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In order to examine some examples of the ship meta, and how different tactics and strategies match up, the below describes some example ship fits seen in Low Sec PvP.

 

 

*Fast scram-kiter: AB beam [[Executioner]]: 175 heated DPS, 2,5k EHP, +3,16k active EHP at a rate of 100EHP per second with perfect small ancillary armor repairer usage (no overreping), 1700 m/s heated. 765 m/s heated and webbed.

 

 

*Fast brawler: AB Blaster [[Atron]]:  220 heated DPS at 1KM (4,5KM falloff), 2.6k EHP + 2,9k active EHP at 100 EHP/S assuming perfect SAAR usage, 1800 m/s heated. 810 m/s heated and webbed

 

 

 

 

 

Even if the fight starts at 0,1km which would be the best for the Merlin, he would have to apply his full DPS for 20 seconds to break the active tank of the executioner, since the Executioner is moving 150m/s faster than the Merlin it would only take him 6,6 seconds to get out of the Merlin’s optimal range, past that point it becomes easier and easier to active tank as seconds into fall-off pass, the Merlin has the choice to switch to Null ammo (which takes 5 seconds) but even then, the fight is going to be a struggle and the Merlin will probably lose.  

Now this was assuming the best possible engagement range for the Merlin, if the fight starts anywhere between 4km and 7.5km, the Merlin theoretically won’t win. Now I must insist on the “theoretical” aspect of these fights, that is if the two players play well and don’t mess up. If the Executioner forgets to apply his web or forgets to overheat is AB for a few seconds, he might very well lose.  

You might think this is opposite of what we just saw, the fast brawler will catch the slow scram-kiter and kill it”. Well, that’s actually not true. Let’s take the blaster [[Atron]] vs  rail [[Incursus]] match-up for example: if the fight starts close, then the webbed AB [[Atron]] is 150m/s faster than the webbed AB [[Incursus]], this means he wil be able apply the entirety of his theoretical DPS by always staying at his optimal range. But a 150m/s different is not nearly enough to orbit at 0 and create big enough transversal velocity to outtrack the [[Incursus]], this means that if the [[Incursus]] burns away from you, he will be able to apply his full theoretical DPS to you as well.  

In this case, even though the [[Atron]] does more damage, the [[Incursus]] is much more Tankier than the Atron. It takes theoretically 34 seconds for the Incursus to kill the Atron while it takes 38 seconds for the Atron to kill the Incursus, which means the Incursus theoretically wins. Now as the initial engagement range increases, the match-up gets tougher and tougher for the Atron because he first has to catch-up before being able to apply his whole DPS. Even if the fights starts at 4km which is moderately close, the Atron will need to catch up 3km at 150 m/s before applying his full DPS which means he’s going to lose even harder. N

ow once again this is whole theoretical, if the Incursus forgets to overload his prop, he’ll get caught a lot faster, if he forgets to overload his guns or his tank, if he forgets to launch his small drone he might very well lose the DPS race. If neither mess-up but if the Atron has considerably superior turret and tanking skills, he might win the DPS race too.

These are the only match up where speed will not be as relevant to actually win the fight but the fastest ship might still be able to run away if he realizes he’s losing. In this case pure damage*EHP ratio will generally win fights, the most important thing will be to have a good fit, the second most important thing will be to overload your modules, and the third most important thing will be damage and tanking skills.

==Meta-breaker in scram-range==