Is there a limit to how much damage deflect can take?

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The description says it prevents all damage. But if I stand next to D.Va mech during self destruct, and I activate deflect. I die anyway.

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Yeah it protects you from all damage. It works just fine. What happened to you was either:

  1. You didn’t time it right.
  2. It’s a channeled ability, so another action you took interrupted the channel.
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This, its a protected status like talented Varian parry or Medivh shields.

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Also stuns and knock backs ruin the channel, excluding the D.Va explosion.

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I’m pretty sure the push from the Mech Nuke doesn’t stun, and even if it did anything that stuns (like Tyrande’s Lunar Flare) will interrupt the ability but the damage is still blocked first.

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it’s what I meant- Excluding D.Va explosion

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  1. You can see the exact moment self destruct goes off by the outline. Not really possible not to time it right.

  2. Since no one else was going to stand inside of it, and no one but D.Va was around. It wasn’t possible for me to do anything else but press the button. I know it’s a channeled ability.

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Those are the only explanations unless there’s some crazy low chance rate bug out there, I literally just tested it out and deflected the mech explosion np. Even the knockback doesn’t cancel it after the fact.

Edit: https://makeagif.com/i/ws69r1

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There is no limit, there are videos of 5k+ damage perfect deflects from multiple damage sources at once. Not even a knockback can stop it, only a stun can.