# What's better, hawk or worm for T1 abyssal?

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**Created:** [December 18, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-better-hawk-or-worm-for-t1-abyssal/503341 "2025-12-18T11:15:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Borsho](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/borsho/32/503046_2.png) [@Borsho](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Borsho)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-better-hawk-or-worm-for-t1-abyssal/503341/1 "2025-12-18T11:15:27Z")

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Ok, probably you have seen this question a lot, but I have some doubts that are starting to bother me, for not being able to answer them. Which or why Worm is better than the Hawk in T1? I explain myself:

Hawk:

- Cheap
- A lot of DPS with the extra slot to add a light missile launcher II.
- Good resistance and speed.
- Have a lot of range.

Worm:

- Expensive
- Less dps but, compensates if we use drones.
- Is a bit more faster.
- Have less range.

My questions are, after being obliberated a lot of times with the Hawk in T1:

- How do you manage to succeed with a hawk, when in a room you have rats that sends you a lot of drones? Usually I died in 0,1 with this fit: [Hawk fit | Abyss Tracker](https://abysstracker.com/fit/5f4bae0b-f940-4339-a4ca-0674fdb5e7b7).
- How Worm is more effective? has less range in general so you will get destroyed faster. The DPS is lower, so you depend on how fast drones kills the others.
- Why is better the worm? I can’t an advantage against the hawk looking the stats. Only that worms uses drones, but less dps.

Maybe I’m reading wrongly the stats, but I can’t get through T1.

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**Author:** ![Syzygium](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/syzygium/32/510263_2.png) [@Syzygium](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Syzygium)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-better-hawk-or-worm-for-t1-abyssal/503341/2 "2025-12-18T16:10:21Z")

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I don’t really get how you can have problems with a Hawk in T1? That ship can do T2 with barely any problem.  
In T1, a Hawk should be pretty much invincible.

Passive tank, Rockets in your face, AB running and thats it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/whats-better-hawk-or-worm-for-t1-abyssal/503341/4 "2026-06-01T11:10:47Z")

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