This whole video is full of Genji main lines LMAO "Where is everyone? Why are they so slow?" "I wish my hero could do that" "I don't know why I dashed there but he died"
Tracer and Genji are two examples of the heroes that really make OW special. There’s just nothing quite like them in other games and they’re super fun.
@@voltzy2156 yeah I agree the list is long. I mainly mentioned them because I play Tracer and she’s my favorite, and the video is about Genji. There’s probably like at least 20 others you could make a case for though.
I’m so glad you did this because he has been a miserable experience since season 9 you can play perfectly and still not accomplish anything… I really don’t understand blizzards balancing rewarding easy to play heroes but making genji like this
@@aaronwoodhead8771 he's saying those are the best heroes so he's saying you're wrong about them rewarding easy to play heroes, tbh though cass is very easy
Genji is in rough spot after the global hp buffs. When squishy heroes were 200hp the dash + right click + melee combo was a much bigger threat. Like Awkward said, his damage is not consistent and he has no range. This was offset by him having high burst damage and movement to get quick surprise kills and assassinations, but now that the HP buffs made the time to kill way higher, Genji's burst combo is more difficult and way less forgiving. You can still carry games if you hit all your combos and headshot right clicks, but other DPS get way more value more easily by sitting far away and clicking heads (or even bodies). Dragonblade was already a difficult ultimate that usually required nano or damage boost to get real value, but now it takes so long to kill anything that enemies have more time to react and easily counter you. I consider baiting a cooldown like lamp or suzu to be a successful blade, and getting one kill or baiting an ultimate is a really successful blade. It usually isn't even worth using sound barrier or transcendence to counter blade because it is so bad.
man I don't know. You just have to be smarter with it and can't just simply raw blade with nothing. Thats a good thing? The game shouldn't have kept encouraging reckless play as a dps. Or any role really. It just makes it more balanced and more of a team game. Its like when people complain that they nerf your main's bread and butter combos in Street Fighter so you have to learn new ones. I main Genji and have played him hundreds and hundreds of hours since OW1 beta, and I can tell you I still have plenty of good blades. A good Genji will still do what he has to. And yeah getting even 1 or 2 kills with blade is still insane especially if you get a healer. Its always been that way though. If you're a dps and you ult, killing anyone or baiting ults is a win. Especially on heroes that get ult quick such as Tracer, Venture, Genji, Sombra, Junk, etc. Even Echo. I don't mean this in any way but I just think people want to be able to solo carry and thats just not how the game works anymore. Genji is still good and a good Genji will still smoke teams.
You basically just experienced everything Genji mains go through on a daily basis, all in a couple of matches. If you're ever wondering why Genji mains are bitter as hell, these years of these experiences unironically damages your soul and mental state.
@joelhenderson3723 You're not wrong, but playing Genji is like crack sometimes. His play style is so addicting, you just can't help but go back and play him. I can't name another character that plays as fluid and cleanliness as Genji. There's not a game or anyone in other games that plays similar to him IMO
@@dannyphan1088 As a lucio main, I kind of understand finding a unique hero that's exactly what you like playing. Still, if I ever reach the point where I have more bad feelings than good toward overwatch, I'm taking a break. There are other games, and other things to do besides gaming.
25:53 Yeah but then again you don’t always have to dash in. Necros always preaches using the map to get behind without wasting a cooldown. So if you can climb over a piece of the map and land behind the enemy, then you can get some right clicks off while still having both your dash and deflect as escape options
its nice to see you play genji and think the same things i think when i play him, i love playing him but man sometimes i play perfectly and still nothing dies
Yeah no way can anyone legitimately believe that when we've got Reaper, Hanzo, Sym, Junkrat all in the dirt. They're either trolling or tryna push a narrative.
this video remembers me of that one girl that quoted you and said that decisions should be taken not just based on Diamond and above, but mostly on metal ranks because they're "82% of the players". In metal ranks Genji is still a "noob destroyer" if played more or less correctly, but when you traspass the Diamond line it becomes truly hurtful to play. So even if you play the character correctly, in high levels you're so vulnerable, but if they buff him metal ranks will say that "blizz made him so broken". What a dichotomy.
