Fan Nickname / World of Warships

While not as saturated as its elder stablemate, World of Warships has certainly been developing its own.

• In the Russian fandom the game has already acquired two main nicknames: "Шлюпки"^note Most often is derogatory, because it sounds very similar to "Шлюхи", "Sluts". ("Shlupki", or "Lifeboats")^note Often with the ironicaly dismissive modifier "those yours"., which it actually shares with KanColle, and "Корюшка" ("Koryuska" or "Smelt"), due to it being developed by a Saint-Petersburg studio, as the city is famous for its seasonal gluts of smelt in Neva river.
  • The latter actually follows the tradition of food-based Theme Nicknaming of the Wargaming.Net MMOs — Minsk-developed World of Tanks shares its nickname of "Potato", a stereotypically Belarussian food, with the company itself, while World of Warplanes, developed in Kiev, is nicknamed "salo-fliers"^note Salolety=salo+samolety(airplanes), after the equally stereotypically Ukrainian salo.
• Some specific ships also have their own nickname, and a LOT of them derive theirs from other ship-based games like KanColle and Azur Lane.
• Many of these nicknames come from nicknames for the nicknames of the historical ships the in-game ones were based on.

General Nicknames

• Cruisers, Battleships & Aircraft Carriers have very vulnerable areas called "Citadels", that are usually underwater and behind a lot of armour, making it very hard to actually hit, but if hit, you get massive damage against you. The common nickname is simply shortening Citadel to "Cit", and being hit there is "getting cit'd".
  • Taking a huge amount of damage from a single salvo (often but not always involving multiple citadel hits) is called "getting blapped". It's most often used in terms of "blapping" an enemy player with a salvo of yours, or getting "blapped" by an enemy.
  • Getting citadeled as a result of obliviously driving in a straight line broadside on to an enemy battleship? "That's a Paddling." Popularized by The Mighty Jingles on YouTube, himself quoting The Simpsons.
  • Getting sunk quickly is "getting deleted". This doesn't always mean a single salvo, or a single ship, and often refers to being focus fired and quickly killed by a large amount of the enemy team.
• Certain maps get their own nicknames.
  • Two Brothers: Rush Mid ^note  Thanks in no small part to all the YouTube videos where people successfully rush down the center strait between the twin mountains and kick ass. , RASH MID PIZDA^note from Counter-Strike — the tactic of rushing bomb site B in de_dust2 is often attributed to Russian players who yell this on the microphone when suggesting this plan; "pizda" can be translated as "fuck dammit"
  • Tears of the Desert: Tears of the Cruisers ^note The map features a series of very tall mountainous islands around the caps. While cruisers normally like to hide behind islands, these are so tall as to prevent firing from even kilometers from behind them. In practice this makes the map less friendly to cruisers than Ocean as it just creates a bunch of kill channels
  • Ring: RNG ^note  Not necessarily cause of luck or hoping to get this map, but the lexical similarity.
  • Big Race: Torpedo Alley ^note More specifically the strait through a cluster of islands in the southwest of the map because destroyer players love to fill it with torpedoes from both ends.
• US battleships are often identified by their namesake state's postal abbreviation (e.g. TX for Texas, AR for Arkansas). For obvious reasons, this is most common on the North American server.
• Torpedoes themselves are earning the nickname "Torpedus", a portmanteau of torpedo and the "Diabeetus" meme. Quite possibly due to their debatable nature as Game Breakers and tendency for being spammed.
  • Another common (and offensive) nickname is the "retard filter", as it takes a lot more work to land over one or two torps per salvo on enemies that often change speed and heading to throw off torpedo aim. A less offensive version is "noob filter", as players who sail obliviously in straight lines and eat full spreads of torpedoes are usually noobs.
  • They are also often called fish, a nickname sailors gave them during the War(s). For this reason be very weary if someone proposes a tournament to catch the most fish.
  • "Human Torpedus", aka ramming.
  • Shimakaze's, and to a lesser extent Kagero's, torpedo spreads earned their own name: torpedo curtains. This is due to the massive quantity and range of torpedoes the ship can launch at once, forming a wall which players usually have to weave through if they wish to stay alive. And to make things worse, these torpedoes have a range of 20 kilometers, while the destroyers have a detection range of just 7.6 and 6.8 kilometers, respectively. As a result, the mere presence of a Shimakaze or Kagero on the enemy team is a cause for dread, because that torpedo curtain might already be in your path but outside of detection range.
    • Speaking of Shimakaze, she used to be called "Skillkaze" due the fact it has fifteen swivel torpedo launchers, creating an unavoidable wall of death, which is itself referred to as a "Wall of Skill". Something generally regarded as unskilled, not to mention dangerous, as in all Wargaming.Net's games, once ammunition has been fired, it's live and has zero distinction between friend and foe. However due to "adjustments" to the Japanese destroyer line and good old power creep many view the Shimakaze to be ironically terrible at her job as a torpedo-boat (surprisingly high torpedo detection range, superior destroyers for her job, etc) and thus lost that moniker.
    • Shimakaze's stock Type 93 torpedoes are known as "Noob Tubes" because they're considered so much worse than the other options that only a noob would think they're a good choice. While the Type 93 has a massive 20km range (and decent 62 knot top speed), they also have the worst detection range of any torpedo in the game at 2.5km. This means that they will be detected by a target ship a whopping 15.5 seconds before they arrive, meaning that even a battleship (with their slow rudder response large turning circle) still have time to dodge if they react appropriately.^note Being easier to dodge than other nations' torps is the weakness of all Japanese torpedoes, to balance out their generally higher alpha damage and flood potential. But the stock Type 93 takes this weakness to a whole other level, and thus is considered not just the worst torpedo for Shimakaze but among the worst torpedoes for any destroyer. While the upgraded Type 93 mod. 3 torpedo has a much shorter range of 12km, its higher speed (67 knots) and much shorter detection range (1.7km) mean a target has 9.75 seconds reaction time upon spotting the torps. Which is still below average (hence Shimakaze no longer being considered a good torpedo boat), but it's far more workable. The Type 93 mod. 3 also has the highest damage and second highest flooding chance of any torpedo in the game, being about 15% better than the stock Type 93 in both of those categories.^note The 3rd torpedo option for Shimakaze, the Type F3, is considered to be a meme choice rather than actually competitive. While at a blazing 76 knots it's the 3rd fastest torpedo (and fastest non-Swedish torpedo; Swedish torps' core gimmick being very high speed but very low damage) and its damage and flooding are in between the Type 93 and Type 93 mod. 3 (thus being a very good 4th place in the game for damage and 6th place for flooding), its range of a mere 8km is considered suicidal because it means almost invariably going inside of radar range of cruisers in order to fire them. The F3's 1.9km detection range also means the reaction time available to a target is 9.6 seconds, only barely less than the more competitive Type 93 mod. 3. The only real advantage of the F3 is in a close-range knife fight with an enemy destroyer, a scenario where detection range doesn't really matter (since they already know the torps are coming when they leave the tubes) and reaction time is solely dependent on speed. But a close-range knife fight with an enemy destroyer is a scenario the Shimakaze should avoid at all costs. Even more than most DDs its survival is reliant on not getting spotted in the first place.
    • Japanese destroyers in general are sometimes called "Submarines" because they're the stealthiest destroyers in the game and almost always have the ability to launch their torpedoes from outside detection range, leading to jokes that they're actually submerged.
  • The Tier VII premium American destroyer Sims has two torpedo options that are both notoriously bad, with the more popular choice (solely because they have enough range to be fired from stealth instead of getting suicidally close to a target; they have have no other redeeming value), the 9.2km range , being nicknamed "water mines". This is on account of their incredibly slow speed of 49 knots making them unlikely to hit anyone other than the most oblivious enemies. The joke is that they're actually just riding the waves in the direction they're launched rather than being propelled. Since then two other ships have gotten their own "water mines", the Tier IX premium American destroyer Black (13.7km, 43 knots) and the Tier VI premium Italian cruiser Duca d'Aosta (12km, 51 knots). Black's torpedoes are known as "nuclear water mines" because of their huge maximum damage of 21,600, which exceeds even most Japanese torpedoes despite being physically smaller (533mm diameter compared to 610mm).
• One of the most common insulting nicknames is "baBBy", which usually refers to a stereotype of battleship players that always try to fight from the maximum range of their guns to the point of constantly being against the map boundaries (commonly known as "bluelining") and whine about torpedoes while doing "everything they could" about them^note And by that, we mean they either take no action or take action far too late when the torpedo threat was spotted far in advance. In particular, such players never pick up on clues that destroyer is nearby, and never clue in to the idea that torpedoes can be fired from outside a ship's detection range (if a battleship detects a Japanese or German destroyer at any tier, or an American destroyer from Tier VII and above, on its own, rather than by having a teammate spot it for them, that destroyer almost certainly has already fired torpedoes at the battleship)..
  • The term baDDies also comes up now and again. It mostly refers to scrub destroyer players who complain about all the "nerfs" to destroyers (which are actually mostly buffs to other ships). Its especially used by battleship players against destroyer captains who accuse them of cheating or daring to fight back against a destroyer chasing them. Especially if they accuse the battleship player of "cheating" or "hacking" for because they used WASD to dodge torpedoes. See "WASD hack" below.
  • Battleship players who constantly hide behind islands and prioritize avoiding damage to themselves over causing damage to the enemy or supporting the rest of their team in any way (a form of passive play that unfortunately gets more common at higher tiers) are known as "Battlesheep".
  • Destroyer captains who focus on getting torpedo kills rather than spotting, capping, or eliminating enemy D Ds are often called torpedophiles.
  • Cruiser captains complaining about how hard it is for cruisers in the game in this day and age are occasionally called luisers.
  • While the term "Destroyer Mafia" has always been used to describe DD mains on the forums, After the 8.0 CV rework and subsequent backlash it started to be used as an insult. Destroyer Mafiosos are now defined as Scrub players who lobby on reddit in the forums to nerf anything that can be used to counter DDs.
    • After the CV rework the "CV Mafia" phrase came into fashion, in use by non-CV players discussing the never ending attempts by CV players to spam the forums with pro-CV & anti-CV Nerf threads.
• Because smaller ships tend to use High Explosive on Battleships, they are often on fire, leading to them being called BBQs.
• Destroyers are occasionally called pedophile magnets, underage boats, or loliboats, due to KanColle typically portraying destroyers as primary/middle school girls. Torpedoes are also nicknamed pedo tubes, which can be accompanied by Pedobear pictures.
• Team Killers, or more specifically, the way the game ID's them, are nicknamed "Cancer Awareness" due to the game marking their name, and ship ID in bright pink colors, and the view from their teammates that such players are cancerous to their team and the game. Since the majority of teamkilling in World of Warships is a result of negligence rather than intentional griefing, be especially worried if the pink player is driving a ship armed with torpedoes. Torpedoes fired without regard for whether a friendly could cross their path cause the lion's share of team damage.
• Scrub players in chat are almost always described as "Salty", especially on forum posts regarding said players. ^note  The term "salty" itself is nothing new. The reason it deserves mention here is the pun value, as well as the fact that the term makes frequent appearances in the forums.
• Seal Clubbers for experienced players who inflate their win rates and farm achievements by playing at lower tier to beat up on the newbies. Especially when plugging a 15+ point captain into a Tier III or IV ship, or simply using a Carrier regardless of Captain points, because of how overpowered they are at that tier. Having 14+ points is enough to unlock multiple 4 point skills, that are gamechangers against players who don't have them.
  • By extension new players are often called seals rather than noobs. This is especially common among players who use noob as an insult^note The idea is that "noob" is more a state of mind than just the status of being new to the game. If a player has played many thousands of battles and unlocked Tier X ships, yet stubbornly refuses to learn anything and still makes all the same mistakes they did when first starting out, they're still a noob despite having played the game quite a bit. and want a word for actual new players rather than players who play like they are.
• "WASD Hack" for actually trying to maneuver your ship. So named because those are the keys used to maneuver your ship in the game's default control setting. Used to generally counter the claim of other players accusing you of hacking when you dodge most of their shots/torpedoes. Also used to make fun of bad players who only sailed in straight lines. Especially battleship drivers, whose slow speed and usually awful turning circles and rudder shift give a much smaller margin of error for torpedo dodging (in many cases no margin of error)...and thus punish the player more for having already been sailing in a straight line prior to detecting the torps. It's often joked that bad BB players only know about the W (forward) and S (reverse) keys. Especially the latter, since it's what can be used to reverse back to the map border at the start of the battle.
