But healers can’t carry! Maybe Rehgar, but you can’t do anything if you’re Morales!
-said by people who suck at healing.
She’s one of my higher win rate heroes too. She is a bit weaker in this meta, but definitely still capable in the right hands.
From watching people play her, people make these common mistakes:
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Healing to full and keeping beam on. Although you only use up energy from actual healing, starting and stopping your beam as you take in damage causes you to have to keep restarting your energy regen cycle. Healing to 90% (sometimes even less if you know there is no imminent danger) is perfectly fine. Natural health regen and health globes will get you most of the way. Once you know someone is not going to die, move to the next target, and if no one is dying, stop healing until you can regenerate more energy.
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Playing way too conservatively. Believe it or not, if one person is attacking you on Morales, that’s actually ideal because of the way your trait works. Between that, her level 4 talents, W and E, she’s actually almost impossible to kill from just one person. People end up playing way too safe because they’re so afraid to take any damage, and end up unable to heal people that need it because they’re out of range. It’s only when the whole enemy team collapses on you when it becomes a problem, and that can only be done with a few specific comps. Medivac also rules as a shield/reposition.
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Bad CD usage. For some reason people just love using shield after the enemy can no longer do damage to a hero that has retreated. Just because something is at low health doesn’t mean they need a shield, use shield to mitigate where the most incoming damage is going towards. So if someone gets flipped by a Garrosh, use it right as they land not after they’ve taken 60% damage from the team. The same is with grenades, some people just spam them (which is more forgivable if you’re going grenade build), and end up not using it to give your allies space to breathe when they need it. Grenade really works wonders against melee heavy teams. At the same time, if you’re spamming W and E together, you’re wasting the potential of W’s mitigation. Using your grenade to give yourself a few extra seconds of regen rather than just Qing with low energy can go a long way to boosting your longevity.
Then there’s the basic triage which a lot of people suck at regardless of which healer. This is especially heightened with Morales because she doesn’t have AOE healing, so choosing who to heal, when is extremely important.