Russian Bias in 2026?

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My main issue with this take is that we don’t know KD breakdown. We do no know the ratio between Plane-drone-helicopter (I believe that what counts as an air kill). For all we know the KD between helis kill - death could be really high we don’t know because the kd between plane kill - death could be low. We just don’t know.

If we look at global stats for January and compare the ground kill - death ration it’s as follows:

  1. Z-10ME: 2.48 (541,848 Ground Kills / 218,545 Deaths)

  2. Dutch AH-64E: 2.46 (63,230 Ground Kills / 25,710 Deaths)

  3. Mi-28NM: 2.45 (1,040,402 Ground Kills / 424,268 Deaths)

  4. US AH-64E: 2.09 (316,065 Ground Kills / 151,370 Deaths)

  5. Taiwanese AH-64E: 2.05 (30,353 Ground Kills / 14,828 Deaths)

  6. Indonesian AH-64E: 1.99 (93,653 Ground Kills / 47,143 Deaths)

  7. AH Mk.2 Apache: 1.99 (36,363 Ground Kills / 18,318 Deaths)

  8. AH-60: 1.03 (18,455 Ground Kills / 17,997 Deaths)

What I’m mainly confused is why the Dutch has a significantly better KD than the Taiwanese, Indonesian, and British (excluding the US as it’s a major nation) despite all of those platforms getting LDIRCM at the same time. We could just chalk it up to player skill but I don’t believe it’s simple as that.

What’s even interesting is the Mi-28NM despite being from the big 3, and being played the most compared to any other heli, it nearly the same KD as the Chinease and the Dutch.

I could easily point to this, say French mains is just better, thus explaining the higher KD. China could be having a lot of games with Russia and the rest are facing the pantsir more thus explaining a significantly lower KD.

I could be right but I also could be very well wrong, and we don’t know because of the way Stat Shark collects data. Only Gaijin probably knows with the their internal database.

It’s better to argue based on vehicle performance and experience because it’s up to you to interpret vehicle performance (use logical reasoning on why this vehicles good or bad), and you can correlate that with your experience (although stat peaking will be used to verify with the experience you have).

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Okay so please tell me, how can the Mi28NM have a 155% winrate?
how can it win more than 100 percent of it’s games? lol if you said it’s had an increase in win rate of 155% then that would make sense as it’s a multiplication and an indication of how much it has improved.

However you did not say that, at all.

As well as this, for one who has “studied” more maths than I have, you seem to have a very, very loose grasp on how both statistics and percentages work.

What because I’ve not only disagreed but proved you wrong on more than one occassion or called out your nonsense?

lol

So you tell us to play 13.0 russia etc to say it always wins, yet you’re playing 10.7 USA when you have one vehicle.

I’ve went and checked your replays as well bud, learn to use the M1 KVT better and use a proper bloody lineup.

10.7 is not top tier

That does not show their overall win rate at that BR bracket at all, what you have right now is not a large enough pool to state they have X winrate.

For a start, germany has a staggering 37 percent winrate at 10.7, USA is above that.

USSR primarily due to the T80 buffs and the BMPT has / had a ridiculous winrate at that BR

Also you’ve got a 48% winrate in the damn M1KVT so you win nearly half your games

In my KVT I’ve got a 63 % win rate.
10.7 USA is great fun.

EDIT: Just went and watched the space port match again, you messed up about 5x against the 2S38 and BMD4M, you then procede to retreat in a ridiculous manner, then leave the team.

You wonder why you are losing? You are not playing lineups.

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Not at all man, the highest win rate at top tier for January, in order.

  • italy : 54.7 %
  • japan : 52.9 %
  • China : 52.3%
  • France : 52.2 %
  • Britain : 50.6%
  • Isreal : 50.3%
  • USA : 50.2 %
  • Russia / USSR : 49.3%
  • sweden : 46.9%
  • Germany : 42.5%

Please tell me how USSR is dominating top tier when it shows quite clearly that it’s sitting as the 3rd last nation in the game win rate wise?

beaten out by USA, Isreal and ofc the rest in that list, which catagorically proves you wrong lol.
Stop spreading miss information to suit the fact you feel there’s some sort of Russian Bias, when in reality this sht is premium Bias, which is ofc normal in a game which relies on.

