Literally this. Can’t handle this anymore. Every single game I see Genji in red team and in blue team and the team with better Genji wins. After the buff there is insane amount of Genjis. When is the nerf? Revert or something? Genji already had a good pick rate, new players tend to love him too and then he got a buff for some I don’t know why reason. The buff wasn’t needed. Now everyone and everything is Genji. Overwatch is Genji.
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Usually, that subsides once the novelty of the buff wears off.
How soon it’s going to happen? Me and some my friends would avoid playing the game till that happens
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I will admit, in the right hands Genji is a pain in the bottom, but a moira, winston and even hog counter him fairly hard.
You are actually right. I never struggle with him when I play tank, more on the rare occasion I play some kind of DPS.
It would be fun with hero bans even in qp.
Welcome to the new meta Blizzard desperately wants.
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also Zarya in every friggin game.
There is not a lot of diversity in this game nowasays.
Thats sad.
Imagine complaining about Zarya! At least you don’t have double shield every game.
I think Winston needs some love, Genji has had his day now… revert the changes and make the monkey the king!
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SOOOOOOOOO OVERPOWERED I dont think we had such a powerful hero ever before!!! Even Reaper was a baby compared to this.
This is an old recipe Blizz has used for years and I’m surprised others still haven’t caught on that they do it intentionally.
- Overtune hero x
- Wait a few months for community to complain and get frustrated enough
- Then balance the hero properly, giving off the aura that they care & listen to community’s feelings
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ive given up actually trying to play the game now, all i do is pick sombra, lock onto the genji and follow him around for the whole match keeping him perma hacked
turns out he’s not much fun/use when he can’t use his bloated kit…
i even go as far as solo EMPing him to stop him from nanoblading
funnily enough no one ever switches off of him though x-D
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The problem blizz always have is they buff things to stop certain metas, but sadly they usually miss that made that meta strong.
GOATS for example was strong because of AoE healing. So they nerfed shields and buffed mei/reaper… so GOATS was still very strong.
Then they went 222 and seemed to forget about the mei and reaper buffs, so buff genji.
I wish they’d nerf things to change meta, rather than buff heroes beyond their limits.
Sadly genji should be a niche situational pick (as all the DPS should)
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the problem with this game is, it was designed to be a “Rock, Paper, Scissors” game… but the heros weren’t designed this way…
the only way to balance it is as you say to have “Niche” picks, every single hero across the roster in every category should be “Niche”
unfortunately what we have is a hand full of “Generalists” which can do everyone’s job so well that there is no reason to play anything else… and then the rest of the roster which are so “Niche” or “Specialist” that their specific use case rarely comes up, and when it does its so fleeting that you might as well use the generalist instead
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Everyone can argue the toss over who is or isn’t OP.
But in the highest levels of the game, if they are appearing in every single match… there is probably a reason for that.
I don’t think any hero needs big changes. but every couple of weeks a little tweak to the most played heroes wouldn’t go a miss.
Genji, Junkrat and sometimes even Moira are the 3 heroes imo that lacks competitive designs.
every hero baring soldier, ashe, mcree, and widow lack competitive design, but you can’t have a competitive game with anything that can be countered simply by choosing another hero
there is a reason TF2’s competitive mode flopped… because its not designed to be competitive, its designed to be a free for all rock, paper, scissors F fest
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What world are you living in? Overwatch is exactly that… a clown fest with better fluency and graphics.
The 3 i mentioned lack competitve design because it’s inhumane to accurately hit a player that has dedicated his whole life purpose into mastering Genji. Because it’s so easy to dodge with one of the smallest hitboxes in the game the player gets rewarded mostly because the hero design is horrendous not because the Genji player is skilled in FPS clown fest games.
Junkrat is not and probably will never be at his current design a competitive hero, he should just be locked from Ranked mode. He’s trillion times more competitive in HotS than in OW that’s for certain.
The reason i added Moira is because her Aimbot drain ability that she can just hold and do strong damage with aswell. She’s ok imo but that right-click or whatever button it is should be changed to not be autolock but mb instead be a projectile she has to actually aim and accurately hit instead of getting assistance of the AI autolocking ppl for her. It’s just disgusting to die by that drain while knowing that she did nothing herself to kill you.