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You are merely demonstrating that some ship are tough because they are tough, not necessarily tough because they are SSB.
The difference in 1100 energy use was based entirely on damage cap.
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You say you'd want to stay away from ships that cost 1k extra to kill, but I'd say I'd avoid ships that cost 2k to begin with, regardless of whether there is another 1k on top.
Depends on your rank and how much you're willing to spend. 2k is a ton of energy to spend for a disable if you are rank 700. It's a lot, but not out of the question at rank 1.4k. Is it par for the course at rank 2.1k? IDK, but I imagine it's not a huge deal
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In fact, it's very possible that you won't notice a 50% SSB as a SSB, because attack damage is quite random. Unless you have confidence you are hitting or near hitting cap everytime you can't really tell(unless you already know of course)
I check medals and probe virtually every ship before I attack it for the first time; it's super easy if they have less than 4,400 decks, because of medals. Beyond that, it's a bit more work, but still fairly easy to approximate the damage cap of a ship by its defense vs. the average of your first 10 hits (throw out obvious crits). You won't be exact with this method, but you will be close.
(your PVP attack / (their PVP under attack defense * 5)) * x = your average damage