So if you cannot understand those numbers, then maybe you gotta go back to whoever taught you maths and tell them they ought to give you your money back.

I rest my case.
@AlvisWisla or @_Renzo Both know i am not a fan of statshark either, but even it’s dataproves you wrong.

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Be a fan of Statshark, be annoyed when it’s misused. :)

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Ok man, ngl I didn’t read that it’s too much, I’m annoyed by you

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I think you should reevaluate things you’re saying.

Various 64Es are putting out really good numbers.
This means that they’d have to have crazy good games when Pantsir isn’t present or is on a friendly side, just to mitigate all that punishment they receive when the divine creature is up against them. This looks like a stretch, even for your arguments.

We aren’t talking about a handful spawns and games here, we’re talking about significant number of spawns, which are sitting at almost 1m for January 2026, so your AFK situations and whatnot don’t really have an impact on the end result, unless you want to claim huge number of Pantsir matches are spent by people just AFKing.

After the free AA update I’d confidently say that AAs have the numbers advantage over CAS on average, so 64Es farming unaware Pantsirs is far from your average match experience.

Global stats are more than fine to completely shut down theories like yours that need several wild things to align perfectly over hundreds of thousands of games just to have a sliver of plausibility.

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And yet they’re still winning less matches

as it stands right now JAGMs are better than LMURs even missing stats.

I’ve played this game for over 4k hours over the span of more than half a decade, the “russian bias” hasn’t really been a thing, premium bias definitely has been, time and time again.

Be as annoyed as you want, it’s not my fault you bounced onto a forum spoke a bunch of nonsense then can’t handle being told it’s not true.
as has been shown above by the win rates on statshark, your nonsense about 155% win rates as well claiming I’m a Russian main xD

it’s about 3 paragraphs mate, shouldn’t take more than barely 2 minutes to read that, says a lot about yourself xD

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Don’t try to reasonate the russian bots man

Russia has it all, they have all the best equipments => you explain them that point by point + show them 30 games in a row with 75% russian winrate 10 times in a row, they’ll just tell you “stop coping Russia bad skill issue”

As a reminder of why Russia is biased :

  • BMPT
  • broken Spikes/MMPs
  • cardboard nato mbt armors
  • broken top down bradley atgm
  • lmurs vs jagms
  • russian eras eating darts/atgms
  • russian autoloader eating darts instead of exploading
  • pantsir-s1 (+ now pantsir 2, even more op)
  • KH-38MT vs maverics
  • object 279, is 7, pe-8, yak 9k, that soviet ship which doesn’t even exist irl
  • russian mbts : mobility equal to nato mbts (at least going forward), not the best pen but don’t need it because nato armor is cardboard and can be pen by anything anywhere, the best armor that can’t be pened except in weakspots (nato mbts have weakspots everywhere), /// nato mbts : mobility +/- equal to russian mbts except going backward, better pen but doesnt matter because you still need to shoot at the weakspots otherwise you don’t pen, cardboard armor which can be pened by anything anywhere
  • russian mbts have irst, proxy he, atgms => some nato mbts simply don’t (none have atgm if I recall btw)
  • russian ifvs are the best (faster rate of fire, laser accuracy cannon, double cannon (1 main with atgm/he and 1 autocannon), quicker, 2/4 atgms) VS nato ifvs : bushmaster which is garbage, spikes/mmps which are broken, wheeled vehicles which are slow, slow fire rate, low accuracy for the bushmaster, 1 singular cannon
  • tiger helicopters are a joke (only 7-8km FnF missiles, 8 missiles max, no ircm, climb slower)
  • Russia can do the cool indirect artillery fire (with the scout drone and all) with their bmp or bmd or whatever, I don’t think it’s possible with a nato vehicle
  • helirush is completely dead (avionics getting broken by 1 12.7mm, 1 .50 cal = your heli is sawn in half, too many autocannon at top tier to perform, rockets usually have a bad day destroying russian mbts and their eras, …). Why am I talking about that ? Because Russia has big fat helicopters not capable of doing fast helirush, so they don’t care about that. NATO do care, because they have little bird, bo 105, gazelles, lynx, …
  • those midtier soviet heavy / medium tanks which bounce everything if they’re angled weirdly. They can also bounce HE shells with tons of kgs of tnt somehow
  • we could add 2s38 (pens everything, weird for an ifv, even weirder when it’s considered a spaa irl), t72 moderna (top tier shell + aps at 11.0 ok), 292 (the pen machine even used at top tier), is-6 back in the days (completely op), …
  • Mi-8AMTSh has 120 rockets wtf ? my 9.7 gazelle has 14 and no ballistic computer (it’s being used nowadays, weird it doesn’t have ballistic computer in 2026 ??)
  • oplot is a t80 but basically bad because it’s western and they don’t do that at gaijin’s. So we’ll just have a bad t80 I guess

