Genji's pick rate in a tank meta proves he's OP

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For the last month, Genji’s got a higher pick rate at GM than Sombra, Reaper, Torbjorn, Doomfist, Symmetra, Pharah, Soldier 76, Junkrat, and Bastion COMBINED

If Genji should be bad in any meta, it’s a tank heavy meta. But he’s thriving in it. This is the worst possible meta for Genji, and he’s still the strongest dps.

When is Blizzard finally going to admit Genji is overtuned and needs a nerf?

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And yet the primarily used composition still has nothing to do with him. He may be the best DPS, but there are no good DPS.

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Well, the more tanks you have, the more supports you need to keep them up. And Genji counters supports

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Genji is only viable because of one thing only: NanoBlade

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Genji has a higher win rate in GM and Master’s than any of the tanks or supports used in GOATS, and he’s a top 6 picked hero in Masters.

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Yeah it’s no wonder why a consistently strong dps might have a higher pickrate over some of the worst dps in the game

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Last I checked, GM wasn’t OWL. Not everyone is running GOATs, so there’s room for some Nanoblade in there.

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The meta isn’t consistently played until GM. So yeah, hopefully DPS are still being picked everywhere else. I’m in diamond and 2/2/2 is still the thing.

Also, pick rates don’t mean too much unless they lean to extremes.

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When those heroes are used on both sides of any given game, one side has to win and the other has to lose, this brings the overall winrate of those heroes down.

There’s a reason during the height of moth meta Mercy had a 50-52% winrate while having a pickrate that eclipsed almost every other hero in the game.

Hell, there’s a 0.01% difference in the pickrates of Genji and Widowmaker, with a 0.39% difference in winrates. Seriously, one of the DPS has to be at the top, complaining about a hero purely because they happen to be at the top by a very slim margin is nonsensical.

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That’s what happens when you have a very good offensive Ult and even more deadlier when used in a combo.

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so that would mean that Reinhardt is the most overpowered hero in the game seing that he has held a higher pickrate and winrate for a much longer time then?

pickrates mean nothing without context, and they mean especially less on the ladder where no actual competitive rules are enforced, and you can actively play against winning with no consequence

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a hero being better that trash heroes proves nothing.

in GM, mccree has a higher pick rate than bastion, junkrat, pharah, soldier, doomfist and torbjorn COMBINED!!! LET’S NERF MCCREE!!!

according to what exactly? tank meta isn’t even bad for genji because he farms blade easily off tanks.

yeah dude lots of evidence provided!!!

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factually incorrect. there is a variant of goats with mei, and she has a 3% higher winrate than him

there is also a variant with reaper who has a 3% higher winrate than genji.

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“Genji isn’t OP, it’s every other dps hero that’s trash.”

#justgenjiarguments

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you can’t seem to prove it wrong though. that’s the funny part. and you conveniently ignored my example with mccree :frowning: :frowning: :frowning:

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Yeah and a lot of 200heros cant be viable because they get destroyed by dragon blade each 1 minute.

Balanced.

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NT but your blind to reality so your post means nothing.

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You realize Genji is still played to this day only because he’s mechanically fun? He’s not even strong lol. He could be dogsh*t but still have the highest pickrate because he’s literally fun.

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Is really fun spam shurikens on mid-long range and get the ultimate each 1 minute with no any risk

Then you can destroy the enemy backline… fun

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I swear people who say this have literally never played Genji outside of QP and are just angry support mains.

You guys are lost causes.

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