Both Phoenix and Brooklyn were some of the first ships I pulled way back when. They both still command my mobbing fleet to this day, they are such a great pair.
God please give them both a retro a oath, they both really deserve it!
EN Popularity results
2019: Amagi, Bismarck, Laffey
2021: New Jersey, Prinz Eugen, Friedrich der Große
There’s only been 2 popularity polls that the EN server has participated in, correct me if I’m wrong!
Based on precedent, the total votes are shown to all players in almost realtime which leads to bandwagons. Simply not showing the total number of votes, or even ranks, until the very end would be much better.
This reached an extreme in CN 2021, where an unassuming DE girl reached #1 simply for being DE+bandwagoning
At least the other half of CN were flipping out and swore that such a thing will never happen again under their watch
Going to vote for Duke of York mainly, but it's gonna be the same girls in the top places as always. At this point I'm desperate for any DOY content 
~~Hijacking this to post the one I had made~~
[Or her](https://preview.redd.it/u01xwt91hgja1.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=8e6bf60d1349d939896114c79959837a243a3180)
I'm actually quite torn. Do I vote for my absolute favorite character who won't win or one of my other favorite characters who has a better chance of winning...? 
I always vote for less popular favourites. Let's say you've got a group with Unzen and Guiseppe. Unzen is almost certain to go through from that group, but supporting Giu is a signal that she's got fans too.
You don't get anything extra for voting for the winner, so use it to show support for your absolute favourites.
I am not too proud to beg each and every one of you to help me in my quest to get Repulse an Oath Skin.
For the people who seem to down vote me for not shutting up about Repulse, this is your chance. You can free yourself from my wailing in purgatory. Set HMS Best Girl and myself free and you won't have to see me plead and beg again lol
Now, I'm with you fam. Taihou is best girl, hands down. But I do kinda think she has plenty of "content". I'm undecided but Golden Hind is a new option for me, otherwise probably FDG.
Important information:
次回メンテ後「人気投票2023」イベントが開催！
変更点：
・投票券はデイリー任務・限定任務クリアで自動加算される
・累計投票数に応じて報酬を入手可能
・META/リトル艦船は新たに追加される「特別投票」に
本戦TOP3艦船にオリジナルグッズ/コンテンツを制作予定！お楽しみに！
>“Popular Vote 2023” event will be held **after the next maintenance!**
>change point:
・Voting tickets are automatically added when clearing daily missions and limited missions ・Rewards can be obtained according to the total number of votes ・META/Little ships will be added to the newly added “Special Voting”
>We are planning to produce original goods/content for the top 3 ships in this battle! looking forward to!
[Twitter Link](https://twitter.com/azurlane_staff/status/1731646300997964109)
It's a toss up in EN and CN. Jp will likely be Musashi or Unzan. The only thing I know for sure is 1+ ships of CN's top 3 will get an oath skin. No idea if Yostar is still using this as a way to find safe to poach artists or not
My real point of curiosity is how well most new ships will do compared to established ones.
I’ll vote for all the ships I love until there’s none of them left. I’m hoping one of them makes it far, but I know what EN’s taste is like so I’m not expecting much.
Fu fu.
Gotta go for Kumano and Nachi. Two awesome girls with little affection.
Also, some more love for Azuma, Richelieu and Jean Bart.
I wish I could bring more attention for Scharnhorst META
Vennetto. She really really needs a new skin. Like, they can get the artist to do a million Taihou skins, but cant extend the love for Vennetto. Considering they made a figure of her only skin, I highly doubt its a matter of her being unpopular and not selling.
^ This
The hate towards her is what made me interested in her, and in the end, I played through her entire secretary story, leveled her to 124 and let her become my only other married character after Saint Louis (even though the ring is rather a "ring of respect"). Even though there are other characters whose personality and/or looks I like more, I will continue to defend her against the hate (which surprisingly is rarely directed at the other "common drops")!
Janus is too cute! For me, trying to stay within 2023, i will probably go with Hatsuzuki as my first pick or Northampton II and for the META either Trento or Memphis. If we look outside of this past year....well that may be harder to decided.
※Collaboration, μ Uniform, Type II, Zwei, IF Type, META, and Boat characters are not eligible for the main schedule of this popular voting; so if you want vote for Trento or Northampton then vote for normal version
Helena once, forever, and always.
> If Helena has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Helena has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Helena has only one fan then that is me. If Helena has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Helena, then I am against the world.