• Torpedo dodging itself has earned the nickname "Torpedobeats" thanks to videos made by SEA server player Yuro, showing how torpedoes can be dodged even by battleships. All of the aforementioned with an eponymous Eurobeat song playing in the background, further driving home the fact that the player has Initial D-tier ship drifting skills (this guy drifted a Großer Kurfürst of all things to dodge multiple spreads of torpedoes).
• "Fun and Engaging Game Mechanics" for the much-reviled detonation mechanic.
• "Bong cruisers" for the British light cruisers, in part because British people on the internet are known as "britbongs" and the UK by extension has the nickname "Bongistan", and also because they all smoke (i.e. they have smokescreens), formerly almost the exclusive domain of destroyers.^note Iwaki Alpha, Mikhail Kutuzov, the notoriously OP Smolensk, Kitakami (planned) and the formerly (before years worth of powercreep and some indirect nerfs killed it) notoriously OP Flint are the only non-British cruisers with smoke.
  • The tactic of multiple ships camping in an area by laying down new smoke screen on top of the old as the old dissipate is called "hotboxing". It's a lot of shipping in the same post code.
• Light cruisers with limited armament and thin armor are known as "destroyers with citadels" because their armor actually makes them less survivable than destroyers. It's not enough to stop much, and unlike a DD they can take citadel penetrations. Examples include the Tier IV Japanese premium Yubari, the Tier V British Emerald and the ultra-rare Tier IV Japanese tester reward Iwaki Alpha. Note that each of those ships plays differently from the others, with Iwaki Alpha being the only one that shares all the major strengths of destroyers.
  • The belt armor of such cruisers is sometimes called "AP fuse arming plate", since it's too weak to actually stop AP shells from penetrating, but is thick enough to arm the shells and cause them to detonate inside the ship (causing 33% of the shell's maximum damage, or 100% in the case of citadel hits) instead of overpentrating (which causes only 10% damage). They're oft regarded as floating citadels.
• As an aircraft carrier, the tactic of following up on a successful torpedo bombing run (if said torpedoes cause flooding on the target) with a delayed HE dive bombing attack, is known as the Wumbo Combo. This essentially forces the victim to burn their damage control to stop the flooding and leaves them open to being set on fire by the dive bombers that they can't extinguish.
• The act of an aircraft carrier attempting to destroy their counterpart on the enemy team is known as carrier-sniping. The specifics behind it depend on whether one is referring to the original RTS gameplay, or the post-rework gameplay.
  • Pre-rework: In this context, carrier-sniping refers to launching an Alpha Strike with all available attack squadrons against the opposing carrier. This was a high-risk tactic with relatively low odds of success, but when it did work it often decided the outcome of a battle in the opening minutes.
  • Post-rework: Since players can only ever control one squadron at a time, the pre-rework Alpha Strike tactic has been made impossible. In this context, carrier-sniping refers to a tactic in which a division consisting of a Tier VIII carrier (either the Graf Zeppelin, Shoukaku or the Enterprise, which have very fast planes) using one of its squadrons to spot their enemy counterpart, followed by their division mates in Tier IX battleships (preferably the Musashi, which has the guns to overmatch the deck of any CV within their division mate's matchmaking spread, except for those with an armored deck, as well as the shortest-cooldown and longest-active spotter aircraft to give it the range it needs to shoot at the enemy carrier with impunity) raining fire on it until the enemy carrier is either sunk or is deemed infeasible as suggested by Yuro, or by deploying torpedo bombers from Hakuryu with Squadron Consumables Modification upgrade if you choose to go solo (as the in-flight repair has longer action time and better heal, Hakuryu's torpedo bomber squadrons can survive a fighter attack to continue dealing damage to enemy carriers with her high-damage aviation torpedoes), credit to Asia Server Community Contributor Serazahar.
• The "Manual Fire Control for Secondary Armament" captain skill (which reduces the dispersion of secondary batteries, quite dramatically for Tier VII and higher ships, but makes secondaries completely inactive against all targets except the one you manually designate) is known as "Manly Secondaries". Because getting right up in the enemy's face to brawl with secondaries is the "manly" way to play.
• The former "Expert Marksman" captain skill (which contrary to what the name implies does not do anything to improve accuracy but instead makes the turrets rotate faster) is nicknamed "WD-40" since spraying down the turret rings with the stuff is the only explanation for how the skill could possibly work.
  • The developers may have lampshaded this as a skill rework dropped in 2021 renamed it to "Grease the Gears."
• The Engine Boost consumable was always nicknamed "speed boost", but thanks to a mispronunciation by YouTube community contributor Flamu it became "Spood Beest". Also "Engine Boosto" from the Japanese announcer.
• The Ocean Soul camo is also known as Shimapan camo due to the striping resembling the socks worn by the Kantai Collection version of Shimakaze. See Shimakaze's entry under IJN below.
• High tier US Navy cruisers and battleships carry the famed "superheavy" Armor Piercing shells for their main battery. In game, this means that they have much better penetration angles than everyone else and also do very high amounts of damage, to the point where "fat American Piercing shells" have become a meme.
• AP bombs are often simply called "nerfs" since they are perceived as being the counter the battleships (German Battleships in particular) that the game has long needed.
• HMAS Perth has lent her name to her weird unique smoke screen (has very long activation time mixed with very short lasting puffs of smoke in effect giving her the ability to have a slow moving smoke screen). Every time that consumable is discussed in reference to other ships or theoretical ship design (the Pan-Asia premium cruiser Huanghe being the first non-Perth ship to actually receive it), its always referred to as the "Perth smoke screen."
• Articles on the official North American World of Warships website frequently have puns in their URLs, leading to the webmaster being nicknamed "URL Guy". Then he changed his username to match the nickname.
• Wargaming's roster of premium ships that are too powerful to sell again is frequently referred to as the naughty list. It becomes a double nickname since the only way you can generally get them now is in the special (and expensive) Santa's lootbox packs.
• The Repair Party consumable as is almost universally referred to as "heal", because it functions by restoring some of a ship's HP. The special version of Repair Party on (so far) the British cruisers Edinburgh, Neptune and Minotaur, British battleships Nelson, Lion and Conqueror and Pan-America cruiser Nueve de Julio has spawned a bunch of nicknames due to being so much stronger than the regular heal. The most basic are "super-heal" and "zombie heal".^note The latter referencing its ability to make a ship practically rise from the dead; three charges of it are enough for a ship to heal back more than its own maximum HP. It also gets referred to as a 3D printer or a "print new ship" button, and as Flex Seal or Flex Tape.
• "Pulling a Notser," named after a North American community contributor, is shorthand for "wasn't paying attention and ran their ship aground." Notser is well known for running into islands while sailing destroyers. A "tactical beaching," a strategy which has the player deliberately run aground as a way to slam on the brakes, mostly used to avoid torpedoes, is also sometimes called a tactical Notser.
• Guns with very high muzzle velocity and flat shell trajectory are referred to as railguns, originating as a description for Zao's guns (see above) but expanded to include other ships with such gunnery traits. There is no exactly defined threshold for being considered a "railgun". While muzzle velocities of 900m/s and above will generally fit the bill, there's also the factor of how well the shells retain their velocity, which is based on hidden stats and thus the average player will have to actually play a ship to find out whether the guns are truly railguns.
• "Potato Captain / Potato Team" is the general term for an incompetent player or team that contains several incompetent players who make bad decisions that can end up causing a heavy disadvantage or even throwing the match to the opposing fleet. Bad decisions can vary from dying too early to going someplace where they end up being ineffectual for a good part of the battle, reinforcing the perception that they're dumber than a potato and thus waiting to be farmed.
  • Potato Captains are famed for their ability to "Yolo Suicide". This usually means rushing into caps in the first few minutes of the game, or trying to rush a flank, and getting immediately "deleted" by the entire enemy team in front of them. DD's with bad concealment or those ignorant of radar are the common example of this, but it can be seen in every class from Light Cruisers to Battleships with speed boosts, up to Carriers, if the carrier player accidentally sets their ship to move forward at the start of a battle, or deliberately, if they are doing so in the German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, which has a very powerful secondary armament. In the Ranked game modes, a ship doing this will have massively hurt their team's chances of winning.
  • "Yolo" on it's own, is also a term for rushing your ship straight towards another, usually bigger ship, with the intention of tanking the damage or simply accepting you'll die and trying to trade for the enemy ship. Most often this is done in order to ram, or to suddenly swerve to the side at point blank range to launch a salvo of unavoidable torpedoes at the enemy.
• Stealth Tax. This is a term originating from versions prior to 0.6.3, where ships would get an increase to their base surface and air detection radii when firing their main guns that was based on the caliber of said guns^note [caliber in mm] x 30 meters for visibility from ships, [caliber in mm] x 20 meters for visibility from airplanes, instead of having said radius be bumped straight up to the ship's current maximum gun range at the time the shot was fired post 0.6.3. Specifically, this term refers to instances where ships get a detection bloom that's in excess of what a ship with the same caliber guns would normally get, as a method of eliminating or at least reducing the capability for the affected ship to perform "Open-Water stealth fire"^note  A term referring to a ship that has some sort of buffer between its surface detection after firing its guns, and its maximum gun range, thus allowing a ship to engage targets, while in open water without any form of concealment, without being spotted in return if it's firing at ships within that buffer range, so long as nothing sails into the post-fire detection range. Examples of this would be the ENTIRE Russian/Soviet and German destroyer lines, including any premium destroyers that existed prior to 0.6.3, as well as the premium Anshan on the Pan-Asian tree, with the Gremyaschy being the sole exception. Taking the Russians for examples, the post-fire surface detection bloom was set to 5.4 km for all the destroyers, regardless of gun caliber, as a result of a "Stealth Tax" of 1.5 km for the 130mm-armed ships, and 2.4 km for the 102mm-armed ships^note To wit, the "tax" was almost 80% of the caliber's normal bloom value!. The figure of 5.4 km itself was greatly in excess of the normal bloom values of either caliber, which would normally be 3.9 and 3.06 km respectively. Soviet cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov was stealth-taxed in a similar manner because of its 19.1 km gun range. The Stealth Tax applied to the German destroyers actually signaled to the community that Wargaming was looking to stamp out open water stealth-fire for good, which it later did in 0.6.3. with the measure previously stated.
• After the CV rework and the 8.01 hotfix massively ramping up AA, skilled carriers began to "Cold Drop" as a standard procedure. Here a CV dumps one or more rounds of ordinance so that planes likely to be killed before they attacked anyway would return to the carrier and the Cv had them for future use.
  • A variant of the Cold Drop emerged in 8.02 that's specifically used for strikes against certain AA-heavy ships, called the "Slingshot Drop". Here, a cold drop is performed just as the squad enters the maximum range of the target's AA guns, in order to take advantage of two different plane mechanics. First, the remaining aircraft in the squadron gets a brief boost of speed after a drop. Second, the squad is IMMUNE to any and all forms of AA fire for a short period of time that starts the moment ordinance is released, and ends a few seconds after the player gains control of the remaining aircraft, allowing the squad to quickly cover a good portion of the remaining distance to the target and effectively ignoring the most damaging aspects of AA fire (flak bursts).
• The "Symbols of France" added in update 8.6 have been called French flakes because the previous system like that revolved around snowflakes.
• Ships like the Nelson, Dunkerque, Richelieu, Lenin, Borodino, Druid and Izumo which have all their main guns mounted forward of the superstructure can be collectively referred to as "Claymores". This is a reference to the M18A1 Claymore directional land mine, which helpfully has instructions printed on one side that direct the user to position the mine's "Front Toward Enemy".
• Wargaming was often called as "Wargambling" due to the presence of random bundles with notoriously lower chance to obtain the grand prize for doubloons similar to gambling, implying that's the easiest source of income for Wargaming as players spend money for these bundles.
• "Icebreaker bow" is a nickname for the armor configuration that some ships have, namely it is an extended, thicker armor belt protecting the bow of a ship. It is not used for breaking ice in any way, its function is to help said ships to "nose tank" better as it is thick enough, if angled properly, to prevent most similar tiered ship AP shells from penetrating the bow, or in the worst case even penetrating the citadel from the front.

