Reactive Barrier
passive Documented When to buy Reactive Barrier Reactive Barrier +55s Cooldown +10s Duration +1 Out of Combat Regen Builds from Grit
Buy when enemy crowd control is followed by burst damage — it buys you the seconds you need to live through the combo.
When to skip Reactive Barrier
Does nothing against damage that is not preceded by crowd control.
Gotchas
The mechanics people most often get wrong about this item.
- Triggers only on Stun, Chain, Immobilize, Sleep or Silence — not on plain damage
Problems it answers
- Stuns and hard CC — “I get locked down and deleted.”
- Burst damage — “I die before I can react.”
- Dive onto the backline — “They jump straight past the frontline onto me.”
Heroes that make this worth a slot
Heroes whose kit creates the problems Reactive Barrier answers. This is derived from kit properties, not from measured build results.