The Most Popular Ships In The Game

[Sir_Sinksalot]

Hi guys,

 

Maybe you guys can take a look and see if this stat site reflects a true overview of this or if it's wrong. 

 

 

As you can see, the top 10 most played, therefore most popular ships in the game are mostly BB's while German ships boast 6 of the top 10 most popular ships. Is this a fairly accurate reflection and what does that say about the game?

 

So the Bismarck at T8 is the most popular ship in the entire game. Didn't expect that but personally I do enjoy a knock about with my Bismarck(secondary build of course!!) along with 4th placed Gneisenau featuring a strong secondary offering along with some cheeky torpedoes too but is this list a reflection of players playing more for fun rather than playing the best possible tier strong ships in the game? Or does this list indeed fairly reflect the stronger ships in the game tier for tier? Maybe other reasons?

 

For so called Russian bias and CV popularity, you'll have to sift a looooooooooong way down that list before you encounter either.

 

 https://wows-numbers.com/ships/

 

Also, I must ask about the T5 Konigsberg. I'm not familiar with this cruiser and rather surprised a T5 ship let alone a cruiser sits in the top 10 most popular and played ships in the entire game. What am I missing on out here?? Is this German cruiser God like or just pure fun for some reason, what's it got that makes it that popular? It's worth investigating because it's only at T5 so would be rather fast to get hold of even with some free xp, cheap to buy.

 

Also, I find it interesting that only a single premium ship made the top 10, which is a German BB Tirpitz and you'll have to sift a fair bit down the pecking order to encounter the next most popular premium ship which is yet another German BB lol!, the Scharnhorst. Perhaps that's just a case of tech tree ships being free and premium ships cost money so everyone can have the free ships so will naturally be more popular while not everyone can have or are willing to purchase premium ships so show as less popular but only for that reason.

 

So, for all that's said about the various classes, op premiums and game problems etc, do these stats that are supposedly factual paint a different picture? The most popular ships are tech tree, the most popular class appears to be BB's or is it a case that it still just takes that small percent of CV's and over powered premiums present in the game to ruin battles containing much greater numbers of tech tree and balanced ships? A case of the game is 90% good but sadly that small 10% bad is SO bad the it totally screws the 90% that's good?

[Rockstone_III]

Gneisenau is a suprise... I hated that one.

[Durin_VI]

The reflection is far from accurate. The tech tree ships on this list have been in game for ages, from a time when grinds were harder than it is today.

 

Even if for instance the Gouden Leeuw would become the most popular ship from today, it would take years before it would even come close to the top 10...

[Fat_Maniac]

11 minutes ago, Sir_Sinksalot said:

Hi guys,

 

Maybe you guys can take a look and see if this stat site reflects a true overview of this or if it's wrong. 

 

 

As you can see, the top 10 most played, therefore most popular ships in the game are mostly BB's while German ships boast 6 of the top 10 most popular ships. Is this a fairly accurate reflection and what does that say about the game?

 

So the Bismarck at T8 is the most popular ship in the entire game. Didn't expect that but personally I do enjoy a knock about with my Bismarck(secondary build of course!!) along with 4th placed Gneisenau featuring a strong secondary offering along with some cheeky torpedoes too but is this a case of playing more for fun rather than playing the best possible tier strong ships in the game? 

 

For so called Russian bias and CV popularity, you'll have to sift a looooooooooong way down that list before you encounter either.

 

 https://wows-numbers.com/ships/

 

Also, I must ask about the T5 Konigsberg. I'm not familiar with this cruiser and rather surprised a T5 ship let alone a cruiser sits in the top 10 most popular and played ships in the entire game. What am I missing on here?? Is this German cruiser God like or just pure fun, what's it got that makes it that popular? It's worth investigating because it's only at T5 so would be rather fast to get hold of even with some free xp, cheap to buy and so a fast way to find fun if that's why this tech tree ship is so popular.

 

Also, I find it interesting that only a single premium ship made the top 10, which is a German BB Tirpitz and you'll have to sift a fair bit down the pecking order to encounter the next most popular premium ship which is yet another German BB lol!, the Scharnhorst.

 

So, for all that's said about the various classes, op premiums and game problems etc, do these stats that are supposedly factual paint a different picture? The most popular ships are tech tree, the most popular class appears to be BB's or is it a case that it still just takes that small percent of CV's and over powered premiums present in the game to ruin battles containing much greater numbers of tech tree and balanced ships? A case of the game is 90% good but sadly that small 10% bad is SO bad the it totally screws the 90% that's good?

Proships has a different take, not sure what modes they take for this data though ...

 

On this link you need to select the fights column and sort the table in descending order.

https://proships-ru.translate.goog/stat/ru/s/99999-h?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=nui,sc

 

[ColonelPete]

It is better to look at a more recent list.

But the above list roughly reflects the most popular ships in the game.