I’m probably forgetting some others, but I mean ye the bias is obvious, we all know why, it’s sad because you can’t win and have fun as much as Russia if you play NATO… we’re cooked anyway.

I’ve stated all those several times already

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Russian bias is when fat helicopter designed to carry larger loads can carry larger loads.

Me when I lie.

That’s how armour works, and they sacrifice firepower, survivability, and mobility to get that.

These are all average vehicles at the moment. If you’re talking about previous performance levels, I must tell you about the plethora of OP/previously OP non-Russian vehicles.

Russian helicopters are equally bad at heli rushing.

IS-2s are overtiered, Kv-2s are properly BRed.

Turns out autocannon APFSDS makes you decent at destroying tanks, but I thought you would’ve known that by now if you knew anything about Swedish tanks.

What disproves Russian bias?
The French have been dominating air RB for the past 14 months, and only recently has there been a plane on par with the Rafale.
America has by far the best air tree and numerous undertiered planes.
Mig-29 vs F-15A.
11.7-13.0 blufor dominance in air sim.
Many OP premiums and TT vehicles found in other nations, as well as others that were more OP than the BMPT on release.

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Tam 2, turm III, T58 are just 3 off the top of my head

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1 : where is my ballistic computer on the gazelle ?
2 : t-90m has +/- same mobility as nato mbts, except going backward
3 : “that’s how armor works” except when it’s nato armors, because nato armors are cardboard which don’t stop anything
4 : you ignored the rest of the vehicles on purpose because you know I’m right and that Russia has op vehicles in comparaison to other nations which are poo
5 : helirushing is bad, so everyone is bad. But Russia doesn’t have light helicopters that can helirush, so they don’t care about helirushing. Hence it only disavantages NATO helicopters
6 : thank you for reminding me the T-34-85 (STP), fully stabilized at 6.3 like wtf ? another bias. IS-2 eats tigers and t-34s for diner (direct turret front hit and the’re all dead. Cannot say the same with the IS-2, if it’s angled weirdly with its round turret, people know what I mean)
7 : except sweeden, every other nato ifv are crap. Can’t pen a russian lower front plate. 2s38 can pen anything as if it had top tier mbt apfsd

I notice you didnt reply concerning the other FACTS, because you know I’m right. Hence, I won’t answer about those things I just listed, because it would be a way for you to avoid talking about the first things I listed and that you didnt reply to.

What disproves Russian bias?
The French have been dominating air RB for the past 14 months, and only recently has there been a plane on par with the Rafale.
America has by far the best air tree and numerous undertiered planes.
Mig-29 vs F-15A.
11.7-13.0 blufor dominance in air sim.
Many OP premiums and TT vehicles found in other nations, as well as others that were more OP than the BMPT on release.

