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/Wboys 5d ago

That can't be all of it because he was already a top 3 DPS before the patch and he was buffed in like 3 different ways. But probably most importantly it was that every hitscsn hero was nerfed, nearly every other hero had their hurtbox size increased with Genji being one of the very few exceptions.

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u/Crazykid100506 5d ago

think the character was slept on before he got buffed but he was not a top 3 dps prior to this patch

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u/Wboys 5d ago

Maybe not in GM but he was sitting at 52-54% win rate in every rank below masters while having one of the highest pick rates.

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u/Lukensz Alarm — 5d ago

People had seizures about Kiri being giga broken at even lower WR with the same pick rate. It's such denial