Strengths: Advanced Flak, Teleporter + Mind Control + Cloning Bay + Double Lanius Boarding Party

This ship is wildly overpowered compared to the rest. Long story short: if you can't win with the Crystal B, you're doing something seriously wrong. This isn't nearly as big of a setback as it sounds though, and indeed two of the three ships that start without weapons are among the best in the game (this ship and Mantis B). The one and only weakness of this ship is the lack of any starting weapons. This silly thing is priced at the same value as a Zoltan Shield! It's another advantage that this ship absolutely does not need, but nonetheless has anyway. On top of THAT, Crystal B also starts with the Crystal Vengeance augment, an utterly useless augment which sells for an amazing 40 scrap. That system adds ridiculously strong defenses to a godly boarding setup. That would be strong enough, but the Crystal B also starts the game with Cloaking too! Crystal B is the only ship in the game to start with both Cloaking and the Teleporter. With three Lockdown uses and the four-tile Teleporter, the player should be able to kill enemy crew with ease, Medbay or no Medbay. Crystals have extra health, take damage more slowly from low oxygen, and come with the utterly broken 'Lockdown' innate ability. This complements extremely well with the starting three Crystal crewmembers, the game's overpowered hidden race. It's one of only three ships in the game with a four-tile Teleporter, a system that can easily win the game without need for any other weapons. This ship's advantages are almost overwleming in nature. As the stronger of the two designs on the 'secret' ship, the Crystal B is well worth the difficult process of unlocking it. This opinion is shared by nearly everyone within the FTL community. The Crystal B Cruiser is the single strongest ship in FTL.

Strengths: Crystal Crew, Four-Tile Teleporter, Cloaking Readers of this website will know that I favor gunships over boarding ships, and while I've tried not to let that affect this list, I'm sure personal bias plays a factor in this process. Finally, this is ultimately a personal ranking based on my opinions. In other words, low skillcap ships like the Engi A don't receive more weight for being easy to use. The ranking was also done with the assumption of an experienced player using these ships to the best of his or her ability. The boarding ships with a Teleporter don't get extra weight because of their ability to rack up a higher in-game score (although I have indeed factored in the additional scrap and other rewards that they can reap from boarding). Ships were evaluated under the assumption of Hard difficulty with the goal of defeating the rebel flagship and winning the game as efficienty as possible. Some of the intra-tier ranking was truly splitting hairs, however, and these ships should be regarded as roughly even in strength. Ships within tiers are intended to be roughly comparable in power, although they are also ranked within tiers as well. I've divided the 28 ships into five main tiers based around different levels of overall strength. After seeing so many FTL tier lists floating around on the Internet, I decided that I might as well put one together myself and post it here on my website.

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