Titan's AoE doesn't kill you. It's the knockback coming after.

...Titan just wants to play, you know. Being so many years alone.

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Now serious, I'm completely of a mind here. Most of the time I'm better recieving the damage from the AoE than attempting to run. Sometimes there's no Stropperchances to even survive. Specially when another player is battling a Stropper and hsi AoE is facing you. Anytime the AoE area is on my screen, it is already too late to avoid if I wasn't moving already.