That's me!! Thanks so much for checking out the video Sam, means a lot and hope you guys in the comments enjoy it too, I do all sorts of OW stuff on my side of the channel so I'd love to see you all and hopefully one day sam drop by too. Once again, thanks, much love and thanks for the valuable commentary on some things I tried to say and you added on what I actually meant. :D

Remember when Genji was considered an “assassin” hero. Now you just sit back and hope for an opportunity to get a dash reset. Somehow, even with less tanks peeling, backlines survive stronger than ever before.

The fact that Genji continuously received unwarranted nerfs during the beginning of Overwatch 2 while Sojourn was deliberately left unchecked and OP for her entire lifespan is insane. These devs have a vendetta against projectile DPS and it's pretty damn obvious.

Genji can deflect a laser from a giant omnic but that power is not enough to fight the team 4 balance team

im convinced that the balance team cant play genji but hates being shitted on by him, so they just nerf him

"genji is not worth the effort".. thats the best sentence in the whole video. U can play any other dps, and it feels ez mode to do preassure and be scary. Genji gets your 100% to be mid.

The Shimadas are Shima-dead.

Im at a point where i want to fist fight these devs over the unfair treatment genji gets

6:41 suzu ends this fight immediately lmfao

The fact Genji blade is a 3-hit but Cassidy can 2-tap someone with one headshot and one bodyshot is simply out to lunch. I have no idea what the balance team is doing, but it has left the game in a bad spot.

Genji requires you to have three easy to hit/kill characters on the enemy team or you lose. Moira/Mercy? Swap. Moira/Brig? Swap. Mei/Reaper? Swap. Its too easy to run into a teamcomp that you cant do well against. There‘s also maps that suck for genji. There‘s too many situations where he sucks.

I'm just genuinely so sick of the current way genji has to be played, I feel like his skill ceiling was lowered so much due to nanoblade not even being able to slash dash anymore and the oneshot combo not doing enough damage to actually oneshot anymore, I was a Genji main since Season 10 of Overwatch 1 but the hp pool increase made me turn into a tracer/cass player because its just not even fun anymore to play the hero

A lot of supports like to cope and say "Just bait cooldowns and then use blade" (Or really when it comes to anything at all). However, if the only counter to an ability like suzu, lamp, or life grip is to "bait it" (I.E. the ability itself isn't being used anyway) then clearly there's something wrong with the ability. It's the same with the support hero themself. If the only "reliable" counter to a support hero like Kiriko is to "just kill them" (I.e. Them just NOT being there) then clearly that hero is horribly designed and unhealthy. Especially for a hero like Kiriko, who is extremely difficult to kill when her kit is so unbelievably bloated and overcompensated while being relatively easy. On top of that, she has a tiny hit box, her arms blocking her head hitbox, faster wall climb than even Genji, the best ultimate in the game that can't be interrupted or counterplayed, and the fact that she has 250 HP now, despite already being the most busted and meta support in the game for 10 seasons straight.

"We need to stop one shots" "Time to buff HP across the board" "Now add Venture and give her a one shot combo." Ah yes of course. Makes perfect sense.

Genji being nerfed into the ground and buried 40ft deep is what made me stop playing because its actually not possible to consistently climb on him u will get stuck

Sam u are so right i miss overwatch 1 so much it was such a good game . All we have now is $20 recolor skins and 5vs5 😢

It’s shame what the devs did to genji!

Kiriko headshot does more damage than a blade swing

250hp is so awful for dragonblade

Genji doesn't need buffs, he needs the game to be balanced so he can actually play the game and compete against the other heroes. He's not underpowered, other heroes are just over kitted.

OMG i'm crying, it was so much betterrrrr. Now you blade and its just the worst. It always hurts my heart to see OW1 clips. Like Sam and many other say, there was play making ability. The game is fun when high skill characters have value. I was never mad about high skill Genji's, or Doom (DPS) that could just dominate with execution. Getting dominated by Genji made me want to learn him.

Talking about season 1 genji made me so sad. Double jump reset on wall climb, ledge dash cheese, and long blade.