8:08 basicly your mid metal rank gamers my best advice is legit stand still and hammer the moira in since you arent gonna dodge and avoid backing up agaisnt her orb
bro I have a lot of time on hanzo and watched your unranked to gm on hanzo as well but he fells so frustrating to play now , the only kill potential in 1v1 is storm arrow . imagine head shoting a soj ulting outside melee range and she gets a 5k :/
Love the new video style Awkward, I think if do one of these with Junkrat that would be a fun experience considering everyone was categorizing him as F Tier DPS after the health changes.
Genji isn't the worst, but he definitely lost everything that made him an enjoyable DPS to play. There's no way any hardcore genji player or any ow casuals for that matter would call playing Genji "fun" in 2024. His kit is simply too outdated and obsolete compared to new heroes like Sojourn and Kiri with OP kits and abilities. It's the same Genji from 2016, only worse in every aspect. While new heroes with OP and complex abilities are added and old heroes get reworked to better fit the current state of the game, Genji is left in the dust with a deflect that is useless against 50% of the damage incoming, and a dash. Great. One would hope that now that blade is useless with the new HP changes, they'd buff his neutral kit. 2 seasons in waiting...
@@Monkchelle_Kongbama How your brain manages to come up with the conclusion that playing Genji in 2024 is fun like playing him in 2016/17...... sure... thwart my argument, I guess. I'm not the crazy one 😂
people always say tracer is the hardest dps to play, ive always thought genji is harder bc u literally cant do 1 mistake with this hero without dying in higher ranks
no one says tracer is the hardest to play, t500 players say she has the highest skill ceiling. skill floors and skill ceilings are way different. genji also has a high skill ceiling, but most t500 or OWL pros feel tracer's is higher because her gameplay is more deliberate, whereas genji is often throwing darts in the dark and seeing what sticks (literally, thats what his primary fire feels like a lot of the time. you're just guessing how the enemy will move and not deliberately aiming)
11:03 Imagine being the weakest Hero in the game with 175HP (Tracer) and you SURVIVE a swing from the blade by a NANO'ed Genji. Genji needs a buff on his ult. Now, some might argue that if Genji do get ult buff, it will be broken. Back to shuriken until blade, then nano blade = team kill. No, not true. This is where ABILITIES is implemented in this game. F.ex: This Tracer can blink away from the blade, but if Tracer is off CD on blinks, then she should die from a nano blade. Nano is the word. Blade is the bird...
Watching this videos is like having a Genji therapy session 🤣as much as I think the blade swing speed buff was actually a great buff I really think his dash damage needs to be buffed to maybe 60-75 damage considering how Genji's entire playstyle is based on getting value out of dash without dying, or he needs something like the self shields that Venture gets for using their drill dash.
18:59. classic genji mistake. Do not flank with Genji. He is terrible at this. You can drop from above unexpectedly but flanking generally terrible on Genji never make such a nonsense play ever again.
while plaiyng genji, there is no mid gamplay, you need one of two things, perfect insane aim to let enemies killable by yourself, or perfect godlike movement to put yourself everytime in risk of diyng to do actual damage and escape with minimum health if you 're lucky, if you cant achieve one of these two things you will underperform compared to any other dps
I think honestly one of the most reasonable buffs to genji would be faster shuriken speed, mostly for his left clicks. It would make setting up a kill more reliable without having him one shot everything.
Can you please make same video about D.Va? Feels literally the same way to play her, 0 ability for solo kills, ult mostly good for remeching, feels like i pick her and say: "Team, do your job, i'll just finish them"
I have 500 hours in total in the game, 300 are on GENJI of all characters. The only benefit is having cool looking blades, hitting more shurikens, and being able to kill Moira in a 1v1 JUST A BIT more often 🗿😭
Being on 5hp alone with a Moira orb in the room feels like a SAW experience lmao
😂😂😂
LMAO
Final Destination type of brutal 😭
Agreee😂
Or being full health and right before a fight starts it passes by you and bounces back and you go from 250 to 167hp immediately lol
Most common genji main line.
"How is he full HP, I just dashed through him and he was at 1."
The pain 🤣
This whole video is full of Genji main lines LMAO
"Where is everyone? Why are they so slow?"
