Nano pharah, widow, junk, etc all do 180 damage when nanod too. Should we nerf them too?
“Nanoblade is a guranteed team wipe!”
No, it isn’t. There are a number of counters.
Sound barrier+speed boost, transcendence (if he prematurely uses dash), stuns, CC, and hack. And also, it makes sense that 1 defensive ult cant always save you; they’re using 2 ults vs one. They should come out on top.
Nanoblade is not anywhere close to unstoppable.
The thing that makes it strong is the dash resets, and there’s a way to counter that too: Sombra. Without his dash resets (and especially if you have a Lucio), he won’t kill a thing. That’s 2 abilities countering 2 ults!
tl;dr: Nano blade can dominate, like any ult combo, but has a ton of counters that some people are too ignorant to see.
There’s one obvious thing people always seem to forget, the enemy team is using 2 ultimates so i don’t see why people just can’t use 2 ultimates to counter it.
It doesn’t even have to be a defensive ultimate, torbjorn or hammond along with plenty of others can count it with their ultimates combined
Wtf is with all the Ana players making these threads lately.
Blade in general is NOT fine and never was. It has far too little counterplay outside of ultimates in comparison to every other ultimate in the game aside from EMP.
You cannot block the damage whatsoever and the only way to counter him is to instantly kill him as soon as he pulls the blade out or to prevent him from coming in contact for the full duration of the ultimate.
You can thank genji and tracer for brig after all and let me tell you I’m sure they’re not done with adding things to try and stop this ultimate further.
I shall list all the things that will stop nano blade
1 entire team turns shoots him once or twice
2 mcree flash right click
3 brig stun everyone smash
4 brig waits till he dashes then books him away
5 mei freezing him
6 winston booking him away with ult
7 this one would be luck but rein charge
8 grav him and walk away
9 sombra hack and walk away
10 have any flanker permanent kill the ana
11 orisa halt him away from the team
12 DF punch him away from the team or flat out kill him
13 lucio sounds barrier
14 zen Trans
15 hog hook him away from the team after he dashes then press e as he slashes at you for 90 a hit
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head but 15 pretty easy ways to stop nano blade using only 1 ult or no ults
Practically speaking, you wouldn’t waste your dash on someone that wouldn’t die as a result, like Roadhog. That denies you a reset and kills your entire ult if they have Trance.
EMP doesn’t prevent him from swinging and people, so even if he’s in range of tanks he can still deal insane damage them and kill them easily with nano.
Brigitte is a controversial hero released specifically to shut down genji and tracer. A clear indication that like I said, there was not and still is not enough standard ability counterplay.
Also even if you use transcendence genji can kill people through it with a mercy damage boost, supercharger, nano, anti, or discord.
Tac visor has way WAY more options to do something about it. Even if you nano the soldier it can be dealt with easily.
“Just run away from the blade” “Just kill the genji” these are just terrible ways of countering something.
Deflect is the measuring stick for when your deadeye has charged enough damage to kill nano Genji. 2 seconds of deflect = 2 seconds of deadeye = 500 damage, enough to one-shot nano Genji.
It should take incredible skill because it’s an incredibly efficient counter.
EMP/Hack disables dash which is what makes dragonblade good in the first place. Also it takes 3 seconds for nanoblade to kill a tank, more if the tank has support. Dragonblade was never that good on tanks.
Countering nanoblade with brigitte is also very efficient, and much easier than landing sleep.
Mercy cannot keep up with ulting Genji even with GA, but use sound barrier against damage boosted Genji as that ult was designed to defend very high burst damage.
Tacvisor is a good response vs blade. Genji must take riskier positions when using blade so he would be very easy to hit with tacvisor.
In Top 500 we have a nano blade per fight. And a POTG per game too.
Just for saying that Nanoblade can insta-kill in a Zenyatta ult.
Also during the blade Genji have a massive speedboost advantage.
How to not die ? Sombra hack, Speed boost Lucio, hide your self.
How to counter ? Lucio broshield, Zenyatta ult and run for no dash combo, solo Graviton, Reinhard solo ult.
