Yes perhaps the hitbox was slightly too big for those who didn’t wanna stop shooting at/around the deflecting Genji, but honestly the new deflect feels too underwhelming and feels barely the size of Genji’s model…
Middle solutions Blizzard? Yes? No? Maybe?
That would be all, Thanks <3
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Slightly? it was like 2x bigger than it should
People was trying to shot around Genji but due to how ridiculous the size was, it was near impossible, you could be aiming meters away and still get deflected
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The point of the post is the hitbox NOW, not before.
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Which is exactly how it should be? Deflect is Genji’s way of saying “stop shooting at me so I can reposition or get somewhere safer” not “I’m going to stand five feet from my Mercy and deflect a Widow shot meant for said Mercy back into her face”
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The new one is already a middle ground as his vertical hitbox is still the same as the old one. Reducing the vertical hitbox created bugs while jumping which caused an issue when people could headshot him through it.
Its hitbox has a very forgiving expansion in front of him and above him. Only his horizontal hitbox got nerfed. He can no longer use it as an Orisa like shield for teammates. Thats more than fair.
Here a reminder how ridicilous it used to be.
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I never denied it used to be massive, however if you play Genji now you’d understand how minuscule it feels, that’s why I said middle ground 
You couldn’t miss the deflect hitbox if you tried. Its still massive too, and more importantly, it still fully covers him, so why should it be buffed other than to make it a giant shield again?
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has a 2 second 360* invulnerability at the press of a button every 8 seconds
still complains
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The current deflect hitbox is reasonable, but I don’t think the devs changed the first person animation feedback whenever a projectile entered into its old hitbox parameters, leading to fun interactions like this:
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Not invulnerable, please double check… you know what I just noticed I’m arguing on forums… I’m out <3
Imagine complaining about a dps that never really dropped below A/B tier.
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That seems fair Kapp
Sick burn /s
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it still lasts forever
Deflect’s current state is already a middle ground. Making it any bigger would make the ability completely broken again.
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I still remember when the old deflect managed to deflect my Sleep Dart back at me when the Genji was standing behind me.
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It’s not even that small now, it still has a very forgiving vertical range for deflect.
But before the fix, deflect had the horizontal size of Rein’s shield.
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Then why did you bold the part of your post talking about the hitbox before?
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Well to be fair, it has been buggy since they nerfed it. Some things go right through it when it clearly should have been deflected. Myself and a few other friends that play him quite a bit are all in agreement with this. Some shots still make it through, the biggest offender are flash bangs thrown straight at deflect that still manage to go through it (just to clarify, not a side, ground, or above flash-- just straight on and direct).
It feels small because it was too large to begin with.
Its like always owning a monster truck car as a child.
Then all of a sudden when you turn 18 your monster truck gets taken away and you get an SUV.
Its still big but you feel its small.
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