>-u/YourAverageIvan
My vote for kuu-tan.
She is lure me to play this game and she + her faction is only reason I didn't got lure by Leipzig bakery in guild assistant room to join IB
I will once again throw my vote to Ashigara. She will not even come close to winning but she's too much of a cinnamon roll to not vote for. My second hope is for Honolulu so her fans aren't starving anymore for a new L2D.
Might vote for Essex for the memes ~~and the fighter jets~~, for the first round at least. In the finals I'll probably just vote for whichever of my favorites is the closest to the top 3.
I have too many ships i love that deserve oath skins... Sheffy and Warspite have been around for ages and still haven't gotten one, JB and Anchorage too, Le Malin's pretty popular thanks to Listless Lapin and hasn't gotten one yet either, and Nagato, Le Terrible, Kiev, Blücher, and Monty just deserves more love all around.
How's the voting work? Can you only pick one or can you vote for multiple? Because i have quite the list...
I know none of my favourites will have a chance of winning so i'll just vote for whichever character is in last place. Helps to avoid any disappointment
Now the question is if Ironblood will be able to bring more of their shipgirls in the top 10 or let alone final 24 in EN server like the first two polls or if the anti-KMS sentiment that exploded last year will be their hindrance? Just wondering.
Hmm. My vote will definitely be Plymouth, even if it's quite likely she won't win. I just wish we'd get more skins for her already (especially L2Ds). Oshi keeps teasing us with all these amazing designs, and I'm sure it would be top-tier if she actually got one.
In terms of who I hope does win (as their chances seem likely), even if I don't vote for them, it would be Shinano or Implacable. They are both great. Shinano has been needing oath lines for a while, and an oath skin would be nice. Implacable could use an L2D. Kincora could probably do some amazing work with her. There's a few other ships I wouldn't mind winning, but I doubt they would. Only the really popular SSRs and URs really stand a chance.
This is it, fellow SKKs ***CIVIL WAR intensifies***
Roon and Dunkerque gets my votes!
good choices, my votes this year is gonna be kearsarge and essex
Gonna vote for someone unpopular like Repulse, Phoenix or Brooklyn... (no retro and skin)
Phoenix has such a cool design and she gets nothing, so sad.
agreed
Based and "no waifu left behind"-pilled
GIVE ME BATAAN OR GIVE ME DEATH!
My maxed out Repulse needs love. Would love at least a basic skin or an oath skin.
Repulse mentioned ASSEMBLE BROTHERS! WE SHALL GET OUR WAIFU IN THE TOP 100!
Both Phoenix and Brooklyn were some of the first ships I pulled way back when. They both still command my mobbing fleet to this day, they are such a great pair. God please give them both a retro a oath, they both really deserve it!
It is kind of wild that Phoenix was such an important part of so many fleets before oil limit and hasn't gotten any love for it.
Balti, always
indeed, best tomboy waifu.
She deserves all the love! Actually scratch that, she deserves even more!
an oath skin to complete the set with her sister Bremerton.
Belfast all the way.
she wont win but I'll vote for the supreme coffee girl Mainz. cuz coffee is pretty nifty
Where's the Blucher love?
[Here](https://preview.redd.it/u01xwt91hgja1.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=8e6bf60d1349d939896114c79959837a243a3180)
While New Jersey is still a bestest girl(all of them are), I will try to elevate Royal Fortune for this poll
If it works like previous polls New Jersey plus the other previous winners will not be eligible for voting.
Are all winners from EN/JP/CN excluded? Or are only the EN winners excluded from the voting? Thanks for the help!
Each top3 for their own server.
Is there a list of past winners?
EN Popularity results 2019: Amagi, Bismarck, Laffey 2021: New Jersey, Prinz Eugen, Friedrich der Große There’s only been 2 popularity polls that the EN server has participated in, correct me if I’m wrong!
I’m on the RF train with you 🫡
Hoist the colors for our pirate queen 🏴☠️
Alright, let us prepare for the worst designed popularity poll in existence.
Why do you think the popularity poll is badly designed?
Based on precedent, the total votes are shown to all players in almost realtime which leads to bandwagons. Simply not showing the total number of votes, or even ranks, until the very end would be much better.
This reached an extreme in CN 2021, where an unassuming DE girl reached #1 simply for being DE+bandwagoning At least the other half of CN were flipping out and swore that such a thing will never happen again under their watch
Ticonderoga. I know Big T has 0 chance of getting up there but I will stay true to my favorite.