Concerning the french jets dominating, it’s normal they dominate because IRL (I’m not saying that because I’m french), we have probably the best jets that exist. Their technology is very good. It’s even questionnable if american jets are better. Again, I don’t understand why a russian jet is suddendly better than the french ones, except to impose a bias, once again

We don’t really care about planes anyway, because everybody play GRB, and in GRB, planes focus on tanks => bomb them, missile them or whatever, but never really fight plane vs plane or jet vs jet. So even if 1 nation is better than the other in the air, we can’t really see it in GRB anyway

The only “”“op”“” premiums I recall are the turm/maus/t58. And they’re not “that” op. But the bmpt, 279 back in the days (and still nowadays in some cases), is-6/7 back in the days, pe-8, yak-9k, 2s38 etc are real op vehicles.

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How does it? 60kmph forward is no where near on par with nato MBTs bar maybe thr cr2

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Stev122 is the most armoured top tier

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Same. I’m a gluten for punishment I guess.

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It’s the same, you never reach max speed in the middle of a fight, hence t90m and nato mbts go basically at the same speed mid fight, one is not disavantaged compared to the other during a fight

We could talk about how it’s useless for nato mbts to go to max speed 80kmph to flank/take a good position as russian mbts just have to camp hull down somewhere and kill everyone to win a match /// rush you in an urban corner and kill you (so your flank/quick good positionning is useless), but we wont

And I said I wouldn’t argue with you anymore, I feel like you’re a russian bot who wants to defend Russia just because he has a lineup he doesn’t want to be nerfed. Pointless to talk with you, you have an ideology, which is to defend Russia at any cost

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It is what it is, we put money in those wrong premiums, sadly (at least I did, and I regret that. Would have had a lot of fun if I chose Russia instead. And I would have won 70% of the time, the dream)

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It probably never had one, and I wouldn’t expect everything to be the same on Russian vs non Russian vehicles. Doesn’t the Gazelle get ATGMs and doesn’t need a ballistic computer?
Also, did you know that the Mi-24A is 8.7 without one too? Infact, it was recently removed and stayed at the same BR.

Top speed != mobility.

NATO vehicles have armour, just look at the Leo 2A7s. However I do agree that they are underperforming compared to IRL.

I know the Yak-9K is OP, but the others you mentioned just aren’t.

This makes no sense/

It is stabilized the 76mm Jumbo (and not a full stab), which is a significantly better tank.

The Tiger Is can do the same with their nuke shell without suffering through a 20 second reload.

Because there isn’t bias if they weren’t the best for an entire year.

This is just an excuse to not talk about the OP non Russian vehicles.

What’s OP about the PE-8?
Also, if we are talking about previously OP vehicles, you have the EBR (1954), J-7D, Harrier Gr.1 on release, and that’s just naming a few.

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Once again, you’re missing the point. You cannot compare two vehicles in a vacuum by using global statistics because those statistics don’t tell you enough detail.

If you can’t break down global statistics and what they represent, then you shouldn’t be using them, it’s as simple as that.

If you want to say the IRIST is more effective at taking out helicopters because it has a higher KD than a Pantsir, then be my guest lol.

From the looks of it, seems like you agree that the Mi-28NM is better than the Apaches when it comes to CAS because it has a better KD than it. The Dutch Apache does slightly better but since French players are typically experienced, it makes sense why it has a high KD.

If the Mi-28NM was in France, then it would perform significantly better than the Dutch Apache. This is according to your logic…

I disagree that the Apache is worse but since you seem to rely on very vague data points, it’s no surprise you’d think like this.

Unless… You rely on Global Statistics when it fits your narrative…

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The t90M certainly does not go thr same speed as nato contemporaries in combat mate, I’ve got one.

Nato mbts hull down better as they uave more than -5 gun depression, and better armoured turrets.
Can kill the t90 shooting through its roof.

Please tell me what needs nerfed ? 😂 my main top tier nation is USA with about 1000 games between my abrams, and about half that in CR2s alone.

So again how am i a russian bot? You’ve taken to insulting someone because they’ve used factual evidence against you.

Grow up.