IVPlated Armor
Gain a chance to either deflect incoming bullets, preventing all weapon damage or prevent all on-hit effects from bullets.
How Plated Armor is performing now
Durability and resistance
Gain a chance to either deflect incoming bullets, preventing all weapon damage or prevent all on-hit effects from bullets.
Plated Armor functions as durability and resistance within the Vitality shop. The strategic value is surviving a defined damage pattern or control window long enough to keep contributing. Because it is a late-build investment, the right comparison is the fight pattern it unlocks versus the other purchases that the same 6,400 souls could complete.
When Plated Armor belongs in the build
- Plated Armor's protection matches the damage or control that is deciding fights.
- Living through the first enemy commitment lets your kit deliver a second meaningful action.
- Your team needs you to hold space rather than trade your life for a single cast.
- The enemy threat profile does not match the protection described by the item.
- Poor positioning, not insufficient durability, is causing most deaths.
- More health would only delay a loss without creating damage, control, or an escape opportunity.
Timing, movement, and hero fit
Plated Armor is a late-build investment at 6,400 souls. Judge it against the next fight and the purchases it delays, not only against its isolated tooltip value.
Lock Lab has not received a reliable current sample for Plated Armor yet, so no performance conclusion should be drawn from missing data.
What else the same budget can buy
It occupies the same 6,400-soul price point. Cheat Death is a vitality item in Deadlock.
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Item strength depends on hero kit, purchase timing, lobby rank, and the current patch. Use the hero pages below to compare this item against complete build paths instead of treating a single item as universally optimal.
Transparent reference, original analysis
Live performance and purchase timing come from community-indexed match records. Lock Lab's rates, comparison windows, confidence labels, and hero-affinity analysis are original calculations—not official Valve recommendations.
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