Lineage 2: Revolution Paladin Deflection Damage PvP Combo Guide

To execute the Paladin deflection damage combo in Lineage 2: Revolution, chain your crowd-control and taunt abilities to force enemy attackers to hit your defensive barriers during their peak burst windows. By layering damage mitigation with reflection mechanics, you turn high-damage offensive skills back on the attacker.

Core Skill Rotation

Execute skills in a strict order to prevent opponents from disengaging or kiting your defensive uptime.

Lock down the target with Slam. Close the distance and initiate with Slam to knock the opponent down. This knockdown temporarily disables their mobility skills and defensive shields.
Taunt with Vengeance. Cast Vengeance as the target recovers from the knockdown. This skill taunts nearby enemies to force their targeting onto you while increasing your physical and magical defense. The forced attack stops them from retreating.
Trigger Shield of Faith. Activate Shield of Faith to heavily reduce incoming damage. Because the opponent is compelled to attack you while this defensive barrier is active, their burst skills are absorbed and deflected directly back into their own health pool.
Finish with basic attacks or rare skills. Once the reflected damage depletes the opponent's health, use your equipped rare skills or primary basic attacks to finish the target before your defensive buffs expire.

Timing dictates success. Casting Vengeance too early allows agile opponents to flee outside your taunt radius. Activating Shield of Faith too late leaves you exposed to unmitigated incoming damage.

How Deflection Punishes Burst Attackers

The Human Paladin relies on active and passive reflection mechanics to generate lethal counter-pressure while mitigating damage. Reflected damage calculates from raw incoming hits before an attacker's defensive stats mitigate the recoil.

Because fragile classes like Hawkeyes and Abyss Walkers possess modest health pools and low physical defense, absorbing even a fraction of their own critical strikes can instantly deplete over half their health. This mechanic turns high opening burst into a lethal liability for the attacker.

Complementary Rare Skills and Gear Attributes

Selecting defensive rare skills and survivability substats keeps your Paladin alive long enough to let reflection damage deplete the enemy.

Slot	Option	Strategic Purpose
Primary Rare Skill	Meteor Shower	Provides an area-of-effect knockdown and burst damage to finish off weakened targets.
Secondary Rare Skill	Absolute Shield	Grants high temporary damage reduction to survive extreme burst phases during reflection windows.
Alternate Rare Skill	Missile Bolt	Supplies single-target ranged burst to eliminate targets attempting to flee out of melee range.
Accessory Set	Nassen or Black Ore	Nassen increases movement speed for chasing; Black Ore raises Critical Resistance against assassin burst.
Priority Substats	Critical Resistance, Resilience, HP Drain	Enhances your effective health pool and sustained durability during trades.

Pairing Absolute Shield with Shield of Faith establishes a heavy damage-reduction window. Opponents attacking into this combined barrier damage themselves while your health remains protected.

PvP Positioning and Target Selection

Your engagement strategy should adjust based on whether you are dueling in the 1v1 Arena or fighting in the Honorable Battlefield.

1v1 Arena: Opponents controlled by AI typically unload high-tier burst skills immediately. Trigger your lockdown and defensive rotation at the start of the duel to catch their primary burst skills on your deflection barrier.
Honorable Battlefield: Human opponents will avoid hitting a Paladin displaying active defensive buffs. Do not chase targets across the map. Instead, position slightly ahead of allied backline players to bait aggressive divers. When an enemy assassin dashes in, immediately catch them with Slam and Vengeance to force them to hit you inside your deflection window.

Counterplay and Skill Cooldown Management

Deflection tactics are less effective against sustain brawlers, damage-over-time mages, and long-range archers who kite outside melee range. These opponents can gradually whittle down your health without triggering sharp deflection spikes.

When Vengeance and Shield of Faith expire, Paladin damage output and survivability drop sharply. If your combo fails to defeat the target, disengage immediately and kite until your defensive cooldowns and crowd-control skills are ready. Extended basic-attack trades without active mitigation leave you vulnerable to attrition.