What can and can't go through Reinhardt's shield?

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I’m new and have like 40 hours in the game and for the life of me I can’t figure out the rhyme or reason of what goes through his shields? I know DVA bomb can’t. But for some reason winstons energy thing can go threw so can all energy weapons go threw it? I know fire strike can i just don’t know cause there are so many characters please help.

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Wellcome to the inconsistencys of overwatch design :slight_smile:

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Moira balls and ult
Winston Tesla cannon
any and all melee attacks except maybe melee punches not sure
fire strike

edit: in the past sym secondary attack used to go through sheilds and bodies but they removed that cool niche she had when really they should try to add more to combat the threat of layered barriers

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  • Winston’s LMB
  • Firestrike
  • Coalescence
  • Any melee attack
  • Halt & Moira Orbs can fly through the barrier, but cannot attack/grab through them.
  • Dragonstrike
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All melees can, most melee abilities can (dva boosters, doom rocket punch can, Brigitte shield bash can’t)

The projectiles that can go through are

Hanzo Dragon Strike
(Hanzo’s sonic arrow sticks to the shield until it is dropped, you can do damage to rein when he does that)
Firestrike
Something else I don’t remember

Winston is the only primary fire that can go through shields (except for brig and rein hammer swings they can because they are melee abilities)

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Pretty much just what they said plus winston zappy gun, melees like brig and rein M1 and moira ult. People can walk up into your face and through your sheild and do stuff that way, mei will do that so keep your distance from her.

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any melee attack except briggite stun

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Coalescence goes through the shield? Wow, I’d never even noticed the damage on that must be trash lol

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its trash nowadays since ana is in every game and she can make all healing effects actually stronger than coalesanece which makes it extremely usless Right now with 3 healers in most games.

Before this meta I usually just used it to snipe the main healer because they cant really heal themselves or i just used it when i run out healing and for some reason my team keeps pushing so i just add to that effect

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I suppose the armour has a lot to say about tickrate damages anyway right?

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well its not really used to fight tanks like i said I use it to hunt down the squishy healers if possible and if they have 100 brig armour then… tough luck i suppose i got countered.

sometimes i wonder if old torb was actually viable would everyone have as much a hate for armour as they do now.

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Coalescence only does 70 DPS, but also heals teammates for 120 HPS. It’s a support ult that supplements damage and heals groups at the same time.

Definitely nothing more than a tickle to most tanks who get healing xD

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