[totally_potato]

25 minutes ago, Sir_Sinksalot said:

is this list a reflection of players playing more for fun rather than playing the best possible tier strong ships in the game? Or does this list indeed fairly reflect the stronger ships in the game tier for tier? Maybe other reasons?

 

A trend you will notice that all of these ships are quite old and come from the first 3 major nations in the game, Germany, Japan and America. And all of these ships are quite fun for their tier

25 minutes ago, Sir_Sinksalot said:

Also, I must ask about the T5 Konigsberg. I'm not familiar with this cruiser and rather surprised a T5 ship let alone a cruiser sits in the top 10 most popular and played ships in the entire game. What am I missing on out here?? Is this German cruiser God like or just pure fun for some reason, what's it got that makes it that popular? It's worth investigating because it's only at T5 so would be rather fast to get hold of even with some free xp, cheap to buy.

Konigsberg is one of the best T5 cruisers in the game, besides Furutaka. 

This ship has very good guns with German HE (high pen, low dmg, avg fire chance = consistent) and German AP (hits very hard, decent penetration, good velocity = broadside ripper), good maneuverability and a kiting configuration of guns which is quite good at T5. However her weak armor and mediocre concealment don't do any favours which is why the kiting position is so good. Also brawling torps, fighter and German hydro. 

Its quite a fun and competitive ship at T5.

25 minutes ago, Sir_Sinksalot said:

So, for all that's said about the various classes, op premiums and game problems etc, do these stats that are supposedly factual paint a different picture? The most popular ships are tech tree, the most popular class appears to be BB's or is it a case that it still just takes that small percent of CV's and over powered premiums present in the game to ruin battles containing much greater numbers of tech tree and balanced ships? A case of the game is 90% good but sadly that small 10% bad is SO bad the it totally screws the 90% that's good?

Overall Popularity is base on 2 main things:-

1) How old the ship is

2) How good that ship is or was/is that ship fun to play?

 

Mostly the first ones

All the ships mentioned were quite good ships either today or before and are very old. So its natural that they sit at the top

 

I would suggest having a look at lists of popularity which are a couple of months old to grasp the current state of the game, and there you will find the 1) point being less of an issue

[MoveZig]

Doesn't surprise me that old ships (all 5+ years in the game) have the lead and German ships are popular on the EU server. Looking at other servers, there is definite national bias. Shchors of all things makes it to the top 10 on the RU server. Still a really old ship. What is surprising is the amount of Tirpitz.

[Miragetank90]

Regardless of the fact that the list is not a wholly accurate representation, I expected to find Bismarck at the top and I was not disappointed.

[doerhoff_damian]

Vor 49 Minuten, Commander_Rockstone sagte:

Gneisenau is a suprise... I hated that one.

Gneisenau was a Ship that was very strong in a close Range Fight but struggled to Hit Anything at 15 Km or more. I did enjoy to play her but I end up selling her when i reached the Bismarck.

But then WG gave all the German BBs the American/British Dispersion Elipse.

I brought her back together with other lower tier German BBs and now she also performs OK at longer Ranges.

I have kept her since. She is not the strongest Tier 7 BB but she is decent now

[tocqueville8]

Just now, Sir_Sinksalot said:

So, for all that's said about the various classes, op premiums and game problems etc, do these stats that are supposedly factual paint a different picture? The most popular ships are tech tree

Nope, it just means the most played ships are:

 

1) old

2) free (tech tree)

3) famous, or part of a line with a famous ship near the top (people play Gneisenau to get to the Bismarck, mostly; they go on and get the GK)

4) German, as they're the biggest community on the EU server

[Cippalippus]

It just shows that this game (as any game in a WW2 setting) is full of wehraboos/weebs.

[fumtu]

In last two month on EU server , by far the most popular ship, as usual, was Shima with 384k games, followed by Bismarck and Yamato with 339k and 337k respectively. On fourth place if GK with 318k. No other ship passed 300k games.

[ColonelPete]

Top 10 most played ships during the last 2 months:

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http://maplesyrup.sweet.coocan.jp/wows/ranking/20211002/eu_2month/average_ship_u.html

 

 

Top 10 most played ships during 2 months one year ago.

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[Zigiran]

5 hours ago, Sir_Sinksalot said:

Also, I must ask about the T5 Konigsberg. I'm not familiar with this cruiser and rather surprised a T5 ship let alone a cruiser sits in the top 10 most popular and played ships in the entire game. What am I missing on out here?? Is this German cruiser God like or just pure fun for some reason, what's it got that makes it that popular? It's worth investigating because it's only at T5 so would be rather fast to get hold of even with some free xp, cheap to buy.

 

4 hours ago, totally_potato said:

Konigsberg is one of the best T5 cruisers in the game, besides Furutaka. 

