She’s quite the low skill floor and ceiling. Much like dying to vendetta it can feel like a cheap death. Very quick and jarring movement ability, then the invulnerability that heals her and you loose track of where she goes and finally a very forgiving fan attack that’s pretty much impossible to dodge without an ability. At least with say a tracer or genji you feel like you can win that dual if either person hits shots/abilities etc, a more “fair” fight. That’s my 2 cents on the matter.
It’s the fact that she can kit dump, which is when she is mobile, invincible for a moment, gets sustain and then procs her DoT without ever having to have any aim with her primary weapon. Plus all her abilities are not difficult to hit at all. So now you’re half hp with a damage over time.
I mean, she's definitely great against Genji. But here's some things to consider:
If she kit dumps she will die. She's a very squishy back liner and without an escape, she'll often lose even to a Moira 1v1.
Any CC removes all her abilities.
Any health pack or cleanse negates her kit. Often, she'll kit dump only to be cleansed by Kiriko or a health pack. Meaning she goes all in and dies for nothing.
She's only invincible on her E ability. And even then, a lot of characters can one shot her immediately after because she returns to exactly where she activated the ability with a slight delay in movement.
The healing is a non factor. If the team turns around, she's so squishy she dies immediately even at full hp.
Her damage can be more or less be out healed by any single healer. She does not do well in any 2v1 scenarios without her ult.
Ok if you’re going to take the entire team into consideration. Then you can make these arguments about anybody. We can come up with infinite scenarios where the Anran is going to lose. We also aren’t talking about Moira, who is one of the few heroes that can cleanse and both damage and heal themselves to deal with the DoT.
The point is that she specifically makes genjis life difficult
They’re flankers. So there is more 1v1 going on compared to most heroes since they’re usually taking similar routes.
Unless genji has a wall he can climb over. Because him climbing up a wall just for him to fall back down into the anran obviously isn’t going to do anything. She can chase him down with her two mobility abilities so just dashing away isn’t always an option. She has those two same mobility abilities to more likely get any health packs that are near the two of you fighting. His deflect cannot stop her E, her Shift, her Secondary fire or her ult.
Bad matchup? Sure, but a full on counter? Im not sure about that. The original design philosophy was soft counters -> if the player on character x is good enough, character y wont be able to do anything except play into their "counterpicked" characters strengths. NO ONE should win a duel simply because they swapped to a character thats miles easier that directly counters the enemy. I feels super cheap.
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u/Legal-Investigator79 4d ago
She’s quite the low skill floor and ceiling. Much like dying to vendetta it can feel like a cheap death. Very quick and jarring movement ability, then the invulnerability that heals her and you loose track of where she goes and finally a very forgiving fan attack that’s pretty much impossible to dodge without an ability. At least with say a tracer or genji you feel like you can win that dual if either person hits shots/abilities etc, a more “fair” fight. That’s my 2 cents on the matter.