US Navy (USA)

Destroyers

• Clemson: Clubson^note Clemson is a favorite of seal-clubbers.
• Nicholas: Little Nicky
• Sims: The hero of Dunkirk^note Also a bit of an ironic nickname since neither the Sims or any of the other members of the USN were at the evacuation of Dunkirk. However Sims utterly breaks the Operation Dynamo event with its unprecedented Anti Air for a DD of its tier.
• Farragut: Fartybutt, Ferret, Ferret Gut.

Light Cruisers

• St. Louis: Louie, Louisville Slugger^note Combines a very high rate of fire from its numerous 6-inch guns with an armor design that makes it hard to get citadel hits, resulting in a ship that can both dish out and soak up a thrashing. While not as good as it was during the beta test, a St. Louis is still a major threat even to battleships at its tier., The Pirate
• Phoenix: Zippo^note The C-Hull Phoenix extremely high rate of fire allows it to start fires rapidly with HE ammunition, Squeenix
• Omaha: Omahaha or Obama
• Atlanta: Arsonist, Burninator^note has 16 rapid-firing 5-inch guns that are really good at causing fires, Tsu ^note  The enemy Tsu-class Light Cruiser in KanColle is pretty much an Atlanta with a fictional seaplane catapult., ATL
• Helena: Machine Gun Ship (Another real nickname)^note Given by Tokyo Rose no less! And boy is it appropriate with fifteen rapid fire main battery guns
• Cleveland: Cheatland, Cleaver ^note  In the original tech tree, thanks to being an advanced WWII-era design instead of a pre-war or treaty-restricted design like the Omaha before it and Pensacola after it, this Light Cruiser basically outperformed most of its competition at its tier. Cleveland was later re-tiered to Tier 8 to coincide with the release of the US Heavy Cruiser line, and is still powerful but no longer overpowered. , Cleve
• Worcester: Rooster^note  its name is actually pronounced closer to like rooster with a W than how its spelled Wooster ^note  technically this is the correct pronunciation of the ship. Its also easier to write than "Worcester", so people do it., Whorechaser^note  This light cruiser's job is to kill D Ds. And it performs that job quite well.
• Charleston: St. Blueis^note It's a premium St. Louis with a blue paintjob.

