Kiriko: Overwatch's Favourite Child 

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Kiriko feels like someone's self insert OC that has like 20 abilities for no reason Edit : I want to add that she is just shoved into the lore, its supposed to be 20 and 35 years old at the same time and uses magic in a game where everyone uses technology and its the cutesy japanese anime fox girl and everyone loves her. This screams Sonic OC levels of writting

Kiriko is good at EVERYTHING. No weaknesses, always meta, and ALWAYS gets skins every season. Blizzard made it so obvious she’s their cash cow and I hate it

At this point just have kitsune rush heal 125 hp per second and give 100 overhealth and make you invincible and pay off your student loans on use

bro the background footage is just rory killing the whole backline 😂

The amount of shots missed trying to kill that Mercy was unfortunately very relatable 😂😂

“I’m a projectile DPS player”. It’s ok to say you’re a junk main this is a safe space.

I love her character, or rather, the one we should have gotten. In the cinematic, she seems so kind and wholesome, and it was a massive vibe. In-game, she’s just, a moody bitch. She’s mean to everyone, and needlessly sasses and insults people. I much prefer the Kiriko we got from the cinematic than the one we got in-game.

One small thing about Kiriko is that she threw a monkey wrench into the lore of Overwatch. Like Blizzard refuses to acknowledge magic being a thing in OW and Hanzo and Genji's ults can be passed off as nanobots or something like that. Kirko throwing a bag of flower to cleanse her allies, her blinking through walls to allies, and her kitsune rush summoning a FOX SPIRIT... yea blizzard is trying to say that isn't magic. Most characters are using sci fi tools, but then we got Kiriko who uses magical weapons. Edit: The comment section reminded me of kiriko’s age and i completely forgot about her age. She has no right being in her 20’s while the shimada brothers are in their 30’s to 40’s. Blizzard’s writing team for overwatch screwed up basic logic with their lore recently

What surprises me the most about kiriko is that she became the perfect heal bot by accident. Once she gets to higher ranks she’ll always have someone in a good position to tp to, her heals can’t be stopped by anti and unlike Moira her heals are consistent without the need to manage a meter.

The only necessary nerf for kiriko, is banning her from getting new skins for a year

The fact that they added a second immortality ability to the game on a support character still astounds me. Bap lamp was bad enough but Suzu is something else.

Kiriko is genuinely the most problematic hero ever added, not just to the game, but just in general to the franchise. - Overtuned and overcompensated kit. She doesn't have any weaknesses, and can effectively counter/play into anything (Without having to change how the hero is normally played). - Anytime she gets a nerf, she gets a bunch of compensation that usually makes it a net buff anyway. - No risk, High Reward gameplay loop. Very low skill floor. - Gets a new skin every month. - You can figure out everything about Kiriko simply by looking at her. What you would think when someone says "Japanese Aesthetics" (Take Mei for example. When you look at Mei, you can tell that she's ice-themed. However, you'd have to do a bit of digging to find out that she's a climatologist who is sweet and optimistic despite how tragic her past is. None of her personality or design has anything to due with the fact that she's Chinese.) - Lore and Age make no sense, and contradicts / overwrites pre-established lore. (Basically, Shoved into lore at the expense of retconning Genji and Hanzo's story (Similar to a self-insert)). Blizzard wanted to cash in on the idea of a "secret third Shimada" and wanted her to be connected to the Shimada Bros (Which she really didn't need to be), but couldn't be bothered to make her older than 30, because then she couldn't be "Young and Quirky" like Dva. - Blizzard insists that she has to be a part of everything despite the community's strong hatred and disinterest towards her. - Bland and boring personality. No flaws. Feels like she gets all her lines from the "quirky" character in a Nickelodeon sit com. - Has been S-tier since Day 1 and still hasn't received any large scale nerfs.

kiri REEKS of fanfic OC energy. she's carelessly tossed into the lore and apparently "grew up" with hanzo and genji (who are 20 years older so wth) she has sarcastic one liners for everyone in the cast, and shes pretty much the trademark "relatable teenager" character her gameplay sells the deviantart OC nature of her design too, her kit feels like a middlesxhooler designed it. "shes a ninja like genji but she heals people and she can teleport and shes completely invincible and she can make her teammates invincible AND she counters ana and every other status effect in the game AND she can 2shot any pesky dps that gets on her nerves AND her ult makes her do handsigns like my favorite anime AND-" oh my goodness i hate her so much i didnt rven want to rant a whole essay like this but it just feels like someone on the team hired their kid l to make this character