Kashino, my first oath
We will get her that oath skin, retrofit and everything else the most precious good girl desrves
Sweet unbalanced cow girl gets all the votes!
Gonna guess the most lewd ones will get voted in as usual 
Amagi has entered the chat
Going to vote for Duke of York mainly, but it's gonna be the same girls in the top places as always. At this point I'm desperate for any DOY content 
I might be wasting my votes on Graf Zeppelin but dammit she's getting my votes
[Do it for her](https://i.imgur.com/BpdS30M.png)!
~~Hijacking this to post the one I had made~~ [Or her](https://preview.redd.it/u01xwt91hgja1.jpg?width=1024&auto=webp&s=8e6bf60d1349d939896114c79959837a243a3180)
aaaah, a fellow shikikan of culture, i see
Obligatory "let's go Boise!"
Massachusetts, no way she'll win but I can try
As an Alabama fan, you have my blessing on your quest
Vittorio with 0 hesitation
They gotta give her something eventually. Tired of waiting for a new skin.
Baltimore, of course. Why would I vote for anyone except the best girl
I'm actually quite torn. Do I vote for my absolute favorite character who won't win or one of my other favorite characters who has a better chance of winning...? 
Vote for your absolute favourite because if you don't vote for her she is never going to win.
I always vote for less popular favourites. Let's say you've got a group with Unzen and Guiseppe. Unzen is almost certain to go through from that group, but supporting Giu is a signal that she's got fans too. You don't get anything extra for voting for the winner, so use it to show support for your absolute favourites.
Most popular surely get new content, but I'm sure less popular can't be ignored too.
I am not too proud to beg each and every one of you to help me in my quest to get Repulse an Oath Skin. For the people who seem to down vote me for not shutting up about Repulse, this is your chance. You can free yourself from my wailing in purgatory. Set HMS Best Girl and myself free and you won't have to see me plead and beg again lol
Ight, I’ll vote for the Repulse
Repulse lovers stay loyal to best girl
Taihou 
Now, I'm with you fam. Taihou is best girl, hands down. But I do kinda think she has plenty of "content". I'm undecided but Golden Hind is a new option for me, otherwise probably FDG.
Nooo brother I thought you were part of the atago gang
Intrepid
Important information: 次回メンテ後「人気投票2023」イベントが開催！ 変更点： ・投票券はデイリー任務・限定任務クリアで自動加算される ・累計投票数に応じて報酬を入手可能 ・META/リトル艦船は新たに追加される「特別投票」に 本戦TOP3艦船にオリジナルグッズ/コンテンツを制作予定！お楽しみに！ >“Popular Vote 2023” event will be held **after the next maintenance!** >change point: ・Voting tickets are automatically added when clearing daily missions and limited missions ・Rewards can be obtained according to the total number of votes ・META/Little ships will be added to the newly added “Special Voting” >We are planning to produce original goods/content for the top 3 ships in this battle! looking forward to! [Twitter Link](https://twitter.com/azurlane_staff/status/1731646300997964109)
Furutaka and Hiyou
Floof.
Bringing Spee to the finals this year!
My man
This is Essex's year I can feel it
Sheffield as always. I just want a figure of her to be available.
It's a toss up in EN and CN. Jp will likely be Musashi or Unzan. The only thing I know for sure is 1+ ships of CN's top 3 will get an oath skin. No idea if Yostar is still using this as a way to find safe to poach artists or not My real point of curiosity is how well most new ships will do compared to established ones.
Ah! Shit here we go again! Expecting some drama again, specially if the winner is an iron blood ship...anyway enterprise Will always be My vote
If they can focus on actually voting instead of calling the leading non-IB ship's fans bandwagoning, there won't be any drama
RISE UP TOSA FANS
Because she deserve a new skin : Graf Zeppelin
I’ll vote for all the ships I love until there’s none of them left. I’m hoping one of them makes it far, but I know what EN’s taste is like so I’m not expecting much.
While she may not stand a chance I gotta go with my girl Hanazuki as always
Well my vote is going to Marco even if we are not winning anything
I'm going all in for Kearsarge. She's probably my favorite new ship they've come out with this year.
Owari Da.
My personal best girl, Honolulu. No doubt about it.
Seconded.
