"The Escape Plan" - Survival Item for struggling players

[MaxIsJoe]

Name: "The Escape Plan"
Active/Passive: Passive
Cooldown: 300 seconds.
Tier: 1 - 500 souls
Group: Vitality
Extra Stats:

• +8% Spirit Resistance.
• +8% Bullet Resistance.

Description:

Upon receiving more than 250 damage in less than a second, turn invisble for 6 seconds while springing upwards, and knock all nearby enemies 6 meters away. While you're invisble, you are disarmed, and gain an additonal 35% bullet resistence. Using an ability or another item cancels this item's effects early.

 

[Sarus]

sounds like a t3 rat item more than an item for struggling players

 

[Tavish]

I don't think people like being robbed out of a kill like that. If you are struggling, I think a lot of existing items in the Vitality category can alleviate this problem.

 

[MaxIsJoe]

I don't think people like being robbed out of a kill like that. If you are struggling, I think a lot of existing items in the Vitality category can alleviate this problem.

With the way this item is laid out, I disagree. There's a very high 5 minute cooldown between each time it goes off, it requires other players to do a lot of damage that can only be achieved by an enemy team that's much further ahead than you or are taking you out by surprise, and you can still kill players who use this if you're able to shoot or use your abilities in their general direction.
This item is pretty much like Haze's smoke bomb already, but you cannot use it offensively.

The current items in the vitality category don't provide a way to ensure survival for weaker players, as pretty much most of them only provide protection against a few attacks, that can be seen as nothing for the enemy team. Let me demonstrate what I mean by this, by looking at the current items:

Enduring Spirit, Extra Health: 75/125 extra health. That can protect against what? A single low level pocket cloak? The pocket can still teleport to your location and shoot you point-blank, and if they're doing good; they'll even have more items that will probably do more than what this item is trying to protect against. A lot of the T1 items are incredibly weak when dealing with players who are snowballing very early.

Extra Stamina, Spring Boots, Extra Regen: Completely pointless if the enemy team has a way to slow you down or keep you in their range for an extended time. The 1 or 2 extra health points that get regenerated every second do not contribute to you surviving a flank, it only helps you after you've escaped. So again, not helpful.

There is an argument to be made that maybe you could rely on T2 items like Bullet Armor, Combat barrier, and especially Divine Barrier. I would agree with that, but this doesn't help players who are hard stuck at the beginning of the game who are unable to gather enough souls to buy these items, and I think rushing Divine Barrier or a Reactive Barrier just because you think you might have a hard game early is not an optimal solution.

Edit: Added clarification on why I think other vitality items aren't great for struggling players.

 

[Tavish]

The current items in the vitality category don't provide a way to ensure survival for weaker players, as pretty much most of them only provide protection against a few attacks, that can be seen as nothing for the enemy team.

I know those numbers sound weak, but most players will make a quick guess of how many hits they have to do to an enemy to get a kill, especially roamers, so getting 1 or 2 Vitality items can knock the top off that estimate by the enemy. Of course if you get ganked by multiple people or they enemy is far ahead, that is not going to help, but that kind of situation does not call for an item to solve the problem, but rather the game design itself.

For example, if the enemy is far ahead, is there a way to get back into the game. Here the most common answer is to catch this player if he's alone, or if he's grouping with his team, make use of the empty map and farm souls to even out the score.

 

[Kita]

250 damage in less than a second? That starts happening at like 10 minutes in. I can see situations where an enemy team is trying to midboss, so everyone grabs this item, knowing they can safely steal the rejuv without being obliterated.