Yukikaze
Also called: 雪风 Beta- Sit at the edge of a contested cap from concealment and cycle torpedo waves into lanes the enemy has to use
- Avoid: Holding 8-km torpedoes for a perfect shot
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Yukikaze Community Stats
Across 3,500+ Standard battles from 81 players, Yukikaze averages a 68% win rate, 52,000 damage and 1.5 kills per battle, and survives 56% of them.
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Record History
Playstyle
Overview
Yukikaze is a Tier VI Japanese torpedo destroyer reaching 8 km. The torpedoes travel at 76 kt, so target reaction time is shorter than peer DDs; this is a torpedo-spam kit, not a gun trade kit. Standout traits: HE alpha in T6 DDs (2,150, 5th of 41) and torpedo alpha in T6 DDs (19,867, 5th of 41). The trade is AP DPM in T6 DDs (104,604, 35th of 37).
Positioning
Sit at the edge of a contested cap from concealment and cycle torpedo waves into lanes the enemy has to use. The 8 km reach lets you seed those lanes early, but these fish are spotted well out and give a target about 8.8 s of warning, so they earn their damage by denying space and forcing turns rather than by catching anyone unaware. Aim where a ship must go, not where it is, and stay unspotted between waves. Your guns lose penetration at range, so aim AP at broadsides you can still citadel and put HE into superstructures and upper-hull sections, rather than the bow-in or belt armor your shells bounce and shatter on. Shooting from the cloud gives you away at 2.5 km, and a destroyer here is spotted at about 6.9 km, so you see it coming with roughly 4.4 km to spare. Vision is mutual: past the 2 km guaranteed ring you cannot see out either, and nothing in her kit sees through it, so pop the smoke where someone is already lighting the enemy or you will sit in it with nothing to shoot. Enemy sonar (about 4.2 km) and radar (about 9 km) read straight in regardless. The helm answers quickly (2.7 s), so she can break an incoming salvo that slower hulls have to eat.
Potato Avoidance
Holding 8-km torpedoes for a perfect shot
The kit pays out by saturating lanes, not by waiting for guaranteed broadsides; missed waves still force rotations and protect your team's flank. Idle torpedo tubes are the worst output state.
Signature Traits
+8% speed (about +2.8 kt), 120 s duration. Engine Boost consumable gives a small speed nudge - useful for closing a gap or steadying a torpedo run, not for running anything down.
2150 damage per HE shell, top decile of T6 DDs. Punishes superstructure and modules harder than peers.
- Heavy torpedoes · 19867 damage
- Fast torpedoes · 76 kt
- Module-wrecking torpedoes · 1500 torpedo
6.6 km surface detect, top decile of T6 DDs. Stays dark longer.
2.7 s rudder shift, top quartile of T6 DDs. Snappy weave.
- Low AP DPM · 104604 AP
- Slow reload · 7.5 s
How to get Yukikaze
Yukikaze is a Premium ship and not available to unlock in the Tech Tree. Acquisition paths: Event currency and Containers. Container chances are shown as the listed odds of receiving this exact ship, dividing grouped ship-pool odds across the resolved ships and including nested container paths when a crate can drop another crate.
- Event currencyBought with time-limited event currencies: Stellar Chips (Mar 2021) and Midway Coins (May 2026).
- ContainersAppears in official container odds below; availability depends on the container being sold or awarded.
While you save up, check active promo codes for free doubloons, camouflages, and other rewards.
Best listed chance for this ship
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Super VI crate
4%
One of the Tier VI Premium ships
Event · Super VI crate · 1 of 25 ships
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Chest of Rarities
0.5%
Tier V or VI Premium ship
Event · Chest of Rarities · 1 of 8 ships
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Piñata Chest
0.05%
Tier V or VI Premium ship
Event · Piñata Chest → Chest of Rarities · 1 of 8 ships
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Mega Santa '23
0.01%
Superprize: Premium Ship
Archived · Mega Santa '23 · 1 of 10 ships
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Super Santa '23
0.0013%
Superprize: Premium Ship
Archived · Super Santa '23 · 1 of 10 ships
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Ultimate Crate
0.00013%
Superprize: Premium Ship
Archived · Ultimate Crate → Super Santa '23 · 1 of 10 ships
Official WG availability sources
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Anniversary Update: Summer Waves
Crates
Start: 2023-07-20
- We’ll also go over some of the prizes you can expect, including American Tier VII cruiser Congress and famed British Tier V battleship Repulse; the Super V crate with a guaranteed Premium ship, exclusive Japanese destroyer Shinonome among the possible drops, and the debut of her Tier VI counterpart, which might grant you Yukikaze; and more.
