Ōta - Tier IX Premium Japanese Cruiser

Ōta represents a hypothetical rebuild of an improved Agano-class cruiser, with her main battery replaced by six twin 100mm mounts to provide additional anti-aircraft firepower to the Imperial Japanese Navy. She is named in honour of the river Ōta in Hiroshima Prefecture.

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Key Features and Battle Tips

Key Features

• Rapid-Fire Armament: Twin 100mm mounts deliver a blistering rate of fire with high DPM and an improved base HE penetration of 30mm.
• Stealth and Speed: Excellent base concealment paired with an improved Engine Boost and Exhaust Smoke Generator for agile repositioning.
• Specialized Utility: Equipped with Submarine Surveillance to counter submerged threats.
• Ballistic Limitations: Low-caliber shells feature floaty arcs and a relatively short firing range, making long-range gunnery challenging.
• Fragile Survivability: Thin armor plating, a low HP pool, and a standard Repair Party leave little margin for error against incoming fire.
• No Hydroacoustic Search: Lacks Hydroacoustic Search to screen incoming torpedoes, requiring caution in smoke screens.

Battle Tips

• Maximize Penetration: Consider taking the Inertia Fuse for HE Shells (IFHE) skill to push HE penetration past the 32mm threshold, allowing you to reliably damage the bow and stern plating of same-tier battleships.
• Leverage Smoke for Open-Water Firing: Combine your Exhaust Smoke Generator with Engine Boost to maintain high-speed maneuverability while maintaining sustained fire without relying strictly on static island cover.
• Flank and Ambush: Use your low concealment to establish flanking crossfires near key objectives rather than attempting to trade hits head-on at long range.
• Use Torpedoes Defensively: The twin quadruple 610mm launchers hit hard, but their 10km range places you well within dangerous return-fire territory; treat them primarily as an area-denial or ambush tool.
• Play Cautiously around Submarines: Without Hydroacoustic Search, reserve your Submarine Surveillance for moments when a submarine reveals its position with a nearby sonar ping.
• Manage Consumable Downtime: Disengage before your smoke generator expires—a single well-placed battleship salvo can quickly end your match during defensive cooldowns.

Ship Info

Ship Name:   IX Ota

Level: 9

WG introduction: September 3, 2026

WG base value:  21,500

Estimated release: 15.11

Game Nation:  Japanese

How to obtain: Ōta

More details will be shown closer to release

Note: Armor and Main Battery stats will be added September 17.

Armor

Hit points: 30,700.

Fore- and aft-end plating: 16 mm.

Torpedo protection. Damage reduction: 4 %.

Fires duration: 30 s.

Main Battery Armament

Main battery: 6x2 100 mm:

Maximum range: 13.5 km.

Reload time: 4 s.

180-degree turn time: 11.3 s.

Maximum dispersion: 126 m.

Sigma: 2.05

Shell Types

HE Shells

12x 100 mm HE:

Alpha Damage: 1,200

Max HE Shell Damage per Minute: 192,000

Alpha Piercing HE: 30.0 mm

Ammo Type: High Explosive

Shell Speed: 1000.0 m/s

Burn Probability: 5%

AP Shells

12x 100 mm AP:

Alpha Damage: 1,700

Ammo Type: Armor Piercing

Shell Speed: 1000.0 m/s

Torpedoes

2x4 610 mm:

Maximum damage: 20,967.

Maximum range: 10.0 km.

Speed: 67 kt.

Detectability range: 1.7 km.

Torpedo tube reload time: 82 s.

180 degree turn time: 7.2 s.

Depth Charge Airstrike

Airstrike range: 7.0 km.

Reload time: 30 s.

Available flights: 2.

Number of aircraft in attacking flight: 1.

Aircraft HP: 2000.

Bombs in payload: 2.

Maximum bomb damage: 4200.

Anti Aircraft Armament

Continuous damage: 176

Long Range

6x2 100.0 mm:

Firing range: 5.8 km

Hit Probability: 90 %

Damage Within an Explosion: 1470

Damage by long-range AA guns: 165

Number of Explosions Per Salvo: 6

Action Zone: 3.5 - 5.8 km

Priority sector reinforcement: 50%.

Mid Range

Not Available

Short Range

4x3 25.0 mm;
6x2 25.0 mm;
2x1 25.0 mm:

Firing range: 2.5 km

Damage by short-range AA guns: 74

Hit Probability: 85%

Concentrated AA Fire

Continuous AA damage increase: 25 %.

Damage from AA shell explosions increase: 100 %.

Instantaneous damage interval: 5.0 s.

Action Time: 40.0 s.

Cooldown time: 10.0 s.

Progress gain per second: 3 %.

Time before you start losing progress: 130.0 s.

Progress loss per second: 5 %.

Mobility

Maximum speed: 37.5 kt.

Turning circle radius: 750 m.

Rudder shift time: 7.9 s.

Propulsion: soon hp

Detection

Detectability range by sea: 11.5 km.

Detectability after firing a main gun shell: 13.5 km.

Detectability after firing main guns in smoke: 4.8 km.

Detectability when ship is on fire: 13.5 km.

Detectability range by depths: 0.0-7.2 km.

Detectability range by air: 7.2 km.

Detectability when ship is on fire: 9.2 km.

Available Consumables

Slot 1: Damage Control Party

Charges: unlimited

Work time: 5 s

Reload time: 60 s

Slot 2: Repair Party

Charges: 3

HP per second: +153.

Duration time: 28 s.

Reload time: 80 s.

Slot 3: Exhaust Smoke Generator

Charges: 4

Dispersion time: 10 s.

Action radius: 0.45 km.

Duration time: 30 s.

Reload time: 120 s.

Slot 4: Engine Boost

Charges: 3

Maximum speed +15%.

Duration time: 180 s.

Reload time: 90 s.

Slot 5: Submarine Surveillance

Charges: 3

Submarine spotting range at maximum depth: 7.0 km.

Duration time: 20 s.

Reload time: 120 s.

Note: All stats are listed without crew and upgrade modifiers but with best available modules. The stats are subject to change at any time.