I love how u didn't even mention wall-climb in this video and even without it her kit still feels heavily loaded that people forget about it lol

Suzu is just a bottle of Men's 13 in 1 shampoo

As a support main, I just wanted a cleanse like Zarya 😅. Not a damn 15 in 1 ability

All this on a hitbox measured in microns is what gets me. If they want her to be all this and smol, give her Tracer hp.

Lorewise Kiriko survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki by throwing Suzu

Tracer will always be the icon of Overwatch to me. Regardless of what favoritism Blizzard shows to Kiriko. (I played Overwatch 1).

How did we go from a gaint loud hammer swinging german man in a suit of armor, a swedish dwarf whos a blacksmith, one of the few charaters that actually has a charater arc getting over his hatred of omnics, a floating robotic monk who could Kick Your ass, a transforming war machine that has PTSD and best friends with a bird, please tell me how did we go from interesting characters to generic Mary Sue magical Fox girl

Who'd have thought that a weeb bait character in a predominantly weeb game would be blizzard's golden goose.

Blizzard art department misses for Soujourn, they’re allergic to giving her cute skins

I can understand how you feel abour Kiriko. I hate everything about her, but she's too good not to play. She does everything, and as such I have to play her to succeed. I hate it, and her design and personality.

Even aside from her gameplay and balance issues... was always really weirded out that Blizzard had to add a *third* magic Japanese ninja to the game. Do they not have any other ideas for what a Japanese character can be?

what's absurd to me about kiriko is that she can do almost everything better than anyone with low CD but Lifeweaver's grip has to get a 19 sec CD while doing way less than kiriko's suzu which is simply baffling to think about ! suzu -Heal 80 (or more if cleanse negative effects) -AoE -invulnerability -cleanse -15 s CD -ranged Grip -Heal 50 -single target -invulnerability (but only while bubble is visible) -pull said single target to him -19s CD Why is suzu able to do so much just by itself without adding all of Kiriko's kit ?!

I was talking about her few days ago with a friend and its shocking how a single character is capable to handle 1v1 situations easily and Tanks or some DPS just get deleted if you miss a single frame to escape in tough situations. But, to me is ironic how Venture is not invincible when they are going underground and Kiriko just vanishes away without a scratch -sorry for my bad english btw.

Bro what is this video output we just had the lw one a few days ago

Kiriko to Blizzard is like that Facebook mom saying how their 5yo child stopped a robbery by telling the dude a life lesson, and then everyone clapped

you're putting out videos pretty consistently, just remember to take time for yourself

Kiriko literally exists, because they didn't want to nerf Ana. And yet Ana can still be played alongside Kiriko. Just let that sink in for a moment.....

I think that, from a shitty OW player, that Suzu and the ult are cool and are (mostly) fine I think the way to “fix her” is simple; make her TP not invincible, give it a longer cooldown, or throw it in the nerf wringer all together. Let her do (maybe slightly nerfed) damage, and play up with her team, but don’t let her get out of jail free whenever she wants. Reward players for getting a pick on her, not the other way around.

Suzu letting you parry things like Dva bomb is so cool I think the cleanse is actually the most annoying part because there's skill in parrying a Dva bomb but none in cleansing like a junker queen rampage

I have an idea for her change; healing fall off, the further away she is, the less she heals and the same with her damage. The further the distance she needs to teleport to a target the longer her teleport ability will stay on cooldown, etc. THIS WAY, YOU CAN KEEP HER KIT THE SAME BUT GIVE AN INSANE DOWNSIDE!

not only is she infuriating to play against with 2 get out of jail free cards, able to take duals and get out with not drawbacks and suzu being insane she gets skins every session and is the most dry and bland character to be added to the game and blizzard refuses to Nerf her 😐 and characters like ram get ignored who is hands down the best character they've ever made lore wise

I've always said the same couple of things about Kiriko and I'll repeat them here. Here Teleportation Invulnerability should apply to the ally she teleports to, not herself. Her Suzu should be excellent at maybe one or two things, not eighteen.

