Jeff, What with Mercy? We want respose.
They have a reason. They’re annoying and the worst type of characters when left uncontested, but will gladly leave them cause chaos on their backlines. That is their reasoning.
Its a bad one.
Wow now when are you gonna nerf tracer?
True. Just like hanzo
Welp depending on how this goes, might be dropping the boy altogether.
That’s great news! Will you be looking into how he can deflect things not aimed in his direction? Specifically, how he can stand 90-170 ish degrees to someone’s side and deflect things into or away from them.
Testing source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGJOh0KFHo&feature=youtu.be
Deflect has almost no downsides.
You can cancel it
You become invincible to projectiles and bullets
Deflects full damage back at enemies
Can deflect ults
Can deflect melee
Bigger hitbox than stated
Still have double jump and wall climb during deflect
And the down side?
Can’t deflect beams.
Such a down side, really ruins the ability. Actually we should buff it so it can deflect beams! That will surely bring genji into the dive meta!
But that’s assuming they’re going to tone it down perfectly. We have no idea the extent that it’s being changed, or even what. All we know is that something is happening.
Not to mention a lot of people complain simply because they think deflect is unfair as a whole. I remember when D.Va got her DM toned down in exchange for the missiles, everyone was complaining how Genji had more tanking power than her with his deflect.
Edit: See above for example A
I mean, Mercy is in a perfectly good spot balance-wise. If you’re talking about a way to up the fun-factor I understand, but that part is still subjective either way.
No h8 pls - Jeffery Kapplanius
Deflect is not a tanking ability.
Source: Tank flex main
You can’t attack during it
The person on the receiving end can make it useless
To cancel it you have to burn another ability
It is easily baited out
8 second cooldown for a 2 second ability
I’ll second this. A permanent PvE story mode would be incredible to have. Papa Jeff pls~
t w o y e a r s. kek
Such a reliable source, might as well just say that it’s your opinion.
Awww yes. Noodle boy gets a hitbox fix YES
You actually get a free 80 damage on the person you use it against.
Not something most Genji players want to announce - hoping no one noticees.
Deflect -> walk up to their face ( since they can’t even hurt you even with meele ) -> Meele + Dash = Free 80 damage, no risk. Easy Escape.
You use enemy projectiles to attack
If they stand behind a barrier like every other bullet, beam, or projectile.
An ability that recharged in 6 seconds, recharged by poking before a enemy elimination, and pressing Y.
Again cancelable to avoid any punishment for being baited
2 second invincibility to 80% of the cast that recharged in 8 seconds.
No. You cant think deflect is a tank based ability. Period. You cannot reliably peel for anyone and even yourself as genji because even though it is a common misconception that genji is invincible for 2 seconds when he deflects, he is not and neither is the person he’s trying to protect.
Even Mei’s ice walls are more tankier than deflect.
If you’re playing Genji as a wannabe off-tank you’re useless as Genji.
They’re not shrinking the hitbox to match the existing VFX. It sounds like they’re probably shrinking the hitbox a bit, and increasing the VFX a bit. Essentially meeting somewhere in the middle. And VFX most certainly takes more time.