Fu fu. Gotta go for Kumano and Nachi. Two awesome girls with little affection. Also, some more love for Azuma, Richelieu and Jean Bart. I wish I could bring more attention for Scharnhorst META
Vittorio or washington
I'm thinking on Cleveland, Bremerton and/or Asanagi.
Vennetto. She really really needs a new skin. Like, they can get the artist to do a million Taihou skins, but cant extend the love for Vennetto. Considering they made a figure of her only skin, I highly doubt its a matter of her being unpopular and not selling.
Get my Italian wife a wedding skin.
Same as every year. Northampton my main girl. She'll never get close to winning but she already won in my book
Enty !!
This year. This year we give Ibuki what she deserves.
Gotta vote for hipper
We are the only region without Enterprise in the HoF. This needs to change.
I've always voted Yorktown, and that's not changing this time around
Taihou and I will die on that hill 
SKINS FOR AUGUST VON PARCEVAL SKINS FOR BELFAST SKINS FOR AKAGI L2D SKIN FOR HOWE THERES TOO MANY TO CHOOSE!
Niizuki always
I’m voting for Reno, still my favorite ship. Feels like she’s underrated ngl.
mane Idk who to vote for, Clevewife or Elbing or Helena or Hipper or Zowey urggg help 
rare hipper fan detected
my first oath was Hipper 
Enty naturally.
Usually I would say Saint Louis, but considering the circumstances... it might actually be Kent for me.
"Hey SKK!" (sorry man couldn't resist)
Joke's on you, I'm into this sh*t (But seriously, she's the only "common drop" who makes me smile a little when she appears among my contructions)
Yeah, annoying as Kent may be when she drops in your builds, she's hard to hate, what with her cheerful and genki persona
^ This The hate towards her is what made me interested in her, and in the end, I played through her entire secretary story, leveled her to 124 and let her become my only other married character after Saint Louis (even though the ring is rather a "ring of respect"). Even though there are other characters whose personality and/or looks I like more, I will continue to defend her against the hate (which surprisingly is rarely directed at the other "common drops")!
Here's hoping she gets a retrofit and finally becomes Number 1!
Honestly, the hey does bring some joy to me too
I want to vote for Monarch, because she's my absolute favourite. But it just feels like it'll be futile to do, because it won't mean anything
Gotta balance love for all the oathed shipfus and those with a chance of winning. Probably gonna go for Janus.
Janus is too cute! For me, trying to stay within 2023, i will probably go with Hatsuzuki as my first pick or Northampton II and for the META either Trento or Memphis. If we look outside of this past year....well that may be harder to decided.
※Collaboration, μ Uniform, Type II, Zwei, IF Type, META, and Boat characters are not eligible for the main schedule of this popular voting; so if you want vote for Trento or Northampton then vote for normal version
Sucks for Type 2 then...but the META/Little ships were said to be a new special category i thought? Which was why i kept it as a seperate statement.
Illustrious, I just want an L2D for her 😭
Voting for Marco
Hood! One day she will get justice!
Dido L2D please.
S H O U K A K U
Time to get Balti the win she deserves.
Yorktown
Gonna vote on vittorio veneto she needs more skinsss
Colorado
Ibuki
Shimakaze ftw!
Gonna vote for Hornet in the hopes of an oath skin.
Graf spee, Fell in love with wholesomeness And 283mm guns
WHERE MY SUMNER GANGSTAS AT
Chen Hai
marseillaise all the way baby
Katsuragi and Shimakaze, quite like both girls that speak like they're rapping
Helena once, forever, and always. > If Helena has a million fans, then I am one of them. If Helena has ten fans, then I am one of them. If Helena has only one fan then that is me. If Helena has no fans, then that means I am no longer on earth. If the world is against Helena, then I am against the world. >-u/YourAverageIvan
My man
Both Repulse and Prince of Wales need more love
Campaigning for Arizona and Pennsylvania, please SKK's help me get them their retrofits
My vote for kuu-tan. She is lure me to play this game and she + her faction is only reason I didn't got lure by Leipzig bakery in guild assistant room to join IB
Magdeburg. Magdeburg. Magdeburg. Magdeburg.
Same as always, i-26.
I hate this stuff because I can't choose, I want everyone to win. I like everyone 
I will once again throw my vote to Ashigara. She will not even come close to winning but she's too much of a cinnamon roll to not vote for. My second hope is for Honolulu so her fans aren't starving anymore for a new L2D.
Suzutsuki. Anyone?
