Move J7W1 to 5.0

[WW_WingedWalker]

Guess it performance stats just don’t seem like it would be very worth while. The top speed overall seems slow for the BR, same with climbrate relative to what it faces- though the offensive armament is competent/a little on the heavier side. I know the Ki-61’s do handle surprisingly well for what I would’ve expected when I played some of the lower Br rated ones.

Overall I usually look at the aircraft as something that more preys on people being stupid/not knowing how to fight it/throwing away their advantages over having something it can pull on someone else other than surprisingly good handling or incredible speedy escapes.

Care to explain what it is that makes the Ki-61 Hei excel when used proficiently? Haven’t heard anyone speak of it much at all, much less in such a fond way.

[PercussionCap]

@AspandaIV

• A6M5 Ko & Otsu
• A7M1 & 2
• Ki-61 Hei & any of the Ki-84 even if the IJA has objectively the worst 50.cals and 20mm’s, especially in comparison to their IJN counterparts which are goats
• J2M3 & 5’s even if you cannot oppress the enemy team the same way you can with the J2M2
• J6K1 if you have it

Otherwise i’ll avoid everything else like the plague

Ehhhh, the Ho-103 12.7mm is VERY strong. The IJN 13.2mm not so much - the IJA was also much faster to adopt that 12.7 and put it on planes, as early as the later Ki-43-1 models (we only get one which represents all of them, woe is us. Btw that plane slaps).

The ‘late’ Ki-61s suck. Same flight performance as the 3.3 Ki-61-1 Ko (which it and the Otsu are the best Ki-61s) but sit a whole BR higher.

The rest are decent, not sure on which rank is which but I’d add the Ki-84s for sure, they’re pretty good. A7M2 and J2M3 are my personal favorites.
Ki-100 is probs rank3 but it’s also very capable, same with the A6M3 mod22 Ko.