Sigma's boulder isn't a projectile?

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I’ve started to play Sigma and I gotta say I love him.
His primary is awesome to use and his barrier is really noice
But something I have to say as a “”""""“Sigma Main”"""""", his boulder not being counted as a projectile is pretty dumb and needs changing

What do I mean?
I mean the fact that it ignores D.va’s DM, Genji’s reflect and Sigmas Succ shouldnt be a thing.
If Fire Strike, a ball of non solid fire, can be reflected, a boulder should also be.

BuT THatS juST mY oPiNIon, wHAt Do yOU GUys THinK??

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I agree completely

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? it’s a rock

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I think giant bolder would be a little hard to deflect.

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Genji can reflect fire, a rocket powered hammer, Moira’s weird orbs, and a 2 ton mech flying into him at 30mph and punching in the chops, a rock should be nothing.

DM not eating it was a surprise, but, it’s a little big to disintegrate I guess.

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Huh? It does not ignore Sigma’s kinetic grasp. I have been tossing it at Sigma 24/7 to no avail.

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ah but it stuns, its like how genji cant deflect shield bash or rocket punch… not really sure why it ignores sigma’s succ and defense matrix tho… too big i guess lol

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How the hell is Gengu going to send a 2000 pounds rock back with his puny butter knife. Hell, it’s probably too large for defense matrix.

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But how does he send fire back?

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it’s very dense because it has a blackhole in the center.

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That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense either.
Botom line is, i think it’s okay to have exceptions.
Hook is another one of said exceptions. At most, Gengu should be able to ‘‘parry’’ it like he does with Roadhog’s hook.

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I agree with your point. I was mostly just pointing out how silly some of the realism arguments can be when you look at a lot of stuff in the game.

I’m totally fine with the rock being an exception, has a long CD and a sufficiently long cast time. There’s no need to then also give it even more counters.

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Yes but him deflecting sound is totally realistic

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Good point. Realism doesn’t translate well into Overwatch.

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but Genji deflected a bell in the Diablo cinematic.

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It’s an exception. Kinda like how immortality field and mei’s Snowball Ult look like they would behave exactly the same but one’s a reflect-able projectile and the other has health

Both literally toss out something that hits the ground and then levitates with an aoe

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I’ve seen it classified as an “object” instead of projectile. So like Torb and Sym’s turrets, D.Va bomb and riptire, it can’t be deflected or DM’ed.

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It’s a balance thing. If you guys need ingame logic to explain it just think about how it is manipulated with gravity magic which makes it unable to be absorbed or deflected.

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Consider it on par with Rein’s Charge or DF’s RP.

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woah woah woah, you guys don’t really expect genji to be able to deflect a slow moving rock, right?
molten metal and sound waves sure, but rocks? does he look like a miracle worker?