Flashbang goes through deflect

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Hi, i just got flashbanged while deflecting it

imgur. com/iXVGltP

if you are saying thats lag then why did it go on cooldown

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You can flashbang a deflecting Genji if you throw it in a spot to splash without hitting deflect hitbox

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Hmm…

I would probably call it Favor the shooter Here…

It may have gone on cooldown for you, but… on the replay from the mccree’s perspective i didn’t see the animation of deflect even begin…

It did hit directly, but… I bet it’s less hitbox, and more… Timing…

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Perhaps there’s like an incredibly short delay/cast-time on Genji’s deflect and you just got unlucky?

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Flashbang has a flash hitbox so he hit you with that while you were deflecting.

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Get over it, I’ve seen FAR more videos of people getting killed by janky deflects when they shouldn’t be. I’m sure you’ve cheesed plenty of “undeserved” kills with that ability, so no sympathy here (In fact I say good on that Mccree)

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Here’s the gif. That is weird, maybe he threw it at the floor and the visuals got messed up?

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Favor the shooter mixed with lag

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Deflect hit box is all wonky right now so it’s probably a bit of both

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Could be.

I have still always disliked that it’s Instant… I have had attacks deflected recently that i had Zero clue Would be deflected, because the genji was like, to my right trying to deflect a hanzo arrow or whatever.

Tis wonky, but… also Gengo may not be as fast as he thinks.

(I know for a Fact that he can still deflect Widow’s shots, while she’s scoped and cannot see him next to her. You just die without warning… -.-)

At least attack me like a REAL NINJA, you Robot.…

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I agree it’s kind of infuriating to play against but I do think it has to be instant otherwise it’d be useless

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A few things that it could be

  1. Flashbang got thrown and exploaded behind you, and you happened to cast deflect an instant before Flashbang went off, but the hit box doesn’t protect your butt anymore.
  2. Some wonky favor the shooter stuff mixed with ramps being bad for video games. SImilar things happen with Mei and Sombra all the time.
  3. You were just a little too slow. No hard feelings, if you play the game long enough you’ll get random little things where a milisecond decides your fate and the outcome of the game. Hacking Rein as he’s about to shatter. Sleeping Lucio mid cast of Sound Barrier. Hooking Orisa as she drops her supercharger. It happens, and the longer you play the more likely you’ll run into little timing things like this where it’s a photo finish and you lost.

All in all, it’s probably a mix of the three, but it appears to be working as intended. Flashbang has an explosive AOE which goes through deflect, the grenade itself was fired a ltitle behind Genji, and it was thrown first.

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Well, he could at least have an animation That happens split seconds before he uses it… Not attached to the actual ability time and all that, just…
“If you are quick enough to react, i’m going to deflect now”

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Ah that would work, it’d also give people more time to react and stop shooting

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Exactly.

I have taken the approach of attempting to balance everything as an objective third party. :grin::ok_hand:

(That way everyone is happy.)

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Very noble cause. Sadly there will never be an instance where everybody will be viable due to counters and such.

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Maybe not “Meta” But viable… We’ll see.

We’ll see.

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The real question is what will people complain about if everybody is viable?

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The normal things… Small things…

Right now there’s Multiple Threads complaining about Moira’s “Lock on”
(Not the OP Of the threads, but the people who choose to post in them.)

which… Btw…

Literally doesn’t exist.

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People still don’t realise its just a large cone with a fancy animation lol

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