Aircraft Proficiency

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Introduction

The Aircraft Proficiency System (tentative name) is a system introduced on August 10th 2015 update along with Summer 2015 Event which enables the planes to acquire experiences in sorties. This system is applicable to all planes in the game, including seaplanes and flying boats.
By acquiring experiences from repeated sorties, the pilots may acquire experience to eventually gain a rank. As planes reaches higher rank, the planes acquire hidden stat bonuses that increases their overall effectiveness during the battle.
The planes may lose their accumulated experience when they are shot down however, which would downgrade their proficiency rank, or worse, be stripped of their ranking emblems entirely. It is thus of imperative importance to send out your planes under the most favorable aerial situations whenever possible.

Ranks

As the plane gains experience, the plane may acquire a ranking insignia at the right side of the plane slot.

• The ranks progress as follows: -> -> -> -> -> ->
• The rank after triple yellow stripes are the double chevron insignia, which are the highest known attainable rank.
• Planes without any symbols have the default stats as stated on the status page.

Acquiring Experience

Planes gain experiences in regular sorties and PvP, and up to 24 aircraft (4 slots x 6 ships) may be trained by aircraft carriers or aviation cruiser/battleships at a time.

• Carrier-based fighters and bombers planes gain a rank approximately every 6 battles.
• Carrier-based reconnaissance planes gain a rank approximately every 8 battles.
• Type 0 Reconnaissance Seaplane takes well over 30 sorties to gain a rank.
• Method 1: Concentrates on training 4/3 bomber planes repetitively in quick succession. Training in 1-1-A cycling Shouhou and Zuihou or Chitose and Chiyoda can be done almost non-stop, few exp but use less resources and needs less micro-management.
  • It is possible to bring along two more light carriers to level up reconnaissance and fighter planes while retaining the ease of micromanagement, though the latter two would be subjected to fatigue.
• Method 2: Concentrate on rank up lots of planes simultaneously. A red fatigue setup in 3-2-A with 3-4 CV/CVL and 1 BBV plus a submarine to tank can be used to yield good ship exp and pilot experience gains.
• Method 3: Utilizes ASW capabilities of light aircraft carriers. Training in 1-5 allow rank up both seaplane bombers and carrier planes simultaneously in a full run of the map but may require buckets.

In 3-2-A, it take around 60 battles on average for planes without experience to reach double chevron.

Leveling

Since different planes have different requirements to level up, the experience required may differ.

Here is the list of planes (sorted by IDs).

WARNING: This levelling table is a PLACEHOLDER since we did not know the actual value of experience required.

• Fighters
• Dive Bombers
• Torpedo Bombers
• Carrier-based Recons
• Seaplanes
• Others

ID	Plane
019	Type 96 Fighter 九六式艦戦	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
020	Type 0 Fighter Model 21 零式艦戦21型	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
021	Type 0 Fighter Model 52 零式艦戦52型	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
022	Reppuu 烈風	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
053	Reppuu Kai 烈風改	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
055	Shiden Kai 2 紫電改二	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
056	Shinden Kai 震電改	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
096	Type 0 Fighter Model 21 (Skilled) 零式艦戦21型(熟練)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
109	Zero Fighter Model 52C (601 Air Group) 零戦52型丙(六〇一空)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
110	Reppuu (601 Air Group) 烈風(六〇一空)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???

ID	Plane
023	Type 99 Dive Bomber 九九式艦爆	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
024	Suisei 彗星	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
057	Suisei Model 12A 彗星一二型甲	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
060	Type 0 Fighter Model 62 (Fighter-bomber) 零式艦戦62型(爆戦)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
064	Ju 87C Kai Ju87C改	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
097	Type 99 Dive Bomber (Skilled) 九九式艦爆(熟練)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
099	Type 99 Dive Bomber (Egusa Squadron) 九九式艦爆(江草隊)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
100	Suisei (Egusa Squadron) 彗星(江草隊)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
111	Suisei (601 Air Group) 彗星(六〇一空)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
148	Prototype Nanzan 試製南山	???	???	???	???	???	???	???

ID	Plane
016	Type 97 Torpedo Bomber 九七式艦攻	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
017	Tenzan 天山	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
018	Ryuusei 流星	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
052	Ryuusei Kai 流星改	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
082	Type 97 Torpedo Bomber (931 Air Group) 九七式艦攻(九三一空)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
083	Tenzan (931 Air Group) 天山(九三一空)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
093	Type 97 Torpedo Bomber (Tomonaga Squadron) 九七式艦攻(友永隊)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
094	Tenzan Model 12 (Tomonaga Squadron) 天山一二型(友永隊)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
098	Type 97 Torpedo Bomber (Skilled) 九七式艦攻(熟練)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
112	Tenzan (601 Air Group) 天山(六〇一空)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
113	Ryuusei (601 Air Group) 流星(六〇一空)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
143	Type 97 Torpedo Bomber (Murata Squadron) 九七式艦攻(村田隊)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
144	Tenzan Model 12 (Murata Squadron) 天山一二型(村田隊)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???

