He can't do his combo now because there is lag when you try to swift strike, it's fan+melee or fan+strike, can't burst any more. If you were going to melee in that combo it's better just to wait for fan to come up again (FYI if you are doing fan+melee you actually LOSE dps compared to just using fan, because melee resets your cooldown). He lost his combo and thus lost damage.
? Double jump makes you easier to hit, not harder. On the deck Genji moves at 6m/s, in the air you move SLOWER than that, and you have SLOWER acceleration. Bhop is one thing, but double jumping gives you very little control compared to running on the floor. Jumping is situational in the first place, but double jumping is ONLY useful if you are fighting splash toons (pharah and to some extent junkrat) and even then ONLY if you have some way to make your landing unpredictable (something to hide behind, willing to burn a swift strike). You are much much much more survivable by using AD spam than by double jumping.
Soldier hits 170 DPS with his left click, if he shot for 1 second then meleed he could kill Genji, alternately he could shoot for .3 second, melee and then rocket and kill Genji. That is much faster than the 1.4 seconds (2 seconds post patch) that Genji needs to kill Soldier with full combo + an attack. There is nothing Soldier can do? What bullshit. Soldier could kill Genji before the Genji got in to melee for one thing, he could kill Genji while in melee thanks to his superior damage, easier to hit attacks, and splash. You might also remember that Soldier can outrun Genji, and that Soldier has a 40hp/s heal that he can panic drop to make it very very hard and very very risky for Genji to get the kill. What's more you are talking about throwing down Genji's escape to try and get a kill. In the event that Soldier really is 100% alone without anyone to help him (which realistically never happens), Genji is committed to the fight unless he wants to burn his deflect aswell. Yes, Genji can beat Soldier, by outplaying him. Which is the way the game should be, it shouldn't be scissors paper rock. Soldier has more damage, easier to hit attacks, can shoot further, can outrun Genji, can heal... It's not an easy fight for Genji but Genji can outplay.
My examples are purely on DPS, it's unrealistic to expect the Genji to hit more than 1 shuriken per toss, if that (the projectiles are among the slowest in the game with very small hitboxes and have staggered release). Tracer and Reaper can both run in close to hit 100% damage, just like Genji has to run in close to fight... If Genji had PERFECT accuracy and Tracer and Reaper were only 50%, they would still outdamage him... But it's not very realistic to expect Genji players to be twice as good as the players they are playing against.
To pick up 4 kills requires genji to land almost every single attack against 200hp targets. It is not an easy thing. What's more Genji has to survive the entire time, to get 4 kills is 8 attacks, ignoring that dashing takes time and thus reduces the frequency of his attacks, plus he has to turn and aim at his targets, he still has to survive for 7 WHOLE SECONDS to do that. A 200 hp herp right in the middle of a team surviving for 7 seconds is not an easy thing. Don't forget that most heroes deal far more damage than him, and if he's supposed to be killing 4 people, then there's 4 people trying to kill him.
You would be better off just dropping a Death Blossom, dropping a Self Destruct, dropping a Dead Eye, dropping a Rip Tire, dropping ANY OTHER ULTI IN THE ENTIRE GAME. There's not much (if any) ulties that are riskier and harder to use than Genji's. If Genji had his ulti swapped with anyone else I'd wager that the other hero would be worse off, and Genji would be better off.
Last edited by wibblefox; Aug 22, 2016 at 12:14 PM.