Is your name Thanos? Because you just pulled a reality can be whatever I want.
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Mcbusted with all his buffs on Nov 1 had 46% wr and 2.5% pickrate across all ranks, brokenji reached 60% wr on gm in a couple of weeks
you poor deluded soul
I never claimed or touched on his pickrate, winrate, or anything of the sort. And using Overbuff as a source - especially a Wayback Machine mirror of it is extremely sad.
Ehh I got a different take on this. I donât really think that the changes were âforgivingâ per se, because honestly some things in this game shouldnât really be hard to do in the first place.
Spread angle didnât really make him easier considering your reticle needs to be on the target to land all 3 in the appropriate ranges, plus it was horribly inconsistent at 12. Could it work at 10? Maybe, but 12 and probably 11 would be atrocious.
Deflect cancel opened up a lot more opportunity for the Genji player and made him so much more fluid to play, while there are scenarios where it makes him able to put it away in a bad situation, it really just makes him feel better to use. It never made sense to me how Genji was the only hero who HAD to use another ability to cancel his defensive while all other heroes could shoot during or had a manual cancel already implemented. Sigmaâs the only one now though itâs not really comparable considering he has a barrier so he technically has 2 forms of defense. It was one of the things that shouldnât really have to be skillful to do, you shouldnât have to bend over backwards to cancel your own ability.
Both of those changes made Genji feel a lot better to use and I feel taking those away would just make him a lot clunkier. Imo Iâd rather have a fun and fluid to play Genji thatâs a bit on the weak side rather than a strong Genji thats clunky as heck.
2 second deflect I really could care less about, it could stay or leave.
Who else remembers the forums screaming that Mccree would be completely unplayable if he received any nerf no matter how small and that he was actually perfectly balanced?
Three nerfs later and heâs still in the top 3 dps at the very top and the top dps in almost every rank 
Genji was however far more overpowered than Mccree. Genji should have never reached live and Mccree should have been addressed far sooner.
Is today the patch day would be so funny if devs forgot genji changes alone 
Would rather they do that then the changes turn out to be a nerf and he gets stuck in a worse place for 6 months.
Sad to say but I donât trust any of their changes on balance when it comes to trade-offs, especially with Genji. Itâs always bait.
Everyone gets all excited like âHes fine now heâll be fine this is a buffâ then once it hits live its a nerf.
Doensât matter what he used, he anyway proved that if genji gets a buff he becomes too broken, and people will stop playing Cree and other aim requiring heroes because they know that they can pick genji and get more value with less effort.
Because after all genji isnât a fps character, it is a moba character which should belong to some sorf of LoL or World of Warcraft games, The immense hitboxes of blade, a week ago you could be a minecraft player without any aim capability and after a week in OW you can set a 6k with genjiâs blade, also the hitobxes of deflect, the dash it self is a projectile the size of genji himself impossible to miss, the right click doesnât require almost any aim, you just can spam it and one or two shurikens will hit the target, especially in the head, idk how those shurikens hit so frequently the heads, probably some hidden buffs for Sad In Life genji mains 
deflect hitbox are allready nerfed hard, it now so small that even some projectile will just goes right through it
while dash hitbox is big, his hitbox also become a long truck, that he can get hit mid dash
genji right click while not required as accurate as hitscan, hitting only 1 is counted as a miss, because i will just feed enemy ult charge
also missing shot as genji are more punisable because everytime u use RMB that means u fight at close range, it could be mean near enemy territory and your target will have backup while u are alone, RMB dps are also low compared to other dps, it has high burst with headshot, but his actual dps are average at best even if u land 3 bodyshot
I wonder if the copious number of Genji smurfs who âhave to smurf bc heâs unplayable at my main rankâ are shifting the perceived balance of the hero making him seem stronger than he actually is in terms of performance data, which is why they wonât flat buff him.
If so, thatâs hilarious.
Yea deflect hitbox got nerfed, but it is still disgutsing big, dishonorable non-fps-ish.
while dash hitbox is big, his hitbox also become a long truck
No, they donât. To hit genji im mid dash is inhuman, what ur talking about ? Only randomly.
also missing shot as genji are more punisable
It would be, if you actually would miss, because missing all 3 shurikens with genjiâs right click is utterly pathetic, idk what kind of potato aim you have to have to miss all 3 of them.
u obviously trolling if u think deflect hitbox is big, it only cover genji hitbox right now, it cant even protect his side, u can lunch junkrat shift 0.5 cm at his side and explode him
one of best genji necros top 500 even sometimes miss all 3 shuriken 2-3 times in a row trying to hit ana, i watch him all the time
Well now itâs clear who here obviously is trolling 
, watch less of those genji players, and more of mccree players, and you will understand how of a boosted ability deflect is, maked so that no-aim genji players will counter some skilled-based character for no logical reason.
go watch kephrii play genji vs plat on his smurf few years ago, he cant even win it vs plat
watch iddqd even try genji and feed vs master player
shadder2k genji main, top 500, everytime he play genji and strugle he just switch to mcree his team just starting to win
every hitscan top 500 player cant even flex to genji vs master or diamond, even danteh one of the best flex dps player, just give up trying to genji everytime he plays it
while most of top 500 genji player can switch to hitscan and play it at ATLEAST GM level: shadder2k, water, whoru, etc
another mention: ml7 tried genji vs plat, and he looks like just average plat genji, who cant even blade properly
but why i even bother, u looks like a genji hater
this is my last reply
The Blade nerf will only affect Tanks and 250hp targets(when he isnât nano boosted). All the changes this patch are pretty small aside from the Hog and Ball changes.
Sounds like youâve never played genji
Its a nerf that affects everyone globally actually except for maybe the 2 150hp targets.
2 slashes being 220 means the littlest healing can mandate a 3rd slash now, harmony orb, regen burst etc all have chances of mandating a 3rd slash now instead of it being a definitive no.
It makes blade even harder to use, since slash + dash + slash is now mandatory instead of optional.
Wouldnât be the case, they flat buffed Mccree a bunch of times despite him being one of the more popular DPS.
MOBA/MMORPG players with no fps experience would be terrible at playing Genji.
TBH genji feels like a character from an arena fps more than anything.
Overwatch was designed as an FPS-Moba mix, IIRC.
Itâs 5m, the same as Reinhardt. Iâm tired of people acting like itâs 20-30 meters long when itâs not.
And also: Reinhardt is a 500hp target with a shield. Genji is a 200hp target with unreliable abilities. He has less leniency in his range than Reinhardt does.
You absolutely could not. New players canât even get High Noon right, they are not going to be able to setup a 6k Dragonblade.
The hitbox thatâs so small it lets projectiles through and oftentimes doesnât protect him? You mean that hitbox?
Youâre listing his kit off with only his benefits and none of his downsides, which is a very dishonest debate.
In the same way that saying that Reaper doesnât require any aim, I suppose. Close-range means youâll land more of your shots than you would at long range, itâs exactly why he has a close-range attack in the first place.
And you have completely lost any ground you had to stand on.