Soldier 76 Helix jumps

EDIT: Gonna start turning this first post of the thread into a megapost for all of Rastsy's helix jumping videos, found on his channel here - he's contributing a huge amount to this and putting a lot of effort in, show him some love!

Found on Reddit, some really interesting jumps that 76 can do with his Helix rockets + sprint for only 40 HP to get to some spots he can't otherwise get to - the guy's only covered Hanamura so far. Jumping with 76's rockets somehow never occurred to me at all, I feel like a kid in a candy shop knowing about this now, so many cool jumps and spots left to be found. It's probably unintentional but if Blizz were planning to leave Pharah's ramp-hover in until they found it significantly breaking map balance I'm sure they'll leave in a neat and potentially very situationally useful trick like this.

All of Rastsy's tutorials and map-specific compilations:

General Helix Jumping + sprint jumping tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IAGzlGAeY0

Hanamura:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzS3aEGXm9s

Anubis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX1JQqiULmM

Hey, I'm the guy that did the video. Yeah, I am a little confused why that wasn't the first thing that people tried when they could not jump high enough. I will be getting to the other maps as time goes on. I think Anubis might be next on my hit list, that map has a lot of very silly holes and jumps. I will say that I think blizzard is somewhat anti-tech, and its not necessarily a map balancing issue.

The entire Reddit discussion if anyone is interested.

This should be incredibly useful and it seems so simple that I can't believe it's taken this long for someone to try it. I've experimented with pharah rockets and zarya right click, but for some this reason this totally escaped my mind.

I will say after a lot of playing around with this - unless I'm just bad the timing is pretty strange compared to rocket jumping as we know it and it can sometimes be a bit finicky. Still really good fun and incredibly useful though, having a great time searching for jumps on King's Row.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IAGzlGAeY0

followup video

I may be imagining things or playing on a strange connection but playing around with this further, there actually seems to be a noticeable audio cue for the "correct" timing of the jump. Firing the rockets at your feet has a noticeable "boom-BAM" delay between the sound of the rocket being fired and the sound of it hitting the ground; I've had the most consistent success and gotten the most consistent momentum/distance timing my jump roughly with the 2nd explosion sound rather than just mashing RMB-space. Again, could just be me.

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