In my opinion, it actually fits well into this game because it punishes bad teamwork, and is counterable by a single ult.
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Because… it’s Nanoblade.
Just type “OWL Nanoblade” into YouTube, and the pages are going to be flooded.
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Nanoblade is counterable by a single ability. Not just an ult.
Other than that, nanoblade is just complained a lot bc of the good synergy it has. Also most people who complain about it seem to not give a crap about it and just let genji do his thing and cry “broken and op.”
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It does punish you if your team can’t band together in time, but the reason people hate it is because of how little time you have before he starts slicing everyone up.
Also, damage alone is fairly useless against the tactic if he’s getting healed at all. It can be pretty tough to contest.
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But like grav, shatter and flux have the same impact as nanoblade. Sure genji might get more kills but the aforementioned tank ults have the same fight winning potential.
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Yeah but, again…
It’s Nanoblade.
One of, if not the most popular ult combo. Probably second only to Grav Dragon.
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Wait so are you calling it broken or are you giving a reason as to why people complain about it?
I think most of the player base hates it because they panic when it occurs and always seem to be surprised by it - when in reality it’s just another factor you should track during team fights. It also often requires some hero changes so your own team has some ults to counter - which ladder players are often loathe to do. They think they should be able to play whatever they want and that it should not get hard-countered by other Heroes or comps.
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Giving a reason.
Hanzo is a very popular hero, like Genji. Which is why, surprise, a lot of people complain about him. Not saying they’re wrong to, Storm Arrow is ridiculous, but it (his popularity) plays a big factor into it (the complaints).
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Theres a reason why some people are stuck at where they at when they refuse to try and waste their ults and cooldowns without thinking, “wait i havent seen genji blade nor ana use her nano… NAH, LET ME SOLO ULT THIS WIDOW BC KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEK. And my team got wiped…”
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I feel like if a team knows Ana has nano that she should become a target, just like trying to kill zen or lucio before they ult
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400 effective hp hero with team backup that forces your composition to target someone whose damage output can’t be negated by anything in the game but bubble, forcing you to give up a main defense which effectively opens you up to more ultimates and abuse from the enemy team.
While most ultimates will be rendered useless if you break LoS, this one will still creep around by getting a 15 meter projection + 5 meter slash every time an elim is granted.
The best bet to shut down a nanoblade is to succeed on the early commitment of disabling genji, because the chances of snowballing increment greatly with every elim.
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As an Ana player, I am a bit bothered by how difficult it is to counter the Nano - stunning her while doing it is impossible unless you’re lucky. And once applied there’s really nothing you can do about it rather than try to deal with the target as you would have (but now it’s powerboosted 50% with 50% damage reduction and possibly full health). To make matters even worse, the best character to deal with an enemy that’s boosted? Another Ana to sleep and nade them.
I’m not sure what to do about it though, it’s not inherently overly strong, and making the cast time longer would make Ana extremely awkward to play with people moving around like they do. But I do think this is an issue people tend not to want to talk about.
I feel like a cast time on Nano could be an interesting idea, but that would feel awful for the Ana player
I feel like many people think it’s broken just because it’s annoying. I too think it’s an obnoxious ult combo but I do realize that’s not reason enough to cry about it being OP or something. It’s an Ult combo, 2 Ults used, so no wonder it’s strong.
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Yeah it’s not like every time a Genji blades they suddenly become Necros during a Noobhunter clip. Usually it will net you two or three picks if you don’t get hard countered, which is what shatter and flux normal do.
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I like it when I nano blade and…
-People are just spread, literally the only viable squishy in range if I kill him, cannot snowball unto another because they are farther from a normal dash range.
Then my team throws a fit because I didn’t kill them all with “OP nano blade”.
-The enemy team is too far and my team doesn’t understand nano blade sometimes needs tank to get closer so I can keep a dash. They force me to nano from farther away, forcing me to use my dash -> a single boop or CC and nano blade now gets 0 kills.
Then my team throws a fit because I didn’t kill them all with “OP nano blade”.
-Same as above but trans. If I can’t keep my dash for a close range combo it won’t work. Also a single CC or boop will prevent me from killing through trans.
-You go try to combo a target but without a warning, someone on your team does 30 damage to your target. Your target is now overkilled and your dash is wasted and you get no reset, resulting in you failing about like an idiot.
Then my team throws a fit because I didn’t kill them all with “OP nano blade”.
There are so many ways nano blade utterly and completely fails. Mobile DPS and tanks. Or fatty tanks like Hog.
Or the DPS are in the back and tanks are in front, which is hard to break through because you have GEnji thus you have bad frontline.
Or they have fliers lol. That includes Mercy who will just pop valkyrie, any valkyrie Mercy that dies to nano blade is very very bad with her flight.
etc etc. Its so OP it fails far more often than Grav + standard followups. But its OP because everyone blames the Genji for being trash when it happens. Because obviously nano blade is guaranteed team wipe.
And I’ve not even talked about mechanical mistakes, dragon blade being one of the few ults in the game that even requires mechanics at all.
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No risk in it.
I would say if they remove the burst heal, then its okay, but random Genji getting full HP and damage resistance is just too much.
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And that list is pretty much the reason why I don’t complain about nanobalde even if I do find it kinda obnoxious. There’s much margin for error. Also, when I’m Ana I think our Genji was major success if he just killed 2 so that certainly gives you some perspective.
Because it takes one idiot on your team to feed him the dash reset and then he can catch you even if you smartly avoided it -> team wipe.
Wanna know why people pile cooldowns and CC into nanoblade? Hint: it’s not because it’s weak
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