"I wish my hero could do that"
"I don't know why I dashed there but he died"
Tracer and Genji are two examples of the heroes that really make OW special. There’s just nothing quite like them in other games and they’re super fun.
When you think about it, the list is so long. I agree those are the most prominent 2 though
@@voltzy2156 yeah I agree the list is long. I mainly mentioned them because I play Tracer and she’s my favorite, and the video is about Genji. There’s probably like at least 20 others you could make a case for though.
and the different is Tracer is the best dps and genji is one of the worst dps. so iconic
paladins koga
I ditched paladins, but Paladins Flanks are more unique thought, like Evie, Vatu, Vora
18:30 “genii you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place”, Sigma was like “SOMEONE SAY ROCK?!”
that moira orb just passing through the deflect and saying "i dont care" was hilarious lmao
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! - Zeeno (Editor)
Cool editing bro Im fucking with it
You’re sick with it, like honestly you do great work, no criticisms🫡💕
7:00 clean transition
For me, the music was severely distracting, not even the song choice, just the overall volume threw me off
I like the pokemon music
I’m so glad you did this because he has been a miserable experience since season 9 you can play perfectly and still not accomplish anything… I really don’t understand blizzards balancing rewarding easy to play heroes but making genji like this
Tracer? Sojourn? Cass? Widow? What is bro talking about 😭
@@destructo3457 what?
@@aaronwoodhead8771 he's saying those are the best heroes so he's saying you're wrong about them rewarding easy to play heroes, tbh though cass is very easy
Genji is the reason I’m taking an Overwatch break till S11… playing him feels so slow now. Not the same after the health buffs
@@destructo3457 sojourn and cass are both easy heroes to play
Genji is in rough spot after the global hp buffs. When squishy heroes were 200hp the dash + right click + melee combo was a much bigger threat. Like Awkward said, his damage is not consistent and he has no range. This was offset by him having high burst damage and movement to get quick surprise kills and assassinations, but now that the HP buffs made the time to kill way higher, Genji's burst combo is more difficult and way less forgiving. You can still carry games if you hit all your combos and headshot right clicks, but other DPS get way more value more easily by sitting far away and clicking heads (or even bodies).
Dragonblade was already a difficult ultimate that usually required nano or damage boost to get real value, but now it takes so long to kill anything that enemies have more time to react and easily counter you. I consider baiting a cooldown like lamp or suzu to be a successful blade, and getting one kill or baiting an ultimate is a really successful blade. It usually isn't even worth using sound barrier or transcendence to counter blade because it is so bad.
man I don't know. You just have to be smarter with it and can't just simply raw blade with nothing. Thats a good thing? The game shouldn't have kept encouraging reckless play as a dps. Or any role really. It just makes it more balanced and more of a team game. Its like when people complain that they nerf your main's bread and butter combos in Street Fighter so you have to learn new ones. I main Genji and have played him hundreds and hundreds of hours since OW1 beta, and I can tell you I still have plenty of good blades. A good Genji will still do what he has to. And yeah getting even 1 or 2 kills with blade is still insane especially if you get a healer. Its always been that way though. If you're a dps and you ult, killing anyone or baiting ults is a win. Especially on heroes that get ult quick such as Tracer, Venture, Genji, Sombra, Junk, etc. Even Echo. I don't mean this in any way but I just think people want to be able to solo carry and thats just not how the game works anymore. Genji is still good and a good Genji will still smoke teams.
one thing for sure. if you play genji, "i need healing" is the only good skill he has
Our Man: "Genji has worst ult."
Our Man on Cass ulting: *dies alone*
Eh at least high noon is great for zoning.
he face tanked an entire team standing still and still nearly got a kill lol
true but at least it has some utility
OMG the blade where you dashed in on like 5 ppl and then turned around and everyone was gone.... I felt that.
You basically just experienced everything Genji mains go through on a daily basis, all in a couple of matches. If you're ever wondering why Genji mains are bitter as hell, these years of these experiences unironically damages your soul and mental state.
If it gets that bad, you just need to stop playing. Seriously, a game isn't worth that kind of emotional investment.
