Literal metaphysical punches. Imagine.
Why do they keep babying this hero?
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…he can deflect a rocket, which is explosive and would explode upon impact so that ship has sailed long ago…? 
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Pummel is a melee attack.
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“Babying” a bottom tier DPS hero, arguably one of the worst in the game but go off
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Orisa can block them too. It makes absolutely no sense. It’s such complete garbage that he can punch through shields, through heroes, through a mech, through a bastion, through frickin’ orisa…but he can’t hurt Orisa or anything behind her whatsoever if she’s spinning a frickin’ baton. It’s ridiculous.
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You have his tiny sword deflecting a giant hammer. Oh but a giant Sigma rock is a big no no so he can’t deflect that when I’m sure the hammer is made out of better and stronger material? Deal with the inconsistency why don’t you because I sure won’t until they let us melee him while deflecting. Maybe then supports other than Moira can defend against him.
Pummel goes through everything melee attacks go through, and is blocked by everything that blocks melee attacks.
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Post #2849124 of someone asking why the videogame cyborg ninja that summon a damn spirit dragon can do wacky crap
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The devs have said many times that genji isn’t doing bad (quite the opposite) Not sure where this “worst hero in the game” stuff comes from.
That said - I’ve no problems with genji blocking punches. Ranged or otherwise. He already blocks melee hits. I don’t see this as much different. It’s not something I’d complain about for genji personally.
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If you count the momentum then Genji deflecting Bastion’s barrage has the same kinetic energy return over about 1 second as what would happen from a small meteorite impact.
Some things just … don’t make sense. It’s “balance”, not “physics”.
It’s the way the game works. Not sure why this is a question.
Bro cries about deflect of all things
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It follows the same rules as melee…
it is a freaking ethereal wave of energy
it should not follow the same rules as melee
this is not complicated
because it’s a video game and not suppose to make sense…
You have a hamster controlling a wrecking ball and grappling around the map, you have a gorilla from space who has a tesla cannon, you have an anime gamer with a robot mech suit that explodes killing everyone but her…I’m not sure why you’re worried about realism in this game when it’s the complete opposite.
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you look at the mechanic not at lore … obv …
this is a melee atk , genji can deflect melee atks , genji can deflect this too …
It’s a melee attack therefore he deflects, if this weren’t the case it’d be easy to cheese him with melee.
While graphically it may look metaphysical force punches.
The reality is blizzard is just giving Rama two invisible arms that extend 8mtr in the direction he punches, this is how it’s goes through shields.
Genji deflect blocks melee so it blocks this too.
Can they change it probably but it would be a lot of work for something insignificant and made to create a new class of attack.
Which i don’t think they want.
You really think you did something there, don’t ya?
I just want them to allow him to deflect dva bombs atleast for a April fools patch it’s been my dream since game launch.
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