Originally Posted by sniddy

I don't think girls abilities affect the ship, I've had one like that, just kept gunning the pest while the pest unleashed hell - I'm not proud of it but I ragequit at that point, and did it too soon, meaning I didn't loose the stamina - pure anger and frustration

Yeah I have since looked it up and the rates are a flat 22% for 1 special and 18% for the other. Depending on the RNG method they use that could mean a 40% chance of a special vs 60% of no special or it could be that they make 2 RNG rolls... either way I have not seen a way to increase ship special chance at all.