Reinhardt can look behind himself by holding M1 while the shield is up and turning the mouse. He can even walk forward while watching his supports in that view.
I expect a lot of people going “well duh! I know all the things.”
You didn’t know either. Yes YOU.
But there’s probably silly stuff that just hasn’t been mentioned because its assumed common knowledge.
What other weird things are there about heroes that might not be common knowledge? Lets share little quirks you might not have picked up on heroes you don’t play much but might explain why they kill you a lot.
If you switch mei’s primary and main fires around it reverses up your icewall cancel/ok selects too.
If you run out of sentry bullets as bastion and shift and fire like 5 bullets and shift back you’re reloaded so you almost never stop firing.
Pharahs that manage their abilities well actually go HIGHER in the air until the skybox stops them rather than landing eventually.
Widow’s mine works like hanzo’s sonic arrow against anyone poisoned, don’t run back for the healthpack!
You can attach a pulsebomb onto an enemy junkrat tire so that everyone dies.
A stuck doomfist with full health has time to shoot you enough for sheilds to survive your pulse and hug you with it.
A lot of people bind Zenyatta’s orbs to the scrollwheel so they never have to stop moving while throwing them out.
A Zenyatta orb gives him wallhacks but only he can see them.
A winston can mix up his ticklegun and melee attack to get through armor.
If a moira jumps while fading on something that isn’t a normal wall or floor she can catapult herself really far.
1 like = 1 rein prayer.
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I knew it. That’s because it wasn’t always there and it was explicitly stated in patch notes when it was added.
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I knew, but I only learned a few months ago while haphazardly farting about in training vs ai.
One of the problems with this game is its lack of documentation…
If you played him a lot you would know, I found it like 3 months ago
I’m pretty sure they told us in the patch notes that this is an addition to the game and it’s actually a really useful tool for me.
I’m that nerd who reads every patch note, including ptr changes 
This was a very nice change for Rein. No need to offer the enemy his backside any more if he wants to quickly turn around and double check that nobody is actually grouping up with him.
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It was mentioned in the patch notes when it was added…
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What you didn’t know about Reinhardt’s free camera is that if you release M2 before M1, you instantly snap in the new direction (rather than the original position of the barrier) and swing your hammer, which can be interrupted by any other ability in his kit. With a little practice, you can fake your attention in one direction and nigh instantaneously charge, fire strike, or even use Earthshatter in another direction, and it punishes flankers.
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Release notes are not proper documentation; they are a changelog.
I’m whipping together a quick video.
Which are a form of documentation…
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https://youtu.be/nLJZvtb8U-c
https://youtu.be/qMwjecArVeQ
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Again, release notes are not proper documentation. They are a change log.
https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=documentation+definition&fr=yfp-t&fp=1&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8
It’s right there…
Sure, it’s not ingame, but it’s right there.
Also @CATCHPHRASE is right. Documentation = patch notes. Not our fault you don’t read them.
To be fair, that’s the wiki, which is just a community project. It’s not Blizzard that’s in charge up that site’s upkeep.
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Yes but when you want information about something, there’s a wiki.
And patch notes. Patch notes are great.
For the longest time I didn’t realize that Earthshatter actually stunned Torb’s turrets. It was just something I never really took the time to experiment with I guess.
Come to think of it, has anyone ever tried to sleep a turret?
