Special canceling? What?

JarvisreiJarvisrei Member Posts: 424 ★★
edited August 2023 in General Discussion
I've been playing this game for like 2 years and I have never heard of such a thing called "special cancel" but, the last week while I was playing and the defender tried to throw sp1. I didn't notice it and dashed just to see that his special get canceled? He even lost a bar of power and It happened like atleast 3 times since the last week so it's def not my imagination. What is going on? Is this a feature that was always there and I've never noticed it or was it just been added in?

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  • JarvisreiJarvisrei Member Posts: 424 ★★
    edited August 2023
    pseudosane said:

    a video to show what you mean would be nice. Very hard to speculate about what happened unfortunately

    I don't have a video since it was totally unexpected. But if I remember correctly the second time it happened on LoL starlord. I dashed in and he activated his sp1. In a millisecond margin where he tries to go up in his special (he goes up and kicks for his sp1) I somehow was able to hit him and his special was cancelled and he lost a bar of power.
  • UnOriginalUnOriginal Member Posts: 729 ★★★
    edited August 2023
    If i remember correctly un dooms kit It says doing a strong attack while the opponent is shocked can special cancel (wherever that means) and in some character abillities that they cant special cancel so i guess It is a rare abillity some champions have
  • ZacTheSwordZacTheSword Member Posts: 63 ★★
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRioMHawyko
  • JarvisreiJarvisrei Member Posts: 424 ★★
    edited August 2023
    ZacTheSword said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRioMHawyko

    UnOriginal said:

    If i remember correctly un dooms kit It says doing a strong attack while the opponent is shocked can special cancel (wherever that means) and in some character abillities that they cant special cancel so i guess It is a rare abillity some champions have

    Woah.. but I wasn't doing this though. I think it was herc and dashed in to interrupt it
  • ZekirZekir Member Posts: 155 ★★
    I can confirm this has happened multiple times. I had a post about it but it was greatly ignored. I've had it with a quite a few now..

    Domino, Venom, Mysterio, Herc, Storm X, to name a few.
  • JarvisreiJarvisrei Member Posts: 424 ★★
    Zekir said:

    I can confirm this has happened multiple times. I had a post about it but it was greatly ignored. I've had it with a quite a few now..

    Domino, Venom, Mysterio, Herc, Storm X, to name a few.

    I see. So I wasn't being delusional after all😭
  • MikealsniteMikealsnite Member Posts: 29 ★
    I unfortunately have not had the pleasure of being able to cancel an sp1 that shouldn’t have been able to be thrown to begin with…but good to see it can happen 👏
  • hi_im_sirhi_im_sir Member Posts: 272 ★★
    Jarvisrei said:

    I've been playing this game for like 2 years and I have never heard of such a thing called "special cancel" but, the last week while I was playing and the defender tried to throw sp1. I didn't notice it and dashed just to see that his special get canceled? He even lost a bar of power and It happened like atleast 3 times since the last week so it's def not my imagination. What is going on? Is this a feature that was always there and I've never noticed it or was it just been added in?

    i think ik what your talking about. happened to me awhile back. were you using doom or idoom by any chance?
  • JustWantTheRewardsJustWantTheRewards Member Posts: 442 ★★★
    ZacTheSword said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRioMHawyko

    This is a 2 year old video, I'm pretty certain that was already fixed
  • JarvisreiJarvisrei Member Posts: 424 ★★
    hi_im_sir said:

    Jarvisrei said:

    I've been playing this game for like 2 years and I have never heard of such a thing called "special cancel" but, the last week while I was playing and the defender tried to throw sp1. I didn't notice it and dashed just to see that his special get canceled? He even lost a bar of power and It happened like atleast 3 times since the last week so it's def not my imagination. What is going on? Is this a feature that was always there and I've never noticed it or was it just been added in?

    i think ik what your talking about. happened to me awhile back. were you using doom or idoom by any chance?
    No. Once it happened with herc against LoL starlord (dashed in right when he threw his sp1) and two 2 times other than that but I'm positive that I wasn't using doom at that time and I don't even have Idoom, atleast not in a usable state so I doubt I would've used him either.
  • UnOriginalUnOriginal Member Posts: 729 ★★★
    Maratox said:

    UnOriginal said:

    If i remember correctly un dooms kit It says doing a strong attack while the opponent is shocked can special cancel (wherever that means) and in some character abillities that they cant special cancel so i guess It is a rare abillity some champions have

    It literally says in Doom’s kit that his heavy stun against a shocked opponent can’t trigger during their special
    I did'nt remember correctly then
  • SkyLord7000SkyLord7000 Member Posts: 4,019 ★★★★★
    DLX’s Wolvie had a similar effect, he throw a special as his power drained result in him finishing the special attack without spending any power
  • AverageDesiAverageDesi Member Posts: 5,260 ★★★★★
    Yeah it can happen. Happened with archangel against winter soldier, doom against someone and someone else I don't remember.
  • AverageDesiAverageDesi Member Posts: 5,260 ★★★★★
    It's even marked in the trello board and in some patch notes
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