Kiriko: Overwatch's Favourite Child

Kiriko was the first support added to Overwatch 2 and there's been no other character in the games history who's been as omnipresent as her since their release. It's nearly a little too much actually. Kiriko is Overwatch's Favourite Child, so let's find out why.

Footage credits:

Catch myself and Sunny live on twitch!

My Socials:

[johnwickfromfortnite]

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

[misssomething]

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

[Akasha]

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

[aidenzorn]

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

[Thepatrickspain]

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

[MoonlightBrillance]

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

[akira]

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

[P.H]

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

[Mlenia]

Lorewise Kiriko survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki by throwing Suzu

[theworldsdumbestplansincor]

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.

[jacobmorris]

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

[marinary]

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?

[taintedazazel]

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

[kingofthe_humanz]

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

[tamooz]

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

[beywheelzhater]

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

[Blamowizard]

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.

[rav_productions]

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

[candy]

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.

[talkaboutnowt]

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.