I'm a plat 3 Genji and my biggest weakness with Genji is my aim, it's terrible how sometimes I can miss all 24 shurikens on one enemy. Even if I try to train it, I'm still not consistent with it. If you have any tips that would be good. Great video
True, that’s also my biggest weakness, hitting my shurikens. My blades are pretty consistent, get around 2-3 kills with it, but shurikens? Not so much.
I'm a Silver 1 Genji and in my honest opinion it's better if you practice Genji shuriken by thinkin that it works like Reaper shotgun without the verticle bullet, it can help you hitting the enemy more and if they're below half it's probably better if you go in for the dash + melee combo which is basically 80 damage if you do it right
Personally, I started playing OW2 about 2 months ago and I pretty much only play genji. I have around 150 hours on him and I’m gm3, in my opinion getting late game staggers on supports and juggling your enemies can lead to pretty easy wins and an easy time on the ladder, great video! Entertaining and informative, keep it up
@@chill5721in Overwatch, what you do is always dependent on the decisions that your team are currently making. Genji is amazing at poking from off-angles, but it only makes sense during certain states of play - and what I mean by this is that you can’t just automatically default to sitting somewhere safe to poke from (whether that’s grouped up with your team or by running off and finding an off-angle) - even if it is a good strategy a lot of the time. I suggest looking at A10’s guides. He opened my eyes to the concepts of neutral space, and resources - of which are vital to understand as a Genji player.
0:30 the reason why genji should have high sens is because he's a 360 degree character you're always constantly have to turn multiple times around a fight because of your dash ability. 3:30 you should be looking to secondary fire melee cancel into a blade sneaking in that melee is also applicable with your tip
The thing is about high sens is that it’s hard for some people to get use to and be pin point with so I always recommend a low/fast sens for him to help with accuracy for controller
@@WhoKoa It depends imo, I was a top500 console genji onetrick and I found that using low aim smoothing with exponential curve works super well for blade. Building ult with fans or straights from mid distance works super well while close range fans can be flicked to the head easily. Turning becomes naturally faster thanks to exp. curve. Combine that with the bumpers for jumping and genji can be a force go be reckoned with. But ultimatley everybody has their own way of playing that they have to master and genji is insanely reliant in game sense, more so than pretty much any hero so its entirely a matter of practice and personal prefference.
@@gavinferguson2938 that is true and that’s why I tell people to try high sens and practice on it and if they don’t like it I always recommend a slower one (doesn’t have to be extremely slow) but just a slower one than what they previously had
Pretty solid stuff my guy. I just wanted to say my 2cents on a stigma I see especially in lower ranks... Genji is actually better on defense than on attack. Reason is because you don't have to commit as much on defense but on attack you really gotta use all of his kit just to survive and well deflect can still be utterly useless. Don't worry about trying to get the 6man blade. Sometimes, 1 blade kill is really all you need. And sometimes even 0 kills is enough to taunt a couple big cooldowns or ultimates so the trade is actually pretty massive. That's gonna take some practice to see when to trade in your blade but you should always try to go for big plays if you can. Please don't take this as a backseat comment I'm merely making a suggestion as an ex coach but that's pretty much redundant as this is your video. Was just for the ones who keep hearing "switch off genji he's bad etc"
Huge tip for anyone who hasn’t done this, but put deflect on the jump button~ and put jump on a trigger. It’s a must for controller players imo Also if you can get used to clawing your controller, and playing with a finger on each trigger/bumper~ you’ll be able to get a lot faster combos once you get the practice, but that one’s way less important
This is late, but I actually struggle getting value with blade more so than the rest of genjis kit. Which is interesting bc blade is thought to be an easy ult. Though, that was back in ow1 season 3. I haven’t played in a long time, and wanted to come back and learn him now. I’m good and consistent with combos, like the dash combos etc, but I can’t seem to ever do well with blade.
Blade is a terrible ult so it’s understandable if you struggle with it. Using a blade without any sort of damage buff is horrible. Try to focus 1 or 2 ppl when you blade it’s better than nothing at all. Also remember blade isn’t always used for kills sometimes you need to zone with it.
