Take the Hit vs Corrupted Idols & Gravity Well

[Trekin]

Take the Hit: After an enemy model targets a friendly models within a 2in aura with an Attack Action, this model may discard a card to Place itself into base contact with the friendly model and become the target of the new Attack Action (ignoring range, LoS, and targeting restrictions).

Can Take the Hit still be used if the model is unable to be placed (due to holding the lode stone, Gravity Well, or no space available)?

[touchdown]

I believe yes. It doesn't say "if you placed" so you resolve each instruction in order, skipping ones it's illegal to do.

[solkan]

Yep, the place doesn’t have to succeed for the rest of that sentence to happen.