I used to think Brigitte was a Mary Sue, but that title fits Kiriko much better.

On top of her kit just being able too much another reason I despise her is because personality in game most of her voice lines and interactions come off as snarky, “I’m better than you”, sometimes just disrespectful, wannabe gen z. What happened to the Kiriko we saw in the cinematic short If the lore wasn’t messed up she would be the most annoying 29-31 year old woman

The thing about Kiriko is that you could only get her to the same level as other supports is building her kit from the ground up again. It's the only way you could actually get her to the same level as other support.

I had Overwatch 2 uninstalled for about a year after the PvE plans were removed(or “revised” I guess), only recently reinstalling it. Unfortunately my network isn’t the best so I’m having a rough go of learning the heroes that were battlepass-locked until recently, but your videos have been a quality AND quantity treat as I tumble back down this rabbit hole!

Oh, also, on the subject of why Swift Step has invulv is because it's how teleports are coded into the game. Ever notice how all self-cast teleports have invulv frames/clensing effects? I suspect this is due to preventing a hero from dying to DoT damage while the code is instantly changing your x/y/z/ axis location (since where you die is maked in the game's memory, dying a 0x0y0z would cause a HUGE server stopping error or accidently cause problem with anti-cheat thinking players are cheating by being logged being in null cords)

Her lore also makes no sense, how the hell would she have been able to hang out with Genji and Hanzo when they were teenagers when she would've been *born* when Genji was 14? They wanted to make a young, relatable character while also fitting her with other character's lore, but now it doesn't make any sense. Her personality also feels as flawless as her kit, and it really makes her uninteresting as a character to me, she really feels like a Mary Sue.

Kiri's one of the few heroes that i love to play with (whether it's myself or someone on my team) but i hate to play against

We all know why people really love her. Same reason why so many love Dva.

My take is that something as strong as invincibility should NEVER be an ability that just goes on cooldown, no matter what. It should definitely cleanse and heal, but invincibility even if brief is way too far, perhaps a high damage reduction, so that it CAN protect someone who is near to full health from an instant kill, but you don’t instantly bail out anybody in the area

OKAY. I'VE BEEN WAITING A LONG TIME TO SAY THIS. As a Lifeweaver main, the October 31, 2023 patch baffled me so much. If you're wondering why, the cooldown of life grip was increased from 16 seconds to 19 seconds. The ability that does a small heal, gives invulnerability, and forces a player to reposition, was hit HARD. Know what else happened that patch? Kiriko had Suzu CD increased from 14 to 15 seconds. People say that Life Grip is an infinite value ability, but then what does that make Suzu? Infinite times 5? Life Grip is literally the Aleph Null to Suzu's infinity and beyond (Aleph Null, in simple terms, is the smallest infinity). But she gets to have a 15 second cooldown on the ability? Throw in a Kitsune Rush, and she can use that ability two to three times in a single teamfight! Not to mention, Life Grip doesn't even cleanse the target, so if they get hit with anti-nade, slept, knocked down, etc., they will still be in that state as long as they're supposed to be. Suzu is an AOE invulnerability ability that also provides a decent heal with no disruption to your team's tempo. All of that, on top of the damn headshots ; - ; Okay, done being salty now.

Kiri's a very VERY confused case for me, she's meant to be the archetypal character of a trickster, someone who throws an unexpected wrench in a fight and is an all rounder in utility or unexpected burst damage (i'm thinking dnd rogue being a good representation of this), but the fact she even has moderate heals in the first place KILLS her identity because now she's a burst damage healer cleanser buffer (and borderline sniper, ngl) . Issue with that is that if you nerf her healing hard then she's basically gonna have the EXACT same identity crisis as sombra ( always saw kiri as a reverse sombra anyway) . she has the same problems as sombra but instead of being confused on what to do and where to go she just said Yes to every question and became everything at once.

Kiriko and Moira are the two large reasons I quit OW2. I played it casually with friends and never got very good, and the fact that some characters like those two were so slippery for me to kill and so abundant that I couldn't even fight them. Doesn't help that I'm also a tank player. These characters are just too frustrating to fight as they are right now, I'd rather just play any other game. They really are insane characters in lower ranks

I love that the day before the video comes out Kiri gets ANOTHER bundle in the shop. I know they teased the skin already but the timing was perfect.

