That was a no brainer, how did they NOT expect Dragonblade to basically become Pulseblade for how fast it charged.
When I played buffed Genji I was laughing at how fast the ulti charged, I’d use blade, eventually die after fighting for a little, and be like “woah wtf blades at 70% again lol”
I would contest this as most Genji mains I spoke with say they want a powershift because they want more power in his abilities and not be a bladebot.
He’s average in my opinion, even still a powershift is a good argument. He gets a weaker ult but a more powerful primary. Whether he is bad or good does not really matter. As even good heroes can use a powershift.
This would change how you play Genji as oppose to make him meta.
I mean tbh this is the same dev team that released launch brig without touching her while she was on the ptr.
True, this is even the case with baptiste too a little bit.
They buff damage and firerate [in baps case the ulti too]. And it just doesnt cross their mind.
They dont even for a second think “Ok the ultimate as it stands is currently fine, but if we buff the damage of the kit it’ll charge like nuts, so maybe we should at least scale it to be equal to the rate it was before”
And it’s not even difficult maths
Genji ult cost: 2100points
Genji shuriken DPS (RMB): 90/0.65= 140dps almost
2100points/140 (without counting other abilities, just RMB on tanks) = 15 seconds to charge ult if you rightclicked a tank xD
Or even just put the buffs through, wait a week, compare the damage numbers and put the percentage increase as an ult charge nerf.
For ex: 12000 vs 15000 damage average, you’d do like a 20% ult charge nerf.
That’s not even needed, but I guess Blizzard devs are incompetent low sr players. The game would be waaaaay more balanced with a t500 player on that dev team
There is, they have a gm widow/sombra player on the dev team.
Then why is the game unbalanced and some balance decisions make no sense? He should expect what’s going to happen ;-;
Ungrateful players…
Yeah definitely ungrateful, except it isn’t.
If you have a bad sickness and the school nurse slaps some ice on it and calls it a day we’re just supposed to be “grateful” and let it worsen now, aren’t we?
Guess what, those moments spent in “gratefulness” could be spent actually doing something to improve the hero instead of keeping quiet and taking D tier.
he really does honestly, he’s kinda broken at the moment, he doesn’t need a big nerf but he just needs some nerfs to his mobility and his deflect otherwise he’s fine. theres really nothing to dispute here, genji is kinda broken lately due to his insane mobility, high dps, and deflect. he Really needs a nerf. im in bronze and Genji is dominating the comp scene rn, it seems like almost every match has a genji and almost every match he destroys us, a nerf is really required to fix genji, he’s kinda a low skill high reward hero rn
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I’m a mercy main saying this, genji has had high mobility, dps, and deflect since like the game started, I mean it’s the same as bastion, he sucks in high ranks but stomps low ranks, genji is a skill check for silver/gold. It’s a skill check, practice til you can beat him.
I mean, from what people say he does stomp in bronze, think this is just some unlucky bronze player tbh.
yes exactly, he’s so broken he’s always been broken. and just because the higher ranks don’t have and issue doesn’t mean he’s not broken, they’re good at the game and know how to counter him, they know how defeat anything. but QP, Bronze, Silver, and Gold where like 90% of the playerbase is, he’s a beast. most people don’t really know how to deal with a genji so he goes to town and wrecks teams most matches. and unlike the few players in the higher tiers most aren’t insanely good at the game. most only play a few heroes and don’t know how to counter every hero in the game. unlike masters where everyone knows absolutely everything about every hero and knows exactly how to shutdown any hero or combo. this is why i feel blizzard should listen more to the lower ranks where most of the playbase is, instead of the few insanely good players because can make any op hero or combo look like trash. its like Pharahmercy its oppressive in lower ranks but trash in higher ranks.
I mean ideally with that mindset they’d balance around gold/plat, it’s unfortunate but it is hard when like 20% of the playerbase exist in every rank besides like masters and GM, I think the problem you have is with smurf genjis’s as idk how any bronze could get good at genji.
I mean if they nerfed him though, he’d just be even more trash in plat and diamond(also Masters and GM), I think that if you were to advocate for removing more smurfs that would help you more than nerfing genji, as a genji smurf could probably still destroy bronzes with a nerfed genji.
Basically smurfing genjis are a bigger problem for you than genji himself as no regular bronze player is good at genji.
hmmm maybe, but honestly I feel he really does need some sort of nerf, his mobility and defect are really broken abilities are should be more balaced, but I get what you’re saying like due to the different ranks of comp this isn’t an easy issue to fix but I still think he needs some nerfs to be more balanced in lower ranks. even if he’s trash in higher ranks he’s opressive in lower ranks (where most of the playerbase is) so its really a matter of balacing to help the casual players, or balancing to help the few high tier pros. this is why i feel comp is really not helping the game since its makes it hard to balance the game properly.
Bruh this sounds more like a skill check and smurf issue than a genji issue. Genji is classified as one of the worst dps heroes in the game. Hes far from easy and broken. If a genji is dominating your games in bronze, its obviously a smurf. Literally any good player thats obviously like at least 2 ranks of skill level above you is gonna make said hero look “broken.”
If this game were to be balanced around lower ranks, heroes like brig/moira would be broken again, and then heroes that are mobile, aerial, and projectile heroes will be even more useless. Bastion and sym too even though theyre considered as one of the weaker heroes but people still want them nerfed??? tOr heck even some tanks like hog, zarya, and dva would be useless too.
So no, genji is far from broken. Its either a skill check or major smurf issue youre dealing with. genji is actually underpowered in this game’s current state. No bronze genji should be dominating a game unless theyre smurfing.
then why is there a really good genji almost every match, either there are tons of smurfs or im right and genji and low skill high reward. also balancing shouldn’t be exclusively around lower ranks but more, equal where both lower rank and higher rank players have more or less and equal say in the games balancing instead of almost exclusively higher ranks calling the shots and what’s changed or not.