This ship has very good guns with German HE (high pen, low dmg, avg fire chance = consistent) and German AP (hits very hard, decent penetration, good velocity = broadside ripper), good maneuverability and a kiting configuration of guns which is quite good at T5. However her weak armor and mediocre concealment don't do any favours which is why the kiting position is so good. Also brawling torps, fighter and German hydro. 

Its quite a fun and competitive ship at T5.

Do keep in mind that the first time WG did a "Recruit new people and earn money" event, the servers were flooded with bots.

All these bots played the german cruiser line to T6, then made a new account and repeated it.

This might also explain a part of the number of battles in the Köningsberg.

 

It was completely insane during that time. Random battles with 6 or more Köningsbergs per side....

[Aethervoxx]

7 hours ago, Sir_Sinksalot said:

As you can see, the top 10 most played, therefore most popular ships in the game are mostly BB's while German ships boast 6 of the top 10 most popular ships. Is this a fairly accurate reflection and what does that say about the game?

I believe you are seeing the historical numbers here - from WoWS heyday to now.

For whatever reasons (& there are likely several) what we see on your list, Sir_Sinksalot, are ships that had some (& perhaps still do) advantage that players gravitated towards.

Ten ships had to be in the top ten most popular. Thank-you for supplying this info - this is interesting.

[RenamedUser_92906789]

7 minutes ago, Aethervoxx said:

I believe you are seeing the historical numbers here - from WoWS heyday to now.

For whatever reasons (& there are likely several) what we see on your list, Sir_Sinksalot, are ships that had some (& perhaps still do) advantage that players gravitated towards.

Ten ships had to be in the top ten most popular. Thank-you for supplying this info - this is interesting.

 

Also you guys forget, that there also was an event where WG gave Bismarck to almost everyone. Along with like 3,4,5 camos.

[black_falcon120]

2 minutes ago, nambr9 said:

 

Also you guys forget, that there also was an event where WG gave Bismarck to almost everyone. Along with like 3,4,5 camos.

It was insanely hard. I did it with a sims as my only t7, it was painful.

[Aethervoxx]

2 hours ago, ColonelPete said:

Top 10 most played ships during the last 2 months:

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http://maplesyrup.sweet.coocan.jp/wows/ranking/20211002/eu_2month/average_ship_u.html

 

 

Top 10 most played ships during 2 months one year ago.

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See, Pete , I can give you a thumbs up   (when you are sane ). 

In your two lists you supply, I find the Gneisnau - I recall a lot of players who didn't like it (years ago when the Ger BB line first came out), however, I've always liked it (due to it's fun factor/challenge factor)

[RenamedUser_92906789]

1 minute ago, Aethervoxx said:

See, Pete , I can give you a thumbs up   (when you are sane ). 

In your two lists you supply, I find the Gneisnau - I recall a lot of players who didn't like it (years ago when the Ger BB line first came out), however, I've always liked it (due to it's fun factor/challenge factor)

 

And when it had meaningful AA.

I had fun grinding it back then.

[Aethervoxx]

7 minutes ago, nambr9 said:

event where WG gave Bismarck

I'd say it is the 'history' & 'legend' of the Bismarck that is responsible for the overall most popular ship in WoWS (plus it is or was a pretty good BB).

[principat121]

2 hours ago, ColonelPete said:

Top 10 most played ships during the last 2 months:

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http://maplesyrup.sweet.coocan.jp/wows/ranking/20211002/eu_2month/average_ship_u.html

 

 

Top 10 most played ships during 2 months one year ago.

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So its seems: Time to Buff CVs! 

As popularity is a balancing factor, I wouldn't be surprised to see an actual buff to carriers in the near future. 

 

 

But on a more serious note: It is funny to see the same names in both lists despite the uttermost efforts of Wargaming to bring in the powercreep to hightiers. 

[Miragetank90]

1 hour ago, Aethervoxx said:

I'd say it is the 'history' & 'legend' of the Bismarck that is responsible for the overall most popular ship in WoWS (plus it is or was a pretty good BB).

 

Yep, and helps that it's fun.

 

Secondary Bismarck is a blast to play, frankly. I still play it now and then. Along with Tirpitz. 

[cloudsinger]

10 hours ago, MoveZig said:

... What is surprising is the amount of Tirpitz.

Tirpitz was the first high tier Premium BB in the game. A lot of people bought it, because there was no alternative. So a lot of them are around and get used for credit farming.

[SodaBubbles]

I just downloaded the data from Suihei Koubou for top 25 most-played ships except (old) versions, most recent quarter ending Sept 25:

Respectively: tier, name, # of players, # of games.

 

Except for Petra,  none of the broken Russians are here. No CVs either. Instead, you have basically a list of ships that for various reasons are fun to play. It's a tribute to the early work of the devs that Montana, Des Moines, Tirp, Yug, Shim, Colorado, and Yammy are all still there.

 

[Spartan_Renegade]

I hadn't expected to see NewMex up there since I rarely ever see one in battle and the fact that it's worse than Lolorado tier for tier