Plated Armor Inconsistencies

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There are a few items able to pierce Plated Armor that don't specify that they do within their descriptions—if intended—as well as a few abilities that behave similarly.

Characters:​

• Mirage's Djinn's Mark builds up regardless of deflection and on-hit prevention.
• Paradox's Kinetic Carbine deals and afflicts its spirit damage and debuff regardless of deflection and on-hit prevention despite being a bullet-enhanced ability affected by weapon items.
• Vindicta's Flight deals its bonus spirit damage regardless of deflection.
• Wraith's Full Auto deals its bonus spirit damage regardless of deflection.

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Items:​

• Burst Fire will provide its buff regardless of deflection or on-hit prevention.
• Hollow Point will reduce an enemy's bullet resist regardless of deflection and on-hit prevention.
• Mercurial Magazine deals its bonus spirit damage regardless of deflection or on-hit prevention.
• Mystic Shot deals its bonus spirit damage, and guarantees the bullet damage when not on cooldown, regardless of deflection or on-hit prevention.
• Restorative Shotheals the character regardless of deflection or on-hit prevention.
  • (This occurs with souls as well when they have been shot but not secured/denied.)
• Tesla Bullets/Capacitor deals shock damage regardless of the bullet that proc'd it being deflected.
• Weakening Shot/Crippling Headshot will reduce an enemy's bullet resist, spirit resist, and healing effectiveness regardless of deflection and on-hit prevention.

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There are other abilities and items that do correctly interact with Plated Armor which is why these behaving as they do create inconsistency.

Characters:​

• Graves' Essence Theft.
• Haze's Fixation.
• Holliday's Crackshot.
• Infernus' Afterburn.
• Mina's Love Bites.
• Seven's Power Surge.
• Victor's Shocking Reanimation (T1).
• Wraith's Card Trick build-up.

Items:​

• Armor-Piercing Rounds when it triggers. (Plated Armor's counter.)
• Headshot Booster/Headhunter.
• Inhibitor.
• Lucky Shot.
• Ricochet.
• Silencer.
• Siphon Bullets.
• Slowing Bullets/Weighted Shots
• Spirit-Shredder Bullets/Spirit Rend.
• Stalker.
• Toxic Bullets.

Oddities:​

• Doorman's Service With A Smile creates a new projectile when deflected, but the original projectile continues to pierce and damage enemies behind the enemy with Plated Armor.
• Grey Talon's Rain of Arrows.
  • It has an odd behavior of visually deflecting all arrows, even if it was just one that hit the enemy with Plated Armor, but the multishot will still hit other enemies.
    • This also occurs for weapons with innate multishot/spread.
• Paige's Chapter's End creates a new projectile when deflected, but the original projectile continues to pierce and damage enemies behind the enemy with Plated Armor.

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