Avoid getting into close-range fights with other battleships unless you hold a significant HP advantage she can absorb damage for a limited time only. Fire at targets of opportunity from afar, but especially nail incautious battleships with her powerful guns. The key to doing well in Nagato is to rely on her accuracy to make smart target selections and fire for maximum effect. When in a game with a higher-tier CV, Nagato captains are advised to group up with other ships with strong AA.

This, coupled with her sheer length (100 feet longer than Colorado) and substandard torpedo protection, makes Nagato an especially tempting target for torpedo bombers. Even upgraded, though, Nagato’s AA is still weaker than many other battleships at her tier, meaning that enemy aircraft will likely focus their attentions on her. Though her stock hull's anti-aircraft suite is nothing to write home about, upgrading to Hull (B) gives her a respectable AA suite and slightly enhanced armor protection.

However her armor, while the strongest among mid-tier Japanese battleships, is still weaker than her Tier VII counterparts of other nations and her citadel is quite vulnerable sailing into close-range duels, while they can be fun, is not advised. Her health pool is generous for a Tier VII battleship, and she can soak up a lot of punishment, though her torpedo protection is not that great. She also has a very surprising quick-firing secondary battery with a respectable firing range with a commander equipped with the Level 4 commander skill Manual Fire Control for Secondary Armament (which requires active targeting to use) that greatly reduces their dispersion, they can be lethal to destroyers that linger around her for too long. However, these guns make her a serious threat to the heavily-armored American dreadnoughts that were tough nuts to crack with only 14-inch guns, and she can also easily maul higher tier battleships that are not too careful around her. The number of guns she carries is a drastic reduction from the broadside of Fuso, and their slower reload and narrower spread means that aiming properly is critical to success. Her guns change from the 14-inch guns of Kongo and Fuso into 16.1-inch (410mm) guns she carries in four dual mount turrets, and her handling is quite impressive for a dreadnought, enabling her to be a functional firing platform and ship of the line. Nagato is the end stage for all the dreadnoughts of the Japanese battleship line.

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