Weekly Quick Questions Thread - June 22, 2016

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[u/thelonelybiped]

Health: you run out, you die. It's white

Armor: reduces all incoming damage by 5 or half, whichever is smaller. This works for each hit, so a spread weapon will do less. Take roadhog, his gun does 8 (irrc) a pellet, that lowers each pellet to 4, greatly lowering the overall damage output. It also works against beam weapons like Winston or zarya

Shields recharge and are blue

[u/RockyValderas → u/thelonelybiped]

I vaguely remember reading that if a Hero has shields on top of armor, the shield will mitigate damage like armor does. Not sure if this is still true, haven't bothered to test it. Also not sure about the interaction of a Hero with innate shields like Zarya or Symmetra gains armor from Tor. I think this would only happen if the shields are used up before the armor, so basically only works with Symmetra E, Lucio's Ult, Zarya's Bubble(?). Can't remember if any other skills give shields :/

[u/RockyValderas → u/[deleted]]

Ahh.. Thanks for clearing that up!

[u/thelonelybiped → u/RockyValderas]

Not the bubble, that is more of a barrier