I agree, he’s fine. Top down balancing doesn’t mean you balance heroes for them to be the best picks in gm, you make them as viable there as you can, then you go down the ranks and check if there’s any place where it made them too good. If a hero for example is playable in gm, but takes over the game below diamond, you should 100% make them less oppressive down there, even if that means they’re barely situational in high elo. You do the same if the hero is overperforming in high elo as well.
I mean sombra should get a rework just because her design is garbage but genjis honestly fine the way he is. He got to keep half of his powercreep buffs so he came out of this better than alot of dps
This right here is how it works. i dont know why some people seem to think “top down balancing” means “top only balancing”. its just not reasonable to screw up balance for 90% of the players by balancing the game only around the highest levels. even if they are balancing around GM they are still looking for that good in-between balance where characters are viable at all ranks without making them overpowered in some.
I understand what you’re saying, but in my post there’s been a lot of controversial messages, I want to keep something clear. My objective with the post was to discuss about the character as a whole. His Dragonblade+Nano combo can swipe entire teams easily but his shuriken kit is unreliable most of the times. That’s why I want his Dragonblade to get nerfed and his shurikens to get buffed. I feel that Nanoblade is so op that they should increase its cost (or just balance it) and also increase Genji’s damage to 30. Just to reduce Dragonblade’s power and to increase Genji’s secondary fire power.
Reverting his fire rate back would only bring back the “spam right click to tanks meta”, and that’s why I dont consider being viable that idea.
He was never underpowered, he was just hard countered by Moira and Brigitte. Both of these heroes have received nerfs to their damage output and/or survivability. A good Genji player will roll Moira/Brig now.
He’s a mid-tier pick, Genji mains just aren’t happy that they can’t farm supports anymore.
That was my idea, but I think that in my post I didn’t express correctly, and some people missunderstood my idea, to distribute his Dragonblade power to all his kit. What I would do is:
Dragonblade cost has increased by 20% or more.
Shuriken’s damage has increased from 28 to 30.
You need to explain that one. He got 4 buffs and 2 of them reverted - not nerfed. He came out with 2 sizeable buffs. Hog got 1 buff with 2 nerfs then got his buff reverted and has come out down 2 nerfs. Genji = +2, Hog = -2.
I wonder a) how did Genji come out worse off than before and b) how is it in any way similar to the crap they pulled on hog?
The power distribution in his kit was expressly reallocated to handle hitscans and he’s not, in a meta where CC is low, dive is high, and nanos plentiful. No one is stopping Genji except for his own mediocrity.
I still think the changes were a net nerf honestly.
Yeah I’m just not well reaserched nor do I remember it correctly. My bad on that one, I remember the narrative that either people were complaining about the nerfs because they put him in a worse state but forgot that he was still relatively buffed.
