Death sometimes causes abilities to be unusable.

[icecream.tie]

If you use an ability. Shortly before or after you die. The ability will become unusable until you leave and rejoin the session.

For me, I have only experienced this with Dynamo. For my 1 ability mostly. but I had it happen to my 2 and 3 abilities in the last game I played here. [41098645] (I left and rejoined the session at the time when I realized the ability did not work in order to fix it. I was dynamo.)





I believe others have had it happen to them too here.

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Thread 'Unable to use ability boudn to 1 button during game'

Sep 2, 2025

Match ID 40800725, I was Calico.

I normally use keybinds of Q 1 2 3 for 1 2 3 4 respectively.

I had set hero-specific keybinds for calico just before the game. During laning it was fine, until at some point I lost the ability to use my bombs (which had been set to 1). This happened early around 2-3 minutes.

Tried resetting keybinds, unable to use the claw which I originally had on 1. I did not try the "unstick" button from the menu.

Tried again, unable to use the ability bound to Q (normally my 1). Finally managed at a point to get my claw functioning on 1 while my bombs were unusable...

• thenorwayfighter
• Replies: 1
• Forum: Bug Reports

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Thread 'mouse 4/5 ability not working'

Aug 30, 2025

sometimes in middle of match my ability not working with mouse button 4/5, i need to dc and reconnect to fix it

• qwezero3
• Replies: 3
• Forum: Bug Reports

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Thread 'Ability buttons stop working'

Aug 27, 2025

I have encountered this big a couple of times where at a random point in the match one or more abilities will not work. The ability icons at the bottom of the screen will react to my prompts, and move the icon for the key in question l, but the ability does not go off. I have discovered that the abilities actually enter a que, and as soon as you parry every ability goes off at once. This has most commonly happened with bebop hook and uppercut in my experience. I will upload videos later tonight when I am at my home computer.

• wrvth
• Replies: 3
• Forum: Bug Reports

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I was able to replicate this in Hero Testing. I'm not sure if this is relevant but my kinetic pulse (1 ability) is bound to F. I went to the enemy Guardian And allowed it to kill me. And just before I died, I used Kinetic pulse. it took me 10 tries to get the timing correct but when I respawned my kinetic pulse did not work when pressed.

 

[CryptoBigbag]

its not just after you die , i realize after you get hard CCd your abilities will just stop functioning . After the introduction of Doorman is when i noticed it happening . If you "PARRY" the disabled abilities will automatically trigger.