A triple headshot shuriken + melee only does 195. Buffing his damage by 5 will make him able to headshot melee combo to kill.
Genji is pretty mediocre compared to some of the other dps unless he is being pocketed or nanoed
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Or any time it’s not a tank heavy meta
Damage buffs anywhere big nah
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no
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So people complain about DF one shot and you want to buff genji so he can have the same? That’s just more power creep which is the exact problem of this game, Genji’s kit is perfectly balanced and just doesn’t work with current meta.
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Saw Jonal asking for this too.
That said, they could make it so Accretion is blockable, instead of nearly an autoaim sleepdart, when an Ulting Genji gets nearby.
I mean, Techincally you could buff the damage by 2 and that could still work without making Genji better at spamming shields and charging ult on tanks.
It’s minor, but a +2 damage would be smarter.
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This is a Combo
Not a oneshot
This takes perfect timing and skill
Buffing a terrible character isn’t powercreeping
Lowest 1/3 of Winrates btw
Didn’t work in 2018 when Widowmaker replaced him in dive
He needs 2 others to Babysit, else he is free SR for the Reds
He needs shuriken speed buffs and triple jump back to be relevant
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It is? You’re buffing them and making them stronger so they start doing more damage and become a higher tier hero lmfao
This I agree with, his damage is fine though, that’s why you have a dash to clean up afterward, it’s reset on kill for a reason.
If the Combo already does 195 damage, why does it need a buff to virtually insta-kill.
It can kill almost the entire roster if they’ve taken 5 points of damage.
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psst… swift strike does 50 damage, and it resets if you kill them with it. Use it. You don’t need a shuriken damage buff.
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This is made on purpose for a reason. A very good reason.
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You need to aim it and time it, and have it available too
We are sorry that Genji is not your answer for everything anymore, thus is life.
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Aiming a projectile the size of a Dva mech, at close range, is practically autoaim.
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if Genji is ulting that close to you, you are pretty much dead, especially if Genji’s team is taking the commotion as means to also damage you
Surprise surprise… Genji’s ult has a semi-reliable counter
Well, what I had in mind was just to make the Accretion rock be Reflected/Matrixed.
Which would since this whole double barrier issue, quite easily.
âś… Make Dive/Dva counter DoubleBarrier
Also landing a followup sleepdart on somebody immobilized to the ground, is pretty easy.
Chain-CC is a thing.
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You’re trying to do exactly what they did with Brigitte: fix a meta with 1 character
Stop
It doesn’t work, it creates more trouble instead, this is a bad suggestion
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- Last I checked Dive is an entire composition of heroes.
- Accretion is problematic because it’s a knockdown stun ability that goes through defence matrix. I.e. The same reason ShieldBash was problematic.
I don’t think buffing Genji would bring dive back. It’s a problem that centers around having two shield tanks in a composition.
Sigma is still OP IMO since he has too many strengths and not enough weaknesses to balance them out.
Genji has been an annoyingly overused fly since the beginning of Overwatch’s release. You ninja weebs could stand to use a different hero once in a while anyway, no one used genji because he was good. it was because he’s a ninja. has a double jump. and was the original power creep. If anything, his shuriken need some fall off damage and arcing, it’s a THROWN projectile… you’re not gonna sit there and tell me he can throw shuriken with more velocity and force than hanzo can shoot his arrows