Best kiting cruisers in WoWs Legends
Cruisers that prefer space, angles, and patience: draw fire, farm safely, and keep guns working while staying hard to punish.
These picks are guide-fit recommendations, not raw win-rate rankings. For live Community Data, use GamingDiver's win-rate confidence ranges to separate proven performance from small-sample noise.
Duca d'Aosta
High-alpha SAP cruiser: chunk broadsides and superstructures, angle hard, avoid armor your SAP shatters on.
Duca d'Aosta B
High-alpha SAP cruiser: chunk broadsides and superstructures, angle hard, avoid armor your SAP shatters on.
Leander
No HE shells: every salvo is AP into broadsides, dodge in open water.
Fiji
No HE shells: every salvo is AP into broadsides, dodge in open water.
I.K.S. Bortas
AP-only: there is no HE, so hunt broadsides and stay mobile in the open.
Edinburgh
No HE shells: every salvo is AP into broadsides, dodge in open water.
Perfect 10
No HE shells: every salvo is AP into broadsides, dodge in open water.
Plymouth
Every shell is AP; punish exposed sides and dodge between salvos.
Danae
AP-only: there is no HE, so hunt broadsides and stay mobile in the open.
Emerald
AP-only: there is no HE, so hunt broadsides and stay mobile in the open.
Neptune
AP-only: there is no HE, so hunt broadsides and stay mobile in the open.
Minotaur
No HE shells: every salvo is AP into broadsides, dodge in open water.
De Grasse
Stack fires and HE DPM; Sonar buys safe vision around cover and torpedoes.
Dupleix
Lean on Sonar to win vision around cover, then farm where the team needs it.
La Galissonnière
Stack fires and HE DPM; Sonar buys safe vision around cover and torpedoes.
Makarov
Stack fires and HE DPM; Sonar buys safe vision around cover and torpedoes.
Molotov
Stack fires and HE DPM; Sonar buys safe vision around cover and torpedoes.
Mysore
AP-only: there is no HE, so hunt broadsides and stay mobile in the open.