Not true.
There are times when you're on the deck without enough E to avoid the second, third or fourth guy coming HO although if you can avoid those "every time" I'm open for a lesson and I don't mean a lesson in not fighting multiple cons.
If you have very good SA it should give you time to use your knowledge of what to do and when to do it. Let's just go with your one example. You were on the deck. Why? If there were that many cons around, and it sounds like you were outnumbered in this example, was there a specific moment where a decision to egress and reset would have reduced the number of bandits able to engage you? If you had just taken off maybe, why? Good SA should have given you information that allowed you to make a decision not to put yourself in that position. We all love the fight, we love to stay with it till some one dies. If you truly abhorr the HO and will not allow yourself to be engaged thusly, then you have to decide not to continue what you were doing which is about to allow the other guy to position himself for a HO.
Maybe I should clarify my original statement. An HO that involves me is because I made poor decisions or chose not to take action in time to avoid it.
An HO as I define it is a zero angle deflection shot
. It takes very little "re-alignment" to make that zero something higher.
