Why is Genji the god of animation canceling

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But I can’t interrupt “reload” with hack when I’m playing Sombra ?

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Neither can Genji, by the way.

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are you gonna tell me genji can’t dash while reloading ?

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He can, but he has to finish the reload afterwards (if he’s fully out of ammo).

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Can’t you interrupt it with translocate?

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Well just imagine you have to wait until your reloading’s done to swiftstrike and you’ll feel the pain

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You can also melee and cancel the reload to hack, by the way.

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And i’m stuck here not able to move, Playing Bastion, with one of if not the longest reload in the game. :neutral_face:

Wish i had an Animation cancel… Other than the Very rare recon reload cancel… which if done incorrectly forces you to reload twice. :sweat_smile:

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Marketing.

Tracer and genji

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Lmao, Tracer and Genji in Season 10 omegalul.

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Except melee has a lot of recovery time, which means it will barely make any difference. Also you can’t do that if you are at 0 ammo because the game will keep forcing reload on you.

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I imagine it’s to make high mobility/dive heroes feel more fluid.

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The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some may consider to be unnatural…

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Regardless, animation cancelling is one of Sombra’s most irrelevant worries right now.

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Heroes like…Sombra?

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everybody should be treated the same, either everybody can cancel animations, or no one cares. It’s just unfair that some heroes can and some others cant

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The order for what can be cancelled goes like this (as far as I can remember at least):

Higher numbers can cancel lower numbers ->

  1. LMB/RMB (Hack falls into this catagory)
  2. Reload
  3. E/Shift
  4. Melee
  5. Ultimate

Though, I think that blink is in a whole different catagory since you can Melee -> Blink.

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You’re wrong. She has massive issues with animation cancelling. For example her reload gets completely cancelled, forcing you to redo it, by the following (even if done after the bullets are replenished):
Translocator throw
Translocating
Going into stealth
Exiting stealth
EMP

Every single other hero in the game can cancel the later portion of their reload animation with any ability (except shadow step).

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She’s not the same kind of high mobility I’m talking about. Genji/tracer use there high mobility during the fight. Sombra uses her high mobility to sneak up/around people.

Maybe my wording is bad but hopefully you can see what I’m trying to say.

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???

How is this comparable to Sombra? Sombra can use her translocator during her reload, just like Genji can swift strike during his. Genji being able to interrupt his reload with swift strike isn’t an animation cancel, because it doesn’t finish the reload. You still have to sit through the reload afterwards. An animation cancel is when you get the benefits of 2-3 abilities, but at a much faster time than you would by sitting through the animation.

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