Do shots fired before the match starts count towards your end-of-game statistics?
In Overwatch, there is short countdown for a few minutes before the match begins. During this time, the defending team is allowed to roam the map to set up their defenses, while the attacking team sits in a small lobby until the game starts and the doors open. (Or in KotH-type maps, both teams wait in a lobby.)
While players wait, it's not uncommon for them to fire off random shots, especially since a lot of the environment is destructable (it's entertaining to watch plush onions sail through the air in the arcade).
Do shots fired before the match starts count towards accuracy statistics at the end of the game?
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Backing up the previous answer, no. I noticed it because your first 5 (well, hopefully 5!) shields as Symmetra won't count if you apply them before the match starts.
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Answer 2
To add to the list of examples:
- Death don´t count before the match starts (Killed myself with pharra in the no heal zone of spawn)
- Healing done doesn´t count ( Buddy healed me while i tried to suicide without getting the points added)
We could add a lot more examples but in the end we could make it short in saying that the statistics start with the match starting (as @Bandito Dorito said)
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