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VII Lion

Nation: U.K.
Class: Battleship
Tier: VIISeven
Peer: Tier Seven Battleships
Type: Premium

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British Battleships

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10Builds Submitted

2Reviews Submitted

13Records Submitted

Dec 2021Added to WoWS Builds

The last British battleship designed and laid down before the breakout of World War II. In many respects, the ship was a development of the King George V-class ships, but, unlike her predecessors, she had greater dimensions, heavier armor, and modern 406 mm main guns.

Lion Stats

Survivability

Hitpoints	67,900
Effective HP	114,072
Armor	19-381 mm
Torpedo Protection	25%

Armament

Main Battery
Main Battery	406 mm 3x3
Range	17.00 km
Reload Time	30.0 s
Turret Turn Time	45.0 s
Gun Traverse Speed	4.0°/s
Sigma	1.80
HE Damage	6,900
HE Alpha Strike	62,100
HE DPM	124,200
Fires Per Minute	1.99
AP Damage	12,600
Overmatch	28 mm
AP Alpha Strike	113,400
AP DPM	226,800
Secondary Battery
Secondary Range	5.00 km
Secondary Battery 1	134 mm 8x2
Secondary Range 1	5.00 km
Secondary Reload 1	6.7 s
Secondary Damage 1	1,900
Secondary Fire Chance 1	8.0%

Air Defense

AA Max DPS	528
AA Max Range	4.50 km
AA Mount 1	40 mm 4x1
AA DPS 1	35
AA Range 1	3.50 km
AA Mount 2	40 mm 6x2
AA DPS 2	136
AA Range 2	3.50 km
AA Mount 3	40 mm 10x6
AA DPS 3	292
AA Range 3	3.50 km
AA Mount 4	134 mm 8x2
AA DPS 4	65
AA Range 4	4.50 km

Maneuverability

Maximum Speed	29.5 kt
Turning Circle	830 m
Rudder Shift Time	15.8 s

Detectability

Surface Detectability	14.60 km
Air Detectability	12.20 km
Firing in Smoke Penalty	14.70 km