Heavy Cruisers

• Pensacola: PepsiCola ^note  Stems partly from it's pitiful armor, often equaled to a soda can., Painsacola^note Because it's just painful to play. The combination of the thin armor, and large citadel, mean that the ship takes large amounts of damage from penetrating hits., P-cola^note Real life nickname for the city of Pensacola, Penancecola ^note  Pensacola edges into Difficult, but Awesome territory, and is seen as "penance" for the endless grief caused by the captain when he/she was still in the prior Game-Breaker Cleveland, Brawlacola ^note  For some unknown reason, Pensacola has some of the most accurate secondary guns in the game. Although her weak armor often makes this suicidal, she is fast and manueverable and you can get in close and brawl successfully, particularly against lightly armored destroyers and light cruisers. This works especially well against those who are familiar with the Pensacola's reputation for weakness. .
• Indianapolis: Sharkbait^note When she sank on July 30,1945, most of the USS Indianapolis crew who weren't killed in the initial torpedo attack by Japanese Submarine I-58 were attacked by sharks, Indy.
• New Orleans: NO, Nawlins.
• Baltimore: Baltimoist, Baltiless, Baltimoar
• Des Moines: Des Memes^note Her autoloading 8" (203mm) guns have the highest rate of fire of any guns at that caliber in the game, giving her an absurd and entertaining amount of firepower, particularly up close where the shell's long time of flight is not an issue. That and she has radar, so there's nowhere to hide.

Large Cruisers

• Alaska: 'Laska, Lolaska.
• Puerto Rico: Pay to Rico ^note A Tier X premium ship that could, in theory, be obtained for free... If you were a good player and could sink considerable hours into the game - about 45 hours in the span of a few days. Or you could just drop cash on it and get it for much less effort.

Battleships: In addition to the below, US Battleships are also refered to by their 2-letter postal code

• Arkansas Beta: The Ark, Arky Beta
• Texas: The Mighty T, the Old Statesman, the Last Dreadnought (all three real nicknames)^note Although the later two were given to Texas after she became a museum ship...because she is the last remaining dreadnought in the world..
• New Mexico: "The Queen" (and yet another real nickname), Nex^note New mEXico, Mex
• Colorado: Lolorado, Craporado ^note For a long time had all around sub par performance combined with a very long grind to fully upgrade it. Memetic Mutation held that "the team with the most Colorados loses." Even after buffs it still has both terrible range and speed, so despite being more enjoyable now the name has stuck., Smolorado ^note Her KanColle counterpart portrays her as shorter than her other Big 7 members (also in-fact that the Colorado-class Battleships were shorter(624 feet 3 inches (190.27 m)) compared to the Nelson-class and Nagato-class battleships)
• Alabama: The Lucky A (its real nickname), Bama, Black Betty ^note  bambalam
• Georgia: Peachbote ^note  due to the reference that the State of Georgia was known as the peach state
• Minnesota: Minneslowta ^note Minnesota's 22-knot Standard-derived design makes her by far the slowest Tier IX battleship, Minnesnowta ^note A nickname of the state after which the ship is named.
• Massachusetts: Mass Hole, Memesechussets^note Massachusetts is unique among US Navy battleships in having been set up for set up for brawling at close range, instead of striking from medium range and re-positioning like one might in a North Carolina or Iowa. In particular, the rate of fire, range, and accuracy of her secondary guns have been buffed significantly, leading to entertaining moments where a destroyer or other lightly armored opponent thinks they are about to get an easy close-range torpedo kill and instead gets melted by an endless barrage of laser-accurate 5" gun fire.
• Iowa: The Big Stick (yet another real nickname), Burger-boat^note she's the token American battleship in KanColle, Museum^note  All four of the Iowa-class battleships are museum ships in different parts of the US, Manifest Breastiny^note her large displacement in KanColle is rendered as huge breasts
• Missouri: Mighty Mo, Big Mo (again, her real nicknames), "Freemium"^note The Missouri is a premium version of the Iowa-class. The quotes is because it technically costs no real money, but costs free experience.... only it costs 750,000 Free XP. If one were to pay real money to convert enough ship XP into Free XP to purchase the Missouri, it'd cost around $120. Technically making Missouri the most expensive premium ship in the game. And very, very few players have enough Free XP already on hand to purchase Missouri without having to convert ship XP via cash. (Missouri is no longer purchasable for FXP, but returned in the Armory for doubloons as Wargaming had nerfed her credit income mechanism), Mo Money^note As the first Tier IX premium, Missouri earns by far the most credits of any ship. And also is the most expensive ship in the game in terms of real money to buy, for the vast majority of players who don't have very much Free XP on hand., Trump Wagon ^note  Again in reference to its money and exp earning potential, albeit a controversial title given politics. This one was coined by Fandom VIP Yuro of "torpedobeats" fame., Misery ^note  Her relatively new waterline citadel helps resist crossfire, and she has radar.
• Montana: Monty, Hannah
• North Carolina: Showboat (another real nickname), Nor Car
• West Virginia 1941: Country Roads ^note From John Denver's famous song "Take Me Home, Country Roads" about West Virginia
• Ohio: Mega Georgia

Aircraft Carriers

• Enterprise: The Big E,^note The Nickname of the nuclear powered carrier that replaced CV-6 The Grey Ghost^note A real nickname, from being reported sunk multiple times by Tokyo Rose. Extra appropriate since it is no longer available for purchase in-game
• Lexington: Lady Lex (also its real nickname), Saracchi ^note  The In-Series Nickname for Saratoga in KanColle. Lexington in World of Warships is actually modeled after Saratoga.
• Saipan: Skypan, The Little Carrier That Could ^note  Saipan is a light carrier where all other tier sevens are main fleet carriers and there is a massive jump in the capability between the former and the latter due to enhanced hanger size. Saipan, however, carries tier 9 aircraft while the carrier itself sits at tier 7, allowing Saipan to punch above her weight class.
• Midway: Skillway^note Originated in the Closed Beta Test when aircraft carriers in general and Midway in particular were ridiculous Game Breakers, able to delete virtually any ship with ease. The nickname came back with a vengeance after Update 0.6.14, which for the first time since the game's official release gave Midway back its ability to launch 2 torpedo bomber squadrons at once (thus having the same 12 torpedo bombers in the air as its Japanese counterpart Hakuyryu, though this buff came at the price of individually slower and more fragile bombers) along with getting the option of AP bombs for its dive bombers. Combined with the massive hangar capacity of 136, Midway never has to worry about losing so many planes that it cannot contribute effectively anymore. The resulting carrier was leaps and bounds ahead of the Hakuryu and was considered even more broken now than it was in the Closed Beta Test. Wargaming nerfed the Midway by reducing hangar capacity from 136 to 96, in part because the Hakuryu had trouble keeping up.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: FDR, Mr. President^note She was one of the Midway-class CV to be named after President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Steel Midway^note With planes with the largest healthpool but slowest among all CV squardons, FDR can be considered broken as even a cruiser with fully-specialized AA capabilities cause minimal effects towards her squardons

Kriegsmarine (Germany)

Destroyers

• Ernst Gaede: Little Cruiser^note  It can mount 150mm (6inch) light cruiser guns as its main armament leading to some surprised opponents.
• Elbing: Elbonk ^note Thanks to insane AP penetration (comparable to Hindenburg... a HEAVY cruiser(!)) and highly improved dispersion, Elbing can citadel enemy cruisers and some aircraft carriers both comfortably and consistently at long ranges.

Cruisers

• Admiral Hipper: Admiral Hipster, Admirable Hipster, Pringles^note After its more famous sister the Prinz Eugen, which is alternatively anglicized "Pinz Ingles". The addition of Prinz Eugen to the game hasn't deterred this., Turtlebaka^note  Coined by Yuro, the name is a portmanteau of the Kreigsmarine's trademark Turtleback armour configuration, and the Japanese word Baka, as used regularly by Admiral Hipper's representation in Azur Lane.
• Prinz Eugen: Pringles, Pudding^note KanColle nickname, based on the fact that the Japanese pronounciation of Priz can also refer to pudding, Prinz Chiyo, Paypal Hipper^note Has the exact same or inferior stats compared its tech tree counterpart with the only difference being premium benefits., Fat Hipper/Chubby Little Sister^note Prinz Eugen's most easily noticeable stat difference from Admiral Hipper is having more HP. Since HP is derived from tonnage, that means Eugen is heavier than Hipper and therefore "fat", while IRL, Admiral Hipper was the 'oldest' of her class of ships, hence Prinz Eugen being the 'little sister'., Eugene
• Admiral Graf Spee/HSF Graf Spee: Pocket battleship/Panzerschiff ^note A real life nickname for the type of ship she was, Scharnhorst Jr.^note features same gun and turrets as Scharnnhorst but features one less turret.
• Roon: Loon^note Although powerful, it has a bizarre primary and secondary battery arrangement seen on no other cruisers.
• Hindenburg: Battleship Hindenburg^note The ship has always a reputation for durability and hard hitting AP, but she was eventually given an extra heal making the name more apt
• Clausewitz: Bigdenburg ^note Pretty much everything about Clausewitz and Hindenburg is more or less the same, except slightly bigger (or more) on the supership.

