Genji’s deflect should be nerfed to match the up time of Kiriko’s Suzu. It should take skill to use, not allow him to move in for free kills.
I see a lot of ignorant responses saying, “Just don’t shoot at it.” Shooting at it or not, still allows Genji to move in uncontested. Obviously you don’t shoot the damn thing, but it’s not like you not shooting stops him from moving in on you. Once he’s close enough his double jump doesn’t have a cool down, his spread shuriken can’t miss, and he still has a dash attack that even when head shot on his way to you will still damage you after he’s dead. So as long as he got you low enough, it’s an autokill.
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or, you could take away him being able to cancel deflect. ever since he was given that buff, I’ve been using it more and more aggressively, when i only used to use it as a defensive tool. i’d be okay with that change tbh
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How can he deflect rapid missle
Have you tried not shooting him.
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It takes skill to aim deflect back.
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His deflect is a key part of his survivability. It doesn’t make much sense to nerf it.
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That still allows him to move in completely incontestable. And once he’s close enough his spread shurikens guarantee a hit. While his double jump has no cooldown.
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I’ve never had a problem with this when fighting against other genjis.
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That excuse could be said against any wanted nerf ever.
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I do agree it’d be very cool and a lot more satisfying to pull off if it was that way though.
The mindgame encounter with Genji would be different, and maybe more lethal for both parties.
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If only the Genji was required to perform a skillful interaction with deflect, too bad that was not in the cards…
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Navigating to the ‘e’ key is a bit difficult at times. Sometimes I grt lost and cant find thw kty.
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Lol, deflect got nerfed ages ago to have it’s tiny little hitbox, the skillful interaction is DON’T SHOOT Genji.
It really doesn’t last that long plus the hero just got nerfed.
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That still allows him to move in completely incontestable. And once he’s close enough his spread shurikens guarantee a hit. While his double jump has no cooldown. His damage nerf that will go into affect in 18 days, will slightly help.
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Hello he has counters??
Incontestable if you have no clue what you’re doing or refuse to swap to one of his counters.
It may take skill to aim the deflect, but not to make him invulnerable to frontal assaults while he closes the distance.
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Bruuuuuuh
Just pick from this list of heroes if Genji is giving you problems.
Winston, Roadhog, Sigma, Orisa, Zarya, Echo, Junkrat, Mei, Pharah, Sombra, Symmetra, Ana, Brig, Moira. Edit: Ashe
Almost all of those heroes can kill genji through deflect or just ignore him/counter him, now get good.
But really you only need 1 person on your team countering him if you can’t deal with it just pick something that goes through deflect honestly… or wait 2 seconds
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Yeah but most defensive abilities don’t take “skills” because they are designed to defend reliably,
The reason suzu needs to be timed is because it’s aoe and it gives total immunity. If you were to take those sterengths away, you get something like Brigitte’s barrier - also takes no skills to use.
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It’s just not a well designed move, the hitbox isn’t clear, the sound que isn’t either, and it’s massive Crutch for Genji as it punishes players who actually can hit him and makes this assasin flanker be able to be a tank for a couple of seconds which is stupid
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