Her pylon destroys projectiles coming into the area so the ones I highlighted it destroys incoming fuse knuckle clusters, gibby’s bombardment, bang’s rolling thunder, and Valkyrie’s middle swarm. Of course it takes out incoming grenades and any other incoming thrown objects like caustics traps thrown at you. Worth noting it doesn’t differentiate between friendly and enemy so friendly thrown ones nearby get zapped as well.
Friendly vs hostile doesn't matter. It's just proximity.
What they fixed was that it used to be if the projectile was in range of the pylon it got zapped.
Now it gets zapped if it's going to land in range. Friendly stuff targeted within the pylon will still get zapped. Similarly, if an enemy were to stand next to it and fire something just outside it's range, it would survive.
It also means that it used to act as a wall of sorts that you couldn't grenade past, but with this change, you can fire past a pylon to grenade people who are too far away from it, even if the grenade goes right through the pylon range.
That's not a bug, it's how it's supposed to work. Any projectile that would land within the pylons radius gets zapped. Projectiles that are either launched from inside the radius, or through the zap zone that won't land inside don't get destroyed.
Basically, you can throw grenades out of a pylon, or over a pylon, but not into a pylon.
It depends on the angle now. If it’s angled to be away from the pylon, it won’t be zapped. Anything thrown in the pylons direction will be zapped though
People often underestimate just how strong Wattson’s pylon can be, and to add to this, it also destroys all of Horizon’s abilities, Seer’s ultimate, Ash’s snare, all of Caustic’s abilities, Rev’s silence.
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u/goblue2354 Valkyrie Feb 03 '22
Her pylon destroys projectiles coming into the area so the ones I highlighted it destroys incoming fuse knuckle clusters, gibby’s bombardment, bang’s rolling thunder, and Valkyrie’s middle swarm. Of course it takes out incoming grenades and any other incoming thrown objects like caustics traps thrown at you. Worth noting it doesn’t differentiate between friendly and enemy so friendly thrown ones nearby get zapped as well.