# Mirror mirror on the wall who is the strongest of them all? **URL:** \ **Category:** New Citizens Q&A\ **Created:** [June 20, 2019, 3:59am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-is-the-strongest-of-them-all/168462 "2019-06-20T03:59:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Leah\_Crowleymass](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/leah_crowleymass/32/131904_2.png) [@Leah\_Crowleymass](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Leah_Crowleymass)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-is-the-strongest-of-them-all/168462/6 "2019-06-20T18:36:06Z")
Here’s a quick summary of NPC rats you might encounter that I wrote up for another player a while back: > [@Question on npc combat for a beginner](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/question-on-npc-combat-for-a-beginner/148718/6): > > This is going to sound like an obnoxious answer (I don’t mean it that way), but the only real way to learn how to assess a threat is to get some experience. For missions, there is EVE Survival: [https://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReports](https://eve-survival.org/wikka.php?wakka=MissionReports) This will give you detailed information on missions (damage profiles, enemy counts, etc.) and is extremely helpful for learning how to prepare for enemies. There are many other kinds of NPC encounters in different environments like anomalies, com… Since I wrote that, the Triglavian Invasions have now been added as well. You will be notified if you enter an Invasion system. These rats will swarm you, consistently respawn and have much better AI than the others, so be particularly careful in dealing with these. And, as others have said, avoid using Autopilot as this is just a magnet for disaster. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-is-the-strongest-of-them-all/168462)._