Dash/Slide shooting behaviour (Not hero specific)

[DNADota]

A weird behaviour me and another person on Discord stumbled upon:

1. During Shooting > Dash > instantly cut Dash anim with Slide > Shooting is delayed (even when Infinite Ammo icon is displayed)

2. Not Shooting > Dash > instantly cut Dash anim with Slide > Shooting is NOT delayed


Another explanation:

1. Shooting during ground dash is locked, thats good
   
   
2. But you can cut the dash anim with a slide almost instantly after you dash
   
   
3. and go into a Slide
   
   
4. which shows the Infinite Ammo icon
   
   
5. you can shoot during that Slide with no delay
   
   
6. However, if you are Shooting before the first Dash, then cutting that Dash with a Slide almost instantly still locks your Shooting for the whole duration of the Dash timer, even though you are Sliding with Infinite Ammo icon being shown

Tested at first on Mina and Haze and it's there, even if harder to notice.

However, when tested on Silver and other shotgun heroes like Abrams, the delay becomes huge, almost to the point of a whole shot whiffed/missed. This feels very inconsistent/unresponsive.

Is this intentional or a bug relating to Dash duration timer and it locking shooting?

Edit:
Attached a video showing the Dash/Slide/Shoot vs Shoot/Dash/Slide/Shoot delay interaction on Silver.
Bug occurs at:
0:08 - 0:12 timer
0:18 - 0:21 timer
View attachment Dash_Slide_Shoot.mp4

 

[van17ino6]

Yes, this is something that happened forever, it's bad for low firerate heroes like Silver, Abrams, Geist, etc...
I think it's refered to as "bullet cycle time" by devs, but I'm not 100% sure of this.

I suppose it's intentionally added to the game for some reason I don't know (maybe animations?) but I believe shooting and moving would feel so much more responsive if they worked independently, like how it works with Graves.

More threads about this, and surely there's more in the private channels:

Post in thread 'Air Dash Stops You From Shooting, Except When It Doesn't.'

Apr 6, 2026

I really hope it isn't an intended mechanic given it's possible to bypass it by manually releasing and press m1. But if it is intended and the trick stops working I hope the bullet windup cooldown/lock out becomes a fixed period of time instead of one dependent on fire rate.

On low fire rate heroes, instantly letting go of m1 to dash then going back to holding it down won't work since dashing at any point when the gun is not ready to fire again will incur the cooldown. It's easy to test this by shooting once, then quickly letting go of m1 to jump and air dash and go back to holding...

• qtclone

Thread '[GRAVES] instant-air-dash movement lets graves not consume ammo and still fire (graves specific)'

Mar 17, 2026

this clip shows wraith as example. Wraith will stop shooting if you do the instant air dash, however for graves she is able to continue firing and lets her have an infinite ammo. Despite having infinite stamina in this clip, ingame it can prolong the firing to still deal a lot of damage that otherwise wouldnt if this didnt exist, player would have to do the instant dash and respect the delay to fire or try other ways and other characters are not able to do this

View attachment dc7c46b8-a12e-4c88-9813-172c08f244a9-render.mp4

• Playeroth
• Replies: 11
• Forum: Bug Reports

• 

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Thread 'Shooting While Air Dashing Is Inconsistent/Broken'

Feb 6, 2026

If you are holding m1 and then airdash, you cannot shoot for the duration of that air dash. However, while testing on Ivy I noticed ~20% of the time you continue firing after a very brief delay. From my testing, I believe this has to do with cycle time as when testing with seven the rate is substantially lower than 20%.

If you air dash from an inactive state, you can then shoot during the air dash 100% of the time. However, if you had just finished shooting and your hero's cycle time is slow enough, you will be locked out of shooting. This leads me to believe that air dashing freezes your...

• Termiinal
• Replies: 0
• Forum: Bug Reports

 

[DNADota]

Found this video explaining the bug/feature and a workaround:

(watch from timestamp)

I don't know wether this "feature" is intented by the devs or is needed as a fix for other interactions/systems in the game like animations.

Anyway, in the current state of the game, it seems to be a skill-expression thing (which feels a bit unneeded/vague), given the fact top rank players play with stuff like "greyed out enemy portraits if enemy not showing on minimap" or other unfair QOL Lock features.