Well, Evade Combat by itself isn't at its strongest; what makes it stronger is all the special moves like Gaussian Blur and such that Hackers use to increase their Combat Evasion (at least it should, though I think there needs to be some fixing since even with those buffs to like 150% the shield seems to break easily).
I don't think you can do this now, but at higher levels, the strategy I use for those times I get pulled into Interlock and become Disarmed, I have at least partially a Melee tree loaded (Kung Fu, etc), so I won't get slaughtered as my guns are gone. But for the Duelist tree, its rolls are usually consistently high, so most people wouldn't have to worry much about it anyways.