KJ is seeing a 70%+ pick rate in challengers and with her two worst maps leaving the pool that will likely go even higher. Thoughts?
KJ kit is easy af to play, but Chamber's kit was relatively easy and overpowered. His ultimate is arguably the easiest gun in the game to use with one shot kill and firerate. Also headhunter is buffed Sheriff with a sight aka not that hard to use unless you are really low rank. And when it comes to rest Chambers could just set up in angles and off angles with OP or rifle and just get a kill and tp away unless enemies used bunch of util or they decided to be cocky and whiffed. Risk free. So even though Killjoy's kit is easy she still plays like rifler/lurker/anchor instead of just holding angle with op.
I’m kinda shocked KJ is seeing so much play. Her lack of “global” presence compared to Cypher would suggest to me that she wouldn’t be favored on “big” maps like Pearl, Haven, and Lotus. Cypher also used to be decently popular on Split.
I guess her anchoring is more valuable to teams since she can sort of be left on an island a bit easier than cypher.