Yeah genji has been underpowered for almost the entirety ow's history, 1 and 2, and all the new heroes were always strong against genji. And i think the reason is that they don't want him to be too popular, and they don't want for the player base to have too many genji players. We don't really know how many mercy mains stuck to the game just because they can switch to moira and ruin a genji's day if he's doing too well, though i certainly see such players regularly.

whats crazy is how sups still complain ab genji despite how bad he is rn

Long gone are the days of getting a 4/5/6 man ult kill. Now it feels impossible to even get a 3k with your ultimate.

He can deflect building-sized lasers, a black hole, and missiles, but can’t deflect a big rock from Sigma

So tired of supports saying "just bait cooldowns to get blade value" LIKE HOW DID WE GET HERE WHERE ITS ACCEPTABLE THAT COOLDOWNS HARD NEGATE ULTS JUST BY CLICKING A BUTTON NO SKILL NEEDED LIKE ANA SLEEP DOES

19:00 - LOUDER 👏 FOR THE DEVS IN THE BACK 👏

The Harshest nerf to any character was Hanzo one shot being removed

Remember when they made a nerf genii meme on tiktok that was great they really know how to understand the community 🙂

The amount of work u need to put into genji to make a fraction of the impact of other heroes is insane

Genji, he is the character with the most unique gameplay in the history of shooters, and seeing him being so mistreated is sad

I miss flanking with a genji as Brig. I miss genji doing good damage.

People hate this game so much that players now make an in-depth video on why these heroes are flawed.

all they gotta do is fix his bugs and increase his shuriken and blade dmg. but then again these are the same people that buffed sojourn even after she was meta since the release of OW2

Half the time when I play genji and im playing against anyone with an immortality ability or an ult that hard counters mine, I literally just don’t blade because them using that cooldown/ult is tremendously more detrimental to them than using arguably the worst ult in the game is for me. I’ll ult watch as they waste every cooldown on me, and they lose the fight and just laugh and ask, “was is worth it lol”. I understand there’s value you can get out of it and it’s not IMPOSSIBLE to get kills with, but bro it’s just not a fun experience almost ever.

Genji in cutscenes: Dragon blade can slice through robots taller than builfings Genji in game: Old women can tank 3 slices

The best way I’ve found to make blade work is use it to bait beat or trans and then let your teammates with actually good ults to kill them

i have like 5k hours on genji. i 2nd most things abby said here. cant even play the game anymore. for me idc what they do, but nano blade not slash-dash killing ruined the whole game for me tbh.

i don't like that in ow2 theres so much hero focusing in denying value like zusu or lifegrip they have little skill expression unlike ball genji or doomfist

It's Hilarious that It's Not a No Brainer for People that the Following Things Objectively Lower the Skill ceiling, Depth and Integrity of a Competitive game - - Universal Health Increase for No Reason - Projectile size Increase so that Worse Players Can Have Better Accuracy stat instead of Actual Reflection of the player - Universal Passive heal - Getting HP for Absolutely Free which Lowers the Meaning of Actual Duels/fights - Garbage like Cod - Being Casual this is On top of the Mountain of Low IQ Decisions

game is so flking boring after hp changes, they just murdered high risk melee heroes with that dogshit update. The game overall is just boring af compared to ow1

I stopped playing since season 4. Season 9 surely made me stay away from OW forever for how much they ruined genji. There's a reason that someone like even necros played significantly less in season 9

What enrages me is they buffed HP looks but didn’t scale genjis ult. If someone is getting healed at all it takes 5 sword hits to kill them. Also deflect has been bugged for ages and doesn’t work properly or consistently

As soon as season 9 hit most of the long standing TikTok/YT genjis quit entirely. While I definitely enjoy having less competition in the algorithm it’s definitely a huge red flag if you nearly entirely wipe out an entire subset of the games community. When I ask them why they stopped I get the same answer “he’s not fun anymore” not only is the new blade worse in almost every situation, but it’s just not as fun holding left click with no brain activity as it was zooming through the whole fight. On top of that they removed the prodigy combo one shot right as it was getting popularized, and that was the most satisfying thing to pull off in the entire game. I won’t be quitting genji, but I understand all those old greats who have.

As a projectile hero, the dps passive is no where near as good for him so securing kills is the same as pre-season 9

Good lord, just seeing the difference in gameplay between the clips of OW1 and OW2 makes me so sad. Genji used to have OPTIONS, and now his only option is tickle people until blade, and then tickle them a bit harder.

