[2022] Does Viribus Unitis need buff?

Compared to other T5 BB's, VU has:

3rd best conceal


Best turning radius


2nd best rudder shift


2nd best AP dpm


4th best HE dpm

As a trade-off it has poor secondaries and poor AA with a poor health pool.

It wants to be played carefully and precisely by using stealth and agility to get in to the positions where you can best hammer people hard with your DPM. You don't want to have a slugfest where you are going to be targeted by multiple ships at once and lose your HP.

I honestly really enjoy playing the VU. The turrets are physically so close together that the accuracy reminds me a lot of the T7 Nelson.

Sorry to hear that you think it's forgettable. Some ships do begin life in testing with a specific theme or character and have it adjusted based on performance and feedback from supertesters, Community Contributors, and Staff.

Just that! Some battleships are fundamentally better played as if they were Large Cruisers instead of tanky BB's.

Odin is one of them that benefits greatly when people think of her more as a Large Cruiser. Strasbourg and Dunkerque play better when approached that way as well.

Certainly! You are right about this. No ship wants to be focused - although some ships can handle it better than others. As far as T5 BB’s go, the VU handles it exceptionally poorly

I’m not saying it’s a cruiser, I’m saying that your performance with it may do better if you think of it more as a cruiser than a Battleship in terms of how and when to engage.

Ships are tiered based on their capabilities, not their age.

WW1-era Hood is a Tier 7 alongside Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which are later 1930’s nearly 1940’s ships.

New Mexico is a WW1-era ship at Tier 6.

VU is in T5 based on what makes most sense for the game

Yep - all ships are equally at the fate of +2/-2 Matchmaking.

T4 and below are not, of course :)

Duly acknowledged
You get my point though. VU doesn't have a special matchmaker and suffers when uptiered just like anything else does.