Kiriko was an apology gift for support players because devs neglected the small pool of heroes in this class and even converted Echo from support to DPS before her release (as far as I've heard). And then they put the game on a hiatus, making players wait several years for a new support hero. Can you imagine what a disaster it would be if they released a hero that was weak or bad? I absolutely agree that Kiriko has a lot of stuff thrown into her kit. But it looks like that's the design philosophy for some heroes. Like Orisa that has 2 defensive abilities with A LOT of different effects, plus abilities to push, stun and slow enemies. Or just the general tendency of new heroes having 6 abilities + 2 passives (Lifeweaver on release). Although I don't see a big problem with Kiriko (suzu requires a very tight timing and it's so easy to waste; and flanking Kiriko is annoying, but she can't heal her team then), I agree that new heroes shouldn't do everything everywhere all at once.

little correction on 2:43 , it does pass through enemies

I think she should get 25 less HP for starters. With her awkward and slim hitbox, her ability to teleport to a nearby ally within 35 meters, and suzu, giving her less HP would be great to make her definitively more vulnerable and riskier to play when she already has two get-out-of-jail cards. Also, I'd reduce her kunai count down to 12 or even 10. She already has one of the fastest reloads in the game (1 second reload), so why does she also get to have 15 frickin' kunai to work with, along with healing that reloads on its own when it's not being used? With the teleport, I think increasing the cooldown would be enough; 7 seconds is pretty nutty for an ability like Swift Step. Maybe something like 9 seconds. In regards to Suzu, I'd remove the intangibility/phase-out effect. It's understated, but my god is it annoying that they just phase out of existence and not even knockback can affect suzu'd enemies. Doomfist players will definitely know how painful it is to just whiff a juicy punch and then land into the abyss because Kiriko decided to teleport in and suzu her allies. Also yeah, reduce the base healing down from 80 to, like, 40. I actually don't mind how big a boost in healing it gets when it purifies negative effects, but I think reducing the base healing will encourage Kiriko players to save it for, well, actually cleansing negative effects, in addition to the invincibility effect it provides. Kitsune Rush, I think, is mostly fine as it is? I'd reduce the duration to 10 seconds, reduce the movement speed bonus to +25%. That's about it, really. Curious to hear what other people think about tweaking Kitsune Rush though.

devs throwing tracer away: we dont want to play with u anymore

If they let us see her on her bike shed be fine

Kiri apologists love to say that magic exists in other abilities (rez, shimada dragons, zen). But they forget that those characters typically only have one unexplainable ability (mercy, shimadas) that could be based in their other abilities OR are explicitly stated as noncanon (zen). Afaik, NO explanation has been given to kiri for Anything in her kit aside from her origin of "she uses ancient techniques and modern skills", but there isn't even anything modern/technological in her kit. It's ALL magic or kunai.

Bro good job making these videos! You’re crankin these out like a madlad

Coming from someone who played since 2016 this character is just the biggest middle finger from gameplay and lore You can’t really fix a character that has everything without messing with the identity people who play them likes, but I would suggest Significantly longer cool-down times to mitigate how unpuniahable and impactful she is. Making the teleport be doubled to 12 seconds at least would make you need to be more conscious about using it, but you shouldn’t need it so much because 1: hit box and 2: wallclimb making you already one of the hardest things to hit Suzu cancels out Ults, and all damage and fixes debufs, it is an objectively better version of immortality field (which everyone despised gutturaly) and yet is less than half the CD duration (also turning of JQ’s entire existence) so it really should be a 20 second cool-down at least

You are making so many amazing videos at an incredible fast pace, please take care of yourself and don't get burnout king.

Kiriko is the tracer of overwatch 2 as in she's now the new mascot of overwatch

I remember in an experimental card, they changed her TP to be reaaallllyy long range on a cooldown depending on the distance she covers. Maybe longer cd for going through walls compared to just covering a bunch of open ground.

Keep it up dude another great video!

