Why do people keep jumping in this game?

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Legit question. I have not encountered this much in any other game. But my whole team was jumping ALL the time during fights… it just looks like angry rabbits and its very silly… is this a reaction of stress or what?

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Helps with dodging enemy fire and makes it harder for enemies to track you

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its slightly harder to hit a jumping target

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I…chuckled harder than I should have. xD

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Most importantly, it makes your critical hitbox placement less predictable at any given moment.

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I see reinhardts doing it as well while having their shield deployed so I don’t understand how they’re making themselves harder to hit when there’s a giant shield guarding them?

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Sometimes they think that jumping makes you move a little quickier to the fight, however jumping is an effective strategy in the middle of a fight.

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I’m no Rein main so I could be wrong about this but I believe due to his slower walking speed witg shield deployed that jumping and deploying shield during jump can marginally increase your forward movement.

I’m not sure though.

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It’s a habit, and it helps in some scenarios. Though it is funny watching a Roadhog jump, they actually think it might help😂

I swear, I can’t right habit anymore without writing hobbit first😂

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Brah when I’m roadhog I play so careful because of my giant hitbox it feels like I get melted so fast

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I have to agree it’s to make him move faster when he has his shield deployed because he gets a movement speed decrease.

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This is actually not true because of the predictably slow speed at which players fall in this game, and the fact that it hinders their ability to move from side to side. As a Widow, you’ll notice it’s actually easier to hit jumping targets than running targets.

This is why in the higher levels of play, you see significantly more crouching than jumping. Crouching is faster and more reliably allows you to strafe from side to side, making tracking difficult.

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i see you never have been scatter shot

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There’s a couple of things that get thrown off by you being in a certain stance. Crouching can give you enough cover to otherwise stay hidden or avoid Hog’s Hook, Jumping can avoid Junkrat’s bombs and Scatter arrow, Proper Strafing can avoid single hit projectiles and hitscan in most cases…

It’s just anything to mitigate damage or risk. Also:

JUMPING IS FUN

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I’m leveling my Acrobatics skill.

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A lot of people migrated from WoW.

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Scatter Arrow…

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Pressing spacebar feels good :blush: