Ships & Modules

Medium Capacitor Battery II
increases capacitor storage. Provides defense against energy leech and energy neutralizer effects.
Neutralizer reflect amount 10%
Energy Leech reflect amount 20%

cap booster is the traditional method

I find docking is pretty effective.

Jamming them with ECM is also highly effective and comes with so many other benefits, like them not shooting you at all and flipping their desk over in rage.

"Defence against an energy neutralizer"

THE MIGHTY AND UNSTOPPABLE ANCIL SHIELD BOOSTER

Considering neutralizing, there are a few (solo-ish, in sufficiently sized gangs you have tools to counter anything anyway) scenarios:

1) If being neuted by Curse/Pilgrim, battleship-sized cap booster and two heavy neutralizers, combined preferably with a fast ship using capless guns (see: Tempest).

Else, Curse being an idiot and landing in webrange in conjunction with having a cap booster, but it relies on Curse being an idiot. That ship is just bad news, unless you can dual-heavy neut him back or lands in webrange. It is certainly interesting that the strongest weapon of the Curse/Pilgrim is simultaneously the counter to it.

(Note, it is in theory possible that a Curse has faction point and stuff, and ergo is out of heavy neutralizer range, and also flies perfectly and doesn't stray in range of 2x heavy neuts nor stray out of point range, although this is more often the case in EFT/Forum then ingame.)

2) If being neuted by Bhaalgorn, either you are in slaved Platemach and drive him off with superior DPS or you die, solo. Attacking a Bhaalgorn solo (with a normally fit PVP ship, not comedy Bhaalgorn specific counterfit) with an expectation of winning is highly unrealistic, anyway, outside of very unlikely situation he is in belt sleeping and you are in Arazu/Lachersis and have a lot of time on your hands. That said, I know of exactly one solo Bhaalgorn pilot who would take a real fight and he's not playing at the moment as far as I know, so unless you're in a cynokestrel, no threat from solo Bhaalgorns exists.

3) If being neuted by a BS with 2 heavy neutralizers, then you are either fighting a Tempest, a Dominix or some suprise fit (tailored to kill small ships). This is, naturally, bad news for smaller ships and you should try to disengage if possible; except in case of shield-Tempest which has only somewhere in the realm of 70K ehp and could potentially die to a plated Hurricane if you can get the web on him right away.

If you're in a BS, especially one with capless guns / torps, then another solo BS will never engage you anyway, except in EFT, but in the unlikely case it does, by the time you experience an actual BS 1v1 which is not killing some silly ratter/wormhole guy/mission runner, you will know what works in BS combat.

4) If being neuted by a BS with one heavy neutralizer, proceed like nothing is happening, because one heavy neutralizer won't really impact the battle between two BS (or even BS v BC) much. Unless you are in a nanocruiser or something; which never really have such good odds of killing competently flown solo-fit BS.

5) If you are in something frigate-sized and are facing one medium neut and fighting in webrange, that is a problem for ships which don't have capless guns but can be countered by one small nos (which is a worthy idea if you expect to engage larger ships). If you are using capless guns, you have little to fear from one medium neutralizer; and a nos will enable you to get a rep cycle in now and then, if you have a fit with a small rep.

If you are facing dual medium neuts or medium+small neut combination, this is very bad news; it can be somewhat countered by one nos (if your frigate is using capless weapons), or a cap booster (problem to fit on most frigate hulls).

I cannot think of any other situations worth mentioning. In general, it boils down to:
- a nos is a decent counter if you are a frig pilot
- a cap booster is an effective counter overall, esp. if your ship is capacitor-intensive to being with
- neuting back is the best counter vs cruiser-sized neut ships
- one neutralizer vs similar sized ships or smaller ships with capless guns can be generally speaking ignored unless you're in a nanoship without cap booster and it's a battleship-sized neutralizer.