Battlecruisers

• Scharnhorst: Super heavy cruiser, armored cruiser^note Her handling and low caliber guns will make her feel more at home in the hands of cruiser enthusiast. The later name was actually a class of naval vessel, which Scharnhorst most certainly isn't a member of., Shiny Horse, Scharny
• Gneisenau: Nice Now, Gneiss
• Zieten: Starship/t ^note Despite being based on an actual design study, the Zieten sticks out like a sore thumb in the German battlecruiser tech-tree line because of its sci-fi-looking superstructure which looks more at home in a space opera than a WWII naval combat game.

Battleships

• König Albert: Fat Albert, lil Konig, Imperator Nikolai II ^note The Imperator Nikolai I is often perceived as a huge game breaker, even by Wargaming (who refuse to ever sell Nikolai again because it's too strong). The Konig Albert is also a low tier game-breaker premium battleship, almost as strong at Tier III as Nikolai is at Tier IV, leading people to dub it Imperator Nikolai's successor. Eventually König Albert was also added to the banlist (as in, "banned from being ever sold again") like the Nikolai making the comparison even more apt.
• Kaiser: Von Kaiser
• Tirpitz: Torpitz ^note It gets torpedoes in-game unlike most battleships because it mounts them on deck in trainable launchers. Other battleships had fixed, submerged torpedo tubes, making their torpedoes impossible to implement in-game. And those fixed tubes were almost always removed during pre-WW2 refits, because they were fairly useless on account of inability to be properly aimed. Plus, adding more belt armour and/or anti-torpedo bulges covered up the tubes anyway. Since its release four other battleships (namely Kii, Mutsu, Scharnhorst, and Gneisenau, with Gneisenau holding the distinction of being the only tech tree battleship with torpedoes) have been released with torpedoes, so it's not quite as unique, but torpedoes on a battleship are still rare., Löwe^note As the premium Tier 8 German battleship it is the World of Warships counterpart to the premium Tier 8 Löwe heavy tank in World of Tanks - and when World of Warships tore off its Open Beta tag and was officially released, high tier games were flooded by new players at the helm of the Tirpitz, a situation very similar to that encountered earlier in World of Tanks when high tier games were flooded by wholly inexperienced Löwe drivers., Derpitz^note Much like the Löwe nickname, based on the number of new players buying one just as they start playing the game. Also, in World of Tanks a "derp gun" is one that has amazing damage potential but which is only effective at short range. In World of Warships the torpedoes on Tirpitz are similar: you have to get well inside detection range to use them but each one deals damage equivalent to a citadel penetration.
• Bismarck: Poor Man's Tirpitz, Biscuits, Bisko, Bissy, Bissotwo
• Friedrich der Große: (Fat) Freddy/Freddie, Old Fritz ^note The real life nickname of the ship's namesake, Frederick the Great. ,
• Pommern: Bigpitz ^note When originally released for C Cs to review, it was quickly latched onto how it was essentially a slightly enlarged Tirpitz with triple gun turrets instead of twins.
• Großer Kurfürst: Curry Wurst/Kurrywurst^note How The Mighty Jingles pronounces this ship earlier on. Later on in his World of Warships videos he can pronounce it correctly, rendering the name redundant, Dank Guns^note  Its guns are 420mm wide, Mobile Island ^note She was the biggest ship in the game by a fair distance when released (now surpassed by Hannover and the other super-battleships) and has the handling you'd expect with that title
• Mecklenburg: Kriegsburger/German burger (& words to that effect) ^note Due to the name, smaller than average caliber of the main battery for the tier, speed, four-gun turrets and currency of purchase (steel), comparisons with Bourgogne were (and remain) very common upon release and among reviewers.

Aircraft Carriers

• Graf Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin, Gaffe Zeppelin^note Objectively the worst tier 8 carrier at release due to its complete lack of torp bombers, underwhelming fighters, and completely inaccurate AP bombs. The general consensus is that it was a huge mistake on Wargaming's part to release it when they did and a mistake to buy it. It got to the point that Wargaming voluntarily pulled back the carrier for rework, Nein Seconds^note At one point in testing her Stuka dive bombers had a delay of 9 seconds from committing to an attack to the bombs actually hitting the target...or at least, the bit of water where the target was meant to have been. Cue the Hitler rant videos...
• Weser: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee^note her very tall bridge came out such jokes
• Manfred von Richthofen: The Red Baron, Manfred Mann.

大日本帝國海軍 (Japan)

Destroyers

• Minekaze: Nerf-bait^note Minekaze was, hands down, the best destroyer in the game on a tier-for-tier basis when it launched. It has taken multiple rounds of nerfing and is now considered barely usable
• Kamikaze/Kamikaze R/Fujin: Green, Blue and Red^note Three identical premium destroyers whose only difference is the color of their camo. Kamikaze R was a reward ship with a blue and white "ocean wave" pattern camo, Fujin a premium that's sold for Halloween with a red, yellow and black camo with Jack-o-lantern style teeth on the bow, and the rarely-sold regular Kamikaze has a more realistic 3-tone green camo. Since everything else about them is identical, they can be referred to by the dominant color of their camo schemes. They're like a Sentai team of Japanese destroyers.
• Mutsuki: Mutsucky^note The Mutsuki was always a letdown after Minekaze, and still feels weak after the rebuild of Japanese Destroyers despite being lowered from Tier VI to V without any significant nerfs.
• Fubuki: Bucky, Buki, Fubuki-chan^note Fubuki is the star of the Kancolle anime, and is called that by everyone in the show
• Akizuki: Ducky^note Yet another carryover from KanColle. An alternate romanization for Akizuki is "Akiduki", with the second half being deliberately mispronounced as "Ducky". The Good One ^note  Shes known as this among critics of the Japnese DD lines normal torpedo focused play style. Akizuki sacrifices torpedo armament but receives very good guns in return, endearing her to gunboat enthusiasts.
• Kitakaze: Fast Akizuki^note Aside from getting t9 upgrades and two more torps in its single launcher, Kitakaze is essentially a faster and more nimble Akizuki., Super Ducky.
• Akatsuki: Elephant^note her KanColle counterpart aspires to be an elegant lady, but due to poor English she slurs that word into "elephant", Nanodesu/Nanodeath^note References to various voice lines from the Akatsuki class sisters in KanColle
• Shiratsuyu: Ichiban-chan^Note Refers to the nameship's obsession in the same game to be referred to as Number one
• Yuudachi: Poi^NoteIn Reference to the Kancolle version of Yuudachi and her infamous Verbal Tic. Previously applied to Shiratsuyu, the first ship of the same class, prior to Yuudachi's release as a Tier-7 Premium., Yudashit, Paypal Shiratsuyu^Note She was just a copy of Shiratsuyu but sold as premium ship
• AL Yukikaze: Weeb Kagero^note Most Azur Lane players exposed to World of Warships purchased her as their first premium ship
• Shimakaze: Zekamashi, Slutmakaze^note her KanColle counterpart wears skimpy clothing and is the biggest target of Rule 34 out of the Kancolle roster, Skillkaze^note Being able to create a wall of torpedoes a kilometer wide from outside detection range is sarcastically referred to as "skill" by people who accuse the ship of being overpowered, especially before those torpedoes got a major nerf in their range., Trash ^note  Mostly due to the hate regarding her Kantai Collection counterpart, compounded by the Shimakaze in WOWs being statistically the worst Tier X Destroyer.
• Harugumo: "Destroyer", Ultra destroyer, Mega Ducky.
• Asashio: Ashi
• Hayate: Combat Butler
• Japanese Destroyers have guns?^note The general consensus is that Japanese Destroyer Guns were underperforming to the point that they might as well have Torpedo Launchers as their ONLY armament. The introduction of the IJN Gunboat line via the Akizuki, Kitikaze and Harugumo with their super-high fire rate 10cm guns has decreased this to some extent.

Cruisers

• Iwaki Alpha (gift to the original alpha testers): Death Pickle^note She was the first, and for a long period afterwards only, ship in the game with a camouflage pattern.
• Kitakami: KTKM, Kitkat, Kitti-Kat
• Chikuma: Skooma, Cheap Skooma
• Tenryu: Eleven-ryu^note A pun on her name and the fact that 'eleven' comes after 'ten'.
• Yubari: Melon^note Yubari is named after the Yubari River in Hokkaido, which flows near the town Yubari, where the Yubari Melon is cultivated.
• Furutaka: Furry Taco, Furious Taco^note Both nicknames come simply from sounding vaguely similar to her real name, but "Furious Taco" came about after Furutaka got buffed from the worst Tier V cruiser to being one of the best.
• ARP Takao: Pauper's Atago^note The first ARP ship to be based of a premium, and appears to players not using the ARP port as an Atago without paint, Tsundere Heavy cruiser^note Her In-Series Nickname in Arpeggio of Blue Steel, for being a classic Type-A Tsundere, Derp Atago, Löwe of the Sea ^note Again its the highest tier ARP ship so far. Since it can be earned by people who have never played at tier 8 and (when it was first released) haven't had time to familiarize themselves with the play-style. While this is can be true of the regular Atago, Takao has been in the game for a shorter period and doesn't have a paywall to deter anyone from getting it.
• Atago: Pan-paka-pan!^note In reference to her catchphrase in KanColle
• Mogami: Mogamin
• Zao: Railgun^note Zao's shell has one of the highest velocities in the game. The sheer speed and accuracy of the gun made players say that the Zao is equipped with a 203mm railgun.

