I know math is hard, but there are more Damage heroes than there are Tanks and Supports combined. Tanks and Supports should have higher pickrates because there are fewer choices in those roles.
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Iâve done the maths before and Iâll do the maths again. In every single game of overwatch, there are 4 of each role (two of each on both teams) 4/4/4
But the character distribution of the roles is massively in favor of DPS- 8/17/7
Obviously, even assuming every single character is picked at random and sees the exact same amount of playtime, because there are guaranteed to be two of each role and there are less supports and tanks, tanks and supports will have higher pickrates.
8 tanks vying for 4 spots and 7 Supports vying for 4 spots are going to have naturally higher pickrates (4/12 divided by 8= 4.1%)(4/12 divided by 7=4.7%) ( than 17 dps vying for 4 spots in a game, right (4/12 divided by 17=1.9%)
16% pickrate is what you get when there are two of a particular character in every single match. That was Mercyâs pickrate during the Moth meta. 8% is what you get when itâs essentially guaranteed that in any match of Overwatch youâre going to have 1 genji in a pool of 12 players. The fact that itâs getting close to that number means that Genji is slowly catapaulting into must pick status.
Youâll also find that plenty of supports and tanks have been very vocal about Ana and Reinhardtâs overperformance. Both have already achieved 1 per game status and are verging closer to the two per game 16% pickrate. Theyâve also been loud on the matter of the underperformance of characters like Zenyatta and D.va, who have pickrates that are miserably low considering they are part of a restricted cast.
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Nobody is talking about OWL pickrates because it is irrelevant to the current discussion, and canât be compared to ladder PRs.
Literally weâre not talking about OWL and I donât care about OWL. Weâre only discussing ladder because there arenât going to be more OWL stats for another year since if Iâm not mistaken I think the season just ended. What people play in groups that they get to practice in all the time against other groups is going to naturally be a bit different than 12 randos going at it.
I literally came from a topic that talked about Genji in OWL I got confused.
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If the Genji is getting his ult every fight, youâre either feeding or spending way too much time in poke phase. The amount of times Iâve seen supports keep on healing when theyâre at a 6v3 disadvantageâŚ
Dude, have you watched owl lately? Are the best players in the world just feeding to or what?
Thatâs because every single hero on a team is literally enabling the Genji. He gets like 20% from a halt dash combo, which happens every 10 sec
I never put much stock in proleague stats. Then again I donât pay attention to proleague or stats
You mean one person enabling a genji consistently gives him a huge increase in ult charge? Thatâs insane my dude. Now imagine if one genji was consistently right clicking the tanks of an uncoordinated team.
Thatâs just one example. Literally every play enables the Genji. Everything. Because Genji needs resources to actually function properly
Dude youâre a plat Genji main according to overbuff. Your main is broken. Take your bias some where else.
That hero has nearly the same pickrate as the meta tank and support do, while having double the amount of heroâs in their role.
Dude, you realize that I have more time on Moira and Lucio than Genji in comp? s.t.f.u dude. You probably looked at my qp stats. Unfortunately I canât link pictures here.
Just checked and Genjiâs twelfth in terms of comp playtime and Reaper and Mccree both dward his playtime for dps. The rest are tanks and supports. 
Kinda sad to attack someone for being a Genji main and being completely wrong.
And please donât rank shame. Youâre gold on dps and tank and youâre barely diamond on support, yet youâre diamond. Iâm mid plat on support, yet only 4 stars bronze. See, itâs not hard to rank shame
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This is just false. 200 damage alone can get him 16% of his ultimate. His comboes can do that much damage with TTKâs under a second⌠Heck, he doesnât even need to use comboes to deal 200 damage.
NTM heâs a character supposed to be bad against shields in a double shield meta. Thereâs something very wrong with this picture.
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No, I donât realize that because youâre hiding your profile, and the fact remains, according to overbuff you have a ridiculous amount of time on Genji compared to other heroâs. Youâll have to forgive me if I really donât believe a word youâre saying.
edit: And regardless. The stats of this hero donât lie, regardless of your own bias.
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A lot of Genjiâs ult charge gain is clean up after a fight. If your supports keep healing the 2 people left on your team, heâs gonna farm a lot of ult charge. Or you have a Hog.
Ofc, I know that his ult charge is broken, but he most certainly doesnât get blade every fight.
Did you even read my comment??
On overbuff, it says I have 8 hours on Genji on the QP tab.
And please donât rank shame. Youâre gold on dps and tank and youâre barely diamond on support, yet youâre diamond. Iâm mid plat on support, yet only 4 stars bronze. See, itâs not hard to rank shame
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So whatâs the solution??? Just take the damage and not heal it and hope to God the Genji doesnât kill you. If Genjiâs ultimate charge rate is so problematic that I canât even heal my teammates when I need to, thereâs a problem.
I should not be playing support knowing that there is going to be a scenario where Iâm required not to do my jobâŚ
If you lost a fight, die on point.
Thatâs ult economy 101 and doesnât just apply for Genji