First. Why is blizzard placing more and more things behind pay walls. It’s not even like the skins are awesome. I hate Mercy’s pink skin, but I bought it to participate in the battle against cancer. But why. These 2 ugly a*s skins are being put behind the same price that has been put on a CHARITY skin. Why??? Are you really that money-thirsty? Seriously? Is the dev team replaced or something? I don’t see the game I fell in love with 1 years ago.
Second thing. Who thought this rework is a success? Please explain to me how it is a success when it needed FOURTEEN NERFS, FOURTEEN and the fun sucked out of her completely to achieve an F tier pick yet again. Since all of you anti-Mercys fight with statistics, I will beat you in your own game.
(Statistics are taken from various resources and different people. I have been calculating the average of all the stats given)
(First number is from 8th of August, prepatch; second number is today, August 14th)
Bronze:
Pick rate: 11.92% -> 11.21% (slight decrease)
Win rate: 49.24% -> 43.79% (drastic decrease)
Silver:
Pick rate: 12.26% -> 10.67% (not a small decrease)
Win rate: 47.54% -> 46.30% (slight decrease)
Gold:
Pick rate: 12.01% -> 9.77% (big decrease)
Win rate: 49.96% -> 48.08% (again, not a small decrease)
Platinum:
Pick rate: 11.15% -> 8.38% (a bigdecrease)
Win rate: 51.51% -> 49.02% (decrease…)
Diamond:
Pick rate: 11.34% -> 7.56% (drastic decrease)
Win rate: 52.83% -> 49.98% (still, even tho it hovers around 50%, that’s a decrease)
Master:
Pick rate: 12.35% -> 7.49% (DECREASE)
Win rate: 51.50% -> 47.33% (decrease)
Grandmaster:
Pick rate: 12.81% -> 6.71% (nearly cut in half, decrease)
Win rate: 54.21% -> 47.66% (~7% of decrease)
Overall:
Pick Rate: 11.67% -> 8.99% ( massive decrease)
Win Rate: 50.82% -> 48.30% (decrease)
(tell me where you see increase (I’ll tell you, nowhere))
Since y’all care about pro-play and go around saying the pros define the buffs/nerfs, why the heck has she dropped THE MOST in GM/Master. I’ll tell you why. Because Mercy now serves no purpose. The utility she provides with res is out-done by all the utility Ana provides. Mercy’s healing is easily overcame by Ana/Moira. So why would you pick Mercy? Utility? Nah, Ana has better one. Healing? Nah, Ana AND Moira (and sometimes even brigitte/lucio) have better ones. Mobility? What kind of impact on the game has YOUR OWN ability to survive if you can’t keep people alive in the meantime? I’ll tell you what. None.
This is the final nail to the coffin of Mercy. And since I know the dev team is so reckless to think she is fine, then I guess they are gonna be fine with the game’s death as it currently suffers of DMG-spikes. Something nobody likes. It’s w/e tho, you may continue doing w/e you ‘feel’ like is right, it will lead to the same end if you continue favorizing most of the dps (I’m excluding symm, torb, bastion, sombra etc) and continue discriminating the tanks/healers. It will lead to the same end if you continue blindly following what the “pro players” think because pro player are max of 5% of this games community. We even know the Game Director (or w/e his title is) is plat. So why. Why are you ruining a game that started so well by blindly following ‘the pro scene’. I don’t get you.
As I see it, unless major changes to the mentality of balancing are made, this game will die in maximum of 1 year (even more so if next events are as poor as this one)
Not really. Noone is using Mercy rn as there are far better supports. If her win rate goes up its gonna be of previous statistics, not of ones made after this butching-nerf.
Also how nice of you to not even read the entire post and comment 20 sec after its posted. Hmm, shows your bias towards statistics. For some reason these aren’t outdated and aren’t in your favor? Do you want me to change em up a lil’?
Well she is worse with this nerf so both decrease and most likely the win rate will decrease more than the pickrate because some Mercy mains somehow still have hope, they should be respected for that.
Ana and Moira are quickly catching up to her. Also can you tell me which of these Pokemon heroes has the lowest on fire rate and the second lowest winrate (being only 0.07% better than the first one.)
Hmm… Yes I’m going to have to agree with Ivan on this one. Also… Do describe your logic behind “low pickrates = high winrates”. I wouldn’t personally say that one directly affects the other. There’s certainly more factors to winrate other than picks.
While we’re on the topic. I feel like I should once again remind you, since you seem to always forget this, so I shall reference two of the Hard to swallow pills for Mercy.
Not really unless the game is Mercy vs Non Mercy Team, because if it a Mercy vs Mercy then it will end up 1 win 1 loss.
If Mercy has Less Picks but more Wins, then that means she superior to the other supports, if she is high picks low win, then that means the other supports are superior to Mercy on her own.
If she getting less picks but her win rates stays relatively the same, then that means Mercy is somewhat balance.
@NeonLight We should also keep tabs on the Overall Pick rates across all tiers as Blizzard takes that into account.
2nd place with 11.32% Pick Rate with 50.40% Win Rate in the last 4 weeks (Somewhat inline with what Blizzards should be seeing)
Not. How is going to the skybox and delaying ur teammates’ death because ur heal is utterly useless engaging? Or are you referencing to pistoling in valk? In the second case ye, its more engaging.