ID	Plane
054	Saiun 彩雲	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
061	Type 2 Reconnaissance Aircraft 二式艦上偵察機	???	???	???	???	???	???	???

ID	Plane
Seaplane Recons
025	Type 0 Reconnaissance Seaplane 零式水上偵察機	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
059	Type 0 Observation Seaplane 零式水上観測機	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
102	Type 98 Reconnaissance Seaplane (Night Recon) 九八式水上偵察機(夜偵)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
115	Ar196 Kai Ar196改	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
118	Shiun 紫雲	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
138	Type 2 Large Flying Boat 二式大艇	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
Seaplane Bombers
026	Zuiun 瑞雲	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
062	Prototype Seiran 試製晴嵐	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
079	Zuiun (634 Air Group) 瑞雲(六三四空)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
080	Zuiun Model 12 瑞雲12型	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
081	Zuiun Model 12 (634 Air Group) 瑞雲12型(六三四空)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???

ID	Plane
069	Ka Type Observation Autogyro カ号観測機	???	???	???	???	???	???	???
070	Type 3 Command Liaison Aircraft (ASW) 三式指揮連絡機(対潜)	???	???	???	???	???	???	???

Effects

An aircraft may gain any of these benefits as long as they are capable of fulfilling any of the following roles:

• Planes with LoS stats gain increased Line of Sight and contact rate.
• Planes (mainly fighters) Increased air power stat. Experiment shows that:
  • With double chevron, pure fighters can gain an additional 24.6-25.5 fighter power per slot (no matter if it is a Zero Fighter or a Reppuu, or how many planes the slot has). However, additional experiment show that there exist some additional and currently unknown variable affecting exactly what bonus value those planes are getting within that narrow range.
  • Bombers give extra 3-5 air power with double chevron regardless if they have anti-air stats or not.
  • Seaplane Bombers with double chevron most likely give an extra of 9 fighter power, but there are too many variables that are unknown to say it is actually the case.
• Bomber Planes gain increased damage when they score a [critical hit (2)]
  • One slot double chevron bomber plane increase post-cap damage by 10%. Two slots of them increase 20%. Three slots increase 30%. Four slots increase 40% for air battle phase.
  • If the first slot plane is double chevron, no matter that first-slot plane is bomber or fighter ^{(or recon too?)}, it will give an extra 10% damage bonus. Additionally, a carrier with all 4 slots fully loaded with double chevron bombers gains an additional bonus, increasing the bonus from 40% to 50%.
  • This bonus effect have been witnessed in both the aerial battle phase and shelling phase of normal batte, as well as for Shelling Support Expedition.
  • These bonuses increase linearly according to proficiency increase.
  • Suspected to increase critical hit rate.
  • Increase in accuracy?^{[citation needed]}
• Seaplane bombers' Anti-submarine capability with double chevron have been found to increase to score [Critical hit (2)], seem to increase as much as when ordinary carrier-based bombers fighting against regular target.

Fighter Planes' Air Power Bonus Test Result

Rank	Bonus Fighter Power Value
	Lower Bound	Upper Bound
New	0.026	0.056
	1	2
	4	5
	6	8
	11	12
	16	18
	17	18
	24.6	26

• See text above for brief situation of other type of planes.

Factors Affecting Rank

• Numbered air group planes such as Zuiun (634 Air Group), Suisei (601 Air Group) and Reppuu (601 Air Group) starts with single blue stripes.
• Famed and skilled air group planes such as Type 21 Zero Fighter (Skilled), Type 99 Dive Bomber (Egusa Squadron) and Type 97 Torpedo Bomber (Tomonaga Squadron) starts with double blue stripes.
• Converted plane models of famed air group such as Suisei (Egusa Squadron) and Tenzan Model 12 (Tomonaga Squadron) will retain their original rank if it's higher than the default rank.^{[citation needed]}
• Capability of planes slots affect their speed to acquire proficiency, though the extent of its effect is currently not-well-tested.
• Ranks can decrease slightly (1-2) if a large proportion are shot down.
• The plane ranking will reset if the entire count of the slot it occupies are completely shot down.
• Planes that are assigned to equipment slot with 0 planes will neither gain nor lose ranks.
• Planes in escort fleet do not gain or lose ranks.
• Planes that are used in aerial support do not lose their rank even if they are completely shot down to 0.
• Bombers are vulnerable to enemy AACI and are at risk of getting completely shot down in smaller plane slots, whereas fighters are not. It is thus recommended to put fighters or reconnaissance planes instead of bombers in the smallest aircraft carrier slot.
• Planes may gain experience in Exercises (PvP) runs and their ranks may be reduced when they are shot down in PvP, though the rank reduction was not shown until subsequent sorties.
• There was a bug during the early implementation phase where the bomber plane ranks could be reduced when shot down by another player in PvP when they challenged you, which has since been fixed.

External Link

• Following Air Power calculators already (at least partially) supported this Aircraft Proficiency system.
  • http://kancolle-calc.net/aircrafts.html (Japanese)
  • http://aircalc.net (Japanese)
  • KanColle English AS Calculator (sleek and intuitive UI)