-hit horizontal radius: $\sigma_{H,50} = \sigma_H \cdot \text{GetHalfHitsRatio}(\sigma)$ $= 93.3 \cdot 0.319\;(\sigma = 2) = 29.8\,\text{m}$50%-hit vertical radius: $\sigma_{V,50} = \sigma_V \cdot \text{GetHalfHitsRatio}(\sigma)$ $= 56 \cdot 0.32\;(\sigma = 2) = 17.9\,\text{m}$Canonical community AP formula (jcw780/wows_shell), evaluated at muzzle velocity: $P = 10^{-7}\cdot K \cdot m^{0.69} \cdot d^{-1.07} \cdot v_0^{1.38}$ $= 10^{-7}\cdot 2266 \cdot 23^{0.69} \cdot 0.127^{-1.07} \cdot 915^{1.38} = 219\,\text{mm}$. Matches the in-game spec card.Same formula at the ship's max firing range (13.1 km), where the shell has slowed to 257.8 m/s: $P = 10^{-7}\cdot 2266 \cdot 23^{0.69} \cdot 0.127^{-1.07} \cdot 257.8^{1.38} = 38.1\,\text{mm}$.21 mm ≈ 127 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).floor(127 mm caliber / 14.3) = 8 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).AP shell over-penetration splash radius; scales with shell mass. Wickes 102mm = 3, standard 152mm CL ~ 20, Iowa 406mm ~ 270, Yamato 460mm = 400, Incomparable 650mm = 550 (max). Larger value = bigger splash damage area when AP over-pens.All 6 barrels bear on the broadside.180 degrees / 6.9 deg/s traverse speed = 26.1 s.2,150 HE damage x 6 broadside guns = 12,900.2,200 AP damage x 6 broadside guns = 13,200.12,900 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 7.5 s base reload = 103,200.13,200 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 7.5 s base reload = 105,600.6 broadside guns x 60 / 7.5 s base reload = 48.48 shells/min x 9% fire chance = 4.32.detectability / (speed kt x 2.6 community game-speed factor).range / (speed kt x 2.6 community game-speed factor).2 launchers x 4 tubes.8 (centerline launchers train across - full salvo to either side).All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 8 x 19,867 = 158,936.One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 8 x 19,867 = 158,936.Sum across every AA aura on this ship of (aura.continuous_damage x 3.5 x aura.hit_probability). Here: (31×3.5×0.95) = 103. Covers AA-only mounts plus dual-purpose secondaries (Bismarck 105mm, USN 5"/38 cruiser secondaries) and dual-purpose main batteries (Sumner-class 5"/38, Akizuki-line 100mm). Formula validated against in-game captures on California, Sumner, Manfred von Richthofen, Dante Alighieri (exact) and within +/-17% on the remaining verified ships.Longest-reaching aura across AA-only + dual-purpose auras.SUM over AA auras of (aura DPS x aura range km). A plane crossing the AA bubble is exposed to each aura for a time proportional to that aura's range, so long-reach DPS is worth more than the same DPS in a short bubble. Units: DPS*km; used to rank overall AA threat across the cohort.Every custom exterior Yukikaze can equip, from in-game data.
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