

I leave the question of why this is a trash fit as an exercise to the reader. One has NPC damage on the km and is fit with specific hardeners the other has salvage drones and T1 Ogres in its drone bay, and is fit to be stable with the reps but not the neuts, so is probably also a PvE fit.Īnd a Moa with no lowslots or rigs, two different-sized shield boosters, and a missing gun.Īt the top, we have a brawl-fit Jaguar with a single MASB. Ī pair of Stratioi, both very badly-fit for PvP. Hard pass.Ī pair of Vexor Navy Issues fit for AFK ratting, which can easily be killed by a T1 frigate. One Rupture might have meant to be a PvP fit, but is fit with a hodgepodge of meta modules and appears to be an attempt at a kiting active-rep armor AC fit. (Remember what I said about 10mn XLASB fits being suspicious?)Ī 50mn XLASB Moa, which died to someone who also has a history of kitey long point Stabber losses. They are:Ī 10mn XLASB Stabber, which died to a kitey Stabber with a warp disruptor that could simply have orbited it outside scram range and waited for the XLASB to run out. Only two of these can be considered reasonable PvP fits. So let's take a look at the first set of 14 ships that might be considered "fair" fights: The other 35 kills are a mix of mostly T1/faction frigates, T1 destroyers, ceptors, dictors, a bomber, and a T1 cargo hauler that is, things that any cruiser should generally kill. On the first page of zkill solo kills (so 50 kills, which takes you back to October 26th because of low usage), Stabber pilots have killed 8 cruisers, one T1 hauler, five T3Ds, and one assault frigate. The Omen and Stabber get similar (low) amounts of action, although a lot of the Omen's action comes from one "anti-ganker" dude who likes to use an Omen to whore on hisec gankers. It should surprise nobody that the Caracal and the Thorax get by far the most solo kills. There are four T1 "attack cruisers", the Stabber, Thorax, Omen, and Caracal. There is no properly PvP-fit solo cruiser that loses to any Stabber fit.

Closer analysis shows that the Thrasher is a well-known ganker and the two T3Ds are badly fit wardec ships. All are in hisec, which should immediately prompt suspicion. You have three solo kills with the Stabber.

I think relegating it to a tackle frigate is completely underestimating it. I think of the stabber as the best destroyer in the game and it can handle some T1 cruisers easy depending on fits.Īnd i've had a few kills on T3D's with stabbers using different fits. Tal Tracyn wrote:I have to disagree with most of what was said last. So you should have neuts or anti-drone/anti-tackle weapons in the high slots, not autocannons, and should have both a scram and a web so that you can hold down slippery targets for your gang. For example, if you want a tackle Stabber, you need to be able to actually hold down the target, and it's silly to fit DPS on your tackle ship because you're looking for targets you can't kill by yourself. The other fits are unfocused and therefore not optimal. So you have really serious range control problems, leading to expanding the already-large number of bad guys who hard counter you. The ones on the wiki are particularly risible: one has an XLASB with invul, meaning no web, and the other is an armor brawler with a long point instead of a scram. If you look at related kills there, it looks like Darwinism were up to their usual low-tier gatecamping play in a slightly creative comp.ġ0mn Stabber fits are somewhere between suspicious and just bad. This means that the Stabber has two use cases: hard tackle (for a blobby gang that is too cheap to pay for/rep a tackle Jaguar/tackle Enyo), and frigate killing if there are frigates that are silly enough to feed to you. They lose to all PvP-fit cruisers 1v1, as well as nearly all PvP-fit T2/T3 small ships.
