Tire

A common Rubber set neck armor exclusive to The Junkyard. Provides +2 Shield and a passive contact retaliation: any unit that touches you is knocked back 2 tiles. The knockback on contact is automatic and requires no action — enemies that try to melee you get shoved away, disrupting their positioning. Part of the Rubber set with Rubber Mask and Rubber Hat, stacking the knockback passive across all three slots.

The MeleeRevengeDamage passive fires on contact, not specifically on taking a melee hit — any unit that moves into your tile or attacks from adjacent range triggers the knockback. A 2-tile knockback is significant: it resets enemy positioning entirely, forces them to spend movement to re-engage, and can knock enemies into hazards or off advantageous positions. Stacking this across all three Rubber set pieces means every contact attempt gets punished.

Excellent in tight corridors where knockback has nowhere to dissipate, and powerful against melee-heavy enemies that rely on staying adjacent. Builds that can use the repositioning to control enemy flow — pushing them into traps, off ledges, or back into an ally's range — get the most out of the full Rubber set. In The Junkyard where melee enemies are common, this neck armor is a reliable pickup.