I wouldn't say that Kiriko having a kit with several moving parts makes her unbalanced, or even is poor design. The reason why Kiriko sees so much play is because there's so many moving parts in her kit, he has a larger chance to resonate with an audience. Even you, the person making this video, enjoy the more flank-heavy aspect of Kiriko and being able to go in and make noise. Giving a hero a kit with high utility is realistically not a bad thing unless all of which have massive impact; which is where Kiriko's weakness comes in. Kiriko, as a support hero, gathers value from her being proactive rather than her teammates being proactive. With Ana, you can boost your team's capability with your kit, but with Kiriko, your team can boost *your* capability using your kit to go to them and assist them in making plays by taking off-angles or providing a distraction so you can flank unnoticed. Heroes that have a lot of moving parts have existed since OW1. Let's look at the most adored support hero of all time--Ana. Ana has seen the most play out of any support in all of OW, even more so than Mercy due to her kit having so many tools that can work with so many people. On-demand hitscan with nice damage potential, anti-healing, anti-dive, healing boost, an ultimate that saves a teammate and boosts their capability, all of that exists in Ana's kit. The reason why this works, and why players love Ana so much, is because the way these attacks are choreographed to scale their consistency with their power. Ana's nade relies on the user having a direct angle to the intended target, which gives enemies more time to take cover and counter, her sleep dart has windup and is a projectile, and her hitscan slows her down so that she becomes easier to hit. The impact is balanced with the user's capability to overcome the caveats. This is the same for Kiriko. Putting your Swift Step on cooldown to go in is a gamble on the user's part, and at the end of the day, is a movement ability. Movement is very powerful in OW1, but with Kiriko as a support hero, this utility needs a selling point beyond "A to B" especially when limited to spaces that are already occupied. Her weapons have a decent kill potential, but is reduced whenever it is deployed incorrectly or if your flank is spotted, and your Suzu has a long cooldown which means that even though it does many different things, it's total uptime is low, which encourages saving it up and ends up with even lower uptime. At the end of the day, Kiriko's weakness is in it's strength; it's utilities that are powerful are so flexible that Kiriko players have to pick and choose which places to deploy these utilities. In my opinion, a design of a hero that pushes its playerbase to think more critically about the plays they make is a healthy design, even if it can feel excessive on the receiving end. I haven't ever felt frustrated by Kiriko's Suzu denying an ultimate of mine or a good anti-nade, I always think about how to make that Kiriko regret using the Suzu then and there to make a good play or to get a pick at that moment. I believe these aspects is why Kiriko's design succeeded so heavily, even though she was powerful, she was fun to use and wasn't ever truly looked down upon. Even in her strongest state, Kiriko players would still make mistakes and tactical errors that could be punished by swift plays. The moving parts of Kiriko and the potential of gameplay and skill expression from her kit and playstyle is what made her rise above Junker Queen and Sojourn in Season 1 of Overwatch 2, and is why she is still currently loved and played by players at a high rate, even having fallen out of the meta.

This I feel sums up my frustration about Kiriko perfectly. I myself also love the design concept and playing as them, but playing against a kiri? Absolutely INFURIATING. She literally feels like they took the positives of multiple other characters into one and then shed all the negatives. Tracer's high damage potential and very tough to hit hitbox? What if they had MORE health and better range? Mercy or Ana's single healing output? This one goes through shields and has good range in one, best of both worlds! Mercy and Bap have mobility tools to get to teammates and escape danger if used well? Well kiri just nopes tf out with a literal teleport, cause who needs to be punished for bad positioning anyways! A high damage dps like Zen or Illari that trades high damage for middling support or heals, or high utility and healing for lifeweaver with little offensive presence? Who needs that when you can pump out more healing AND damage than half the other supports combined, with good range to boot, suck it brig! Kiriko alone just does what almost every other support does, and sheds every downside and flaw of the other supports, while still having so much additionally utility to the point of whole fights revolving around dealing with the kiri first otherwise you stright up lose. After all, almost every tank ult and lot of dps ults all can get shut down INSANELY by one singular cooldown, by a character that's tougher to pin down and kill than even the likes of Lucio or Tracer at times.