@joelhenderson3723 You're not wrong, but playing Genji is like crack sometimes. His play style is so addicting, you just can't help but go back and play him. I can't name another character that plays as fluid and cleanliness as Genji. There's not a game or anyone in other games that plays similar to him IMO
@@dannyphan1088Star Wars battlefront 2 pick a hero they have blade deflect and dash🤣
@@dannyphan1088 As a lucio main, I kind of understand finding a unique hero that's exactly what you like playing. Still, if I ever reach the point where I have more bad feelings than good toward overwatch, I'm taking a break. There are other games, and other things to do besides gaming.
Good, middle finger to all genji mains who expect themself to 1v5 every fight
top 3 best things to deflect as genji:
- roadhog ult
- bastion turret fire
- Moira orb
bonus:
- ana sleep dart when you actually land it
Omg got a potg doing just that against ana sick sht
also widow headshot and tracer pulsebomb stick is satisfying too
@@efkrdnz real
You forgot Bronze Maugas, they just keep shooting it's hilarious
Duuuude, deflecting Hanzo's ult is sooo satisfying.
Its fun playing Genji until they switch to mei sym moira zarya
I just keep my distance with them. And don't use deflect on them.
I'm still surprised that people in Awkward's comments think hard counters are real.
How symmetra counter genji? She need full charge to have a decent potential in duel
@@Sachockfarming charge on sym has to be one of the easier things.
@@Zathren you know if you keep your distance with the enemy team you can't do anything
@@Sachock I think anything that passes through his deflect is automatically considered as a counter to genji
Since when do your videos include so many memes? 😂
Since he could afford a good editor I guess lmao
@@arsonne "good"
Since genbe became an absolute joke in overwatch
Frequent awkward uploads is pretty sick tbh
A fellow Genji goat
25:53
Yeah but then again you don’t always have to dash in. Necros always preaches using the map to get behind without wasting a cooldown. So if you can climb over a piece of the map and land behind the enemy, then you can get some right clicks off while still having both your dash and deflect as escape options
its nice to see you play genji and think the same things i think when i play him, i love playing him but man sometimes i play perfectly and still nothing dies
This is one of the most accurate and hilarious video I've seen this year. I absolutely loved this
People do not say he is the worst dps. Genji players say he is the worst dps.
At high ranks hes regarded as a pretty dog shit pick.
@@guts809 not really only for genji one tricks
Yeah no way can anyone legitimately believe that when we've got Reaper, Hanzo, Sym, Junkrat all in the dirt. They're either trolling or tryna push a narrative.
@@guts809 its not.
nanoblade is stil op.
wanna speak about bastion ?
@wever4873 what are you yapping about lmao nanoblade is far from op now that you can't one shot
2:28 - very accurate showcase of a genji main communication skills
Awkward has officially reached NPC status
That was what I was thinking lmao
Skin tier list and battle pass speculation imminent
He always has been. Call others NPC is the first step.
Genji sux a$s
this video remembers me of that one girl that quoted you and said that decisions should be taken not just based on Diamond and above, but mostly on metal ranks because they're "82% of the players".
In metal ranks Genji is still a "noob destroyer" if played more or less correctly, but when you traspass the Diamond line it becomes truly hurtful to play.
So even if you play the character correctly, in high levels you're so vulnerable, but if they buff him metal ranks will say that "blizz made him so broken".
What a dichotomy.
I appreciate that u always give credit to your team where its due. Solid dude 💪
Hi Awkward! Your 1 year old tracer guide is awesome. After watching, i really improved my game on tracer. Thank you and good luck
He is so fun to play probably not the worst but definitely not the best
Then who is the worst then?
@@thiagoarxalmeida606reaper
@@thiagoarxalmeida606 Reaper for sure. He's so fucking garbage right now it's sad.
