They put out an emergency patch just for genji like they did to hog, oddly enough though they left ashe in an even more busted state then peek genji for 4+ months lolololol these devs r trolls I swear
Why’s everyone so compelled to buff dva and sym but not other characters that are in worse positions
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middle of the pack lol did you see the distance between middle of the pack and the one above genji?
to fix the other stuff hitscans need nerfs
Genji legit just needs a slight buff:
1+ more damage to his already 28 damage.
And then nerf his ultimate rate by 5% - 10%.
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this is true him and doom are relatively close to balanced
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Dva and Symmetra need buffs. Dva has been nerfed into the ground and then last week got 100 armor. Now suddenly you think she is overbuffed or something. Symmetra has no good mobility when being fought and her base level beam is trash. Winston is balanced, that’s why he has like never been touched in the entirety of the game. Yes Pharah could use a few buffs. And more people want dva and symm buffs as they are more popular the pharah/winston
Dva has received 4 buffs in the past year
I’m glad u agree genji needs to deal more dmg as it’s pretty subpar tho. Personally I’d make it so his shurikens travel faster and that’s it call it quits because I don’t want people chucking a hissy fit over ohh look genji does more dmg he’s op.
He honestly just needs more consistent dmg… same reason they buffed his ammo a while back from 24 to 30
His shurikens travel at 60mps if it was 80/85 he’d be fine but it wouldn’t turn him into a sniper or anything as meis and hanzos are still way faster at 110/115
I just mean, in most cases, there’s a good amount more luck involved with projectile heroes.
Shooting Hanzo arrows in the general direction of the enemy can lead to somewhat random kills. That doesn’t really happen nearly as often with hitscan heroes, especially considering for the most part their damage is lower
We don’t want projectile heroes to be so good that the pinpoint accuracy required to play hitscan heroes makes them not worth playing
But they still have a lot of crutch abilities that give them easy kills like dynamite fth widow grapple etc
I do not deny there is quite the gap between the top and the middle
But the middle wasn’t the problem.
They should have nerfed Ashe instead of buffing Genji, let alone giving him the amount of raw buffs they did.
My point however was that buffs should’ve gone to the bottom 5 heroes, primarily because the bottom 5 have been at the bottom for about the game’s lifespan.
Genji has never seen the bottom 5 let alone been stuck in it.
It also made no sense to start giving out raw buffs anyway since more heroes need power shifts or a rework (or nerfs) than raw buffs right now (in the dps roster at least).
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the problem is why him and soldier in the bottom half in the first place? Soldier got insane net buffs comparative to genji?
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And she still trash
Bop bop
Winston is fine, but he is useless against Brig
Genji got played like 6 months ago for a month, he’s currently a throw pick at 3.5K+. The only good projectile hero is echo, hanzo and torb are kind of viable.
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As a member of the 3.5K+ community, this is some what accurate.
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It’s largely due to hitscans being wildly overtuned and less to do with projectiles needing buffs.
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A throw pick?
Why are you guys determined to down play the Genji meta and then immediately market Genji as the worst hero on the roster.
It’s not like I’m up here calling him actually an incredibly strong hero.
He’s not the best, nor the worst. Therefore, he didn’t need a patch that treated him like the worst.
I know sym/sombra/bastion mains should’ve felt kind of spat in the face that Blizzard would rather over buff a ‘frag’ dps than heroes who actually need changes.
Why do I always forget this hero exists lol.
Well that’s not helping OP’s point but ok.
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Well people just have priorities. With sym I think it’s just that, you’d think after 3 reworks sym would be viable. And yet she still isn’t. So after years and reworks somehow she isn’t good. And well I guess that’s why many would want either buffs or a rework. With DVA i think cause of how popular she is and every being tired of double shield. Although buffing her might not solve it. But at least she’ll be better. I feel like overall the devs should really try and buff other heroes and try to make them viable but not op. Some are balanced like Winston. And so I guess they want to balance him so that he’s good but not op. I just feel like it’s the meta being to strong that it prevents him from doing g better. Hopefully, the devs give us some clues on what their going to change in ow2 to make double shield less meta and make other heroes better. But eh for now that’s just how it is.
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He isn’t the worst but the higher you go you don’t want him on your team. Also, I do agree with you that he was insanely busted during that time, we don’t want him to be that strong again
Here are the changes I want for him:
Buffs:
- RMB recovery buffed to 0.65
- LMB recovery buffed to 0.85
- Shuriken Damage buffed to 30
Nerfs:
- Spread reverted to 12
- Ult charge nerfed by 20%
- Deflect reverted back to 1.5 seconds
- Deflect can no longer be canceled(optional)
Only 2 hitscan have received a buff, soldier and mcgree