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''This page refers to the Stealth [[skill]]. For the stat and mechanic, see [[stealth]].''

The '''Stealth''' [[skill]] is a representation of how well your character understands the art of moving silently. Until your adventurer blunders into the [[Dungeon]] and starts killing everything, most monsters spend their time sleeping or wandering about peacefully. Stealth decreases the chance that you are detected, increases the power of [[stab]]bing unweary monsters, and increases the effectiveness of some status-inflicting [[dart]]s.

For every point of stealth, you gain 15 [[stealth]] score. Note that there's many other factors in determining stealth score, such as [[armour]], [[size]], and [[dexterity]]. This score is used for detection, but not stabs or darts. Stealth skill (not score) is also directly used to open [[door]]s; each time you open a door, the chance of it making noise is <code>1 / ( (4/3 * [[Stealth]]) + 8 )</code>.

{{skill aptitudes|Stealth}}

==Strategy==
In ''Crawl'', Stealth is generally poor as a "main" offensive skill. If sleep-stabbing is the only way you can kill things, and the enemy wakes up, then you have a problem. This means a way to kill awake monsters is necessary, but if you have one, then stealth becomes superfluous. Therefore, "stabber" characters typically rely on a way to disable foes ([[Hexes]], [[Petrify]], [[Uskayaw]], etc.) instead of using Stealth to sneak up on enemies.

Instead, stealth is often used as a defensive skill. It can help you avoid dangerous monsters, such as [[Sigmund]], [[orc priest]]s and [[centaur (monster)|centaurs]]. If you've been [[shaft]]ed, stealth can help you avoid encounters on the way back up. Also, Stealth skill increases stab damage and chance to stab, so stabbers will want some amount of it.

[[Armour encumbrance]] reduces stealth score by a flat amount. [[Plate armour]] reduces it by -214, equal to 14.4 levels of Stealth skill, so its hard for heavy melee brutes to benefit at all from stealth without a set of [[shadow dragon scales]].

==History==
*Prior to [[0.12]], stealth skill trained at 80% the XP cost. To compensate, this version raised all non-[[Naga]] aptitudes by one.

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