@@thiagoarxalmeida606 Junk
@@thiagoarxalmeida606 hanzo for sure
I've never laughed this much watching an Awkward video. I found myself watch moments over and over. 11:36 for example
this new type of edit and vibe from an awkward video was different and unexpected but I don’t mind it it felt fresh. Keep it bro
8:08 basicly your mid metal rank gamers my best advice is legit stand still and hammer the moira in since you arent gonna dodge and avoid backing up agaisnt her orb
Awkward is a true UA-camr now with this awesome editing and the jokes! Amazing video man!! So fun to watch
bro I have a lot of time on hanzo and watched your unranked to gm on hanzo as well but he fells so frustrating to play now , the only kill potential in 1v1 is storm arrow . imagine head shoting a soj ulting outside melee range and she gets a 5k :/
He does better damage to tanks now tho
A great summation of the Genji experience... from this video: "THEY DON'T DIE! >:("
11:46 him giving the camera the side eye got me lmao
You know he bad when awkward of all people the man that says counters don't exist says "Genji just gets countered"
love the edits new vibe these vids are fresh but still love the regular content just need more - chur
Whoever the editor is the vid was actually hilarious props to the editor
🫡
Love the new video style Awkward, I think if do one of these with Junkrat that would be a fun experience considering everyone was categorizing him as F Tier DPS after the health changes.
10:45 you should've showed the kill cam there when your doom bounced on u while he's pulsed 🤣
Genji isn't the worst, but he definitely lost everything that made him an enjoyable DPS to play. There's no way any hardcore genji player or any ow casuals for that matter would call playing Genji "fun" in 2024. His kit is simply too outdated and obsolete compared to new heroes like Sojourn and Kiri with OP kits and abilities. It's the same Genji from 2016, only worse in every aspect. While new heroes with OP and complex abilities are added and old heroes get reworked to better fit the current state of the game, Genji is left in the dust with a deflect that is useless against 50% of the damage incoming, and a dash. Great. One would hope that now that blade is useless with the new HP changes, they'd buff his neutral kit. 2 seasons in waiting...
genji is the only reason I play this shit game
so....argument thwarted?
my friend do you like cbt@@Monkchelle_Kongbama
@@Monkchelle_Kongbama How your brain manages to come up with the conclusion that playing Genji in 2024 is fun like playing him in 2016/17...... sure... thwart my argument, I guess. I'm not the crazy one 😂
@@J.R.Swish1 how your brain manages to think that outplaying peers on a hero that has the sickest kit in the game isn't real is the crazy thing 👉👉🙆💀💯
20:04 Contrary to popular belief Genji is not good at dueling competent enemies.
people always say tracer is the hardest dps to play, ive always thought genji is harder bc u literally cant do 1 mistake with this hero without dying in higher ranks
LENA oxton has nmore constant dmg , whislt it it can be diffcult/impsosibole to predict with primary fire on genji,
no one says tracer is the hardest to play, t500 players say she has the highest skill ceiling. skill floors and skill ceilings are way different. genji also has a high skill ceiling, but most t500 or OWL pros feel tracer's is higher because her gameplay is more deliberate, whereas genji is often throwing darts in the dark and seeing what sticks (literally, thats what his primary fire feels like a lot of the time. you're just guessing how the enemy will move and not deliberately aiming)
@@walrus9999 the mechanical skill ceiling is harder to achieve on genji
Echo is the hardest dps
@@walrus9999tracer is pure mechanics. That’s why. There’s do dash or double jump and her ult has to be aimed
This felt more like an ML7 video with all the memes, music, and cutaways. lol
Dope video! I'd love to see another one of these videos focused on Illari.
I’m jus very impressed that he can change style so quickly and still create it with amazing quality and interest.
11:03 Imagine being the weakest Hero in the game with 175HP (Tracer) and you SURVIVE a swing from the blade by a NANO'ed Genji.
Genji needs a buff on his ult.
Now, some might argue that if Genji do get ult buff, it will be broken. Back to shuriken until blade, then nano blade = team kill.
No, not true. This is where ABILITIES is implemented in this game.
F.ex: This Tracer can blink away from the blade, but if Tracer is off CD on blinks, then she should die from a nano blade.
Nano is the word. Blade is the bird...
enjoying this new series. it's nice to hear you complain about the gripes of certain characters like genji haha
Hey man I just wanted to thank you I started as a silver player and reached a grandmaster level by following your concepts in less than 200 hours
26:15 Whoa whoa whoa....what is this counter you speak of? 😂
Every time I see Widow get an HS feed when I'm playing Hanzo: "wish my hero could do that".