“Guys guys what if we made a new poster child, that goes against the lore of the universe we painstakingly made and that fans accept, and we make her use actual magic, no nano tech no science.” “Wait wait, what if we make her an uwu owo anime girl with Hanzo and Genji-like voicelines that are cringe instead of corny !” “Yeah yeah ! That sounds good ! Now all of that would be useless if she wasn’t completely broken, so lets make it top of the meta all year round !” “Dude we nailed it.” “Hell yeah.”

I think the invincible once teleporting for a short time is there to help players take a split second to figure out where they are. I also think they have the teleport be the save as the healing range because it helps players realize how far they can heal(with the teleport icon).

Another banger PixelRory video, also, please take your time and you don't gotta rush your videos, whether a video comes out every 2 weeks or every 2 months, I'll be watching. Take your time. ❤

You know that they love her when she's the only new character with not only one, but two different dance emotes

PixelRory: Guys, I don't like Kiriko Me: *putting a like to the vid immediately*

I love her so much.

i would make the cast time on swift step longer, encouraging her to be smarter about her timing and cover usage with her flanks

She's obviously the most precious

I primarily play support (Ana main since 2018) and I believe that what made Ana such a great support is that she is fun to play as, is not the absolute hardest to pick up, but is one of the hardest heroes in the game to master and has two powerful abilities that you need to be really smart with using. What makes Ana well designed is that her abilities either wins a fight or leaves her to the sharks. Kiri on the other hand is always super powerful. She never has a point of weakness and there is no counterplay to her. With Anas nade. You can either hard push Ana once she has used it or back off. Also, making an Ana use it defensively is not too hard to do. Sleep dart is one of the hardest abilities in the game to master and it is so easy to miss it. It also has a super long cooldown and leaves Ana vunerable for the entire duration of the cooldown, but it can set up huge plays for your team. Suzu on the other hand has everything and no counterplay. It also does not leave an open window to kill Kiri. Same with swift step. No counterplay and no skill needed for it. The only skill with Kiris abilities is mastering the timing of Suzu, which is not too hard to do. I rarely play her but I usually manage to land big Suzus. In my opinion. I think making swift step into a smoke bomb that makes Kiri invisible while she is inside of it would be a better and more "character fitting" thing to do (considering she is supposed to be some sort of ninja I guess). And make the suzu only two of the things it is. In my humble opinion, make it cleanse ability ccs but not ults and make it so you can still deal knockback to suzu-ed targets. Also, nerf her projectile size, aka Hanzo-logs Jr.

One change I’ve thought about suzu where it doesn’t have immortality, but when it cleanses, it give invulnerability to status effects for like 3 seconds

Found you due to these videos and you have really good production for such a small channel. Interested in you doing other games because to be honest I haven't played overwatch since 2 came out

Your content has been consistently fun and entertaining, looking forward to what you do in the future!

Transcendence is quite literally a brilliant ultimate.

Honestly I think just removing any healing from suzu might be enough. Would decrease her own survivability a ton, and the targets wouldnt jump from 1 hp to full as consistently.

Literally all they have to do is make it so if you take damage and your Swift Step cooldown is less than a second (including not being on cooldown) the cooldown is set to 1s. This makes it so you can actually punish overcommitted Kiri while still allowing her to outplay you by playing less aggro to get out or take the risk and win the duel It wouldn't feel unfair if I knew I could've prevented the tp by hitting her, it wouldn't feel unfair if I knew I shouldn't have gone overaggressive as Kiri jumping anyone and anything that moves. It would literally be perfect

meal deal is the best way ive heard someone describe it. its like rams vortex that slows, brings enemies down and does a bit of damage

The most hilarious part about kiri being the new poster child is No one cares. I have seen no one hype up kiri, seen no one speak about how much they love her. I’ve only seen people complain because of how poorly written and poorly balanced she is. Seriously, daughter of the best swordsmen in the world, grew up with both genji and hanzo despite being way younger, is more magic than the dragon brothers with her magic being even harder to explain as secretly science, aaaand she has a generic nothingburger personality with no depth

Just want to say that I love this videos series, that’s all I was waiting for in a overwatch creator, the community needed someone like you! Maybe if a big RU-vid like flats or Karq reacted one of your videos you could get more recognition that you deserve! Thx for the good work, I’m sure you will thrive, and as a request for a next character I will ask for Hammond since his my main lol!

