Maybe the enemy team shouldn’t be tanking slow moving grenades with their face?
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You do know we can look at your profile ,right ?
Yeah y’all can go look at my profile but I haven’t touched him since October. Mainly been playing Sombra and Orisa lately but still Junkrat isn’t OP overall. Junkrat is pretty much useless the higher rank you go.
My only problem with Junk rat is that for someone that can get his ult potentially faster than anyone else in the game multiple times… It shouldn’t be as strong as it is. Not that its Op or anything but its silly to have a junk that gets his ult potentially gets a kill and some good damage has it again.
He does his job without ult well enough that every team fight shouldnt be a free ult built for him.
Suuuuuure.
Also ,if he’s ''useless the higher you go ,he wouldn’t have the 5th highest winrate (including sym and torb) in grandmaster , and he wouldn’t be picked in OWL either.
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Let’s balance the game around quickplay!
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Junkrat mains also have more experience on the hero than we do and know how he works better than us.
Maybe listen to what they have to say instead of brushing off everything they say, because that’s how we get things like the D.Va, Hog, and Mercy reworks.
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Win rate can always be wrong especially when Symmetra and Torb are usually use only for a first point on defense. Junkrat is mostly useful on 2CP maps. The higher you go in rank you see way more Tracer, Genji, and S76 for DPS instead of Junkrat.
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Actually junkrat has more pickrate in GM than soldier 76 on this month
https://www.overbuff.com/heroes
Also,this isn’t the case for junkrat ,and he has a MUCH ,MUCH higher pickrate than them.
And again ,he has been picked in OWL outside of 2cp maps ,too.
Ladies and gents, I present to you…our OWL players…can’t even handle a junkrat.
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You’re obviously better than them ,why aren’t you at least on shanghai dragons ?
(quoting because it doesn’t look like it replied correctly.)
I don’t really care and I’ve lost interest Overwatch League now because it’s the same old boring Tracer,Genji, Winston, DVA, S76, and Zen being mostly played.
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The least you could do is check on the high league matches if you want to make a statement like that.
ESPECIALLY the OWL.
Just gonna put this here, seems like a tad of characters are picked over Junkrat the higher you go up in tiers :
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I watch the League and it’s mostly 3/4 of the game I’ve watch. London uses it a lot.
Hi, Junkrat player here, who also plays Genji, Reinhardt, D.Va, Torbjorn and other stuff too from time to time.
Junkrat is powerful, but to state that he is OP is rather stupid in my opinion. His various buffs have simply put him in a situation of viability at last, after months earlier in the game of being a troll pick in ranks higher than like Platinum.
The important thing to understand when playing a Junkrat is that he is extremely powerful at close range, and extremely good at locking down a choke point. He makes it very difficult to pass through tight spaces due to long range spam, and if you get close to a Junkrat he has all the tools to destroy you. Therefore, if close quarters and tight spaces are his strong suit, how do you beat a Junkrat? Range. Widowmaker, Hanzo, Pharah and Soldier 76 are extremely good against a Junkrat. It’s pretty difficult to accurately aim his pipes at range. Possible, mind you, but it requires massive skill on the Junkrat’s behalf to pull off reliably and repeatedly. Mechanical skill, of course, as I will touch on later. But basically, don’t walk haphazardly into choke point where a Junkrat is spamming and expect to live. Go through quickly as a team, with your tanks blocking the damage, and take the Junkrat on from range. Best way to fight him.
As mentioned, I also think we really need to discuss “skill” in Overwatch. Because Junkrat, Winston, Reinhardt, etc all require a lot of skill actually. But what they don’t require much of (Junkrat still does need decent aim to hit his pipes at mid-range though) is mechanical skill, aka aim. Most DPS mains that like to play Widowmaker and (try to) hit sick snipey shots don’t seem to quite understand that there is more to Overwatch than “Who can click heads best”. Positioning, Good Ability Usage, Timing and Teamwork are equally vital to being a good player, and Junkrat (amongst other characters constantly sh*t on for “wah no skill”) needs to have far better understanding of positioning and ability management than a Widowmaker ever will. So please, stop this stupid argument. You look stupid when you complain that Junk doesn’t need skill.
Now, his ult is a different story. I think that its a balanced ult, but that it maybe does charge a tad too quickly. Just increase ult cost for Junkrat a little, and I’m sure he will be fine. But then again, that might not even be needed. At high ranks Junkrat doesn’t reliably get Tire kills. Even in Platinum where I find myself most of the time, my Tire often gets blown up before I can blow the enemies up. Maybe try adapting to the faster tire and just… shooting it? Just a suggestion.
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The only solution is to become a pro hit scan player and destroy rip tires like we see the OWL pros do. Because junkrat mains have absolutely no idea what kind of talent it took to destroy their tire and are just left thinking, “Thats lame I should have gotten a free 6k”. Kappa
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idk why they didn’t give him an ult charge nerf, it seemed like that was the most universally agreed upon nerf for him but it was never added to the ptr. 
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/185/449/855.jpg
I never said ‘‘he is the most picked hero especially in high tiers’’
I was just pointing out that he isn’t ‘‘basically useless in high tiers’’ and is a pretty good pick.
Look at the hitscan elitist whining he can’t play Junkrat…