So good to know even a top player experiences my problems when blading
The genji gameplay we have wanted 🙌🏼
I wanna learn the cool cybernetic ninja dude too.
you acted like a real human beeing in this video i really liked watching it
Watching this videos is like having a Genji therapy session 🤣as much as I think the blade swing speed buff was actually a great buff I really think his dash damage needs to be buffed to maybe 60-75 damage considering how Genji's entire playstyle is based on getting value out of dash without dying, or he needs something like the self shields that Venture gets for using their drill dash.
The level of editing is soo good lol
Keep it up man
Did you see when tracer came flying around the corner and he accidently killed her trying to kill a lucio? I'm that tracer, every match.
nice work on the edits it spices up your content.
18:59. classic genji mistake. Do not flank with Genji. He is terrible at this. You can drop from above unexpectedly but flanking generally terrible on Genji never make such a nonsense play ever again.
br's 5h Genji is better then my whole OW carrier😭
the laugh at "i'm actually a genji main" got me
Your editor needs a raise wow. These videos have been getting better each post . Also super informative and help ful as always thanks!
while plaiyng genji, there is no mid gamplay, you need one of two things, perfect insane aim to let enemies killable by yourself, or perfect godlike movement to put yourself everytime in risk of diyng to do actual damage and escape with minimum health if you 're lucky, if you cant achieve one of these two things you will underperform compared to any other dps
I bet if blade could be cancelled it would be used more often as an emergency dash reset like how Cass uses ult as an emergency reload sometimes
5:50 im so convinced theres multiple ranks of diamond
istg either theyre full trash or really good
As a Genji main not being able to slash dash baby Dva is a crime against humanity
Appreciate u man ,learning a lot from u
the fact that nano blade doesn’t kill with 2 slashes is nuts.
what song is that at 16:10 ?
I think honestly one of the most reasonable buffs to genji would be faster shuriken speed, mostly for his left clicks. It would make setting up a kill more reliable without having him one shot everything.
And old blade back ofc..
Can you please make same video about D.Va? Feels literally the same way to play her, 0 ability for solo kills, ult mostly good for remeching, feels like i pick her and say: "Team, do your job, i'll just finish them"
I have 500 hours in total in the game, 300 are on GENJI of all characters. The only benefit is having cool looking blades, hitting more shurikens, and being able to kill Moira in a 1v1 JUST A BIT more often 🗿😭
Yo who’s better Genji or Hanzo
@20:43 can't stop laughing Great video
Average genji experience
well he did got like 2 death and 30kill each game so yeah is op
As a genji otp we request a genji unrank to gm educational
Moira Orbs..a DPS nightmare. xD
Amazing video, i think you should also do this style of video for characters who are seen as very bad but are actually really good
hilarous video. as a genji main i was laughing so hard all the way through
POV Genji: 🥷🗡💨💀☠
I love the series, Can you play pharah next?
Savely two tap from range? Naaaaaaah! Go all in using all your resources at close range to commit for 1 kill? HELL YEAAAAH
20:42, "Like he was one hp and suddenly he is full hp, while I am one hp"🤣
do you grind your own alt accounts? this one has several seasons worth of credits so im just curious
Oh how they done my boy. I be throwing paper stars now.
4:50 eating it for Venture is pretty huge though
hey Awkward i am new to your channel and wanted to ask if you have done an educational unranked to gm on cassidy/Mcree
Nice show, it is interesting to watch
Maybe junk next in this series?
I would have thought hanzo would have been the worst DPS in the game now that he can’t one shot squishys
Ahh finally, the Awkward Gengi video we were waiting for.
(At least now i feel validates in my struggle to kill supports with Gengi hah)
this video is very funny thank you for the entertainment
This ain’t the unranked to gm with genji BUT ILL TAKE IT ITS GENJI NONE THE LESS
Because UR2GM Genji is unironically not possible in s10 outside of 5000 hour specialists grinding it out for weeks
Do you do personalized coaching?
7:36 the dissapointment is so real
unranked to gm on genji???
yessss pleaseeee
i cant tell how serious this video is lol
7:37 i laughed so hard at this
'unless i dash in and hit shuriken's nothing dies.' What else are we doing tho?
Love the Pokémon background music ‼️
YESS FINALLY A GENJI VIDEO TY AWK