I Spent 7 Days Learning Genji To See If We Should Nerf Genji 

The face svb makes when he gets slept by ana's is priceless. It screams "so this is how it feels on the other side."

He singlehandedly makes me want to try new characters. Keep posting these!

(5:00) As a Quickplay Andy Ana main, there's nothing better than a Genji actually letting you know they're about to blade. Hopefully, more players learn to spam their ultimate if they want Nano. However, when it does happen, it makes me feel like a mama bird watching my baby leave the nest, off to destroy the world.

At this point I watch you for you - your eloquence, your approach to thinking/talking about your experience, your editing. You are a top tier RU-vid, I look forward to watching you learn other games

Also something to consider is, that since Genji is inherently such a fun character that truly rewards every bit of effort you put into mastering him, it means Genji "mains" in general tend to be far more dedicated to their preferred hero, than most other players in the game objectively speaking. So it's only natural that when Genji is actually in a decent state, the quantity of players proficient with him can easily make it seem like Genji as a hero is much better than he is, which isn't reflective of reality, it's just the fact that all these devoted players are now actually allowed to play their hero without getting hero diffed by default at the baseline value level. When he isn't meta, he gets medium value on average, but when Genji is neutrally viable, you see these players come into their true right and really do some damage even though they aren't overall ranked higher than everybody else. They are just that more invested in this particular hero, than pretty much anybody else is to theirs. At least that's my hypothesis of his kit that fosters great devotion because he's just so fun and rewarding from a gameplay experience perspective.

Highly recommend the full video SVB made with Jake, I watched the whole thing and there are a LOT of great tips Jake gives on it

I spent weeks trying to learn how to play Genji before deciding that even though he can be fun and good, he just takes so much effort to play. I just want to chill and have fun. Not force myself to get super sweaty and my fingers cramped up from both his high mechanical skill needed and the game sense required. Echo works somewhat similarly to Genji but feels way easier to play for me and I have a lot of fun on her now. Perhaps a 7 day Echo learning? I’d really like to see that one day.

I love the perspective of playing heroes that make the game fun rather than singularly focusing on “optimal picks”. Really fun video

Great video! I love this serie of learning new characters. You always do such good overwatch content, thanks!!

Very nice! I just started playing Genji a couple of days ago and it feels actually difficult, but with this vid I've found some nice motivation a few useful tips. Cheers!

I LOVE THESE VIDEOS SO MUCH, THEYRE SO ENTERTAINING AND INFORMATIONAL, PLZ KEEP DOING WHAT YOURE DOING SVB I LUV U AND YOUR CONTENT ❤❤

I love these man. I find myself spending a week on the hero’s you review its awesome!

Great video man. Had the same feeling with genji and other close range characters, it feels like in the current meta with sniper maps, brawl comps with mei and unkillable supports it's tough to have a massive value on the character, so we can only hope that blizzard will nerf genji even more because of that 😂

Wow, I mean I know Jake's history but I didn't realize how smart he is with these specific focuses

im loving the 7 day hero thing your doing keep it up

Svb took dafrans name for his genji run

Great editing! Funny music, good memes and great moments 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I love these videos, keep up the good work. 😊

this might be my favorite series on youtube these days. hope you make one for every single hero.

How do you only have 60k subs??? Your voice and energy combined with the content are all so great.. I thought I would look and you’d have 3 million easy! Keep it up and you will

Main takeaway: Genji needs a nerf 🤷

Watching these kinds videos when trying to learn a new character is super helpful. Like after I watched the video where you spent 10 hours learning wrecking ball my winrate went from 30% to 90%.

Nice improvements! Genji is my main and its nice to see that he needs a nerf

I think they need to give him 30 ammo or a faster reload speed

Great video as always SVB!

this is a great video! learned some as a person with 100ish genji hours

I love this series

Just finished watching. Very informative and relatable video

Welp, you got me to try and fall in love with both JQ and TankFist. Time to try out Genji! Can't wait for the eventual Tracer vid.

11:38 sadly, that day won't come. Blizzard, and the community, is way more focused on just doing whatever the individual wants and not actually play it as a team game. And that counts for literally all the the ingame queues, yes, even ranked. The only way to get that experience, which most of us don't have time for, is to search for a team, and play in scrims and small tournaments. And seeing as Blizzard wants to control everything, you can't just join a random LAN-Party, and play the game because .. It's not allowed.

I’m hoping a Tracer one happens, I’ve learn how to pick up so many characters from this series, but I’m hoping to hone my skills a little more with my main

was waiting for this

Tysm you made me learn how to play genji and win more without losing any game

Great series SVB

A tip for Genji from Necros himself is to dash at peoples feet so you dont have turn around to shuriken people that you want dead

This series is very fun!

1:40 to be fair, that was the greatest blade ever in terms of entertainment value lol

I’ve been playing Genji for about a week, the only thing I absolutely struggle with is getting value with his blade, I’m on console so that makes a good difference, I either zone out or I don’t have dash

This video made me want to start learning genji. Its really paid off

id love to see you play junkrat, i feel like most people dont appreciate what he can do

Hey SVB can you please let me know what song you use at 0:33?? This tune has been stuck in my head for years but I never knew what it was from!

