why are you in melee range? you aren’t supposed to be in melee range. i mean you have 2 mines to get yourself out of it now
NEVERMIND, GUESS THEY WEREN’T FOR MOBILITY AFTER ALL
I really dont wanna see self damage back on junkrat. But one question is in my mind when i read such posts “why the f do you wanna duell a junk 1v1?” he f’s you up deal with him from range because his boucing balls are so damn easy to avoid when you see them from a mile away.
only bs thing about junk atm is riptire, otherwise he is balanced.
Some people can’t be reasoned with. Certain people are on a crusade to try to get everything about him nerfed because it’s easier to do that than for them to learn how to counter and know when to avoid him. There’s no trying to reason with them. They are like little kids with their fingers in their ears “LALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!”
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I don’t understand how people claim Tracer/D.va are OP but then can’t counter Junkrat at all.
Give him more abilities like the Demoman has (sticky bomb traps) and I’d be fine with giving his self damage back.
If a tank has to go out of it’s way to kill the rat, than that leaves they’re team open for attack from those with more consistent damage output.
There are several who can take him out from a distance.
Widow
Hanzo
Ana
Soldier (If they have legendary aim)
Bastion
Orisa
Zenyatta
Then there are heroes with abilities that lessen his spamming threat.
Rein, Orisa, Winston, and soon Brigette, with shields.
Dva with her defense matrix, which literally absorbs his artillery.
Mei has her ice wall, long range icicle, and cryofreeze
Anyone who can heal, thus reversing any damage he has done.
And then there is Genji, who can deflect his bombs back to him, which will now hurt him.
Moira can do some good against him at close range, with her ball of death, and the fact she is able to sustain herself with her secondary.
Maybe he has special eyes?
As a Junkrat main how dare you sad bad about my beloved hero. This hero is insanely high skilled and needs a big buff immediately. His riptire is very balanced and it takes so much skill to get a kill with.
Junkrat has 2 mines to get the tanks out of his face. He received the no self damage buff in a time where he had no mobility.
Reason of why Junkrat takes no longer damage from his kit :
https://youtu.be/Al6C-SVvpbI?t=2313
I would praise a return to v1 Junkrat, so that I can re-use my mayhem tactics and see how much people complain on forums about how much “Junkrat’s passive is OP”. But either kit is fine as is.
I would not say that ist would be right to give his regular attacks self damage. But I would agree if his ULT does self-damage. It is stupid that he could use it like a faster (but smaller) dva-bomb to clear a payload for example in overtime.
Especially his concussion mines, they’re just dumb, you can 2 shot most heroes in no time without too much skill or aim. I think I was good that they gave it falloff damage, but he still does way too much damage. Maybe they can make him shoot slower, because he just needs to hold mouse one on point A at Temple of Anubis then he gets a kill. But right now I am more concerned of overpowered-ness of SOMBRA, but yes, Junkrat still needs to be taken care of.
He can still shoot his primary fire, Which heroes are unable to shoot their primary on close target and cannot fly to keep distance?
He can’t just click in the enemy model and be sure to hit like all the hitscans, from mid to long range his grenades are too easy to dodge.
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The to have self damage or not question is a little weird in overwatch rn. D.va doesnt, tracer does, junkrat doesnt, S76 and zarya do. but honestly, their kits work with these.
Junkrat doesnt need self damage for the same reason d.va doesnt need self damage. Theyd be completely useless as theyd just kill themselves more often than the enemy team. and not because you dont need kill as junk and just mindlessly shoot (says me, a junkrat main) but if you take the time to figure him out, there are so many cool things you can do with him, but they all require exploding things. so.
yeah. no. basically
he doesnt need self damage
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I disagree. It’s easy for a tank to take out a junkrat close range, it would just be an indirect buff for tanks. In the past junkrat could damage himself, but they removed that. That’s probably because players would often hit themselves with random balls bouncing back at them. This was annoying, I can remember. Junkrat isn’t a skilless player and can be countered by half of the heroes in the game because of his big hitboxes. I think junkrat is in a good spot atm and nothing should change
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Well okay than give Junkrat a self-heal so he can survive when jumped by tanks, and also give him a somekind of primary-damage type of ability to use when jumped so he doesn’t have to self-damage.
Nooo. Junkrat’s fantasy and kit are based on explosions and the only thing he has that doesnt explode is his trap. Giving him self damage would be going too damn far.
well buhu you got killed be a defensive hero by walking into his line of fire
he is hard countered by almost every dps and zarya can deal with him