Battleships

• Ishizuchi: Zucchini, Itchy Zucchini
• Mikasa: Mike, Mickey, House^note Bilingual Bonus: Mi Casa
• Fuso: Fusou Da, Fukou Da, Fus Ro Dah, Pagoda, Christmas tree^note  The pagoda masts were mockingly called this by the Allies in Real Life
• Nagato: Nagamon, Mutslug^note A KanColle nickname associated to her prior to the introduction of Mutsu, being her sister ship and all; has since been dissociated.
• Mutsu: Mutslug, Mutsnail, Snail^note All of these are KanColle nicknames
• Ashitaka: Ashy Taco, Ashi-Taco^note Both based on Furutaka's well-established nickname, the latter being officially sanctioned by URL Guy., A Shit Taco^note The inevitable variation by those who think Ashitaka is underpowered.
• Izumo: The Jolly Green Giant, Cucumber
• Musashi: Smuggler^note While not a stealthy ship, she was essentially sneaking the Yamato's crazy powerful guns into tier IX., Torp Magnet ^note Referencing her fate (sunk by at least 19 torpedoes), as well as lacking the means to deal with destroyers (even moreso than Yamato on account of worse dispersion and fewer secondary guns) or carriers (since she's based on her pre-AA refit hull, thus lacking in overall anti-air stats).
• Yamato: Hotel ^note  Japanese officers called it "Hotel Yamato" because her premises were very luxurious, going as far as having hairdressing and sewing staff, and also sitting around in port for the better part of the war , Waifu^note Kantai Collection made her a perfect Japanese wife in reference to her name and her luxurious premises LOLpen^note her 46cm guns are infamous for penetrating everything, regardless of armor thickness and angling due to overmatching mechanics working very well with very high caliber guns and somewhat arbitrary bow/aft armor that could result in them being below the 46cm's overmatching threshold, Uchuu Senkan Yamato^note In reference to the Anime series of the same name. Used in full effect notably by YouTube users atsf and The Mighty Jingles in their gameplay montages featuring the Tier-X Battleship, using the 2199 version of the theme song., Yammy

Aircraft Carriers

• Ryujo: RJ
• Shokaku: Shukkake ^note  Dropping lots of messy death on your ship , Shoukek
• Hakuryu: Sky Hammer^note With more squadrons than any other carrier in the game, its torpedo and dive bombers can sink even the mightiest battleships very quickly. Indeed, not even a Des Moines (the best AA cruiser in the game) with its Defensive AA Fire consumable activated is safe from the sheer number of aircraft the Hakuryu can bring to bear. Flying Shimakaze ^note  For a brief time after the 8.0 rework she could deploy planes and drop torps so fast they she could basically recreate the Pre-Nerf Shimakaze's hated "Skill Walls". And in another loadout it could Stealth Torp. Mercifully thus was soon patched but the name stuck.

Royal Navy (UK)

• Print a New Ship! That'll buff out most of the holes, dents, and burns!^note This sums up how RIDICULOUSLY good the British are at repairing their ships during battle because even when they're in critical condition, they fix and patch up the damage so well that a ship that was close to sinking can be brought back to (mostly) mint-condition status.

Destroyers

• Jervis: Lucky Jervis^note Real life nickname coined due to the fact that despite of her long service record spanning five and a half years and 13 battle honours with instances of damage and repairs along the way, not one of her crew was lost to enemy action. Also her modded unique camoflauge in-game shows that the word "Lucky" was scribbled beside her name.
• Daring: Darling

Light Cruisers

• Belfast and Belfast '43: Bellend ^note An insult more common in parts of Britain. It means penis glans, OPfast, Cheatfast, Payfast^note Belfast is a notoriously overpowered premium, and considered "pay to win"., Bellslow^note Its not fast for a ship of its type though it does handle well, Belfap ^note Azur Lane nickname due to her design there being that of sexy Meido
• Edinburgh: Fiji v2.0, Hardcore Fiji^note Is essentially as Fiji but with an improved heal (which isn't very useful on a ship that takes unhealable citadel damage so much) and improved armor (but like British cruisers, still fragile). That said, they do heal more from citadel damage, not that it helps much.
• Neptune: Nep Nep
• Minotaur: Memetaur^note Its rate of fire is memetic and its a popular ship for YouTube replays, His Majesty's Machine Gun, Manotaur^note When referring to a particular configuration that forgoes the concealing smoke for a radar consumable.
• Tiger '59: Mini Memeotaur^note Shares the same gun turrets of Minotaur, but only two.

Heavy Cruisers

• Hawkins: Citadel City

Battleships

• Bellerophon: Not the Dreadnought^note Bellerophon is an improved version of the infinitely more famous HMS Dreadnought. The decision to include her over her predecessor was made for balance reasons but some people were less than pleased (this broke the tradition from the previous battleship lines of including the nation's first dreadnought as their Tier III battleship), and refuse to call it by name., Dread-not
• Iron Duke: Iron Duck
• Warspite: The Grand Old Lady (its real nickname)
• Nelson: Nelsol (another real nickname) ^note From the side she appears to be an oil tanker. British oil tankers of the time all ended with "ol" little Mo. ^note Shes the second "freemium" after Missouri but is both physically smaller and at a lower tier., HMS All Guns Forward ^note Due to the Washington Naval Treaty placing a strict weight limit on battleships, the Nelson's three primary batteries are located ahead of it's bridge, a bizarre design choice shared by it's sister ship, the Rodney, the Lenin (which was never build in real life, existing only on paper as "Project 21"), the Izumo (another paper ship), and the Baije (a fictional Chinese version of Izumo). The unusual layout was a weight-saving measure, creating a more compact citadel and thus needing less weight in steel to properly armor said citadel.
• Hood: His Majesty's Submarine (yet another real nickname)^note The Hood's extremely low profile allowed a lot of water to spill onto the decks and into the living spaces. She had the dampest living conditions of any Royal Navy ship and it was joked that she was a particularly leaky submarine.
• Duke of York: The Third One ^note  she is the third British tier seven premium BB and really doesn't have many distinguishing features from her tech tree counterpart. , Dork, Puke of York, Duke of Yuck ^note  Could seriously dethrone Ashitaka as worst BB in tier seven. She trades one heal and 5 seconds of reload speed for some additional AA and the ability to use hydro. She simply can't dish out damage as quickly as any of the other tier sevens can abuse her., Duke of Pork
• Monarch: Famous and Historical ^note A patently false statement ("The Famous and Historical HMS Monarch") that's been popping up in some of Wargaming's Naval Legends videos as well some videos sponsored by Wargaming, because the in-game "Monarch" is paper ship, essentially a King George V-class battleship armed with 15 inch guns that never was. Also, even among paper ships Monarch's design is pretty obscure. She especially sticks out at tier 8 where all the tech tree battleships were at least laid down if not launched and she bares the distinction of being the only tier 8 BB to not have a Wikipedia page.
• Conqueror: MegaZao^note Another one coined by Flamu, referencing the fact that that with 419mm guns mounted, Conqueror has ridiculously good fire chance. Along with amazing stealth that's better than most Tier X cruisers, it's completely viable to play Conqueror as if it's a Zao and spam HE all day., The Conk, Colonizer^note Technically it should be "Coloniser", but it's mostly Americans rather than actual Brits using this nickname., Zombie^note Its Repair Party consumable is ridiculously strong, with each charge being able to heal up to 40% of the maximum HP. As such, if a Conqueror is given enough time to heal up you essentially have to kill it twice before it actually dies. It's heal, with the Lion and Tier 9/10 Light Cruisers are referred to as "new ship" buttons., Canceror^note For being decried as an allegedly unbalanced ship. Not necessarily the strongest, just un-fun to play against. Also the stereotype of Conqueror players is incompetent and cowardly (doing nothing but spam HE shells from maximum range, probably humping the map border) and thus a cancer to both their team and the enemy team., Conqkek
• Thunderer: Freemium Canceror, King of Broken Battleships^note An even unbalanced ship compared to Conqueror, despite the firing range nerfs, Thunderper^note Due to being ridiculously easy to rack up big damage numbers in by simply flinging high explosive shells everywhere

Aircraft Carriers

• Hermes: Herpes^note Due to the "Fly, Strike, Win!" event, Hermes was many peoples introduction to tier 4 CV gameplay, which is near universally considered to be torture. The jokes about comparing the experience to a certain disease wrote themselves. While Hermes may not be particularly worse than Lagley or Hosho, a lot more people already have one and being forced to grind it.
• Indomitable: Incapable^note Notoriously the weakest of Tier VIII aircraft carriers due to having no torpedo bombers and no AP bombs or rockets either (those being the three types of CV weapons that are effective against well-armored ships), smaller squadrons and longer plane restoration time than her counterparts.
• Malta: The 3D Printer^note One of the weaknesses of post-rework carriers is that if you lose enough planes, you quickly stop being able to fly full attack flights, weakening your overall presence and influence. Not so with the Malta. The Malta will crank out planes faster than anything but dedicated AA screens will be able to dent, along with having some bizarre plane loadouts, such as AP carpet bombers that can annihilate cruisers.

