Talk:Great Club/@comment-24080141-20131023111950/@comment-3492791-20140803032829

The main benefit to rolling is not actually the physical displacement, but that during a portion of the roll you are invincible to damage. The fastest roll, being the Dark Wood Grain Ring, nearly the entire animation the player is invincible. As you get heavier and get slower rolls the recovery time increases and the invincibility duration gets shorter. Heavy rolls have a very short duration of invincibility and a very long recovery time. This most of the time trying to dodge with a heavy roll will not stop you from getting hit. If I remember correctly if you get hit during a roll it counts as stagger damage, mean you'll actually take more damage trying to evade than if you had done nothing.