[quote=Rilla]
Pretty much. While you may be able to absorb it, you'd have to prep for it. If I prep said attack for 3 turns and your absorb has no prep, then you'd take a good bit of that attack straight to damage.
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Cute. No. If someone has ten turns of prep, and a character can still feasibly dodge or block... they dodge or block.

If you and I were in a fight, for example... and you pulled back a bat to swing at me while standing around a corner... Say I couldn't see you, and I walked up and saw your shadow, but you heard my footsteps. You step out and swing it at me, but I knew you were there JUST before you attacked. Guess what... you could be standing there for an hour and it wouldn't matter. I would have just as much chance to dodge as you would to hit.

Thus how logic works.