Российский императорский флот & Вое́нно-морско́й флот СССР (Russia)

Destroyers

• Derzki: Berzerki, Derpski, Dare or Derp^note Derived from the "Derp Gun" meme of World of Tanks andWar Thunder (referring to tanks whose huge guns have great damage potential but which can only be effectively used at short range). While its 10 torpedo tubes give great destructive power for a Tier 3 destroyer, the range of a mere 3 km makes it hard to use effectively. Or 4 km after the buff, which makes it still real hard to use effectively. To invoke Meaningful Name, when you're playing this ship, you'll either Dare to Be Badass, or derp really, really hard. Or sometimes both.
• Gremyashchy: Gremmy, Gremlin, Grem Reaper^note Before changes in surface detectability, the Gremyashchy could fire her guns and remain undetected at fairly long range, making it an invisible death machine. And even after open-water stealth fire was removed, Gremmy is still basically a Tier 6 Russian destroyer at Tier 5.
• Smelyi: Smelly^note Announced on December 16 2016 as part of a future second Russian destroyer line that ultimately never happened in the form originally announced. (A second DD line did happen, but with a completely different lineup than originally planned.) Before any information at all about what tier it might be in, this ship was instantly (and inevitably) nicknamed with a deliberate misreading of the Russian name as an English word. For the record, Smelyi is a Project 30bis destroyer (known to NATO as the Skoryy class), essentially a copy of Ognevoi but with increased torpedo armament and upgraded AA.
• Okhotnik: Row Boat^note Its long slim profile makes it look like like a sports rowing boat, Longboat^note It's very low in the water, and despite being a Tier V destroyer its length is equal to the Tier VIII Kiev and the German Tier X Z-52., Viking^note Because it's a longboat., Robotnik^note Coined by Youtuber/Community Contributor Notser., Mega-Derpski^note Basically a giant version of Derzki.
• Tashkent: The Blue Cruiser^note Because she feels more like a cruiser than a destroyer. And famously had a cobalt-blue camo in real life, which is available in-game ., Trashkent, Trash Can, Trash Can't^note By those who are annoyed by the sudden gameplay change from the Kiev., Comrade Medium One^note Tashkent's nickname from a KanColle fan comic.
• Khabarovsk: Khab, The Cruiser Without a Citadel^note Her powerful armament and armor (which no other destroyer has) makes her more equivalent to a light cruiser. Except she's classified as a destroyer and therefore does not have a citadel and never takes full damage., Physically Impossible^note She's tied with Leningrad as the fastest ship in the game, despite having armor that can bounce shots from the YAMATO and a much more powerful armament. Part of the reason why the design was rejected in real life is that the armor would've left no room for engines. (Other, even larger and more cruiser-like versions of the same project were also considered, but would've been slower than the in-game Khab while having the same 50mm belt armor. These were rejected as too expensive for a destroyer.)

Cruisers

• Kirov: Kirov Reporting!
• Krasny Krym: Krispy Kreme, Krappy Krym ^note  Because it's a crappy ship overall , Pay to Lose^note Generally regarded as the worst ship at its tier.
• Bogatyr: Bogart, Bogator
• Budyonny: Buddy
• Chapayev: Chappy, Crapayev
• Admiral Makarov: Paypal Nürnberg, commie Nürnberg ^note She is the Nürnberg after being ceded to the Soviet Union as a war prize.
• Mikhail Kutuzov: Mik, MK, Teaboo^note  A semi-derogatory term for those obsessed with British culture. Its used because it has a smoke screen consumable, a rarity among cruisers except for the British light cruiser line. Nevermind the Mikhail Kutuzov predating the British cruiser line by more than a year.
• Molotov: Cocktail^note The ship's namesake, Vyacheslav Molotov, was also the unwilling namesake of the Molotov Cocktail, an improvised grenade with gasoline in a wine bottle invented by the Finnish during the Winter War. And Molotov is an excellent fire-starter., Molly
• Shchors: Scorch ^note like many Russian cruisers, she has a high rate of fire and many guns, making her a ridiculously good fire-starter.
• Dmitri Donskoi: Dima, DM, Dankskoi, Donkey, Medium Cruiser ^note Dimitri Donskoi is a bit of an anomaly in that it has an intermediate gun caliber between light and heavy cruisers.
• Moskva: Soviet Laser^note Like the Zao, the Moskva has an incredibly high shell velocity, combined with great accuracy and a very flat shell arc, KV-2^note A Soviet tank popular in World of Tanks (and quite a few other games) that is renowned for the thickness of its armor and the caliber of its gun. Unlike other Soviet Cruisers, the Moskva has incredibly thick armor and giant guns., Battleship Moskva^note With good angling, Moskva can shrug off a ridiculous amount of incoming fire. In particular the 50mm deck armor is immune to being overmatched, and at the engagement ranges seen in World of Warships shells will almost always come in at a shallow enough angle to be auto-bounced off it. In addition, its 220mm guns have excellent AP penetration, allowing it to score citadel penetrations even to enemy battleships (if they show a flat broadside) at longer ranges than would be expected from a cruiser's guns., Mockba ^note  A transliteration of the cyrillic lettering.
• Kronshtadt: "Cruiser"^note As the first "cruiser killer" added to the game, a lot of people took issue with Kronshtadt being a cruiser and not a battleship despite other battlecruisers being classified as battleships.
• Alexander Nevsky: Alexander Balanskin
• Petropavolsk: Petrobalansk
• Mikoyan: Mig, Golden trash
• Stalingrad: Staliniumgrad^note "Stalinium" is a meme widely applied to Russian vehicles in general as the "source" of any good performance in either armor or shells, originating in World of Tanks. In World of Warships, it's long been applied to the AP shells of Soviet warships (which tend to be quite good), and Stalingrad has the best Soviet AP to date (305mm guns with 950m/s velocity and improved autobounce angles similar to those of American heavy cruisers' 203mm guns), and amazing accuracy to boot. As such, players applying the Stalinium name was inevitable. Comrade Stalin, Balancegrad/Balansgrad^note "Is balans, comrade" is a popular meme in all of Wargaming's "World of" games (as well as the rival War Thunder, also by a Russian developer) whenever a Russian vehicle is perceived as overpowered. Wargaming employee Sub_Octavian has even used "Balancegrad" to refer to the ship., Big Red Penetration Machine ^note  The Stalinium meme, but only referring to it's insane AP shells. It's also applied to lower tier Russian battleships with AP shells that are better at penning than others of it's tier.

Battleships

• Imperator Nikolai I: Imperator Furiosa, Russian Bias ^note Designed to be able to fight tier six ships, but revision to the matchmaking prevents this, so her lack of superstructure to burn, three fore-end turrets that don't have to pull a 180 to shoot at targets on the other side of the ship, excellent firing angles that allow those three turrets to fire on a target while return fire with AP will autobounce, and minimal vertical dispersion make her by popular count overpowered. It got so bad Wargaming announced they will permanently stop selling the ship only a few days after its introduction.
• Oktyabryskaya Revolutsiya: Red October ^note Referencing its name and associated camo pattern., Gangut ^note  Oktyabryshkaya Revolutsiya was known as Gangut during the days of the Russian Empire, before being seized by the Soviets and renamed to it's in-game name. , Comrade Big One^note Borrowed from a KanColle fan comic
• Lenin: Comrade Nelson^note Has the same layout as the Royal Navy's Nelson and also similar guns.
• Borodino: Comrade Lenin Jr.
• Sinop: SinOP ^note Notorious for being extremely strong compared to other Tier VII battleships, on account of having heavier armament than almost all others in the tier, highly accurate main guns, good speed and good armor, including a 113mm strip of bow armor that makes it basically impossible to citadel through the bow (something that overmatch mechanics make every other Tier VII BB vulnerable to)
• Novorossiysk: Commie Giulio Cesare^note She is the Giulio Cesare after being ceded to the Soviet Union as a war prize.
• Slava: Bringer of Soviet Balans ^note Like Stalingrad, Slava's AP performance is unmatched in-game with noticeably better penetration capabilities and better dispersion at range (especially vertical) than any other battleship in the game despite their average caliber. It could deal massive damage at cross-map distances with great ease. While in testing and under review, it got to the point where the 'Slava Challenge' (scoring 100k damage within the first five minutes of a match) became an informal challenge, and then a meme which still persists.