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4 Years on the Waves: Birthday Content
Crates
Start: 2023-07-24
- Here's the list of goods you can obtain with Quadrans:
- Super VI crate: For the first time, the Super V crate is getting a twin! This crate is guaranteed to drop a Tier VI Premium ship, with the likes of Belfast, Scharnhorst, and Yukikaze among the possible drops.
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Stellar Clash
Event currency
Start: 2021-03-18
- The top reward that’s available for Stellar Chips is Japanese Tier VI Premium destroyer Yukikaze, however, you cannot get her by playing alone and will need to get at least 2,000 extra Stellar Chips, as she costs 12,500 Chips.
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Battle of Midway: Themed Missions & Historical Ships
Event currency
2026-05-29
- You'll also find a new type of bundle—the choice bundle—allowing you to select one of two rare ships: Japanese Tier VI Premium destroyer Yukikaze or U.S. Tier VII Premium aircraft carrier Enterprise.
- Each ship will be available for Midway Coins, an event currency that can be purchased directly or earned through special missions from the associated Store section.
Show direct source rows
- Chest of Rarities 0.5% · Tier V or VI Premium ship
- Mega Santa '23 0.01% · Superprize: Premium Ship
- Super Santa '23 0.0013% · Superprize: Premium Ship
- Super VI crate 4% · One of the Tier VI Premium ships
Want the full picture? Each container page charts the odds as you open more crates - including pity guaranteed-reward timers and, for GD Supporters, pack math personalized to your port.
Builds
Pair with a commander whose unique skill complements her main armament; check the build tool for current recommendations.
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Cohort position
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Where Yukikaze sits among Tier VI DDs (40 ships). Notable standouts are shown first; the rest of the cohort-ranked stats are in the expand below. Acquisition variants (Black Friday, Founders Edition) are counted once with their base ship, not as separate peers.
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Not standouts for Yukikaze -- here's where she sits on every other ranked stat in the cohort. Stats tagged NORM are tied across more than half the cohort, so the value is the cohort default rather than a standout.
Peers in this cohort
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Stats & specs
Customize in the Build Tool →ƒ
How far each mount can train, in degrees to either side of the mount's own facing. A rear turret with ±150° leaves a 60° blind wedge over the bow; one-sided arcs are wing mounts that cover a single side. The data does not say which way each mount faces, so the arcs are listed per mount without bow/stern angles.ƒ
180° − 150° (the most restricted aft-facing mount's arc) = 30° off bow; 180° − 150° (the most restricted forward-facing mount's arc) = 30° off stern. How far off the bow (or stern) the ship must angle before every main turret can fire: the widest blind wedge among the rear-facing (or forward-facing) mounts, from each mount's trainable arc.ƒ
In practice: the baseline curve for a standard destroyer -- at max range (10.4 km) shells land in an ellipse about 93 m wide and 56 m tall. Also on this curve (225): AL Avrora, AL Yukikaze, AL Z24, Acasta, Achilles, Adriatico, Aigle, Akatsuki, Akizuki, Albany, Allen M. Sumner, Attilio Regolo and 213 more.ƒ
Horizontal dispersion ellipse width at max range, from the dispersion model:ƒ
Vertical dispersion ellipse height at max range:ƒ
50%-hit horizontal radius:ƒ
50%-hit vertical radius:ƒ
180 degrees / 6.9 deg/s traverse speed = 26.1 s.ƒ
6 broadside guns x 60 / 7.571 s (7.5 s = 53 ticks) base reload = 47.5.HE shells
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21 mm ≈ 127 mm caliber / 6 (standard HE penetration ratio).ƒ
2,150 HE damage x 6 broadside guns = 12,900.ƒ
12,900 HE full-salvo alpha x 60 / 7.571 s (7.5 s = 53 ticks) base reload = 102,226.ƒ
47.5 shells/min × 0.09 (9% fire chance) = 4.28.AP shells