I assume the teleportation invul is less so you dont get blown up immediately and more so that you can just straight up adjust and figure out whats even going on. Since she's often not able to physically see where she's going I assume the reason she has that slight invincibility is just so you have juuust enough time to get your barrings, since without it often you're just going to teleport somewhere and die before you physically can process what's hitting you. I bet their reasoning is more game feel focused and less due to actual balance, since tp would feel MUCH worse without at leas tsomething to give you a sec to react to just existing in a new spot. Wouldnt surprise me if the logic is similar to why when you blink as tracer your camera doesnt just teleport forward like she does but instead looks like a dash, even though physically when tracer blinks it's more visually like a teleport. Both are probably like that so that it's easier to not get just utterly blindsided by just existing in a new location. I would bet its done for game feel, less so balance but it becomes a bit of an issue given all the things she can do with that kit frankly.

omg your gaining alot more subs😄😄 congrats dude, your so underrated!!

Most infuriating thing about Kiriko is that we still haven’t seen her on her bike

Ive said it myself when I said "Kiriko is the golden child of overwatch"

Thank you, you just renewed my love to her, y'll expecting more playtime hours from me. :)

I think replacing all her invincibility with damage reduction, maybe like 50 percent for suzu and 25 with swift step.

We need an update where Hanzo uses a sword again and we see kiriko on her bike

Juicy triple kill at the start of the video gahd daymn

Very good Video Like always

I mean, Zarya bubbles *also* charge her damage and supply some barrier health. And nade is also multi-purpose.

Take away invulnerability from both suzu and swift step she'll be good.

damn, damn, like damn ??? how do you pump these out so quickly ?? Give me your coke !

From Dev whisperings, Kiriko really was made to be the next Dva icon.

I haven't cared for OW in a while so I never thought about it. I always knew she was meta but yeah she is on every poster and promotion lmao.

All I think Kiriko needs is a more profound weakness, she has high lock-on heals, good damage with no falloff, A small hitbox, mobility, 2 escape cards, suzu and a high impact ultimate. There are not many tradeoffs to her kit. A smaller healthpool might help, but I think it would be best to remove the invulnerability to suzu and just making it a cleanse, and removing a cleanse from her swift step. This way Kiriko doesn't have 2 cleanses and invulnerabilities and ultimately having a weakness to both abilities while still be very valuable. This can also allow suzu to be on a lower cooldown since it won't be as powerful, allowing her to use it more in different situations, how annoying it would, we'll never know unless we are some how able to experience it, but it only cancels like half the ultimates in the game instead of almost all them so theres that.

so funny seeing a flanking tracer get absolutely obliterated by the support in one second

Wholeheartedly agree. Kiri is a great concept, but a horribly bloated execution. It’s like the Dev’s didn’t have faith she’d be good enough. As for changes I’d make to Kiri: Ofuda- •gutting the raw heal, 130 healing per second is ridiculous with any other healing in the game. Every squishy is just constantly full hp with a Kiri. Gutting it from 13 heal per talisman to 7.5 heal so it takes 4 clips to heal 250-300hp to full. (Can buff kunai or suzu healing if she somehow feels bad, but ofuda gotta stay this way to keep her in line and de-incentivize healbotting some.) Suzu- •remove bonus heal •replace complete invincibility + intangibility with JUST brief CC immunity after cleanse + heal •13 second cooldown Swift Step- •25 meters •10sec cooldown •brief self CC immunity instead of invincibility after tp Kitsune Rush- •decrease ult cost by ~10% •remove cooldown reduction(great idea for a supportive ability for a supp/tank, not Kiri who’s about dueling and cleansing CC) •screw it, see how rush feels with the 50% movement again after all of these changes Just a quick first pass, but this would put her in a much less frustrating state while still being objectively good imo

Change the intangibility to invincibility, change the tp to be half as far. Im fine with rush tbh because cd reduction just makes sense for it, but i also think cd reduction should just be its own hero instead of a bonus to an ultimate.

i think the only problem with balancing suzu is that i dont think they have a way for an ability to cleanse without making people immune to damage in some way. think about all the other abilities that cleanse, all of them make the person invunerable for a bit