GENJI (Genji Shimada)
Role: That Guy In Every Game Ever, Cyborg Ninja
Fetish Targets: The Thing Every Nerdy Male Wanted To Be When He Was Sixteen
Group Affiliations: Overwatch
PL 10 (181)
STRENGTH 3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 6
FIGHTING 12 DEXTERITY 8
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 4 PRESENCE 2
Skills:
Athletics 13 (+16)
Expertise (Ninja) 10 (+13)
Insight 4 (+8)
Intimidation 6 (+8)
Perception 7 (+11)
Persuasion 1 (+3)
Stealth 6 (+12)
Technology 5 (+8)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Benefit (Ambidexterity), Equipment 3 (Katana & Wakizashi, Shuriken), Evasion, Improved Critical (Sword) 2, Improved Defenses, Improved Initiative, Power Attack, Precise Attack (Close/Concealment), Ranged Attack 4, Uncanny Dodge
Powers:
"Cyber-Agility"
Leaping 2 (30 feet) [2]
Movement 2 (Wall-Crawling) [4]
"Dragonblade" Enhanced Strength 2 (Flaws: Unreliable- 5/day) [2]
Deflect 12 (Extras: Reflect) Linked to Enhanced Parry 4 (28) -- [29]
- AE: "Swift Strike" Strength-Damage +0 (Extras: Area- 30ft. Shapeable +8) (Flaws: Limited to Distance Travelled, Source- Sword) Linked to Speed 2 (8 mph) (4)
"Shurikens" Blast 4 (Extras: Multiattack) (12)
"Katana & Wakizashi" Strength-Damage +3 (Feats: Improved Crictical, Split) (Extras: Penetrating 4) (9)
Offense:
Unarmed +12 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Katana +12 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Dragonblade +12 (+5 Damage, DC 20)
Dragonblade w/ Katana +12 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Swift Strike +6 Area (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Swift Strike w/ Dragonblade +8 Area (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Shuriken +12 (+4 Ranged Damage, DC 19)
Initiative +14
Defenses:
Dodge +15 (DC 25), Parry +14 (DC 24), Toughness +4, Fortitude +6, Will +8
Complications:
Power Loss (Ammo)- All ammunition has the potential to run out, and must be recharged.
Responsibility (His Sword)- Like all "Sword Guys", Genji is honor-bound to be totally in lust with his own weapon, which has a friggin' name (Ryuichi moji), and he refuses to let anyone else examine or repair it. I bet he goes on about how sharp his sword is.
Responsibility (Once A Man)- Genji, like a lot of cyborgs, gets all "oh woe is me and my lack of humanity" about it, but has finally made peace with his cyborg nature.
Power Loss (Deflect)- The "Deflect" power has no effect against Winston's Tesla Cannon, Lúcio's Sound Wave, Symmetra's Photon Projector, Zarya's Particle Cannon, and Mei's Endothermic Blaster.
Relationship (Hanzo)- The two brothers split apart many years ago, with Hanzo believing that he'd killed Genji. Genji has spent years dwelling on this, and has finally forgiven his brother.
Total: Abilities: 84 / Skills: 52--26 / Advantages: 17 / Powers: 37 / Defenses: 17 (181)
-Easily the most "Generic Video Game Character"-y character in Overwatch is Genji, who is a Cyborg Ninja because of course he is. Seriously, this is just Grey Fox from Metal Gear Solid with the serial numbers filed off. Or, well, any number of guys out there exactly like this. He's even a badly-injured good-guy. And wields a katana, because of course he does. Because THAT'S THE SHARPEST SWORD EVER, YOU GUYS, never mind that it's historically the weapon of the SAMURAI, not the ninja.
-Genji and Hanzo are brothers, and were raised in a ninja clan- Genji, however, rejected the family's criminal business and engaged in a wealthy playboy lifestyle. An enraged Hanzo clashed with his brother, eventually leaving him badly beaten and near-death. Rescued by Overwatch and Dr. Angela "Mercy" Ziegler, he was turned into a cyborg, replacing almost his entire body and turning him into a living weapon. As a member of Blackwatch, he aided the team in wiping out his former clan. He finally left Blackwatch when the mission was complete, finding inner peace with the help of the omnic monk Zenyatta. Accepting that he was in a cyborg body, but his soul was intact, he began to see his new form as a gift.
-Eventually, the two brothers found each other- Genji tracked Hanzo as he prayed for his "dead" brother, they clashed, and Genji announced that he had forgiven Hanzo his trespasses, and that now Hanzo had to forgive himself. Genji now fights as a hero once more.
-Genji and Hanzo were apparently the same character in the early game- having both bow and sword, using parkour, and packing an "Assassinate" ability- early in development, however, they were split apart and made brothers.
-Genji is a fast-moving, athletic damage-based character, doing lots of melee damage, and being merely okay at range (with his Shuriken). His specialty is running up behind enemy lines and "flanking" everybody with his moves, then escaping- his mobility is second to none except maybe Tracer and Pharah's. A Special Move allows him to do Area Damage (more or less the old "Takedown Attack", before they nerfed it to be "Mooks Only"), and his "Dragonblade" Ultimate is essentially a souped-up version of that, which I put in as an Unreliable Damage Boost. Genji is thus a PL 9-ish Ninja Fighter Guy, upgraded with Dragonblade to PL 10.
Comic Book-izing Genji: Yeah, right. He'd probably have no changes, aside from his "Swift Strike" being more of Takedown/"he's a good fighter" thing with flavor text rather than an Area Attack. Probably more Cyborg Powers, and a lot higher base Strength- he'd probably be PL 10 full-out, without the "Dragonblade" temporary upgrade boosting him that far.