A6M zeros are overtiered honestly (poll)

Really hard to down the BR of zeroes when the average player is still willing to turn with them. No matter how much you scream at chat.

Most of the dangers they pose at BR is just their unbearable slowness to reach mid, shut down furballs, and 3rd party someone really easily (obviously.)

I would rather focus on the shitshow that is 5.3 Japan with the A7M2, Ki-84 Ko, N1K1-Ja, J2M2 if we’re pushing it.

Eitherway, they’re still going to hold their BR’s because again— the average WT ARB player can only bomb bases or hold S.

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can’t it use it’s superior speed, firepower, climb, etc.?

it’s not.

Get guns on target?

I’m not even sure that you have any matches on 152H, you just killed some bots that were AFK on your F-4 and heard from video on YouTube how extremely weak is A6M

yes?

I do

If you bringing K/d into this, show us your gameplay, it is 100% not conventional.
You call all people below you bots, i’ll let you know that fast spike in K/d in less of a year.
your service record is full of boom and zoom planes, which would aid in your supposed playstyle of rushing forward, ignoring everything, kill 1 or 2 people and dip out, letting your team die and then calling them bad. which could kind of aid in your chat ban.

No

No, I don’t. You can have bad stat and I won’t call you a bot if you will play the game, not just let me get free kill
If I energy trap A6M, most of them dont know how to counter shallow climb, they fly in straight line like bots and accept their fate. But still energy trapping VS A6M will take much more time than more agressive ways to deal with not such extremely good turn fighting enemy

I’m not calling my team bad, I love having bad teams and carrying the game.
I have ban if chat because I blamed enemy team for dying too fast to my team instead.
You can always win a game where whole your team died, but you can’t get kills if your team just stomp everything on map.

Not sure why you need it, but as you asked F7F match

Spoiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F7QplWyk-8&t=164s

give me anything that climbs better than a zero or is faster than it and doesnt fly like an oil tanker and i will kick the ass of zeros every day of the week

only newbies do that, an actual A6M player peels off and since it is to avoid tunnel visioned, being dragged away from their team and know the futility of using your dumb “strategy” you made up.

the video is broken

great, then you know how different the zero works when it’s alone, or rather, when it doesn’t work.

yeah sure sure.

Maybe because of how WT forum works, I put . before link this time

Spoiler

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F7QplWyk-8&t=164s

Yeah, something wrong with forum

No, I dont, japan teams stomp everything and I really never had a chance of fighting 1vs whole team on it
But still it would work with some sideclimbing and energy fighting of course, those magic tricks help everything

I hate teams that win without me the most again, for that reason I’m not enjoying flying Japan that much. You can literally not takeoff and still get 70% winrate for Japan (and you would get 40 for US at the same BR)

Yeah, kill them, kill all of the AFK Zero pilots that will die to your shallow climb! Yeah!

because japan can easily third party, once a enemy stops runnin, the zero specially can vulture on it before their ally kills it’s foe.
A6Ms tend to be on the lower Winrates compared to their friends of the Naval aviation line, army aviation line and interceptor line.

Because they are the most popular planes for Japan

let’s look at the chinese A6M. let’s exclude the american one since well, america players.
it has a lower winrate than usual, even lower than TT variants.

i mean they turn with everything so maybe they will just do fine with zeros

it’s the zero with the worst stadistics.
I think the issue now is ammo pool

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with the stats you have this just proves that you are rage baiting tbh

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altitude is everything in prop matches who ever has more teamates higher wins which is why british spit MK9 is so OP only counter to it is YAK 3U but that only wins a fight up high

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Shallow climb whilst maintaining speed and creating separation, when you have enough separation go into a big loop getting as much altitude as possible and then enter a shallow dive aiming to build around 250-300mph before the zero gets within firing range.

Once the zero starts getting close (and has already bled a ton of energy getting into position) go vertical once more and kill the stalling zero. If you miss just extend away once again rinse and repeat.

This works every time. It’s effective in the P-51D-5 and especially aircraft like the Sea Fury.

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Played a match or two the other day with the A6M3.
In one instance I pulled 13 Gs to get on a P-51s 6 and peppered him with 20mm rounds.

I mean it’s just really laughable that your pilot can pull so much without instantly blacking out.

Pilots are basically robots that can sustain way more Gs than humanly possible, never bleed out and take .50cal or sometimes 20mm hits without trouble while planes are practically made out of paper and fall apart just spraying rounds in their general direction.

Your armored glass takes a 20mm HE round and nothing happeneds but your wing and tail instantly fall off, if hit. It’s the same with optics on tanks which are just decoration but don’t actually have a function since your crew doesn’t need them.

Basically Arcade mechanics but in Realistic and Sim mode.

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Crew skills are one of the worst mechanics that really mess up how planes should be used. I have no idea why some people defend them too.

A level 0 crew with no expert or ace behaves somewhat realistically (being able to still pull and trim is stupid). But a full ace 5/5? Ridiculous.

I am pretty sure crew skills are also why fw 190s and lots of us planes feel weaker than they were in real life beyond just brs - these nations found solutions to g forces (G suit, reclined seat, control linkages) that allowed high speed maneuvering where opposition couldnt follow comfortably.

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ive pulled up to 15G and didnt black out instantly its just a weird feature of this game its basically a arcade game its not a sim

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