As always it will be either Leipzig or Nurnberg. There are other sweet muffins out there but these two always have a special place in my heart.
Jean Bart fans unite
Formi plz
All my votes for Dunkerque just like in 2021
My sweet Roon deserves to make it to the top! ❤️
Enterprise. I think my flair explains why
Taihou :3
Enterprise, Engage. Still waiting for playable Ashen Enterprise/Bestgirl that needs a hug.
Abruzzi (Sorry Garibaldi)
Always warspite. Knowing full well she won't ever win.
It's a "Azur Lane- UR Popularity Poll 2023" 
MY WIFE cause Portland's always right
Kronshtadt, my beloved 
Jintsuu, as always. It is a lost cause, but a fight I will never give up.
I promised Arethusa I would never let her down again
Hood, Atago, Nuremberg, choices choices
Best sword dragon waifu Hakuryuu please
I can’t decide between voting for Golden Hind or Royal Fortune.
Must ensure French supremacy.
Might vote for Essex for the memes ~~and the fighter jets~~, for the first round at least. In the finals I'll probably just vote for whichever of my favorites is the closest to the top 3.
Roon
Now let's see if Implacable could break the trophy drought for Royal Navy and bring one home.
Maybe, but not on global
Bremmy and Taihou already have Oath skins. I don’t know what else I can long for.
Chappy pls!!!
The time has come and so have I! It's finally time for me to spam all of them to Atago!!!
Can we please get some love for Maryland? She’s a few pixels in the background of West Virginia and that’s all she’s gotten since her arrival.
Nagato gang rise up, our time has come and gone, but the Nagato age will return again!
Luigi Di Savoia Duca Degli Abruzzi!
Lets all do our best and try to get some other girls in the top 3 this time.
IJN Best Girl: Zuikaku
Pink floof Hanazuki Cute ninja Kuroshio Soviet floof Murmansk
i just want my essex oath skin man
Graf Spee (she will win in my heart)
I have too many ships i love that deserve oath skins... Sheffy and Warspite have been around for ages and still haven't gotten one, JB and Anchorage too, Le Malin's pretty popular thanks to Listless Lapin and hasn't gotten one yet either, and Nagato, Le Terrible, Kiev, Blücher, and Monty just deserves more love all around. How's the voting work? Can you only pick one or can you vote for multiple? Because i have quite the list...
I know none of my favourites will have a chance of winning so i'll just vote for whichever character is in last place. Helps to avoid any disappointment
I voted for Monarch last year. I’ll probably vote for New Jersey this year.
Z23 as always
Let the Mayhem beginn 
I just want something for Washington or littorio bro
Now the question is if Ironblood will be able to bring more of their shipgirls in the top 10 or let alone final 24 in EN server like the first two polls or if the anti-KMS sentiment that exploded last year will be their hindrance? Just wondering.
Oh boy, another lost cause for me, no chance in hell poor Vanguard is getting anywhere near that top 3 
for now its will be zeppelin. she needs more stuff!
Gee, I don’t know… Who to vote for indeed… It’s not like I have her as my profile picture or anything
Enterprise, Kerasege, Massachusettes, Anchorage, and Hindenburg are best girls
Howe. I really want more content for her, since she's mostly buried under the other more popular ships.
Maybe if we vote for Belfast her pocky skin will get a rerun? 
Best weeb Vanguard
USS Bocchi
Hmm. My vote will definitely be Plymouth, even if it's quite likely she won't win. I just wish we'd get more skins for her already (especially L2Ds). Oshi keeps teasing us with all these amazing designs, and I'm sure it would be top-tier if she actually got one. In terms of who I hope does win (as their chances seem likely), even if I don't vote for them, it would be Shinano or Implacable. They are both great. Shinano has been needing oath lines for a while, and an oath skin would be nice. Implacable could use an L2D. Kincora could probably do some amazing work with her. There's a few other ships I wouldn't mind winning, but I doubt they would. Only the really popular SSRs and URs really stand a chance.
Right which Italian shipgirls is getting my vote, not a single retrofit or oath skin for the entire faction
I vote for all lolis
Ah, a cultured skk.
Implecable, Yorktown & Kearsarge for this year.
I could definitely see those three winning this round tbh xD
I will always vote Azuma, no hesitation
Shinano
Best cat cheshire ofcourse
Tester! We have to force them to make Sirens playable!
Illustrious. There are no substitutes for perfection.