Think about the logistics of his kit and how it plays in and against the current meta compared to other heroes.
Hes a hypermobile hero able to kite around off angles to get poke damage from behind the opposing double barrier, able to switch between farming blades, securing low HP kills, and killing singled out targets
then he has nanoblade, a high burst damage ultimate that ignores shields
did you catch that? ignores shields. The most important thing for a hero to have in a meta revolving around shields, is something that can secure kills without regard to them.
His buffs improved his ability to secure kills outside of blade when attacking poorly positioned targets or low HP targets, but outside of that his playstyle hasnt changed whatsoever.
Nerf his ult charge rate, nanoblade becomes a less frequent occurrence, genji maintains his viability, everyones happy.
doomfist was originally the meta go to DPS with double shield, then he got nerfed out of viability
Doomfist
Rocket Punch
Time to reach max charge increased from 1 to 1.4 seconds
The Best Defense…
Shield health gained per hit reduced from 35 to 30
Developer Comment: We’re increasing Doomfist’s charge time for Rocket Punch to give players more warning when he is charging this powerful ability. We’re also reducing the shield health gain from his passive ability to weaken how much damage he can soak while dishing out his own.
The 2 meta DPS are there because they both received numerous buffs, despite being average-good previously.
They were both overbuffed to such an extent that they are meta despite the double barrier being a natural counter, meaning they have no business being meta currently.
He has become a hypermobile tank buster that has 0 reliable counter in the tank roll.
Becoming a reliable tank buster means he also gets his Ult fast
Only a player who his more skilled at a hit scan hero/genji themselves counter him.
His buff has nothing to do with shields and everything to do with that his increased damage, fire rate, ammo, and flexible deflect has made tank unable to both handle him and also feed him Ult charge which is very powerful and even more powerful when combined with powerboost abilities which are common.
Genji is a bloated hero. He has too much so if you buff him he either becomes too strong or mostly useless
cuz doom is terrible. he has no way to counter the cc that ashe and mccree throw at him other than to wait it out. on top of that when he was meta he was nerfed very quickly. genji can duel mccree and ashe better than doom can due to the range of his shurikens, his dash and his low spread buff. and with his deflect he can bait out and contest mccree flash better than before.
he also doesn’t have 50+ bugs like doom but that’s something else entirely
If the enemies’ tanks don’t run double barrier then they inevitably feed him
The buffs also just made him much stronger as a whole
Then he blades. With very simple and easy combos…such as half the tank ults in the game or nano he can wipe teams.
And there’s no counter because heroes can’t charge ults fast enough to counter ult and our defensive ults (zen/lucio) are ineffective to nanoblade when they are available
It’s not even the current meta, or any other meta that’s super important. Genji is meta right now because he is the single strongest DPS. Fights are determined by which Genji kills more of the other team first.
I don’t think your post is heretical or wrong but the overbuffing is what made him meta to begin with. Before, he was just a nuisance for certain characters. I remember being able to escape him as Lucio pretty easily, now he KOs me in like 2~ hits. Maybe I just encounter some “incredibly accurate” genjis but he’s gotten a lot stronger from his recent buffs. Even if it’s just to counter a specific meta, it’s all focused on a single character by that logic.