Yeah I played on 97 hori 90 vert linear 0 aim smoothing for a few months and managed to get to master 1 last season but I was so inconsistent. I swapped to 80 hori 70 vert 75 smoothing last week and hit gm 5 like instantly. Consistency is way more important than speed
A tip for you sens for genii start slow then get faster work on the fundamentals first ihave been doing this for lots of console games and it has help a lot
My setting that I feel I get a lot of result with at gm are Vert 60 Horizontal 60 Window 70 AA Strength 100 Linear ramp Everything else 0 feels very smooth
My only problem with genji is sensitivity settings. Not aim, the settings. Everytime I find the "perfect settings for me" they become wayy too fast after a while and I'm back to square one It's definitely not a controller issue aswell as I got a new one recently, tried my usual sens but everything just feels horrendous. I'm convinced Blizz did something with sensitivity settings as this only started happening after season 7. I'm hesitant to go back only because of this
I play on unusual settings for genji: horizontal: 80 vertical: 40 aim assist strength 100 aim assist window 80 linear ramp nothing else i don’t have aim smoothing,aim assist ease or aim ease in because it feels disgusting to play with after getting used playing with neither but i did start off with around 20-30 aim ease in because it helped my accuracy. I’m not going to lie i’m not very consistent with my shurikens primary fire and i’m alright with the secondary fire because of the 80 sensitivity but the 40 vertical compensates for it. The 80 sensitivity is the most comfortable to do 360s for me because it’s fast but controllable but i am accurate enough with it. the 40 vertical helps me with my accuracy easily for mercy’s. i only have 80 hours on him and i can say i’m an alright genji. i’m a silver 2 but honestly i think i cap out at gold 5-4 with him. i’ve tried having aim smoothing and that other stuff to be accurate but it just doesn’t feel right. i have no clue why i’m posting this, i just want your opinions/ insight
As long as you can consistently get value with genji by wasting cool downs, getting kills, making the back line focus you and overall just being annoying then you’re fine. People don’t understand how important it is to do all of those things. Now about the accuracy thing, as long as you can hit most shurikens in a game then you’ll be fine. Also if your decently consistent with blade then I think you found your sens now you just need to practice with it.
@@zen3055 it’s kinda hard to type all of my tips but I’ll just give you a few really quickly. Try to poke the back line as much possible. Also try to build your genji as fast as possible you should focus on hitting the tank for ult charge and when you see a opportunity to kill a squishy you should take that. One more thing you should use your wall climb as often as possible for survivability.
I wanna learn how to play genji cause I never usually play him, I main reaper and hog mostly, but my weakness is whenever I play genji I rush into the enemy quickly and I never get value and I don’t really know what settings to use for him, but ima try you’re out and practice with the map codes cause honestly, imo he’s pretty fun to use when u get value
Bruh if you're console just take my advice. If you want to play high octane dive DPS heroes don't play genji. The skill ceiling isn't that high because you're limited by the input so much. Necros (the best genji) has talked about this and he's even tried controller. Venture plays almost the same as genji but has a way better design and kit than him. She's just a they/them so you lose cool points 🤣. Or play tracer and get a heart condition from being near death the whole game, but hey at least she's always meta and has the highest skill ceiling in the game
I just recently started playing this game, around the time it went free last year. I've been meaning to get good with Genji but unfortunately I swear my biggest weakness with every single character in the entire game, not just limited to Genji, is aiming. It's not that my sensitivity is too low or anything. It's just for some reason, my brain has a horrible time trying to lock onto enemies and hit them successfully before they do the same to me. Genji is a character I really want to get better at but I'm terrified to practice with him because I feel like I'll just be humiliating myself during matches.
@@WhoKoa Yeah but it is kinda hard not to let the smack talk get to you. Even on QP you’re gonna get it. So many characters I want to learn how to play. Genji, DVA, Reinhardt, etc. and I feel embarrassed every time I queue up as them because I secretly know the game is gonna be thrown because of my lack of skills.
Personally low sensitivity feels too slow for me and higher sensitivity makes it feel more comfortable. I play max sensitivity both horizontal and vertical and I still think it’s not fast enough because I want to be more fluent in 180°’s I have 53 hours on Genji PS5.
