The stats support this. Generally speaking the drop in spam value looks to start in high gold, becoming cemented in plat.
Looking at his pick numbers compared to other dps.
Bronze & Silver he is #2.
Gold #4.
Plat drops to #10
Diamond #11
Masters & GM #12
Dropping from #2 to #10 tells you something fundamental changes in gold/plat. Something that most people playing him cannot adjust to. That is just the point where spam stops being valuable and you need new skills.
Thatâs literally what it is lol itâs flankrat
You must be a special kind of stupid. What I said is âJunkrats get plenty of kills with the mine combo below GMâ and you said ânuh uh!! Its just spam!!â
You got amnesia or something? Donât worry, ill quote it so you can remember since youâre struggling
It is almost as if youâre being lied to. What I said was Junkrats get plenty of primary+mine kills below GM, Toast said ânuh uh!! Almost all of their kills are just spamâ shown below
And here you are verifying what I said, that below GM you have to start âbeing goodâ with Junkrat, and, wait for it, get primary+mine kills regularly!! :o crazy. You ironically supported what Iâve been saying while Toast tries to rewrite the conversation when it can be quoted. Hahaha
No ones following you Toast lmao youâre just in every junkrat thread crying and I donât care about your gold/low rank comments, Iâm not either of those but go off lol
Itâs almost as if Junkrats start having to get more and more kills with primary+mine in several ranks below GM like Iâve been saying, crazy!!
Sums up how little you know. Canât even read your own examples.
I get that I hurt your ego by saying metal ranks are bad but you should relax.
Sums up how you like to rewrite conversations. I get that youâre upset about the Junkrat changes, but you canât make up your own reality. You should relax. You didnât hurt my ego at all lol
I quoted you. In the same order. Are you ok?
Sure. Whatever you say.
Itâs an odd decision to give them both smaller buffs than the rest of the cast but they are still buffed (projectile size).
Kiriko projectiles will now be 0.25 (same as Junkrat all of OW2.
Junkrat projectiles will now be 0.35 (larger than 2016 Junkrat which was 0.3).
Iâm a metal rank player. No, heâs garbage down here, too. 
They shafted him with the hitbox changes. Like the ease at which he gets killed down is so laughably bad!!!
I havenât played too much but from what I have played, I feel like itâs the extra HP that screws him over the most. He has a much harder time killing any dps or support now. Especially if theyâre a bit further away
Iâm a GM-Masters Junkrat Player and this patch you just feel helpless, the entire playstyle for this hero in high ranks is dead. You cannot guarantee picks anymore since he no longer has his combo. His tire is useless since the projectile sizes have an increased drastically. Heâs incredibly underpowered compared to any hero in this patch at the moment. Playing spam in higher lobbies isnât even viable might as well play an other hero since they are 10x better at poke in this patch. Even though heâs the worst hero in overwatch history for higher ranks he probably wonât get buffed unless he is bad in low ranks as well, and with this patch I think heâs better in lower ranks.
I probably will still OTP him though lol. See how low down ladder I can go.
I am predicting he will be #2 or #3 in Bronze/Silver. Mid tier in Gold. Plat and above practically non-existent.
Which, going off the past, of course means Blizzard will probably nerf his mineâŚ
My condolences. He has been my favorite (though I donât one trick) for a long time. Just a fun hero to play. But, as it stands, this seasonâŚI just canât. You just feel so useless.
Good luck.