People pointing out Mercy has a couple of okay stats.
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Lmao love that gif!!
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An interesting sidenote: I just started perusing the forums a couple days ago, and was intrigued to discover that other mercy mains have also been feeling like their primary use is pocketing. Iād been feeling pressured into it more and more recently, and itāsā¦ relieving? to see other people experiencing the same. well, relieving and depressing at the same time really
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Itās just the optimal way to play her now, sadly. If you donāt have a Pharah/Ashe on your team to pocket thereās usually not a good reason to play Mercy over any other support.
If I play her and am not constantly pocketing my DPS I get yelled at by my team in comp. Itās frankly boring to stare at the back of a DPSās character model while you right click them all game. I really, really miss being able to play her as a main support dashing around wildly all match having fun with mobility.
Now I feel chained to a DPS all game, literally.
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Winrate is not a good statistic to measure balance at all rofl. Itās so easily skewed.
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She still has a pretty good pickrate/winrate so she must have something other supports donāt. She can damage boost which is pretty big for her now that Ashe is much better. Sheās also far more mobile than any other support. I donāt see a reason she needs to be buffed since sheās balanced rn.
I still want fundamental changes to how Valkryie works.
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I call it MDS (Moth Derangment Syndrome) aka Blonde Lady Bad. Its still very much alive and well, and imo made the devs scared to do or say anything in light of mercy
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I would start with 55 firstā¦ Lets slowly increase it and see how it goes. Thatās better then going to 60 then realizing that to much and having to drop it back down.
Iād be fine with this but Blizzardās version āslowlyā increase would probably involve a whole two years of ramping up her heals. 
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Sheās skewed by Echo, Ashe, Pharah, and Widow. Thatās literally it. Itās like saying Bastion is good because he has decent stats in an Orisa meta.
She should be more than a battery pack for four heroes
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Nah, just put it back to 60 and if thatās too much then put it to 55. Itād be much harder to convince people that 55 is still not enough than to convince people that 60 is too much. Itās already hard enough to convince people Mercy needs any kind of buff at all.
So try 60. Leave it for a few weeks. If she suddenly becomes OP (which she wonāt), then nerf it to 55.
If it goes to 55 itās never getting buffed again because people will say āWell you got a buff just shut up and be happy sheās fine nowā even if it doesnāt help her viability.
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If she became OP you nerf damage boost or Valkyrieās duration imo
Idk if she became OP because of 60 HPS Iād rather they nerf it to 55 and see if that makes her in the perfect spot. But I feel like sheād still be too weak with 55 so idk
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You mean the meta comp actually fits her and sheās being played because of it? And thatās somehow skewed her pickrate, how?
A hero who can fit in every single meta is busted which was the case with mercy being able to heal deathball comps better than burst healers. But a hero whoās being played in the respective team comps they synergies with is skewed. Iāve seen it all.
The one thing thatās kept her relevant throughout every meta being able to pull out a pharmercy or sniper comp, in favor of being a heal bot in a game where everything dies through all the healing this game has to offer. Thatās a quick way to make sure sheās never played again.
She would be still to weak at 55. She needs to be able to keep up tanks so she can synergize with offhealers instead of competiting for them. Valkyrie is one of the longest ults in the game and damage boost was actually a big part of why she was meta before. I know several pros at the time wanted it nerfed and didnāt complain about her healing. So either of those seem like good spots to shave off.
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No. I donāt mean that. I mean that sheās not able to do anything unless with 4 specific heroes not unlike Bastion. Sheād be the same regardless of who was meta. And it boosts her because it does not speak to her general viability.
No different than Genji being boosted by Ana.
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Not even the fact that her viability hinges on 3 specific DPS heroes but also the fact that sheās no longer viable as a main healer at all and needs to be played as a pocket bot off healer with one DPS all game is the root of the issue
Anyone who thinks itās healthy that Mercy is only good pocketing a Pharah or Ashe is insane
Also love how the person arguing with you rn is an Ana-defender even tho Ana has a 17% pickrate this week Oop letās not act like Ana isnāt pretty much viable in 90% of team comps rn but yeah Mercy canāt get buffed xd
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So, you really do mean exactly that then? Her being played in team comps that compliment her is somehow a fault to you, because sheās not āgenerally viableā at all times. Absolutely no hero should be viable all the time.
She is not viable in any comp, she is viable only as Pharmercy, Mecho and Mashe. These are not comps, these are her dps synergies but she as a healer does not posses a comp she excels in on her own. A comp is dive or death ball or double barrier or bunker or something.
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