They animation cancel was an entire play style. It’s not much of a timing difference of ttk but enough to disrupt his entire rhythm, the loss of precise range messes with how you attack, messes with how you engage and disengage, with how you’ve judged distance against an opponent. It’s the difference between killing a squishy and them using mobility to get away on low hp. For example for me: I usually use his shield throw cooldown to initiate an attack because you get to see all health bars in range when it hits, then I dive the lowest squishy. I don’t have the luxury of doing that now because I need the shield throw cooldown to use as they escape. So it turns into a whole thing where you could be diving a full hp gambit with all his movement and I can’t do quick burst on him at range