AP Birdman
Banned
In all honesty though, my Krait is the hardest ship in the entire game to gank 
PvP What is the hardest to Gank ship?
- Thread starter Electric Kite
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Any ship with a decent build and a competent pilot. Otherwise, strangely I'd vote the sidewinder. 660 boost and 1000 hull when built right.
Bob Lighthouse
Banned
Cutter for raw speed, shields and mass lock factor.
Gonna agree with the folks saying Cutter.
By the way, OP, are you planning on building a Cutter? Asking for a friend.
By the way, OP, are you planning on building a Cutter? Asking for a friend.
Some weeks ago I was interdicted in my Corvette by two cmdrs in Cobras. By then the ship was not engineered at all, still I had no problem to low wake out with my shields almost completely intact. They tried it three times altogether and every time I got away unharmed.
So I'd guess the Corvette shouldn't be an easy target, too (especially if engineered).
So I'd guess the Corvette shouldn't be an easy target, too (especially if engineered).
TheMegaTurnip
Banned
I like the Vipers personally, silent run them, they are little murder machines, witha little practice and some clever engineering you can make people's day very miserable with those two ships.
The ICourier, IClipper and the Orca are objectively better if all you want to do is run away, but I don't rate coward builds as even slightly viable in real PvP, someone who can shoot will end up making you spend more time running for your shield that you will ever get to lay down any significant damage.
Yup. Rep+ If youre comfortable in the ship and you knwo what you're doing, any ship can be hard to gank. (Still would say Vipers though)
The ICourier, IClipper and the Orca are objectively better if all you want to do is run away, but I don't rate coward builds as even slightly viable in real PvP, someone who can shoot will end up making you spend more time running for your shield that you will ever get to lay down any significant damage.
Yup. Rep+ If youre comfortable in the ship and you knwo what you're doing, any ship can be hard to gank. (Still would say Vipers though)
TheMegaTurnip
Banned
Personally I fall into B. Theres not a whole lot of fun in kiling things that can't put up a fight. Leave that to the "Salt miners" (Often total scrubs).
Also I personally hate gangbangers. If you can't beat a ship solo, don't attack it. Using four fully G5'd PvP builds to kill a single target, does not a skilled pilot make.
Er...sure?
Maybe I'm easily impressed because I'm a newbie when it comes to pvp.
Still, witnessing a humble cobra tearing a cutter apart is satisfying as well as impressing.
Still, witnessing a humble cobra tearing a cutter apart is satisfying as well as impressing.
The posters who said 'Orca' are right.
The only true guarantee of survival is for shields to stay up from start of gank to wake.
My Orca boosts to 642 mps and has well over 2,000 Mj.
(And is basically mass-locked only by space stations or planets.)
Nothing - absolutely nothing - stops that Orca before wake.
The only true guarantee of survival is for shields to stay up from start of gank to wake.
My Orca boosts to 642 mps and has well over 2,000 Mj.
(And is basically mass-locked only by space stations or planets.)
Nothing - absolutely nothing - stops that Orca before wake.
Except another Orca....
Heh...
It would take a single, properly flown, PvP Orca between 5 and 20 minutes to break my shield. Between ten and a hundred times the time needed to high wake, with or without Grom Bomb.
By escape my first ring of shield would not even visibly have moved.
Completely gank-proof, even against four Orcas with the best synchronised drop an Orca gank wing could possibly achieve from interdiction.
Cuz, no way to get through the 5,500 effective shield hp in the submit high-wake timeframe, just as 4 PvP FdL's can't harm one properly defended FdL.
Ye, but a Viper doesn't really cost much more and is more fun.
There is no Ship that will Win a Fight when being Ganked.
The Combat System in ED is not very Skillbased in the First Place.
And when Groups Fight Skill becomes almost meaningless as the only Importand part is that you Coordinate enough to have everyone Attack the Same Target and pay Minimal attention to not get dragged too far away from each other.
In Ganking Skill becomes entirely meaningless because you are the only Target so everyone will follow you anyways and nobody can be seperated or waste damage output by firing at others.
Thats why.
Against Ganking you have only one choice.
Run Away.
Thefe is 2 Options for that.
Either you have a Big Tanky Ship that even with several Enemys will hold up its Dhields long enough to Jump.
Or you take a Fast Ship with Engineered Drives that can Run Away in Normal Space.
Needless to say that only Horizon Buyers can escape Gankers cause any unengineered Ship will always be with no chance to fight back or escape in time.
Thats also why ED is considered Pay to Win by most PvP Players.
In this Game if you dont buy the Expansions and thus keep up with the Power Creep you are simply not competetive for anything in PvP
Depends on. I fly an engineered corvette. Was gangbanged in a CG by a wing of FDLs and a Cutter. I admit, that I trusted too much in my shields and hull ( no high wake target, 2 sys pips ).
They shreddered my drives and FSD, so I was a sitting duck. Looking at the rebuy screen, I thought that with a really fast ship I could have made it. But what´s the point to that. I don´t play
ED to fly a ship that can stand a gankers wing. I fly missions, participate in CG, all that. So take the ship you need for a special purpose, engineer thrusters ( never bad ), don´t fly without shields
( station walls are hard too ) and BE AWARE. But I don´t think you can avoid to be ganked when you fly in Open.
They shreddered my drives and FSD, so I was a sitting duck. Looking at the rebuy screen, I thought that with a really fast ship I could have made it. But what´s the point to that. I don´t play
ED to fly a ship that can stand a gankers wing. I fly missions, participate in CG, all that. So take the ship you need for a special purpose, engineer thrusters ( never bad ), don´t fly without shields
( station walls are hard too ) and BE AWARE. But I don´t think you can avoid to be ganked when you fly in Open.
The ship which flies in SOLO mode.