How does Genji dragonblade ghost dashing work?

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Sometimes I see those montages where people get a nano blade and they dash to around 4 enemies in about 3-4 seconds.
Now I know what the ghost dash is and how it works (you can dash reset instantly to dash in another direction) but I struggle to comprehend how people can know WHERE the enemies are to dash to.

It just looks like the person simply flicks at a 135-180 degree angle and dashes there but it seems to get an enemy almost all the time no matter where the enemy team is.

Is there a reason for this? Am I just missing something?

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They must be god or they just mindlessly dash at the general direction of the enemy team

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No one makes montages of when things don’t work.

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Positional awareness is one of the most defining skills for high level Genji players. They’re deciding where they’ll be going on the next dash before doing the first one. That’s part of why things like putting a Zarya bubble on Genji’s first target can instantly make him look like an idiot, because it interrupts the planned flow of his movement.

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Not a genji player, but as someone who plays a lot of mercy you get used to keeping track of everyone else’s locations. Genji probably can remember where enemies were and where they’re most likely to have moved to (and as others have mentioned they don’t always get it right).

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I can honestly “hear” where people are, I kinda figured everyone did.

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Genji main here, the thing that seperates a good genji and a bad genji, at least when it comes to blade, is planning. You need to know where each vital target is, what cooldowns they could counter blade with is at, and where they will run in reaction to blade. Ghost dash montages are a mix of luck and that skill effectively mastered .

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I use sound. If I they’re not in LOS and I hear someone use an ability (ie Moira coming out of fade, Hanzo lunging, lucio wallriding) then I ghost dash in that direction.

That’s usually rare though. As most of the time I know where the enemy is. (or wants to go) It’s a skill you build up by getting 0 man blades 200 times. You’re forced to adapt like a honey badger.

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