I need to clear something up, just because a character has an ability that Genji cant deflect that doesn't make them a Genji counter. Remember, all the other characters also can't deflect, you wouldn't say Moira counters McCree would you. Actual Genji counters are Sym, Torb, Doom, Junker Queen, Junkrat, Zarya Mei or Moira (if paired with another counter), Echo, and Bap just because of his immortality field. People also think Winston and Hog counter him, but they just end up being ult farms.

SVB! If you're trying to coordinate nano blade, type in chat at the beginning and say you'll use the 3,2,1 ping when you're gonna ult. Let them know they can nano at anytime during the 3 2 1. Then just ping that your ults ready and use the 3 2 1, makes a huuuge difference

As someone who loves playing Ana, if any DPS peels for me then that DPS gets priority on my Nano.

your videos are amazing

Great Video, I really enjoy watching you. Nerf Genji fr.

Absolutely agree. Have NEVER understood why pick ban isnt in comp. You are expected to be able to play multiple heroes because of how prominent swapping to counter is so the idea that your hero gets banned out is just stupid.

Can you do baptiste or Kiriko next? (After apex)

I like to think of genji as a distraction for supports, they won’t heal their team if they are busy with you. You don’t even need to confirm a kill most times, just making them focus on you helps

I play genji because apart from the fact that it can be difficult you need to think and you can't go crazy for the enemies and each game is very different from the previous one

Getting Mei and Orissa ulted at the same time cracked me up , that’s how it feels playing support sometimes 😂

Hope you try Pharah next

1:40 pretty much tells my experience with Genji.

SvB has joined the ranks of the Genji enjoyers. Welcome my friend.

hes definitely strong in the right hands, amazing video as always

Genji is fun. I can only do it in mystery heroes since I’m so bad though. 😂

bro got better at genji in 7 days than i did in 7 years - mechanically speaking. I have not seen that many deflect kills in several years now

Would love to see a brig edition as she is one of the most misunderstood and hated characters!

Please please please! Try bastion, hes super fun and a very interesting character to learn!

I'd like you to learn Junkrat. There's so much about him.

3:12 background music - Beneath the Mask by Lyn. But I recommend the cover - Beneath the Mask cover by Sapphire, Velvet Lounge.

I like this video because there’s many footage of Genji suffering

As a genji main the most annoying thing is that if you kill like one person a the start of the game, then their whole team switches just to counter you.

@svb have you done Dva yet

the thumbnail bruh lmaooo

i mean bro when you spammed your "my ultimate is ready" button, you kinda pulled the blade at the wrong time lol

nice tips

thats a great idea with Valorant and Apex! because as a veteran OW player I also tried Apex but it was just too boring after OW because its a goddamn battle royal

hyped for the apex video

Bro is using my favourite character, giving me some good advices, and using the best songs from one of the best game called Persona 5 🗿 what a chad

What is the name of the song for the duration of day 7?

Nothing feels worse as Genji, than when you die before you even finish the blade animation

Yo 5:40 that’s me lol

People forget we play games to have fun… I’m genji main atm and it’s a living hell but so fun

genuinely, Genji is fun, but he feels like the only character that is punished for people being good at him.

Da king is back baby he neva miss

What Jeff did to mercy Aaron is doing to Genji

We want to see you do a video like this on Symmetra. She’s so unique it would be great to see how she’s played in less optimal situations.

At 1:50, he could’ve survived by wall climbing or by double jumping

Just wait until mauga comes out and every blade gets you put in a cage match lol

Yes

Can you do mercy next? or moira

my biggest tip for not getting roled? celebrate a single kill. ask "who are we pointing at" one kill, many times, can be a victory over the previous fight

Hi SVB next can you learn orisa?

This man spent one week and is playing better than i ever can with all the effort i put into console genji.

Symmetra next!

Can you do junkrat?

Bro played genji for 7 days and is already better than me

5:31 RECOGNIZED!? AS WHO!? PAVITR PRABHAKAR!?????

If your below plat you wont get nanoed when you blade because your prob gonna f it up anyways, thats why she didnt nano you

Do Hanson next

I beg you to do junkrat , i want to become the newest best junkrat , and maybe watching you learn i could get better

Dedicated to the craft despite Jake wanting the swap 🙏

Genji is my favorite hero to play, but they over nerfed him and then added a bunch of counters to the game and it makes a super fun hero rather frustrating to play.

i have not gotten a nano on genji in the past 3 years

genji is only weak if ur bad. I'm silver 4 and I hit consistent 0 blade kills with about 20 deaths and 5 kills in endgame. I would say he's pretty strong since when I play widow I only get 1 kill and about 30 deaths. Would say I'm pretty good on genji

Hes fallen to the dark side " doesnt matter playing genji :)"

Cool story, but what is your final rank? How can you say you have learned a hero if its gold, for example? UPD: From the second channel video I see that SVB got diamond 3 before coaching from Jake

MOAZZZ

Big fan👍