I can count on one hand how often I use shove in combat. Instead of using any other number of bonus actions.
And really, when I watch youtubers playing the game, most of the ones (especially the ones who are good at the game) don't use it all that much either. Shove is a low percentage of their use of bonus actions.
Again, so much of what folks say rely on theory. In actual practice, it's just not used that much.
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However, I will concede that enemies use it to wake one another up from sleep.
That doesn't really bother me, though. Kind of a "so what?" thing.
Haven't played the latest patch, but have Duergars suddenly stopped shoving your party into the lava?
