>>31927531. Ooh, Doomie better watch himself because "nothin personnel kid" is Gabe's thing.
I can understand why that would be frustrating (BOY, CAN I EVER), but I also think it's worth pointing out that the purpose of introducing a new character is to get people hyped up to start playing them (and maybe to drop some cash for a lootbox or fifty upon looking at their gallery, wink wink). Remember that Sombra was also portrayed as being able to handle everything with no real trouble when she was introduced, but not even a year later she was getting caught by security cameras and sniffed out by a kid who worked at a bakery. These things are transitory, even if they suck at the time and the transitional period lasts an inordinately long while. The problem I have is that Blizzard seems more interested in hyping up the people who want to hurt instead of the people who want to help.
I think Genji might have gotten it even worse. Doomie didn't even need to get creative to take him out. Just WHUMP, right to the character we're told is supposed to be a highly evasive ninja but who we're shown willingly getting into a head-on slugfest. That's a lot of my problem with how he was introduced, on top of how it pretty much took away one of the only things we had to cheer about: like you said, it's like despite their own credentials, it wasn't even a challenge. It's one thing to sell the bad guy as a threat, but it's another to just make the good guys look ineffectual. And that's unfortunately where we are: with a "conflict" that's closer to a one-sided squash match in evil's favor in which our ostensible heroes can't seem to get anything done nor hold onto it when they do.
I'm hopeful and confident that the situation will improve, though. It has to. The writers have allowed it to deteriorate to such a point that, short of more diversions and origin stories, up is the only way they can go from here.
Also, dat filename. Damn right she does.