Rn im low silver genji. I wouldnt say im good enough to be something like high gold but as long as ive got healers that can heal me when needed or ensure i stay alive going for a somewhat risky dive then i can really pop off. When i first started maining genji no joke their was a sym every match. With 30 matches in total their were maybe 8 that i didn’t immediately see a sym, mei, moira, or all 3. But despite always seeing my counters ive actually found i play better against them sometimes, like a sym is easier to handle than a soldier with good aim thats smart enough to not shoot my deflect. I am gonna try to slow down my combos and dashes. One area i kinda struggle is dashing at ppls feet so i can be in their face. I use linear bc i found i hit combos easy with it and i use high sense with aim assist to rein in that high speed for some needed accuracy at range. Ive been making an attempt to dash at ppls sides and turn 90 degrees for the combo but sometimes they will walk forward or move in a way that i have to try to do a 160/180 anyways. But im gonna try to practice in qp trying to slowdown those combos to ensure i land and im not just wasting ammo, bc a fair amount of time ill see an opening for a good dash kill or maybe its slightly more hp so i need to shoot a few shots just to have to reload and missing that opportunity. So tomorrow ill be slowing everything down and working on ammo management
I have a counter argument for you saying low sensitivity is better for genji, after genji dashes (swift strikes) he would benefit so much more from a fast sens to instantly turn and alt fire the enemy, its so much more consistent and with dragon blade i tried many times to do it on default sens and its so hard as half the time i need to turn after dashing to hit my enemy, and its feels almost impossible to do it consistently, long range shuriken aim is not a problem as you dont need your aim to be that precise, and medium range its totally ok to use high sens too, overall he benefits more from higher sens, the difference was unexpectedly huge
Fast sense is most definitely better. I was mainly talking about the people that struggle on high sense on genji. I find low sense more consistent for me but if high sense works for you by all means continue to use it.
ya low sens is horrible for him, on every character actually. its such a fast pace game where enemies are flying everywhere, i dont know why you would wana hav low sens other than for high firerate aim tracking characters
my mechanics r good i just have absolutely 0 game sense and get lost way to often. im good at shooting and combos (when i finally get the opportunity to hit them) but thats about it. overwatch is my first heavily team based game so i guess its not unfounded that i have no idea what im doing. i really wanna keep him tho because his playstyle is closest to fighting games which im more familiar with. one thing ive found that messes with me the most is how short/small he is compared to other characters, probably cs hes almost crouch walking on default but people can so easily jump on your head and its so disorienting
Yea I would highly recommend learning the height difference first because it messes everyone up at first because genji crouches and with the game sense part you should watch good players play him and you’ll pick up a few things
Don’t think to much about your deflect. You should be thinking about wall climbing and using your dash to get away. Stay close to any sort of high ground just in case you have to escape, or even your teammates. Make sure you make a plan before diving onto someone.
I am a diamond genji main been playing for like 5 years and i would like to say I'm pretty good. My mechanics and aim are pretty good and i have good understanding of positioning until I start to blade. Any tips to mitigate me from going into a situation with blade.
For the most part you gotta think about cooldowns and who has what. Once you understand what the enemy team has wasted then you’ll be fine. Look for the supports and dps first and focus at least 2 kills.
My biggest issue are moving characters. Like whenenever i dash in, they already moved so i cant use the Sec shot and melee because they are already out of range. any advice ?
hey! So I’ve recently downloaded overwatch and no lifed it and now I have every charater besides kiriko lifeweaver ramattra and jq and I wanted to know your cross hair settings for genji every since I’ve heard of overwatch I’ve always loved genji and really want to get better with him just my aim is garbage ;-;
I have my sens on 45 for looking then for looking up and down I have it on 35 this is best for me I am a doomfist player but I think this work on genji I think I will do it for doomfist too
I get hit a ton I always see the top genji players and they almost never get hit but then I also see people saying that you shouldn’t always double jump bc it’ll mess your aim up which my aim in general is terrible as genji
I watched this and looked at some of the combos aren’t some of them pointless rn I mean this was 4 months so it’s on me for watching late but it seems like he does enough damage and the combos are to long