When will the Genji buffs arrive?

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@Ihanin-2778

AFAIK they won’t be coming live and were there just to gather data on how they could possibly tune Genji to be more of a niche burst flanker against hit-scans competing against DF and Echo, but it’s possible that at some point they rebalance Genji and add some of the buffs to him

@maomao-22204

I’m praying they don’t, game will be miserable with all the edgy Genji mains POOPing on your backline support in seconds if you’re not GM+.

Devs already confirmed they were happy with the buffs and pushing it to live.

@Molly

Earlier this afternoon, we ended our most recent test on the Experimental Card - thanks to everyone that participated in the experiment while it was up. If you missed it, check out the Past Experiments notes: HERE .

Overall, this test was meant to take a balance pass at some of the heroes we feel are not currently in-line with their counterparts. We saw lots of discussion and feedback surrounding two heroes in particular: Genji and Moira. So, we wanted to take a moment to share some insights into what we were trying to achieve, as well as some learnings from the experiment.

GENJI:
We are generally trying to find a stronger niche for Genji, especially now that he’s competing against both Echo and Doomfist as a mobile burst damage hero. In this experiment, we tested pushing his strength towards dealing with hitscan heroes through Deflect. Additionally, we made adjustments to his Shuriken damage and Secondary Fire spread to improve his close range damage consistency. We feel both of these changes are getting us closer to our overall goal of bringing Genji in line with our other mobile burst damage heroes.

Otherwise what’d be the purpose of the Hanzo or Echo changes if it was all just going to be thrown away, especially when no feedback was given on either.