Proceed to forget he exists almost for an entire year leaving him a worse state than before the buffs.
Now in 2021 buffs him again like 1-2 months ago in a good way but refuses to tweak further despite him still being somewhat bad.
Mccree isn’t meta for 2 months and in the space of 5-8(in the meantime Genji didnt get any changes) months gets buffed about 6 times and currently has been meta for months now while Genji was gutted in 2 weeks.
Also, why do hitscans always get compensation buffs? You didnt compensate Genji when u deleted him from existence back in june but you rewarded Ashe with lightspeed firerate for 5 less damage, Bap with even more heals in exchange for -10% imortality base health which doesnt do anything and is basically a buff… honestly, dont even nerf cree. I dont wanna see him get his goats era firerate in exchange for -5 flashbang damage.
It’s honestly no good comparing balancing to other heroes, like as a Sombra main you should feel lucky Genji got that much attention, we’re getting our first balance change in over a year, like I’m genuinely stoked about it
He was never deleted from existence and he’s still a solid to super powerful pick and in many ranks also broken OP
You got more spam on primary and secomdary, cancelable deflect without any delay for counterplay and not even Rein primary can go theough it, dash reset on assisted kills, an ult which has no weaknesses to shields and CC etc etc
Like what else do you want, he’s top 2 dps everywhere in almost all games and the only soft counter to him is… Zarya and Hanzo (but that’s because he is even more broken rn)
That much attention? We literally got giga buffs that made them ruin the character for months which was the same that happened to Sombra.
You are known for being extremly biased against Genji despite having proof in overbuff hes not doing well. Your opinion in my posts is irrelevant until you can wash your eyes and see the reality around you that just because you are bad doesn’t mean the hero is overpowered. Im done with ur crap against Genji in every Genji post.
He’s 1 qol away from becoming must pick after Cree nerfs, the 2 months when he was a must pick was the worst time of OW history where many people left the game. Irrelevant or not, the hero is to this day still overtuned in many ranks and as long as he remains braindead easy for the value he gets no ty, leave him there
Which 2 months??? Genji was only meta for 2 weeks and many GM players even came back to the game just to play Genji.
You are insane if you think Genji would ever reach must pick status with just one buff. Hes +1 damage away from going from trashcan to B tier. My point remains, if you are bad at the game, dont blame the hero for u being bad.
I’m fine dealing with him, that doesn’t change the fact that the counterplay to him is harder to pull off than for him to 1v3 + how annoying he is to fight against
He got buffs, nerfs and reverts but he’s better than year ago (not much but still better)
Just nerf overperforming heroes, then we can talk about Genji buffs.
Cries in Symmetra
Another lie
It’s better skill expression (less AOE, more direct)
That’s not new information but some post launch heroes are also trash (Sombra, Doomfist, Orisa, Moira)
Genji might not be the top tier dps but he’s also not the bottom of the barrel either, buffing him would warp the game a lot around him, at least for higher ranks since you know very well that nanoblade is one of the most effective and fastest ult combos out there
For my plat rank, a good genji is a nightmare, a bad one is just annoying but never are Genjis straight up trash
Trust me you don’t wanna know what bottom of the barrel is really like, pretty much all of my favourite heroes are inside the trashcan it’s mega depresso
Moira used to be a really meh hero like Genji currently is but she was still somewhat playable compared to now. Sure she was still bottom support but at least was playable
Genji got that huge buff then they nerf him big, and it feels like they are too frightened to touch him again cause of it. I also feel like the same is happening with many other heroes if they get even the slightest buff, look at Reaper for example he is even worse than before and everyone was screaming about how OP it was gonna be.
Don’t really like how the balance patches are doing right now… so many heroes need something even if it’s just a little smidge, but they are left for months to waste away
Imagine the balancing when we have even more heroes with OW2… even more heroes are gonna be down in the can
they need to stop listening to people who yell “THIS IS OP” for experimentals because it’s been proven time and time again that often they’ve been extremely wrong.
I think NerfMercy is a troll it’s hilarious. Easy to make a hero sound braindead and op when you state the easiest part/Playstyle of them or the only pros lmao. I wonder which hero they main.
Hes currently better than april last year version for sure, but he was not better before the most recent buffs at all.
If they were going to nerf overperforming heroes then there would be no need to buff Genji…
How is that a lie? his pickrate before giga buffs was always sitting around 5-4% in all ranks, but after giga buffs and they gutted his firerate and damage his pickrate was lower than 1% most times in GM just like right now.
No its not. His previous nades were 50 heals, you’re just straight out buffing him for hitting directs with even more healing when the best number would be 40-60 and maybe increase to projectile speed.
We are not entitled to anything, we just want out hero to be at least B tier like Hanzo (he was never truly bad even after the nerfs post rework)
Doomfist was dominant in the meta like 2 times after he was released and even today plagued by bugs and hard counters hes still much stronger than Genji and if you don’t believe me you can just look at his GM pickrate and compare to Doomfist. Hes literally below 1% while Doom is almost at 3%.
Sombra isn’t trash, she is just too team reliant and literally minor number tweakings could turn her from D to S tier.
Are we forgetting she was meta for over a year? Orisa/Hog being a must pick combo back in the day and then a whole year of Orisa/Sigma?
Moira was only meta during the Doom meta and even then it wasn’t even cause she was good, it was cause she was one of the few that could survive him.
No it wouldn’t. 29 damage shurikens is literally all we are asking for now.
A good Genji is even better when his teammates invest resources which is super hard to do in lower ranks because people refuse the Genji resources (unless hes enemy Genji then he literally gets mercy ana with nano and damage boost blade)
Thats the thing, they never addressed the issue on why he was op back in june and just threw buffs that they knew would make him garbage. If they reverted spread back to 12 or simply increased firerate to 0.7 instead of 0.65 and gave him 29 damage shurikens with 10-12% ult charge nerf i guarantee you he’d not be overpowered at all.
Thats literally what i’m trying to say, if we have things not so good now, imagine when heroes that can do a lot more get here. They will have to buff a lot of the OW1 cast to even be able to compete with OW2 heroes. Sigma and Bap are prime examples of good at everything heroes that are most likely the new design philosophy for OW2.
Genji is a a solid pick. Definitely not overpowered, but lets not pretend like Genji is desperately scrapping for fixes. There are plenty of worse heroes off.
Genji would benefit from the overperforming heroes getting nerfed. Doesn’t always need to be straight buffs.
i know he would, but you think balance team would nerf hitscans? literally every single overperforming hitscan nerf came with compensation buffs so far. The most realistic approach would be to buff Genji with 29 damage shurikens and never touch him again. Also, only way to make him good would be to nerf bap heals, Ashe and Cree (except Soldier) and Ana heals. You literally cannot make Genji good anymore without any buffs due to how much stronger everything in the game got.
Well she got 2 big buffs recently, they only need to throw in the halt range and boom, suddently goes from F to A tier again. The thing is, they need to powershift shield power to her main kit kinda like powershifting blade power to base kit which is what we been asking forever.