Sustained gun damage

“Their gun grinds me down in a long fight.”

Start with Rebuttal — the cheapest answer, at 800 souls . 18 more below, by tier.

Items that answer this

19 items

Rebuttal Buy against melee-heavy divers and heroes with telegraphed heavy melee; it makes parry a real counterplay tool.
Rusted Barrel A cheap answer to an enemy gun carry in lane.

Battle Vest An efficient mid-game buy against gun carries when you also want offence.
Bullet Lifesteal Buy on gun carries to survive extended fights and farm safely.
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
Weapon Shielding Buy against a gun carry whose opening burst kills you before you can respond. Watch out: Melee damage also counts toward the trigger threshold

Bullet Resilience Buy when the enemy team's damage is predominantly gun-based; it is the standard tier-3 bullet answer. Watch out: Low-health threshold raised 40% -> 50% and the bonus lowered 22% -> 15% on 6 Mar 2026
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
Escalating Resilience Buy as a cheap dual-purpose pick when the enemy carries are gun-based and you stay in fights.
Fury Trance Buy on gun brawlers who want to win an extended slugfest without needing their abilities in it.
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

Cursed Relic Buy to shut down one enemy carry or to cancel a game-deciding ultimate outright. Watch out: Voice lines still refer to the old name Curse
Frenzy Buy on durable carries who regularly fight at low health and can survive the window.
Inhibitor Buy on a gun hero when one enemy is both out-damaging and out-healing your team — it hits both problems at once. Watch out: The damage penalty does not apply to spirit damage from an enemy with Unstoppable active; the healing reduction always applies
Juggernaut Buy on frontliners against a team that slows and kites you, especially when the main damage is gun-based.
Leech Buy on a carry who wins by staying in the fight and healing through incoming damage. Watch out: Healing reduction removed 8 May 2025 — older guides listing Leech as anti-heal are stale
Plated Armor Buy against high-fire-rate gun carries, especially ones relying on bullet build-up debuffs like Silencer, Toxic Bullets or Inhibitor. Watch out: Deflected bullets keep flying and can still damage other targets
Siphon Bullets Buy on sustained gun carries fighting big-health frontliners — it shrinks them and grows you at the same time. Watch out: Stolen health decays exponentially with successive applications because it scales off the enemy's reduced max HP
Vampiric Burst Buy to survive and win an extended duel on a carry.