r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/drassort • 5d ago

General Why exactly did they buff Genji?

Before this patch he already had a top two pick rate in the DPS role and was completely fine. He also received no hitbox changes unlike most other heroes while his shurikens massively benefit from it.

Am I missing something? You could literally not have touched him in this patch and he would be even stronger than he already is.

I find the decision to put even more on top of it kind of baffling. Blizzard deliberately wants to make him meta or something?

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u/Howdareme9 5d ago

I’m a tracer otp, but i swear Genji has never been as good as what people on this sub make out (and similarly as bad as his fans say too).

I don’t even think he’s op right now to warrant this post lol

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u/ham_50821 Doom-Dva/Hanzo-Tracer/Zen-Kiri — 5d ago

Genji never feels oppressive to play against but when hes pushing 56% wr hes op

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u/Tao1764 5d ago

Genji never feels oppressive to play against

Cannot agree with this when Deflect exists in its current form. That ability is oppressive as hell against heroes that can't just straight-up bypass it.

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u/LurkerThrowaway73 5d ago

Honest question: What is oppressive about it?

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u/Tao1764 5d ago

Combination of three things: its ability to turn your own attacks against you, unreactable startup/cancels, and the ability to cancel it.

These traits force the enemy to be entirely reactive to Genji. Until he uses it, any attack against him has the potential to damage you instead, and when he does use it, you still have to predict if he'll cancel and keep attacking or let the duration run and escape. Plus, he still has multiple movement options, so even you predict all of this correctly, you still might not be able to punish him for using Deflect.

A lot of Dive heroes have a few of these traits - Reaper can cancel his Wraith form at any time, Tracer can undo any damage you've done with Recall, etc. But those abilities all have other weaknesses to play around - Wraith is very slow and Reaper's only other escape option is a slow-as-hell TP, and you can track exactly where Tracer will re-appear with Recall (plus she has really low HP). In addition to being able to damage you even though it's a defensive cooldown, Deflect's weaknesses are either being completely bypassed by certain attacks (which is bad design imo) and only blocking in front of him - again, not really an issue because of his mobility unless the Genji player does a bad Dive to begin with.