Talon Has No Hitbox During Ultimate for Melee or Stun Abilities

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Tested: Charging Grey Talon as Abrams while Grey Talon is ulting; Charge does not interact with grey talon in any way. Abrams charges through grey talon’s character model, does not pick Talon up, and does not stun talon when Abrams hits the wall.

Tested: Punching Grey Talon while he is ulting; heavy melee will travel straight through grey talon’s while he is ulting, failing to make contact or do any damage.
 
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For more info and for those who want to watch th replay-file,
Match-ID: 44553123
https://statlocker.gg/match/44553123/summary

The "Guided Owl"-description most certainly needs elaboration or a complete rewrite to not omission hidden mechanics.

From the "technical"-perspective.
it appears during the "Guided Owl" Grey Talon-model enters the same or at least similar intangible state as all "guests" do during the "Hotel Guest" of The Doorman.
This to consider player controls are also moved to a "clone" in both cases (the spirit owl and the Baroness-clone).

An "oddity" in both cases is the player & character can still perish from "damage-over-time" and other specific effects so it is not like they're in an invincibility-state.
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The other thing about this is that it doesn’t always happen if the bird is close by — tested in hideout and sometimes was able to hit him/stun him. My guess as to what happens is that there is some kind of optimization to stop players from checking collisions on each other if they are too far away / not even in line of site, except that when Talon’s is ulting his bird is considered to be his location so once it gets too far away his hitbox/hurtbox no longer checks for interactions with players that are close to his player model
 
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