The BEST Basic Genji Guide (WIN in OW2)

Confused on how to play Genji in OW2? I got you.

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Song: Poison (Instrumental) by Pepper's Ghost

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0:00 Intro
0:43 Playstyle
2:00 Ability & Ult Breakdown
4:44 Matchup Breakdown
8:07 Composition Tips + Conclusion

Thanks for watching!

[Bhicken_Nugget]

Extremely helpful. I’ve been playing far too aggressively with this character

[josesosa]

I was gonna talk about the dash as an escape option but then you mentioned it. Bravo.

[anandmahamuni]

His voice is so amazing, please keep doing this with the new heroes that come out too!

[LightyGab]

I'm having a hard time learning how to aim the shurikens consistently, been trying to practice but sometimes I think I hit someone and they just phase through them. When I dragonblade I try to be aware where enemies are but most of the time that I've been practicing I get lost in the adrenaline and it's so hard to know where they are after one kill. He is like a character that I normally like, agile, sneaky and cool but man since OW1 I've never been able to be good with him, I tried once years ago and just quit and now I'm trying to find another DPS I could play as and giving it another shot but it's frustrating. Doesn't help that the matches I've played in most of the time I do not get healed and I make sure I'm in LOS of my healers (Lucio I can't do anything if I go further) so it has been painful but I'm trying to not give up.

[dmitrychirkov]

Matchup section was very usefull even for an experienced Genji player, since you really need to have your time invested to research all these OW2 numbers for a different abilities, like Sombra's new hack for example.
My addition to all this: don't fuck with Zarya on Genji. Just don't. While Torb and Bastion are still banned she became an absolute unit, that would just fry everything alive in front of her on a very significant distanse. She won't even bother to bubble anyone other that herself, she would just use her almost 10 seconds of bubble fame on herself and delete enemy team alone. The only cure to this as of now imo is harrasing her with Mei. Lure all Zarya's aggression on yourself, hide in an ice block or behind a wall. Cut her from her team, put her in the middle of your freezing field. Your team will thank you. And don't forget to spam in chat "you like them beam guns, don't you?"
And when she will switch, go back to Genji again.

[mexnn]

If you are going to blade you should also make a pathing in your head while you are mid-air dash instead of improvising, helps a lot

[hutch]

Early in the video you had a great diagram on first point King's Row outlining space control. Do you know where I could go to learn more macro knowledge like this? Really informative.

[jpbackflip]

great guide, still gonna feed my brains out

[KRSANthenoob]

ngl having seen your genji gameplay, I would take this tutorial with a massive fistful of salt!

[nofuneral]

I got mad anxiety and felt seen/personally attacked at 2:18 lol

[zilliq]

I feel like genji and reaper can run freely now that mcree lost his flash

[chara]

"No hero can 1v5" **Mei ults the entire enemy team and slowly stabs their head with icicles**

[So_Stupendous]

Awesome dude. If you could do a JQ guide it'd be greatly appreciated

[aydo]

i was an ignorant deflect neglector before this

[playingamesforfun]

thank you so much for this! taking ss for sharing!

[Spardante]

Yeah newbies like me tend to play aggressively with genji and die within 2 sec

[Netkp]

Hi, I'm kinda new. What are the dive, spam and brawl stuff at the end of the video? is it a gamemode or a playstyle? thanks in advance

[mango_ckie]

very useful

i'd like to see a video on combos cause im struggling with them

[bharathnaikkorra]

Moira gonna say hard hi while grinding good luck

[thunderthot]

I swear to god these have to be paid actors because my healers are always subpar and my enemies seem to have the mind of Albert Einstein.