poor guy has had every part of his kit nerfed excluding trap. his nerfs made him more and more inconsistent that hes just as bad as he before 2 mines maybe even worse
more mobility doesnt matter if he cant kill anything consistently, or misses every shot with his primary fire.
the only good part about junk still is his tire, and thats because they nerfed everything else and not what the issue was 
7th most picked dps, 50% winrate. Hes balanced
not in the slightest, his entire kit is an inconsistent mess now.
the worst has got to be his primary nerf, it ruined his role as a mid range area denial hero and force him to play as a close range brawler, which is not what junkrat was built to do 24/7
i would highly suggest reading that, i break down every part of his kit in extreme detail and explain why junkrat sucks
I already did, and i commented that T500 1 tricked Junk when he was OP AF to T500
junkrat was op, hes been nerfed so hard that he just sucks now
His pickrate is all in silver and bronze. He’s only good for low rank pub stomping.
Hes literally in the middle of pickrates for DPS and has a 50% winrate, thats the definition of balanced
I disagree. 2 slightly weaker mines is much better than he was. 1 to go in the air, the other to blast that pharah.
Check pickrate by rank. He falls off a cliff after gold.
junkrat is being picked 2% of the time and is barely maintaining a 50% winrate, its leaning towards 49%. if hes being picked 2% of the time then his winrate should be higher because no ones playing him
Becuse high ranked players dont want to play a spam hero
They were perfectly happy to when he didn’t completely suck.
you do realize that junkrats primary fire nerf makes him spam more, right?
Thats because he was easy SR, same with Mercy even though theyd rather play Ana
High rank players will play whatever works. They just want to win. Spam only works in lower ranks anyway, if Junkrat was good in high tiers it wasn’t from spam.
I can’t verify this, but his ult feels like it was nerfed heavily. I can’t speak to higher than gold since I didn’t care to go beyond gold, but I can see why he may not be a popular pick. I mean why zone…amiright?!
You don’t seem to grasp that being viable in lower ranks doesn’t make him a good hero overall. Everything works in lower ranks because these are people that are new to FPS games and can’t really understand how to dodge.
Anything above platinum (below average rank btw) he becomes a troll pick. He is absolute trash if he can’t even be good at medium-rank play. And he IS supposed to be able to counter GOATS with burst damage. But he can’t. Because even with godlike aim you miss 80% of your shots.
The only thing is, Junkrat plays like actual garbage. In this case, we need to put consistency over balance and THEN balance. If a hero feels terrible to play, that should be their priority to fix. An inconsistent mess of a hero who can get his ultimate (the one consistent part of his kit) destroyed, of course he’s going to feel awful to play. They need to fix his consistency to make him feel better and then balance him from there. A hero should be fun AND balanced. Not left frustrating, inconsistent, and unable to do his job (area denial) that great just because he has a balanced win rate. Gameplay needs to trump in Junkrat’s case.
You realize every single hero spams right? McCree, Widow, S76, Torb, Lucio, Zarya, Ana, Zen and well, you get the point. Every single one of those heroes non-stop shoots at enemies. If you’re not hitting then you’re doing what called suppressing fire. You keep your enemy hidden under cover so they can’t come out and shoot back. Junkrat does the same thing.
On and honestly, Junkrat takes more skill to land direct hits than any hitscan hero in the game due to him having the slowest projectile in the game. So if you’re at mid range from a Junkrat and his grenade hits you then you walked into it because your movements are easy to predict. If a grenade bounces off something and hits you then that is also your fault for knowingly standing in an area while grenades around bouncing around you.
To be fair, his pickrate has always been excessively high in Silver and Bronze. Which kinda skews the numbers.