Except he wasn’t trash. I’ve seen PotG after PotG of nanoblade to say otherwise.
Not “good”, too good.
Except there’s more DPS viable at any point than there are tanks or supports.
Sounds like exaclty what DPS one-tricks do when a tank/support does the same. Bap, Brig, Moira, Mercy, all the shields. But sure, it’s only DPS are the victim…
The TRUTH has been spoken. All the Genji one-tricks go: “I died to a random Moira ball while at 5 HP. Genji is 2weak, plox buff”.
It wouldn’t have just been a support nerf, it would have also nerfed competing DPS.
And a big reason people were upset with the Brig nerf is that she is (or was) a direct counter to Genji. The armor overheal can deny Genji’s combos, which is huge, because then he can’t reset dash. When he doesn’t have dash, the other team has the opportunity to punish him. Removing armor took away a big potential counterplay to Genji.
People were also upset that it wasn’t just 1 nerf, it was 3. Her armor was deleted, her shield recharge was hamstrung, and the shield cooldown spiked too. They weren’t minor values either. Shield cooldown almost doubled. This was one patch after Genji received 4 buffs at the same time. It’s not a sustainable balance practice.
Ideally, blizz should be going about this scientifically. You never want to change several variables at once, because then when you get a different result, you’re not sure exactly what caused it. They should have tried these balance changes individually. Then again, that would really only benefit a balance team that’s not too prideful to admit fault and revert a bad change.
many dps are viable incliuding genji, he is a skill character so if you actually have any hes super dangerous, if you are not you cannot get value and thats intended.
Couldn’t have said it any better.
Looks at list of actually used viable DPS heroes
Genji, Ashe, McCree in the top 3 spots from Silver to GM
Ah yes, many selections
Even SUPPORTS with Ana at the top has a larger roster of heroes being used and there’s only 7 of them
But he wasn’t trash. Other heroes, mainly hitscan, just out shined him. If they would nerfed those heroes then Genji along with others that aren’t picked will be more viable.
don’t deflect from the subject matter:
there were, and are various performing poorly and much more than genji did. THAT’S THE CONTEXT.
He wasn’t trash. stop pretending that he was which is legit what this thread was written to do and what you’re doing. don’t try to deflect off into “gATeKeEpinG” just because you got T scalding you that no, he wasn’t trash and that he was actually in the middle. do you give multiple buffs to the middle hero to match the obviously powercrept or do you nerf the powercrept and buff the actual weak ones to achieve balance especially when the weak ones being so far behind?
All I ask for is the damage to be reverted or the deflect cancel be removed. That’s all I want.
I guess we should give Mercy a series of buffs then since she too is a middle of the pack pick with lower GM GM pickrates just like Genji was before his buffs. Something like:
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
THIS RIGHT HERE, IS CORRECT! ^
I hate seeing that argument, it’s so stupid.
hes been power crept to keep up with the insanely powercrept supports and tanks in this game
for some reason all the fools on these forums thinks that dps being literally useless next to supports and tanks is balanced.
Like I said. They could tackle Tanks/Supports im the RIGHT WAY.
But no they chose the complete opposite
because you all lose your minds and scream “dps bias” any time they start to do it.
lol hasn’t been a usable dps for 2 years meta wise “average”
becomes usable in the meta “OP”
l ike I said:
The forum right now is:
Say Genji is balanced and get barely any likes
or
Say Genji is overpowered and cater to all the players who cry every time they die in this game and get a ton of likes
nope I wasn’t. any other stupid questions?
you were saying? literally almost everyone on these forums have thought genji was op at all times. even in goats, where he was useless.
You’re clearly bias. There are plenty of worse DPS than Genji, he literally was never a bad pick. You say he was useless in GOATS but DPS were rarely even played in the first place, apart from maybe Sombra, and she got nerfed pretty fast after that.
And literally nobody has thought Genji is OP at ALL times. He’s OP now, definitely. But he doesn’t deserve buffs when other DPS, who were worse than him before his buffs, don’t get changed at all. Symmetra, Sombra, Bastion, Zen, Reaper, even Mei is on the weak side right now. You don’t give massive buffs to (currently before his buff) middle tier heroes.
“others are worse therefor genji is good” has literally got to be the stupidest argument ive ever heard in my life.
he quite literally has been a throw pick in meta play since brigs release up until his buffs.
the issue is people like you think that diamond and below stats mean anything at ranks where people don’t even know how to save their ults in a won fight, and still trickle one by one into a fight.
if you think ranks like that have any say so in a characters balance, you shouldn’t be in a discussion about balance.
that’s like taking little league baseball play, and then trying to use that as stats on what player has the most impact on baseball.
It’s the victim’s mentality, OP. It’s easier for portions of the community to cry and complain rather than overcome & adapt.
“X hero gets buffs meanwhile Y doesn’t…”
“X hero too OP now, can’t play Z…”
It’s been the same nonstop nonsense from the kiddie pool-full-of-tears section since the game came out and the Devs started making changes. 
Trash? Is that why people still play him all the time in T500?