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floor(127 mm caliber / 14.3) = 8 mm (AP auto-penetrates plating this thick or less).ƒ
AP formula evaluated at muzzle velocity: .ƒ
Same formula at the ship's max firing range (10.4 km), where the shell has slowed to 302.5 m/s: .ƒ
2,200 AP damage x 6 broadside guns = 13,200.ƒ
13,200 AP full-salvo alpha x 60 / 7.571 s (7.5 s = 53 ticks) base reload = 104,604.ƒ
AP shell over-penetration splash radius; scales with shell mass. Wickes 102mm = 3, standard 152mm CL ~ 20, Iowa 406mm ~ 270, Yamato 460mm = 400, Incomparable 650mm = 550 (max). Larger value = bigger splash damage area when AP over-pens.ƒ
Most targets only intersect one hull section, so a hit transfers about 1/3 of the warhead alpha (2/3 when the warhead blast >= 5000 and the burst reaches a second section). For this ship: . In battle, a hit on the torpedo belt deals the per-hit figure × (1 − the target's torpedo protection %), a bow or stern hit deals it in full, and a torpedo never counts as a citadel hit.ƒ
59,600 warhead alpha / 3 + 1,500 blast = 21,367. Warhead alpha / 3 plus the blast addend: the per-torpedo damage figure. The 'Maximum simulated damage' row above applies target geometry to the same warhead.ƒ
Per-torpedo module/blast damage parameter. Most torpedoes carry 500 to 2,000; ships announced by WG as dealing increased module damage carry 9,000 to 12,000, so their hits knock out engines, rudders, and turrets far more often. Comparative figure.ƒ
How long a target has to dodge after your torpedo is spotted at its detectability range (lower means less warning): . 2.6855 converts knots to m/s on the game clock. Base value; commander torpedo-concealment skills lower it further.ƒ
This torpedo carries a flooding-chance value of 3.61 per hit, shown as . Values above 100% are normal: in battle the base chance is scaled down by the target's torpedo protection (the Torp Reduction stat on its Survivability card) and any flood-resistance modifiers, so a value above 100% keeps flooding likely even through partial protection.ƒ
Time to rotate the launchers 180 deg: .ƒ
One side firing, all torpedoes hitting: per-side tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 8 x 19,867 = 158,936. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.ƒ
Longest-reaching family on the in-game AA card. Base AirDefense aura max range is 3.1 km; dual-purpose mount auras extend it.ƒ
Effective DPS: 31 raw aura damage × 3.5 × 0.95 hit probability = 103 - the same in-game units as the Close-range AA DPS headline.ƒ
top speed / 4 + 4.9 = 35 / 4 + 4.9 = 13.7 kt. Base value; speed modifiers scale it.ƒ
Seconds from top speed to a dead stop after ordering full reverse: reverse power winds in over the reverse spool-up while water drag does most of the braking, using the ship's own reverse-power ratio. The full curve is on the acceleration chart. Full reverse stops about a quarter faster than a plain Stop order from top speed.ƒ
Speed below which the engine's built-in power boost applies in reverse.ƒ
Time to reach 90% of top speed (31.5 kt of 35.0 kt).ƒ
Time to reach 99% of top speed (34.6 kt of 35.0 kt). 99% rather than 100% because true top speed is asymptotic (thrust meets drag), so the last fraction of a knot is never quite gained.ƒ
With the rudder hard over the hull turns 7.1°/s, so a target drifts across the bow at that rate. Turret traverse minus hull turn: 6.9 − 7.1 = -0.2°/s, so the guns fall behind and catch up once the turn eases. Main Battery Mod. 2 (+20% traverse) and Mod. 3 (−15%) move this line.ƒ
Base value, no camouflage. With a Grade IV permanent camo (or any disposable camo): 6.6 km x 0.955 = 6.3 km. Camouflage does not change detectability by air.ƒ
Detectability by sea 6.6 km x 0.955 (Grade IV permanent camo or any disposable camo) = 6.3 km.ƒ
max(main battery range, sea detectability 6.6 km) = 10.45 km. Equal to the ship's main battery range (never below base detectability): firing makes you visible to everyone you can reach.ƒ
Air detectability 3.3 km + gun-firing bloom 2.54 km = 5.84 km. The bloom tracks main-battery caliber 127 mm × 0.020 = 2.54 km.ƒ
Sea detectability 6.6 km + 2.0 km while burning = 8.6 km.ƒ
Air detectability 3.3 km + 3.0 km while burning = 6.3 km.
