It shouldn’t damage through shields.
Specifically rein and brig shields.
No melee attack should. A shield should block physical attacks.
You shouldn’t be able to punch someone who has a shield up and do damage.
It makes no sense and kills the illusion for those two heroes.
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so like if he dashes into a shield it should just kill his momentum or how will that work
Either that or he passes through it and it does no or reduced damage.
We have two characters who’s fantasies are holding up a shield, but that shield can’t stop physical objects?
Genji doesnt need nerfs, melee abilities also usually go past shields, thats what Swift Slash is, it would make little sense to nerf him like so.
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It wouldn’t just be him. It would be any up close physical attack and only for brig and Reinhart.
No need for that barrier buff either, Brig and Rein are in a decent spot.
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On the one hand, I don’t see it as that big of an issue, on the other they removed brig bashing through shields so if they were consistent they’d do this but none of us and I mean absolutely ZERO % of us would want to live with Genji mains crying in our ears till the servers shut down so let’s just not. It’s really not worth it
I don’t think it’s really going to hurt much considering there are so few physical attacks in the game. It’s just for character immersion, Wouldn’t break the game in any way shape or form. Wouldn’t apply to Genji ultimate
So when he passes through the barrier his blade suddenly stops slicing?
That doesn’t make sense.
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It makes it inconsistent, they decided Barriers would be vulnerable to melee abilities, it would take a pretty significant amount of changes to a lot of melees and barriers for that to make sense, i dont think Barriers need buffs either.
As for immersion, not only do we need some suspension of belief for a lot of stuff that happens in games, i think it kinda makes sense that a energy barrier that you can walk through wouldnt be able to stop a melee strike so i think its fine either way.
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Makes as much sense as him slicing through a shield that remains intact
he’s phasing through barrier,
he’s not slicing 2000HP Rein barrier with a 50 damage dash
Good point but then again brig can bash people with that same energy shield.
So it seems like it is a physical object
Some inconsistency there, they did change that recently, but i guess since she dashes past the barrier before bashing, one could say it also is a melee strike and the barrier wouldnt be able to stop her from passing through it.
if you want barriers to be realistic, both enemies and teammates shouldn’t pass through them, and both enemy and ally passing into them would damage it
A little bit too scorched earth
Imagine you’re 1hp on Rein and a nano’d Ramattra is ulting and you take 0 damage from that. Or you’re low and Rein is swinging at you through shield
It makes about as much sense as Genji’s hammer being able to deflect Rein’s hammer, or Rein’s 1hp barrier being able to block a 1000 damage nuke
The game does not need more arbitrary exceptions it’s bad enough trying to explain the things hack can and can’t interrupt, that Winton ignores armour, that armour works differently against different damage types and values and that certain abilities can only block projectiles
I have no idea how any new player has any hope of understanding how this game works and it will become a problem if we keep adding to the inconsistencies because Like it or not a live service only survives if it can attract and keep noobs.
Genji has a hammer???
Ram ult isn’t physical. He sends nano bots to swam you like bugs.
Doesn’t he already do that? I know he blocks Winston ult