Moira, Winston, Symmetra, and Mei.
Those are the only counters Genji has right now. Meanwhile, he himself counters about three quarters of the roster. Maybe a nerf to his deflect, enlarging his hitbox, or giving him less distance on shift would help, because without some kind of beam attack Genji can roll just about anyone in the game and they get no recourse. The only way to stop him is one of only four counters or by simply ganging up on him. No DPS should be that potent.
And before the crew of Genji mains shows up to talk about how he’s fair and teamwiping with dragonblade is actually a show of skill, there’s a good reason why just about every DPS-heavy player at Diamond and above plays, you guessed it, Genji, almost exclusively.
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I know you only make threads to stir up the pot
But why choose a topic that wasn’t relevant for like the past 8 months
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If by stir up the pot you mean I hope they’ll finally give Genji the nerfs he needs, yeah.
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Moira
Winston
Zarya
Mei
Symmetra
Brigitte
Roadhog
Pharah
Sombra (in theory)
He has quite a few counters.
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He used to have counters and Symmetra is no longer one of them. I mean if you wanna call turrets a counter then that counters every hero. Right click isn’t the counter nor is left click for Symmetra. This isn’t 2.0 Sym.
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Genji is fine. We don’t need to touch him.
The only part of his kit that I think is OP is his ult. We can’t nerf it because then he’d be too weak overall.
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We can, nerf the dmg buff nano gives him or remove his speed buff during nano blade, so that nano blade can be counterd relaible with trans or speeding away.
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symm actually does quite well against genji. he has to hit turrets with two shurikens making them difficult for him to take down himself. when he is double jumping he is easier to track with symms left click because he falls in a predictable arc. and rightclick is easy to predict where he will land especially with the fast speed. and their effective ranges are the same
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Yes anyone can shut down an easy player who is still learning Genji, but even during 2.0 it was the same, but only threat left click. Don’t insult Genji pros.
Fix your forums mods
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It’s been a while since I’ve seen one of these. Thought we could do 6 months without a Genji complain thread but I guess not.
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Mccree and sombra eat his lunch
Not to mention torb and the constant trash damage if genji wants to do anything.
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Only thing I want to see fixed is his enormous dash hitbox.
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McCree is a tough skill matchup but yeah, Sombra destroys him if she plays defensively.
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Really hitscan as well since projectiles are messed up by double jump madness. Double jump is a hitscan gold mine making something like McCree, S76, Ashe, and Widowmaker viable counters as well.
However, it is far easier to just zap him with Winston and not bother aiming than aiming.
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I think genji has more soft counters that he can outplay than counters that actually do their job at countering him.
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genji is a monkey, get an ape, they are bigger and stronger and will smash smaller monkey.
but in all fairness, genji is pretty ridiculous just for the simple reason that barriers can’t protect you against his ult, not even transcendence if he’s nano’d.
he can insta-kill you normally if he’s worth his salt.
and he has a deflect that can just screw over a lot of characters ultimates as long as the genji just throws himself at the enemy who’s ulting.
pretty freaking good character.
especially seeing how snipers are really good too and genji can deflect those one-hit kills right back at the sniper killing them instead.
if i didn’t hate him so much i would probably play him just for his kit alone.
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No character needs more than 4 counters, especially not one that takes as much time and practice as Genji, usually I hate Genji but I cannot agree with you in this situation.
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Trans does 300 HPS, a nano´d Genji does 120 + 50% = 180 dmg so Zenny´s Ult should still keep everyone in it´s radius alive…??