Damage Control Party∞ charges · 40 s reload · 5 s active
Smoke Generator2 charges · 240 s reload · 20 s emit / 89 s cloud active · 450 m radius
Engine Boost2 charges · 180 s reload · 120 s active · +8% speed bonus
Under the hood
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All values are ship base stats with modifications and upgrade changes denoted inline.
The constants behind the formulas and the long tail: shell and dispersion inputs, fixed-range anchors, salvo math, layered AA. Click the formula chip on any row to see how it is calculated.
Main battery formulas
The standard destroyer dispersion curve.(166.7 × (8 − 0.5) / 1000 + 0.5) × 30 = 52.5 m. Horizontal scatter at a fixed 5 km, from the same dispersion model as the rows below - a knife-fight-range anchor comparable across ships.(333.3 × (8 − 0.5) / 1000 + 0.5) × 30 = 90 m. How wide your shells scatter at 10 km, from the same dispersion model as the max-range figure above. Picking a fixed range makes this number directly comparable from ship to ship: max-range dispersion makes a longer-range gun look worse even when it's tighter at any common range. The interactive Dispersion tab on the Charts card plots the full curve from 0 to max range.How tall the scatter ellipse is at a fixed 5 km, from the same model, comparable from ship to ship. The height/width ratio is a piecewise-linear curve through three points from the ship's own dispersion data: at 0 m, at m, and at 10445 m. Below the kink: , so .How tall the same scatter ellipse is at 10 km. Comparable from ship to ship for the same reason as the width value above. The height/width ratio is a piecewise-linear curve through three points from the ship's own dispersion data: at 0 m, at m, and at 10445 m. Above the kink: , so .AP penetration at a fixed 5 km, from the same ballistic curve as AP Pen Close/Far: the shell's impact velocity at that range fed through the AP formula , where 522 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 5 km (from 915 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.AP penetration at a fixed 10 km, from the same ballistic curve as AP Pen Close/Far: the shell's impact velocity at that range fed through the AP formula , where 314.2 m/s is the shell's speed when it arrives at 10 km (from 915 m/s at the muzzle). Fixed anchors make ships directly comparable at the same fighting distance; the Charts card plots the full curve.How long an HE shell takes to reach a target at a fixed 10 km, from the same numerically integrated trajectory the Charts card plots. The shell slows under quadratic air drag, , where is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass: . That runs from a 915 m/s muzzle velocity in 0.02 s steps under gravity 9.8 m/s² until the shell lands, then divides by 2.77 because the game clock runs faster than real time. Lower is better, since a faster shell is harder to dodge and needs less lead.How long an AP shell takes to reach a target at a fixed 10 km, from the same numerically integrated trajectory the Charts card plots. The shell slows under quadratic air drag, , where is air density from a standard-atmosphere profile and bundles the shell's drag coefficient, caliber and mass: . That runs from a 915 m/s muzzle velocity in 0.02 s steps under gravity 9.8 m/s² until the shell lands, then divides by 2.77 because the game clock runs faster than real time. Lower is better, since a faster shell is harder to dodge and needs less lead.3 mounts × 2 barrels = 6; all 6 bear on the broadside.Model inputs
Armor-penetration constant of the AP shell; penetration scales straight with it, so a 10% higher Krupp is 10% more penetration at every range.Enters penetration as mass^0.69 and slows the shell's drag deceleration, so a heavier shell keeps more velocity at range.Air drag on the AP shell in flight; lower keeps velocity, and with it penetration, at long range.Starting speed of the AP shell; penetration scales with velocity^1.38.Starting speed of the HE shell; sets its flight time and lead.Horizontal dispersion growth per idealDistance of range, in 30 m units; the slope of the scatter-width line.Horizontal dispersion at zero range, in 30 m units; the intercept of the scatter-width line.Range step over which horizontal dispersion grows by idealRadius.Inside this range the scatter width tapers toward minRadius instead of following the line.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at zero range.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at the delim point.Vertical scatter as a share of horizontal at maximum range.Where the vertical-scatter curve bends, as a share of maximum range.Torpedoes
