# How important are skills for pvp?

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**Category:** New Citizens Q&A\
**Created:** [March 1, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/how-important-are-skills-for-pvp/143268 "2019-03-01T15:37:02Z")\
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Jay  
Shah’s advice is all accurate AFAIK, but …

… after one month’s playing, your small T1 ship against a vet in a similar-_looking_ ship will almost certainly lose almost every time because they can fit more/better stuff into the ship.

A “Rule of Thumb” I use for combat in games (not just EVE): if everything else is equal, a 5-10% edge in damage delivered + a 5-10% edge in damage received converts to 90-95% chance of winning.

Knowledge matters too of course, and you have less than a real PvP vets (not compared to “100% gankers” though /lol). But that’s in the “everything else in equal” category.

Later on small-ship combat can become more nearly equal.

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