How to not get killed by Shadow Strike?

So my last 2 characters were HC and I have to say that after trying HC I just can't see myself going back to SC mode. The thrill just isn't there, the game gets boring, for me SC now takes away the atmosphere.

However, as we all know, HC characters can die pretty easily if not being at least moderately cautious, even on Veteran. Unfortunately I had that happen to me twice now, and both times in SoT. I managed to cruise extremely smoothly through everything untill that, even the likes of Salazar and 2 Hidden Path bosses. The only thing that still gices me chills in this game are retaliation and other sudden one-hit anomalies that I don't yet fully understand about that game, even @ 624 hours in.

My first HC character was a mix between bleeding & retaliation Warder, he died to Alkamos, but only due to huge ammounts of stupidity. First of all I was out of health potions because I sold them all prior to entering SoT (lol), and on top of that I also went to his area too soon (wasn't paying attention to a map). On top of all that I also had plenty chances to quit while on extremely low health cause he still couldn't nuke me like crazy, but I was just reckless and at the end died as a result.

Ok on to the second character, this was my favourite. A lightning & cold 2h Trickster, I absolutely loved this character. Again died as a result of extremely reckless Shadow Strike attempt on at least 2 Skeletal Monstrosity hero monsters, which I strongly believe had retaliation abilities because I just instantly died after that Shadow Strike (even tho I only ever put 1 point in SS also to prevent that to happen). Gotta mention the fact that I had some reflected dmg reduction from Owl constellation, but that didn't seem to make any noticable difference. Perhaps I got hit with something else on top of retaliation.

So now my main question is how to avoid that? How to know exactly which mobs/bosses shouldn't be shadow striked at all (retaliation is by far the most dangerous thing in the entire game imo). I know about those yellow orb having skeletal heros and Zantarin for example, but I don't know exactly for every other mob and boss type. And if I want to ever advance past this damn SoT I have a feeling I'd need to learn those things.

Any more detailed advice on how to manouver through SoT on HC? It's funny cause I had almost 0 problems with a challenge room, also that desecrated shrine wasn't a big issue, same with that reviving skeletal mini boss on top of one area. What happens is I get too confident at one point and after that I just die to something totally unexpected.

Thanks!

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How to not get killed by Shadow Strike?