1800 m / (76.0 kt × 2.6855) = 8.8 s. detectability / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).8010 m / (76.0 kt × 2.6855) = 39.2 s. range / (speed kt x 2.6855 m/s per knot on the game clock).2 launchers × 4 tubes.2 launchers × 4 tubes = 8, all to either side (centreline launchers train across - full salvo to either side).All tubes hitting one target: tubes x per-torpedo simulated damage = 8 x 19,867 = 158,936. Each hit on the target's torpedo belt is reduced by its torpedo protection %.AA defense
Only families that reach 3.1 km contribute at the outer edge of the AA bubble. In-game families: 25mm Type96 3x3 -> 24 DPS @ 3.1 km; 25mm Type96 single 10x1 -> 79 DPS @ 3.1 km.@ 3.1 km: 24 + 79 = 103. Cumulative AA DPS at each family range threshold. Inner ranges stack the outer families, so a target closing the distance hits stronger AA bubbles as it crosses each band.24 + 79 = 103 DPS: the sum of every family's average DPS, achievable only inside the closest-range family (3.1 km).24 × 3.1 + 79 × 3.1 = 319. SUM over AA auras of (aura DPS x aura range km). A plane crossing the AA bubble is exposed to each aura for a time proportional to that aura's range, so long-reach DPS is worth more than the same DPS in a short bubble. Units: DPS*km; used to rank overall AA threat across the cohort.Ship Charts
Background
Yukikaze was a Kagerō-class destroyer in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was the only member of her class to survive the war.
Armor Beta
Hull HP 15,100, distributed across 5 hull zones, each with its own plate thicknesses, saturation cap, and pen thresholds. HP caps are estimates.
Overmatched by 126+ AP guns across the bracket. Can’t reliably bow-tank; gets bow-citadelled and overpenned.
Superstructure and extremities take HE pens and AP overpens from nearly any gun: steady chip damage. Fire resistance 30%, fires burn 30s. Range-by-range in the Compare tool →
| Section | Plates | HP cap | Threats | Tactic |
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| Bow | 16 mm primary (range 15–16 mm) | ≈ 755 (~5% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Graf Spee, Scharnhorst)Angle bounces 203mm16 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Bow-tank fits behind this exterior plate. Saturation is FAST here; the cap is often only a few thousand HP. |
| Hull (midship) | 15 mm | ≈ 11,325 (~75% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Graf Spee, Scharnhorst)Angle bounces 203mm15 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Largest HP pool. Citadel sits behind these plates; thinner deck and side plating absorb the rest. |
| Stern | 16 mm primary (range 15–16 mm) | ≈ 755 (~5% of HP) | Overmatched by 283mm+ AP (Graf Spee, Scharnhorst)Angle bounces 203mm16 mm: HE pens from 127mm+ | Mirror of bow. Same fast saturation. |
| Citadel | 16 mm primary (range 10–16 mm) | no cap | Citadel pen: full damageOver-pen: ×0.10 damage | Effectively no cap; citadel pool sits at ~165k HP on every ship. An AP citadel penetration deals the shell's full damage, the biggest single hit available; only over-penetrations are damped, to ×0.10. |
| Superstructure | 6 mm | no cap | Any HE ≥16 mm pens at full damage | Any HE ≥16 mm pens at full damage. HE-spam target, and the section saturates fast (often only a few thousand HP). |
Saturation cap = HP a section can absorb before further damage to it is reduced (the "bow-tank" effect). Citadel pool is ~165k on every ship (effectively no cap); damage is gated by pen/over-pen multipliers instead. Superstructure saturates fast but HE always pens regardless of the plate thickness. Rudder (and other module HPs) are a separate pool from ship HP: damaging a module doesn't drain ship HP. Incapacitated modules like the rudder and engine are restored by DCP, but secondary and AA mounts destroyed at 0 HP stay out for the rest of the battle.
Skins & permanent camouflages
Every custom exterior Yukikaze can equip.
DefaultThe ship’s standard exterior
Primary official WG sources
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