Does anyone else invert LShift with E?

General Discussion
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This was a change I made the very first day I played Overwatch.

I started out (Foolishly) trying to play Tracer. And I kept thinking
“This would be so much easier if Blink was on E.”
So I went into the settings and made it happen.

I put about 6 hours into Tracer before deciding she wasn’t for me. I moved on to Reaper next. Again, I was glad that Wraithform was on E and not LShift. Then I started playing Bastion. Again, glad to have Sentry/ Recon button on E. Then Junkrats mine on E was nice too.

So I’ve been playing that way ever since. The only hero I started getting into where that invert didn’t help though, was Hanzos Storm Arrow going to LShift.

But then Moira’s Fade on E is nice too. D.Va’s boosters on E is nice. Especiailly since the E+Q combo is so much easier than Lshift+Q.

I can’t really think of any other heroes actually, where this change doesn’t feel beneficial.

2

I switched Moira’s left and right click.

Shooty Primary fire on left click, like all other heroes, situational other ability on right click, like all other heroes.

Of course it means sometimes I get confused at people on the forums sometimes.

Why doesn’t Moira use her Leftclick orb enough? I’m like Preach it brother, kill the enemy! until I see what they mean isn’t what I thought it meant.

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I swapped Pharah’s E and Lshift, and Zen’s E and Lshift. I came from console though and I was just trying to match controls to buttons, and those two were off.

4

I’ve had that issue in chat a few times.

Me: Use your LShift
Them: I am
Me: Dammit, I meant your E… nvrm

lol

Edit

So wait. How are you switching controls hero specific? I didn’t know that was a thing.

Kinda late for me now, since I’ve put a few hoirs at least on every hero, but still.

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5

My abilities are Space bar, E and F.

Jump is Left Shift.

Crouch is Left CTRL

6

Oh…

Go to options, then go to the ‘controls’ tab, then at the top right there should be a box saying “all heroes”, click on that and scroll down to your desired hero and then all changes will be specific to that hero.

7

Huh. I wonder if that was a change made after the fact. Like it wasn’t an option when I started playing. Or maybe I didn’t notice.

If I screwed with it now, it would just throw me off. Stuck in my ways now lol

Edit

On a barely related note, I got one of those mouses with the two side buttons, but I keep forgetting they exist lol

8

Damn, how on Earth do you play Tracer with blink on “E”? Does that not completely screw up your ability to strafe?

My blink is bound to right-click, same with Winston’s jump.

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I use side mouse buttons for ability’s, Q for ult, left alt for crouch & left shift is melee. I also use scroll wheel as Zen orb’s & Lucio jump.

10

WASD are movement. How would Blink on E mess up my ability to straddle AD?