Ben's Raincoat

 is an item in Risk of Rain 2, added in the Survivors of the Void update.

If the holder has any stacks of this item, most debuffs they would receive are completely negated. When this happens, a visual effect of a raincoat will be briefly displayed over the Survivor and the item will go on a 5 second internal cooldown, represented by the debuff. Negating a debuff also gives the holder 10% barrier. After the cooldown is over, the buff will be replaced with the buff, indicating debuffs can be negated again.

The holder can negate 1 (+1 per stack) debuff before Ben's Raincoat goes on cooldown.

Version History

 * PC Patch v1.2.3.0
 * Gameplay Changes
 * Rework behavior - Now has an internal cooldown of 5 seconds
 * Now blocks 1 (+1 per stack) debuffs before going on cooldown
 * Now grants 10% of your health as barrier when blocking a debuff
 * Now has the ‘Healing’ tag
 * No longer grants maximum health
 * 🌧 No longer blocks non-timed debuffs, like Eclipse 8 and skills like Power Mode Developer Notes: Ben’s Raincoat was a very binary item, resulting in unsatisfying stacking behavior and frustrations when given to monsters (like in Simulacrum). The item also trivialized Eclipse 8. Now, it has a bit of downtime for when it can block debuffs - and since we didn’t want this to be just a net nerf, we also added a large barrier when blocking a debuff with the coat.


 * Survivors of the Void
 * (Undocumented) Added New Item:

Trivia

 * The item is named after Ben Schofield, a senior programmer for Hopoo Games.