Dive onto the backline

“They jump straight past the frontline onto me.”

Start with Close Quarters — the cheapest answer, at 800 souls . 32 more below, by tier.

Items that answer this

33 items

Tier 1 800 souls each

Close Quarters Buy on short-range brawlers who fight inside a few metres.
Extra Stamina Buy when you keep dying because you ran out of dashes mid-escape.
Rebuttal Buy against melee-heavy divers and heroes with telegraphed heavy melee; it makes parry a real counterplay tool.

Tier 2 1,600 souls each

Cold Front Buy when you need an area slow to catch runners or peel a dive; it upgrades into Arctic Blast.
Guardian Ward Buy on supports to save a focused ally from a burst window; it is the path to Divine Barrier.
Mystic Slow Buy on casters when enemies keep dashing out of your ability range.
Reactive Barrier Buy when enemy crowd control is followed by burst damage — it buys you the seconds you need to live through the combo. Watch out: Triggers only on Stun, Chain, Immobilize, Sleep or Silence — not on plain damage
Return Fire Buy against divers and sustained gun carries who commit to shooting you at close range. Watch out: Returns pre-mitigation damage, so it works off the attacker's raw output
Slowing Bullets Buy when enemy escape artists keep walking out of your damage window.
Slowing Hex Buy it when an enemy repeatedly uses a movement ability or item to dash, blink or fly out of your kill window. Watch out: Silences movement-based abilities AND movement items — it disables Warp Stone, Phantom Strike, Vindicta's Flight, Infernus's Flame Dash and similar
Stalker Buy on close-range duelists and flankers who commit into short range. Watch out: Triggers on weapon damage within 8m, not on the angle you attack from
Suppressor The cheap mid-game answer to a gun carry if you have any Spirit Damage to apply. Watch out: Duration was raised 4s -> 5s on 6 Mar 2026, then cut 5s -> 4.5s on 28 Jul 2026 — current value is 4.5s

Tier 3 3,200 souls each

Disarming Hex The dedicated answer to a gun carry: it simply turns their weapon off for four seconds during their damage window. Watch out: Affects abilities that modify primary fire, but not weapon-damage abilities that work independently of primary fire
Lifestrike Buy on melee bruisers for in-fight sustain.
Majestic Leap Buy to escape ground-based lockdown and to rotate across the map quickly. Watch out: Leaves you airborne, which Knockdown punishes with a longer stun and +100% gravity
Metal Skin Buy to blank an enemy gun carry's ultimate or burst window entirely. Watch out: Blocks weapon damage from players and NPCs, but on-bullet-hit effects and build-ups still apply
Point Blank Buy on shotgun-range brawlers who fight nose-to-nose.
Rescue Beam Buy on supports to extract a focused teammate out of a dive.
Silence Wave Buy to cut off enemy ability combos in a teamfight, or to Silence a channelling ultimate hero before they start — it will not cancel one already being channelled. Watch out: Silence does not interrupt channelling abilities, so it will not cancel an ultimate that is already being channelled
Stamina Mastery Buy when dodging telegraphed abilities and disengaging is how you survive.
Torment Pulse Buy on frontliners for free damage in brawls and to chip minions; the constant pulse can also help flush out an enemy hiding nearby.
Warp Stone Buy when you are repeatedly getting caught and killed out of position, or to close a gap onto a fleeing target. Watch out: Silenced (and therefore unusable) while affected by Slowing Hex
Weighted Shots Buy when you need to hold down mobile enemies with bullets alone and want more gun damage.

Tier 4 6,400 souls each

Arctic Blast Buy to lock down a mobile enemy team or to peel a dive off your backline — slowed targets cannot regenerate stamina. Watch out: Slowed targets have their stamina regen frozen
Cheat Death Buy when you are being assassinated in every fight — it converts one death per 90 seconds into an escape window. Watch out: Clears all non-stun debuffs when it triggers
Colossus Buy on frontliners who need to absorb a full team's damage while holding enemies in place. Watch out: The bonus base health applies only to starting base health and boon health, not health from abilities or other items
Crushing Fists Buy on melee bruisers who land repeated melee hits on one target.
Divine Barrier Buy on supports to cleanse a focused ally's debuffs and shield them through a burst window from across the fight. Watch out: Removes non-stun debuffs only — stuns are not cleansed
Diviner's Kevlar Buy on heroes with a channelled or commitment-heavy ultimate that the enemy tries to burst you out of.
Ethereal Shift Buy to survive a telegraphed assassination combo or ultimate — you cannot be hurt for four seconds. Watch out: Interrupts your own channelled abilities on activation
Juggernaut Buy on frontliners against a team that slows and kites you, especially when the main damage is gun-based.
Magic Carpet Buy when map rotations and split-push response are deciding the game, or as an escape from ground-locked fights. Watch out: Flying makes you a prime target for Knockdown's airborne bonus stun and +100% gravity
Vortex Web Buy to set up team wipes against scattered, mobile enemies — it groups them and takes away their escapes at once. Watch out: Applies the full Slowing Hex effect, so it silences enemy movement items such as Warp Stone and Phantom Strike