Because Deflect can already be used incredibly offensively.
Genji players know that if they dive onto a player and they shoot into the deflect or if any of the team shoot into the deflect. It is GG. Genji basically automatically wins that fight.
Which is fair.
However, it used to have counter-play. If you managed to not take any damage from the deflecting Genji and perfectly timed your shot to land at the end of deflect, that would be how you would win the Genji duel. Which made fighting Genji’s a very high-skill match-up and purely dependent on each players skill.
Now, that is all completely irrelevant. Genji essentially is allowed a free RMB upon activating deflect at worse and at best, you are still deflecting a ton of damage back at the enemy for a free kill.
Basically it removes counter-play and the likes of Mei/reaper/dva has no inherent offensive nature to their abilities.
Only in low ranks anyone plat and above us it to one prtect agains widows while moving or to get away by back peddling.
No he does not most of the time the stop shooting and aim for the rest of your team while one waits for your deflect to go down and lights you up.
And reaper can just wraith then comeout and get free damage or mei will comeout and start spraying you or dva will shoot rockets while still having defence matrix up
Or maybe we aren’t bad but his kit is literally in the worst spot its even been in and hes is out classed by every hero out side sombra so yes he needs buffed and no its not becuase we are “bad at genji” that is a hacks argument and your should be ashamed for even trying to pull that crap
Most streamers who play DPS/Tanks and probably have easy mobility to never have to worry about him.
1 support streamer saying “Genji is fine” means nothing. Don’t pretend like you didn’t see Genji in 99% of your games before he got nerfed, and don’t pretend like games weren’t almost entirely the better Genji wins, because they were and Blizzard thought so too.
Right because you argument is support are actually strong implying that all support players are just bad and that’s why your hero needs his nerf reversed because even bad players are owning you… oh but you’re not bad, just Genji.
No support is the strongest role with the most game changing ability not saying a person is bad but they seem to want to buff a hero just to buff them and cant give me a reason out side queue times eitch is not an argument
Support is the most important role, not the strongest. Yes, some support characters can shift the tide of a battle but they can not aim for their teammates and few supports are destroying the enemy team solo.
Genji is still good, he’s just not “I don’t need your heals good where he could ignore los and distance to wreck everyone. 1v1, he should win most fights, as opposed to 1v3 before the nerf.
I still see a lot of Genji being played and I still see good Genji’s winning fights and carrying matches, I just don’t see it every game with Genji on both teams which isn’t a bad thing!
Or we could stop nerfing the second weakest dps in the game and acualy just give him back his damage. And stop trying to dumpster a already bad hero it makes it look like you dont understand hoe to balance a game
Genji is pretty mid now and although people will never accept it when it’s ‘their,’ character in this position, but mid-tier characters are in a perfectly healthy place. Heck even low-tier characters can still get value. The difference between the worst, and the best in terms of balance is far more marginal than people want to admit.