Sojourn was the embodiment of blizzards obsession to steal a chunk of the CoD fan base.

Honestly at this point in OW2 I just use blade as a combo extender. I feel like set up blades unless you get nano AND team pressure you will just get CC’d or enemies will slip away with mobility creep. So instead, just whip it out in an advantaged duel then try to get 1 other elim from it. Sometimes that will extend to 2 or 3 more even, but just confirming the first kill and having 5 seconds to go for the next is enough imo. Still not a good hero but it’s hilarious how in 5v5 it feels less powerful. That speaks loudly to the hero design they are still running with.

What do you think about blade causing bleed? That might be an interesting change that makes sense since he is swinging a katana! Right now the katana feels so weak. I also wonder what it would be like if he could swing blade and still shoot shuriken. That would be neat. You could just press Q to swing the blade… On another note, autoheal feels like a natural change but the issue is still having 2 healers. Having so much healing just makes it so that opponents can just stay in a fight for so long without having to leave for a health pack. The balance team lost their mind.

Two of my favorite experiences in overwatch were genji/tracer dive and zarya/winston duoing with my friend. Both experiences dont exist anymore for different reasons and thw gameplay loops they provided were the best overwatch had to offer.

I’ve been playing this game for years, after about a month off, I played last week. I had to shut it off. They’re ruining the game.

when you open youtube 39 seconds after Samito posts a new video

I would seriously like to know who the ow devs main in house. I think a lot of questions could be answered 😂

I was a masters genji OTP and about a plat hitscan. Ever since blizzard didn’t account for the hp increase adequately when it comes to genji and increased hitscan projectile size I consistently rank higher and perform better on hitscan. I feel like that should say a lot.

Hey guys we know people didn't like one shots so we removed the Shimadas from the game Enjoy the new hero Venture, who is going to one shot combo you.

People blame brig, but its more than that. Its power creep. The healing creep, then immoralities, the ubertanks in 5v5, and finally the season 9 changes, which heavily favor hitscan.

I remember in Ow1 you used to have a game every now and then that was just amazing; it was fun, close, and intense and it is what would make you always want to come back to ow and play more-those games are non-existant now

Blizzard: Well, okay, we heard you. We are going to buff Tracer

Genji and rein are my 2 most favorite characters so ive been suffering for a solid while.

It’s insane that it takes three swings but in reality it takes way more because supports have get out of jail free card abilities now.

Back in the day Genji was the pinnacle of dps gameplay. Now were in the Dark Ages of Sojourn.

I hate how genji was a victim of the Devs trying to please everyone so they nerfed him because bad players got destroyed by him which is what happened to venture. honestly it strips character identity when they do this

Necros said it best whenever he pops off he said “now i just have to do this every match” meaning you need to play perfect if the enemy is competent at all

The game has been band-aid fixed to the point Overwatch influencers are jumping ship on the game and people are still out here defending 5v5 like it's the promised land. It feels like the game is on the verge of being shelved by the higher ups because pf the lack of interest. Even if it's not what everyone wants, 6v6 would at the very least get people talking about this game again.

i think the should bumb up the shurikin dmg back up to 30 wich would mean u can kill a squishy by dash full rightclick and meelee wich we all know is extremely hard to do this dmg would make it that genji is actually doing something troughout the game. make the dragonblade slower again but bumb up the damage to 130 so u can 2 swing a normal squishy and can dash swing dash a 300hp target and so u can slashdash with nano or dmg boost again but restrict his ammo to 24 but make the reload a litle bit faster as its now. this will help genji feel better and actually be viable again but he wont be OP bcs there is still to much that counters him and to many bad matchups