Lion Records

Damage238 228

BoundingChutoy9

Apr 2022

Base XP4 306

Aonori_M126H

Oct 2024

Damage Records

238 228Apr 2022

BoundingChutoy9

Top Record

229 876Jan 2022

bireXcorner

Second Place

212 500Dec 2021

Third Place

165 295Dec 2021

USS_Grim_Yeeter

Base XP Records

4 306Oct 2024

Aonori_M126H

Top Record

4 252May 2024

StrangeMitten86

Second Place

4 217Dec 2023

GAM

Third Place

4 070Sep 2023

EVO 107

4 050Aug 2022

tuable

3 866Jun 2022

Det Kaiser

3 843Jan 2022

bireXcorner

3 360Dec 2021

2 764Dec 2021

USS_Grim_Yeeter

Lion Reviews

Power3.50

Fun3.50

Learning Curve3.00

Skill Ceiling3.00

Utility3.50

RubinBasilisk89

Power4

Fun4

Learning Curve3

Skill Ceiling3

Utility4

[ANKER] Adsionzy

Power3

Fun3

Learning Curve3

Skill Ceiling3

Utility3

Peer Comparison

Tier VII Battleships

Ships	Hitpoints	Reload	AP Damage	Max Speed	Surface Detectability
AL New Jersey	67,000	31.0 s	13,100	30.0 kt	15.40 km
Alabama	63,300	30.0 s	13,100	27.5 kt	15.40 km
Amagi	62,800	30.0 s	12,100	30.0 kt	15.60 km
Anhalt	69,500	30.0 s	9,500	26.5 kt	15.30 km
Atlântico	60,100	30.0 s	10,700	25.0 kt	14.90 km
BA Tirpitz	72,500	26.0 s	11,600	31.0 kt	15.00 km
Bismarck	69,200	26.0 s	11,600	28.5 kt	15.40 km
Bismarck B	69,200	26.0 s	11,600	28.5 kt	15.40 km
Brandenburg	59,700	26.5 s	9,400	32.5 kt	14.70 km
Champagne	57,100	26.6 s	12,100	34.0 kt	15.40 km
Constellation	63,300	27.0 s	12,400	33.3 kt	15.20 km
Flandre	75,400	30.5 s	11,900	33.5 kt	15.10 km
Gascogne	63,200	28.0 s	13,000	32.0 kt	15.50 km
Georgia	63,000	26.0 s	15,750	33.0 kt	14.80 km
Hawke	73,800	28.0 s	12,600	30.5 kt	14.80 km
Iowa	70,000	30.0 s	13,100	30.0 kt	15.40 km
Jean Bart	69,000	26.0 s	11,900	30.0 kt	15.40 km
Kansas	67,000	35.0 s	11,500	25.0 kt	14.90 km
Kii	68,200	30.0 s	12,100	30.0 kt	14.90 km
La Foudre	69,000	27.0 s	11,900	30.0 kt	15.40 km
Lenin	63,200	33.0 s	13,100	28.5 kt	15.40 km
Lion	67,900	30.0 s	12,600	29.5 kt	14.60 km
Massachusetts	66,300	30.0 s	13,100	27.5 kt	15.50 km
Missouri	65,000	30.0 s	13,500	30.0 kt	15.40 km
Monarch	60,500	25.0 s	11,900	28.0 kt	14.50 km
Nebraska	71,100	28.0 s	13,100	30.0 kt	14.90 km
Odin	62,700	20.0 s	9,400	30.0 kt	14.60 km
Richelieu	63,700	30.0 s	11,900	32.0 kt	15.30 km
Roma	65,400	30.0 s	12,000	30.0 kt	14.50 km
Scharnhorst '43	65,000	22.0 s	7,980	30.0 kt	14.80 km
Tirpitz	72,500	24.0 s	11,600	31.0 kt	14.70 km
Tirpitz B	72,500	24.0 s	11,600	31.0 kt	14.70 km
Vanguard	71,700	25.0 s	12,500	30.0 kt	15.20 km
Vittorio Veneto	64,800	31.0 s	11,000	30.0 kt	15.20 km
Vladivostok	73,600	33.0 s	12,000	29.0 kt	15.30 km
Zieten	62,900	22.5 s	11,500	31.0 kt	14.80 km

Lion Builds

Community submitted commander builds

did someone say accuracy?

0hmyg0dw0w

Sep 2022

Mein Standard BB Build

Lion long range rof high pen

	Build	Creator	Date
3	Inflammable healer	[ANKER] Adsionzy	Jan 2022	Open
1	Lion	DonaldTrump	Jun 2024	Open
1	Build	Sirkillslots5743	Feb 2024	Open
1	VII Lion	Heatedveil1609	Dec 2023	Open
1	did someone say accuracy?	0hmyg0dw0w	Sep 2022	Open
1	Mein Standard BB Build	xXChody1992Xx	Dec 2021	Open
1	Lion	MuddyMoBB63	Jan 2022	Open
1	Lion long range rof high pen	jbobaf1	Jan 2022	Open
1	Lion AA DPM	Rico Mexico	Feb 2024	Open
1	Lion Hybrid DPM	Anonymous	Jun 2022	Open

Lion Consumables

Slot 1

Damage Control Party

Charges: ∞
Cooldown: 80 s
Duration: 15 s

Slot 2

Repair Party

Charges: 2
Cooldown: 100 s
Duration: 17 s
Health per second: 2.00%

Slot 3

Defensive AA Fire

Charges: 2
Cooldown: 150 s
Duration: 40 s
AA Damage Boost: 200%

Enhanced Secondary Targeting

Charges: 3
Cooldown: 160 s
Duration: 30 s
Secondary Shell Dispersion: -50%
Secondary Shell Grouping: 100%

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