Aircraft Carriers

• Admiral Nakhimov: Citadel Metropolis
• Chaklov: Comrade Graf Zeppelin^note Chaklov turned into CV playerbase's favourite who get used on Graf Zeppelin, also a popular ship for such playerbase.

Marynarka Wojenna (Poland, Under Pan-European Navy in-game)

• Błyskawica: Bliss, the Polish one^note  Because most English-speaking players can't figure out how to pronounce the name (it's "Bwiskavitsa", roughly) and thus don't even try, Bottle of Whisky^note Pronunciation the Canadians came up with, Shish kabob
• Orkan: Polish Lightning

Svenska Marinen (Sweden, Under Pan-European Navy in-game)

• Halland: CV no-fly Zone, Anti-CV destroyer of choice^note  with DFAA activated, appropriate upgrades and commander's skills, and proper timing, Halland can wipe out all CV squardons especially Hakuryu's, Nakhimov's and Manfred von Richthofen's planes before they even able to launch an attack, Shkval-launcher^note  With proper skills and equipment both Halland and Östergotland can launch torpedoes that go very nearly a 100 knots, which is around 30-38 knots faster than other destroyers at the same tier. They also have a long range and reload quickly.
• Småland: Super Halland^note The Special Ship version of Halland with lesser torps, she was considered OP due to her radar that Wargaming decided to remove her for purchase
• Ragnar: Mega Halland

Marine Nationale (France)

Destroyers

• Le Terrible: Graf Zeppelin 2.0 ^note Terrible was released with downright pathetic stats to try and compensate for a gimmick that wasn't really useful. Comparisons to the Graf Zeppelin with its similar scheme were immediate.
• Kléber: Kleberski ^note Upon release, the Kleber was quickly compared to its Russian/Soviet counterpart Khabarovsk and it was quickly concluded the French ship did the Russian shtick of open-water gunboating much better.
• Marceau: French duck

Cruisers

• Duguay-Trouin: Doug ^note The name is difficult to pronounce for English-speakers.
• De Grasse: Zebra ^note Its premium camouflage features black and white stripes.
• La Galissoniere: Gasoline
• Henri IV: HIV^note Coined by prominent Youtuber and expert player Flamu after getting to test the Tier X French cruiser, on account of him finding it to be absolutely terrible at the time. It was buffed before release to be quite combat competitive but is still considered the most selfish cruiser on account of its lack of helpful consumables like radar or smoke. So its teammates still tend to think of it as a disease. As do whichever enemy players are being subjected to its HE spam., Hellfire^note It was buffed to have, among other things, A 22% stock fire chance combined with an acceptable reload. To put that in perspective, Zao, the previous record holder amoung cruisers has a 19% fire chance and the Henri IV can fire faster. Thought Henri has only 9 guns to Zao's 12, it's still a ludicrously good firestarter. Even moreso after the Main Battery Reload Booster consumable was added., Baguette Launcher ^note  She has the second largest cruiser guns, second to the Graf Spee.
• Carnot: Cannot, Carrot

Battleships

• Dunkerque: Dunker, Dunkek, the Baguette
• Lyon: Iron Rain^note She boasts sixteen guns to a broadside, more than any other ship to a game. Every salvo is like being in a rainstorm of thirteen inch shells.
• Richelieu: Super Dunkerque^note  It copies the Dunkerque's layout but this time has bigger guns and proper armor. Richy
• Gascogne: Gas Can, Gastone,^note NA Server Community Contributor and premium ship reviewer LittleWhiteMouse did her review headers in the style of Gaston's Villain Song. When the NA server released her they followed suit. Shitty Bismarck^note  She mounts the same number of guns of the same caliber as Bismarck and is features a reduced main battery reload combined with insane secondaries. However she lacks Bismark's armor or hydroacoustic search and the reload is still not as fast a Bismarck. All she gets in return are speed boost (useful at times but has nowhere near as much utility as hydro) and better sigma, and superior dispersion at close range.
• Alsace: Big Al, All Sauce, Alsace the powerful^note From a video by content creator Yuro where a member of the enemy team asked "Alsace the powerful?" in chat after getting one-shot by the ship.
• République: France^note She was known as France until a few days before release when her name was changed for historical reasons. Republic ^note A lot of people use this one rather than go with the French version of the name
• Jean Bart: Jean Fart
• Bourgogne: Bon Jovi^note  Youtuber and unicum Flamu decided this to her this during his preview of her. His fans have followed suite, Burger

Aircraft Carriers

• Bearn: Flying Baguette

Regia Marina (Italy)

Destroyers:

• Paolo Emilio: YOLO Emilio or Paolo Emili-YOLO ^note Its high speed and battery of strong but short-ranged torpedoes are widely seen as best-suited for YOLO rushing a BB and hoping for the best. Given that Paolo Emilio gets the same high-speed short-duration smokescreen as Italian cruisers and battleships, this is actually a very viable tactic if used against an isolated BB, since Emilio can probably go undetected until reaching proximity-spotting range - at which point it's too late to dodge its torpedoes.

Cruisers

• Duca d'Aosta: Duke^note Translation of the Italian "Duca"...which turned out to be ambiguous with the introduction of Duca degli Abruzzi.
• Luigi di Savoia Duca degli Abruzzi: Bruzzi, floating devastating strike^note  Its citadel is quite vulnerable to battleships. The rest should be self explanatory
• Napoli: Cockroach ^note For being notoriously difficult to kill if the player using it has any brains at all and surviving situations that would normally kill any other cruiser, e.g. extended brawling with a battleship (altough even with Napoli that is not recommended).

Battleships

• Giulio Cesare: Ave True To Kais-sar, Julius Cesare^note Some people don't bother with the pronunciation and just use Cesare's anglicized name, Julio Kais-sar^note  Other people just go for the Latin pronuciation of Cesare's name, which is the ethymological root of the German word "Kaiser".
• Roma: Beer Can^note Can come with an ultra premium camo that replaces its rangefinders with a large white cylinder that everyone agrees is a beer can
• AL Littorio: Weeb Roma
• Conte di Cavour: Pasta Smolorado^note Her KanColle counterpart portrays her as the shortest battleship in-game, even shorter than Colorado

Pan-Asia

Pan Asia as whole is sometimes shortened to Pasia. In-game they are represented from warships of the Republic of China Navy, People's Liberation Army Navy, Republic of Korea Navy, Indonesian Navy, and the Royal Thai Navy.

Destroyers:

• Lo Yang: Paypal Benson^note Not only is the ROCS Lo Yang a Benson-class destroyer, it is USS Benson after her transfer to the Republic of China Navy.
• Gadjah Mada: GODjah Mada^note The Tier VII Pan-Asia destroyer is a very strong gunboat with 6 fast-firing guns and amazing forward firing angles for the aft turret that make it really good at gunning down enemy destroyers (mitigating the weakness of Pan-Asia DDs being unable to torpedo enemy DDs), while the above-average stealth and Pan-Asia standard deepwater torpedoes make it also great at killing battleships., Ganja Mada^note The ship's smoke and its name led to stoner jokes.
• Siliwangi: Silly-Wang
• Fen Yang: Crappy Ducky^note Fen yang was originally one of the Akizuki-class destroyers, but her main battery reload time is longer than Akizuki(thanks to the nerfs) and she does not get the improved HE penetration on her 10cm guns, thus making her slightly crappy

Cruisers:

• Huanghe: Huang Meh^note Regarded as even weaker for a Tier VI cruiser than Krasny Krym is for a Tier V., Bootleg Perth^note With the exception of having good AA and faster velocity shells, it's basically an all-around worse version of Perth, due to having the same smoke but no spotter plane, less HP, fewer guns and even weaker armor than Perth's already mediocre protection. So it's like a Chinese knockoff of Perth., Piss ^note  The name means Yellow River, the one in China.
• Wukong: Monkey King, Pan-Asia Charles Martel

Commonwealth

• Perth: Creeper^note So named for its distinctly slow-moving smoke screen
• Haida: Leaf Boat, ^note Leaf is a semi-derogatory term of Canadians and Haida is the first Canadian boat in the game Cobra-Chicken^note Another name inspired by LittleWhiteMouse's reviews, based on the recent meme about Canadian-Geese
• Vampire II: Creeper Jr.

Pan-America

• Nueve de Julio: Tortureboat, Floating Gulag^note Nueve de Julio was a controversial choice for the first South American ship in the game because its final use in Argentine service was a secret prison to make political prisoners "disappear".

Koninklijke Marine (The Netherlands)

• De Zeven Provinciën: Cruiser high on weed^note The only Dutch cruiser with the Engine Boost consumable, the ship's country of origin and smoke led to stoner jokes (due to the stereotype that the Dutchs were often high on weed)
• Gouden Leeuw: Golden Lion ^note The literal translation from Dutch, Guten Glue ^note Due to Gouden Leeuw's questionable combination of gimmicks and weaknesses with the general difficulty the player base/C Cs (at least, those unfamiliar with Dutch phonemes) has with pronouncing the name, it became natural to deliberately mispronounce it, transforming the name into something less than flattering.