The fact junkrat can just shoot randomly and as long as one of the shots bounces and hits u half ur health is jus gone is way to op he needs a dmg nerf and also of u get ina trap he can jus use his mine to kill u right there he need a dmg nerf to his trap his mine and his launcher
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Don’t run into the mines / grenades.
There you have it, fixed, Junkrat becomes useless.
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nah junkrat is straight up a feeder unless you are aquamarine
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Ever heard of situational awareness?
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When he spamming the launcher it’s hard no to
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I certainly don’t think he needs a nerf, but I do think people assuming he is much weaker than he is. A week or 2 ago I looked at t500 and 26 of them had junk as their most played dps. Which is higher than most other dps heroes, since most of the leaderboard is sojourn and genji as most played.
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Your team needs a good Sig or Dva to eat grenades. Problem solved.
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My only issue with Rat is how easy and consistent his close-range nade-mine combo is to pull off. It makes him ridiculous on a lot of maps with tight flanking corridors.
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Well Junk has always had a decent top 500 representation regardless of his balance state and has had one of the largest 1 trick communities for years.
He’s strong within his niche which allows you to almost always be very competitive on his good maps. He’s still pretty weak on most maps though which puts him in the odd position of being both a strong and a weak pick. He’s niche but not so niche that you cant maintain rank.
He’s a balanced hero and a lot of what makes him struggle so much on his bad maps is other heroes, such as Sojourn, being so broken while also being a direct counter to him.
Oh and there are 17 dps heroes. 500/17 = 29. 26 Junkrats falls right in line with what you’d expect if he were balanced. Which he is.
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That would be true, if like half of the 500 were not sojourn and genji. He is certainly higher represented than most other dps atm.
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Watch your step, stand behind the tank, problem solved.
Why? Genji isn’t really a great pick against Junk. Both of them mess each other up and I guess it might lean somewhat in Genjis favour but we’re not talking a hard counter at all. He’s a soft counter at absolute best.
Sure in a fair duel Genji has the advantage but matches rarely work out like that.
Unsurprisingly really. Sojourn murders everything, including heroes who would counter Junk but Junk does and always has performed very well within his niche and unlike Sym it’s not just 1 map.
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People who can’t help but be drawn to Rat’s grenades always remind me of that scene from A Bug’s Life.
Hm, I wonder why their Rat has Riptire up every ten seconds. Good job, Harry. 
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he pretty much has no fall off damage what so ever which is basically complete BS
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Ina DPS and I don’t have anyone to play with an my randoms most the time don’t really know what there doing
Dodge all the bullets in the game.
There you have it, ez GM.
Omg I hate this. I was once killed by a random junk nade out of nowhere so I watched the replay and the dude shot the air from spawn, it traveled 200 meters, bounced around some walls and exploded on my face.
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yet they complain that 20m for tracer is overkill…junkrat needs some serious nerfs along with freaking reaper
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Your problem is that fact when junk is in play your going through the door he is lobbing bombs instead of circling
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No clue if you’re joking or not but there’s quite a difference between hitscan shots and slow arching projectiles
How come I farmed you so hard then 