Originally, I was under the impression that the reason Brigitte’s shield bash hitting either a Reinhardt charge or Doomfist punch caused both players to be stunned was because it was also a stun. Now that the bash does not stun anymore, the bash still causes a stun for both players… what’s up with that? Is this supposed to be the case?
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It was originally, but I think its still in the game because its also a “charge” so to speak.
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Yeah. Why wouldn’t it be?
That makes sense, i’m just trying to figure out the defining factors that would cause something to have this “both players stunned” interaction.
Full body action, so to speak. So bodies collide with each other.
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I was about to post about this. Are there any other ‘hidden’ Shield Bash interactions in OW2 like this? I think these are the only two.
I’d rather like to know why it is not possible anymore to rescue team members from being pinned by Reinhardts charge with Brigittes shield bash.
Been playing a lot of Brig recently, and as far as I remember, if you shield bashed a charging Reinhardt in OW1, both Reinhardt and Brig got knocked down, but the person being charged was released. Now in OW2, they always seem to get squashed upon impact of the shield bash. Not sure if it depends on the angle you need to hit Reinhardt now, but I’ve not been able to save anyone from the pin like this anymore.
It even makes you feel more bad as support when it happens, because this way its basically you who killed them, even though you actually wanted to help them.
Not to mention that bashing a charging Rein ist actually a pretty risky move in a team fight, since you can get killed easily when being knocked down.
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That’s actually such a funny interaction
that was a measure so that brigitte would not only stun reinhart or doomfist , because with brig’s stun if you stood to the side and stunned them only they would be stunned (which was very logical) but after several whining they put that mechanic so that this would no longer happen.
It’s not all stuns, B.O.B. also has a ‘charge’ interaction.
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They need to remove that interaction for doomfist because he cannot survive that.
He gets blown up reinhert has a change of surviving because his hp pool is insane if brig stuns doom you’re just trading a support for their maintank.
Why would Doomfist rocket punch into a Brigitte?
I don’t see why they would remove a noob trap.
It depends on the angle that you hit the charging Reinhardt.
I think if your point of contact with Reinhardt happens upfront at the direction the Reinhardt is facing (180degrees upfront or otherwise 90degrees left and 90 degrees right to his head), then it knocks down both the Rein and the Brigitte and causes the wall-pin damage on the pinned person.
If it’s from the side or behind under those 180degrees then it will knock both down and the pinned person will be released.
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does bob also cancel charge?
They’re all stun-based rush maneuvers. Frankly, making any of those collision match-ups uneven would be like letting Genji’s butter knife stop Reinhardt’s hammer from hitting him, and that’s horse crap.
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Then I must have hit them on the wrong angle. Feels a lot harder to do right in OW2. Maybe its because of Reinhardts increased mobility during the charge.
Thanks for the clarification!