Nicholas

Nicholas is an Elite Destroyer character in Azur Lane. Nicholas's class is Fletcher. Faction: Eagle Union.

On our Azur Lane tier list Nicholas is D tier, 460th of the 706 characters ranked, from where 8 current tier lists put Nicholas.

Other Destroyer characters in Azur Lane: Acasta, Akatsuki, Alfredo Oriani, Allen M. Sumner, Amazon, An Shan and 184 more.

Nicholas can pick up a strong evasion buff of up to 40% along with matching air-raid damage reduction just from firing, and being a Fletcher-class ship herself means Fletcher's own buff stacks right on top of it.

She reportedly carries a high Luck stat too, which may make her outperform her stats on paper. The only downside is that she only drops from a 9-3 stage clear, making her genuinely hard to pick up.

Pairs well with: Fletcher; Agano.

Like many of her sister ships, Nicholas' personality gets in the way of her historical references.

She insists she did not do much, but she is very wrong:

- She spent almost her entire career sailing the Solomon Islands, the single most contested part of the Pacific during the Campaign.

- She had run-ins with the Japanese Fleet several times and even survived many airstrikes.

- She survived the war and continued to serve through the Korean Conflict and Vietnam War and was even a part of NASA's Apollo program as a capsule recovery vessel.

- By the time she retired in 1970, she had already been the U.

S. Navy's oldest active destroyer for 8 years.

Nicholas earned 16 Battle Stars during WWII, an additional 5 in Korea, and a final 9 in Vietnam.

With a total of 30 Battle Stars, she is the most decorated U.

S. warship of the 20th century.

Normal stage drop only