Pause at the right moment and look at the drone's alignment to figure out its target. Watch the enemy drone and cloak only when it is about to shoot something important. This can be true, but actually quite rarely, not nearly as much as folks say. An early enemy drone can cut you to pieces before you ever get to fire your weapons or escape from the fight, in such a way that there's nothing possible to do to save yourself. The plight of the shieldless Stealth ships is often cited as the biggest random-number-based swing in FTL. Stealth A is the ship of the day, and I'll say a few words on that before getting into the shieldless run itself. Here's a report of a shieldless win on Hard difficulty in FTL. FTL Faster Than Light - Shieldless with Stealth A
