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Potion · Evasion

Evasive Step Potion

Chance to fully avoid incoming contact damage.

Effect

What Evasive Step does

Chance to fully avoid incoming contact damage.

Evasive Step is a level-up pick that raises Evasion for the rest of the run. Every further pick adds another level, up to 60; rarer offers grant more per level.

Per level

Evasive Step by rarity

Gain per level of Evasive Step
Common+4 pts Evasion
Uncommon+5 pts Evasion
Rare+6 pts Evasion
Epic+7 pts Evasion
Legendary+8 pts Evasion

Luck — from Fortune or the Censer — shifts your offers toward the rarer rows.

Fit

Who Evasive Step is for

Evasive Step acts on your hero rather than on one skill, so it fits every build. Melee heroes who stand in the horde get the most out of it.

Timing

When to take Evasive Step

Take it when the horde starts landing hits — usually around the first minibosses. One defensive potion early buys the time your damage needs to scale. Out of slots? The Thorn Archive on each floor’s plaza removes a potion, and the Diamond Trader sells extra potion slots.

Builds

Builds that take Evasive Step

SWren#1

Blade Waltz

ArrowShadow DaggerBlade SweepCyclone

Median floor 8 · Swarm 2:20

BEmber#10

Ember Blaze

FireballCycloneLightningShadow Dagger

Median floor 7

BWren#12

Venom Coven

ArrowVenom FlaskShadow DaggerFrost Nova

Median floor 6

BWren#13

Pyre Halo

ArrowFireballCycloneShadow Dagger

Median floor 6

CWren#17

Iron Blade

ArrowBlade SweepFrost NovaSentry

Median floor 6

CWren#18

Swift Star

ArrowShurikenSentryLightning

Median floor 7

CWren#20

Cyclone Vortex

ArrowCycloneFireballFrost Nova

Median floor 6

More

Other potions

Movement Speed

Swiftness

Increases movement speed.

Cast Speed

Haste

Increases cast speed of every skill except summons.

Damage

Might

Increases all skill damage.

Gold Gain

Prospecting

Increases gold earned from kills.

Max HP

Vitality

Increases max HP.

Knockback

Impact

Increases knockback dealt on hit.

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