yes its me, that same person that congratulated blizzard for the “buff”
what is this, there is no way they though that completely nerfing his ult charge to where it takes 3 fights to charge an ult and anas can consistently lap you in ult charge was a good change
this is with 40 percent accuracy in a game, the average is 30 and I was literally spending all my time trying to farm blades and getting easily overlapped by the rest of the team enough to not even get nano in the first place
and I don’t blame anyone tbh, if you nerf the most consistent part of a heroes kit and make a marginal change (that had no nerf with it pre genji buff) and expect a sub 1 percent hero to suddenly reach an average pickrate of a dps?
btw, they made this exact same buff back in april, where genji was actually averaging a higher pickrate then he is now, last april he had no deflect cancel, no spread, no deflect duration
he got a fire rate buff, and it did absolutely nothing
from .75 to .65
so riddle me this, why would they make almost the same change (not even a full change to .65)
and add a nerf to the ult charge, when he is at a lower pickrate then when they made that same buff with no nerfs in the first place?
I can hear it now, what about his base kit?
his base kit is honestly a whole different problem in itself
when flanking he lacks the burst to kill a target before the team turn arounds and kill him (because dash is really his only escape option, supports playing on high ground= no walls to actually climb, ur on high ground duh, supports playing near small cover like a trash can)
he doesn’t have the ability to force a duel out of a hero, if the hero is just playing in their team all he can do is poke with his measly shirukens
and as a “flanker” he has bad matchups against 4 out of the 7 supports
brig bap moira lucio
all of these heroes either make his life incredibly harder or he is just forced to lose value from their existence, and the heroes he can fight, it isn’t anywhere near as one sided as most other flankers
ana and genji is a 50/50
mercy and genji rarely ever fight
genji is probably the least effective flanker hero into zen (just play doom tracer echo if you want to pick off that character more effectively without losing value of your ult to transendence)
its the fact that he literally is the least effective hero in his role
you don’t go ah the supports are giving me trouble let me go genji, you go tracer, she does that better
do you need to finish and asassinate targets? Echo
you need some form of self sustain and burst that is good against other close range heroes? Doom
what you choose genji for is the blade, his nanoblade
its funny really, with a net 4 buffs in 1 year hes performing worst then hes ever been, I just feel the devs need to overhaul him, hes a completely outdated hero that seems completely lost in the current games state in every sense of the word
I am honestly going to just continue to play other heroes
fun fact, here is his pickrate today, when he got buffed in gm: .23
they didn’t even bother lol