I'm so glad to see one of the bigger creators talk about this. Since OW2 came out I hear "Genji is okay/good Genji players are just whining", even from top500 players who should know better, cuz the consensus for a majority of the time has been the opposite. The Moira duel for instance, 100% true. Before s9 I'd fight Moira, even though it was in her favor if I played well enough or she made a mistake I could win...now? nah I actually just avoid her, she just wins it in most cases no matter what I do. Been saying it for months, Genji has been a C tier hero since season 3, full stop. Even when he was performing well and people said "oh he's really good right now", it wasn't because Genji was good, it's because his enablers were. Brig made Genji good, he wasn't on his own. There was a season where I stopped playing Genji because Tracer was objectively just "better Genji" and there was no situation or match-up where Genji had the edge. Genji's a high skill floor & ceiling hero, but for the longest time his risk to reward hasn't been remotely even. I sometimes risk so much just for even picking Genji, but my reward for hundreds of hours on this skill expressive hero is being countered by the most accessible least skill expressive heroes in the game, when I could've gotten more and easier obtained value from basically anyone else. "I have to play perfectly, or else I get no/negative value." is something I've said, AbbyOW2 said, and many other Genji players say. I have never said that while playing anyone else. Extra: The way they went about addressing oneshots, hurt non-oneshot combo burst heroes. This is why even Echo, a consistently A tier hero, is struggling a bit now and is getting outperformed by Pharah, because Flank/Assassin style heroes didn't have their breakpoints adjusted after everyone got more HP. I thought "Nerf Genji" becoming a meme would be the push to make them change...but clearly they hate him, and it's all an echo of them clearly not caring about 1 of their most popular heroes.

Yea the first month after genji change and even now sometimes the muscle memory is so messed up now. So many times I’ll double swing someone and already flick to the next target but the first one never died. And that millisecond window I looked away they already faded out or tp or some Bs

Let's be real if this is "*the worst state Genji has ever been in*" then he is doing very well. Still in the Top 5 for BOTH pick and WIN rate across all ranks and was picked quite a bit during the OWCS. I think the real problem is unfun cheese heroes to play against (Moira, Torb, Hog) and immortality abilities like LW Pull, Lamp, Suzu. I'd be good with Genji getting a shuriken dmg buff or blade dmg buff, but there is WAAAY too many dramatic statements being used to describe the state he is. When my heroes are in a bad state they are very much are unplayable. Their win rate bottoms out and throwcusations get said even before even leaving the spawn doors. There are a lot of heroes that would gladly trade places with the state Genji is in right now. Also, on the point of projectiles he fans 3 out ...that alone makes them easier to hit than most of the projectile cast. I get he is not as fun to play right now, but the dramatic statements to describe his state is eye roll worthy at best.

Those collection of clips in the beginning made me miss OW1 so much , there were so many big pop off hype moments in OW1 gameplay, and was extremely exhilarating and amazing

"EQO WHAT A PLAYER WHAT STAR!" will forever be stuck in my head. I loved that play so much. Sadly they lost, but damn he put it all out there to give them a shot. That patch was so much fun to watch in OWL.

Genji and Renhardt, the two heroes to suffer the most, even if they are in the meta, you need to sweat your balls off.

it is really difficult to defend overwatch 2 at this point, i'm actually shocked some people still try to find ways to defend THIS. I was never a good genji player or liked fighting against him all that much, but at least he was generally as viable as other heroes. Overwatch 2 throws that out of the window and the devs have not changed anything about the game now even after not having kotik call the shots, so i'm done with hoping for any change for the better. That game is done and the devs will not change their ways. If they do not learn, let them fall, so MAYBE they might change some things. I'm out of patience. I'll still support Samito here, but personally i see no reason to ever return to the game anymore.

Id love for you to do a video on sombra, I believe she needs a nerf just like tracer.

I remember when I used to quake in my boots when I heard the enemy's dragonblade. Actually was so much fun anticipating it/countering it. Now it's a joke of an ultimate.

nah i cant watch this until the end i gonna cry

I understand the complaints about nano blade but you are still investing two ults and the enemy team will probably use every cool down to stop you. Blade on its own is literally a wet noodle and cant kill easily anymore especially with the mobility creep

meanwhile sojourn has a 1tap hitscan ult ashe has a 2 tap headshot

3 heroes the game is always great when they’re meta. Rein, Genji, and Lucio. Anyone else who really cares but when these 3 are good the game is incredible.

*DEVS when creating any new character: Maximum projectile speed? Check. Wide area effect? Check. Near-auto aim? Check. Shields? Check. Self-healing? Check. Two-button kill combo? Check. Escape ability? Check Insane health? Check. Invisibility? Check. Guaranteed-multi-kill low-effort ult? Check. *DEVS when updating Genji: Is there anyone left he can still kill? Make it so he can’t. Check.

