Every argument you ever make on him after seeing this is invalid
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unironically yes
comparing him with every other DPS hes the obvious strongest one even in silver, perhaps with exception of Widow/Hanzo Junkrat for certain maps
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If a hero can only be unplayable or OP, it should be entirely reworked.
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sure it will not effecting low rank player that much, because most genji on plat and below miss alot of shoots, and people cant aim there, its less punishable
but on higher rank, when u need to kill target as fast as possible before they got healed / peeled yeah its big nerf
ammo nerf is for the low rank players
while damage nerf is for high rank player
myself i rather they nerf something else
i think nerfing his ammo is fine
keep 29 damage
but nerf his ult charge instead, 20% would be enough, so enemy support can get counter ult alot faster
on low rank nano blade are the most problematic part of his kit
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Me when I spread misinformation on the internet
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He hasn’t.
There have always been DPS picks worse than him, and you don’t see those players complaining nearly as much.
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He’s never been the weakest character and someone has always one tricked whatever was the weakest character to T500. So no hero has ever been “unplayable.”
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And right now he is both. I’d rather 1 than both, but he’s still in a far better state than ever before even after these nerfs so if Genji mains can’t adapt that is their fault.
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Welcome to nerf gun land together with solider and targets escaping around the corner. Oh guess you still have unlimited wall climb and deflect thou and dash resets on assists. Soldier would love to have helix rocket reset…
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True.
In ladder was he never unviable. Never.
At worst was he doing okay-ish.
That’s better than half of the DPS roster.
In OWL was he doing poorly. This was probably the reason why he has gotten 4 buffs at once which broke him in competitive play.
These nerfs need to happen for 1 very simple reason:
It’s to please the support players who keeps dying to him. Nothing more and nothing less.
Genji mains needs to stop crying. He is, and always will be, better than a lot of other characters. He will still be playable. And as a bonus can people start believing them when they say he takes skill.
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The fact you say this as someone who obviously doesn’t even play the character is hilarious to me.
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If you can’t hit a wall climbing Genji don’t put that on me 
Soldier doesn’t need to be balls deep in the enemy backline tho does he
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Do not think someone needs to play Genji to notice them in most there lobbies, They might not be able to say much as far as the skillset required to play him but they are not blind to the impact he has against them.
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Brother, comparing soldier and genji is like comparing the sky at 1pm to the sky at midnight. Soldier is incredibly easy to get value out of even for people who don’t play DPS (me) while genji is a high skill character and takes a lot of time to even start to consistently get value out of.
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They’re too used to their hero getting buffed. And Genji is still going to be strong after this adjustment.
Remember the blade patch in OW1? They added one more blade use to his ult for the following reason (roughly):
Dev notes: “Genji players on 56k modems were sometimes losing the use of their first blade during the ult so we are adding an extra blade to it.”
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Our we talking about the upcoming balance changes or overall?
If we refer to the upcoming balance patch this is for sure not a small nerf… They cut both his damage AND ammo. 2 shots less (6 less shurikens) and 2 less damage (-6 damage per burst).
Last time they did something like that, it completely changed Genji’s power level, getting him in and out of the meta.
Now I for sure can not tell what would happen without testing, but I can say that right now it takes Genji around 5 shots and a dash to kill a target, with these changes, it would take him one more shot which is a big deal…
Especially when considering Genji only has 8 shots now instead of 10 (which makes it even more problematic considering the 3 shurikens don’t always hit if one or 2 of them did and it means only 6 of them are allowed to miss without including enemy’s healing and/or your team’s extra pressure).
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I mean there is 3 year olds than there is you. About the same intelligence level I would guess.
He also does not have a deflect and a reset on that same mobility ability and the connivance of climbing up any nearby edge to disengage. Balls deep is not so much a risk when you have a bloated kit to protect you from it and there is nothing in the game except you being differ by another player to punish it 
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Couldn’t have said it better myself
Because having someone who has 600 hours on a specific character dunk on you with that character means that everyone who plays the character is gonna be that good.
Many of the genjis on my team are completely useless, never get a kill and only feed in the enemy teams backlines. And then there’s the madlads like Omni who dunk on everyone because they spent years learning the character and stuck with him even through the worst periods to play that character.
I don’t think it’s fair to scream for nerfs everytime someone finally shows that they know what to do on Genji because he is hard to learn and especially hard to master. What happened to high skill high reward??
Personal insults? LOL
Just be honest and say you can’t hit a wall climbing Genji
Yeah instead he has healing and and a mobility option on no cooldown while also being a ranged hitscan
That’s how competitive games work…
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