No more play maker dps/tank heroes, only play-negater support heroes now...

Seeing the nostalgia from early OWL seasons is the only good thing left for OW2. This game has fallen sooooo far. Anyone saying otherwise is legit insane.

I have always found weird how the metal ninja doesnt have armor. I think they should give him 50 armor and a slight damage buff. He struggles too much surviving engagements as a duelist

21:06 welcome to overwatch 2 😂

The problem with genji is the ridiculous skill floor when compared to his overall impact in the match

A lot of people in these comments saying Genji's skill cieling is lower now or that he doesnt get impact anymore. Did we not just watch Proper and Heesang going at it on Genji in pro play less than 2 weeks ago with some incredible moments.

It also REALLY doesn’t help that Genji more likely than not is just hated by the other players in game. I do good in one team fight and it’s just instant counterpicking. If it was comp I would understand, but it happens in quickplay too! I literally have so many clips of me getting solo ulted just for the simple fact that I exist in the enemy teams presence. I pop blade and I get Sombra EMP, LW Tree, and Mauga Cage used on JUST ME. It’s genuinely getting ridiculous how fast people are to just shit on specifically me even if I’m not doing the best on my team.

I thought of something today , to stop counter swapping , you can only swap when u have ult , so you use ultra to swap or u can’t

9:10 unless you were a support, in which case you could just receive buffs with no downside.

Supports crying is what killed genji. All of them complaining with no end in sight. They buy the most skins so blizzard listens to them instead of people willing to put hours in and learn a fun hero. I've literally been a genji main since ow 1 season 1. I played him through every single meta where he was shit but now I just cant do it anymore. Nanoblade is shit, normal blade is shit and even if you are so much better to still get a kill with it, kiri tps, suzus, heals and the target is back at full hp requiring you to use 3 more swings cause you already used dash BECAUSE YOU NEED IT TO KILL WITH 2 HITS. Truly sad what they did to him.

the video isnt about identity, its just about the stregnth of genji lol

sadly alot of heros have got hurt but id love to know from other rein players do you think rein would come back and be generally fine if he dropped the ability for fire strikes and just made them happen off missed swings so for example if you don't hit an enemy with a melee or an enemy isn't right up your ass rein would throw out a firestrike the reason I think this might be a good change is because of his lack of range makes him generally unpickable outside of cqb maps this could be a good change to bring him up to other heroes you could also make fs slower to make it harder to hit so balance wise he could still land them but its more about spam over accurate the idea would need to be talked and ballenced but it could make rein more viable

I was drawing Dawn from Pokemon. I was hearing a Gen4 OSt and thought I'm schizo, but no, it was actually playing in the video lol.

Yeah the fact that pharah/junk can get more value from primary fire from a safer distance than genji can with his ultimate theres a problem.

"The best play when you use blade is to back off" The amount of times I've literally popped blade just to bait out other ults like Beat or Transce because I noticed the Lucio and Zen holding it for me. I love not being able to use one of the funnest ults in the game.

This is why I play team death match. Less bullshit and less bull crap healing is going on, which makes a lot more of the roster, not just genji, viable, and feel a lot better. Meanwhile, the healers feel a little bit less opressive when they are there because they're uuuusually less of them, and even when there's not less of them, they're easier to pick off.

There’s definitely a big breakpoint issue especially for dps since the new healths got implemented.

I started playing this game in early 2019 and knew I wanted to play Genji, unfortunately I stopped playing him around 2021 because I feel he just always got countered but till this day, he's still basically my second most played hero .

12:50 But they also increased the attack/swing speed so its dps is way higher than in OW1. What I mean is that you can not compare OW1 blade with OW2 blade by damage. You have to compare by with ttk.

Genji is my third highest time spent in the game. Been playing since day 1 OW and I now find myself thinking about picking genji and just getting miserable BY THE THOUGHT! just the idea that I can’t kill anything is more than enough to sway me away from picking him now I hate it. At this point blizzard just needs to do what league of legends did when they literally admitted that they kept zed weak because lower elo players couldn’t handle him.