I would like to explain it fast, but it’s quite hard because the problem is huge. Anyway, I’ll try to be the briefest possible.
First of all, Mercy was supposed to be a strong single target mobile consistent main support focused on (Jeff’s words) healing and mobility. That was her core. She took skill for healing her team and could be played all the time moving and never hiding, and that was great. Now, let’s take a look to what we have now.
Valk: Long ago removed because it wasn’t good for Mercy (alpha days). Now back. Okay, that ult removes all prioritization and makes survivality so easy that it takes away all her weaknesses. Before, being single target was one of her weaknesses, now that doesn’t exist. Also, you can go out of enemy’s range or even hide and keep holding a button, so it’s not engaging at all. Also, it’s redundant with her kit, just doing the same thing without any sort of burst nor nothing really relevant, just extending everything and making it easier. Finally, it messes with plenty of characters, like Orisa’s ult, Lucio’s amp it up,… It’s not original at all, even its description is lackluster, and its voice line doesn’t fit with it neither.
E rez: Well, this is the worst point by far. A powerful ult turned into an E ability. Despite all its changes, it’s still busted, at a point where everyone considers Mercy’s most impactful ability her E, not her ult. Rez is Mercy’s ult nowadays, and it’s given. However, it’s immobile, whereas she was supposed to be mobile. It wasn’t supposed to be her focus, but it’s so powerful that all her kit has needed to be nerfed to the ground as compensation. Still, it’s Mercy’s best utility, but now, she must hide and rez or die as a consequence. It’s simply an unbalanceable design that is conditioning her whole kit to be weak in comparison, and that’s not good.
Current healing: simply underwhelming, it discourages people from healing and make boosting her main focus, and rezzing the best way to heal certain characters, something she was never supposed to do.
Okay, playing against her is fine because she is miserable and underwhelming, so the Mercy haters love her nowadays, since she has been “nerfed to irrelevance” (xQc).
Her current pickrates show that she is not played almost, so she is not only bad but unfun.
Nope, I’m talking about so many polls, one of them even posted on reddit, the Mercy haters nest. It had the same results. People didn’t like valk, and too many preferred some kind of rework or new iteration of mass rez. Please, stop making assumptions, because you are failing all the time.
You really want me to search through the entire forums something that got buried between complaints about Mercy? Okay, here you are one of them. There were a lot, but this one was the latest, so it was the easiest to track.
Watch Stylosa and YourOverwatch’s videos, for example. The first one is saying that Mercy is too weak and hard to balance, while the second is repeatedly calling for a straigh revert back to mass rez.
Not exactly, you are conveniently missing a portion of their claims. Watch above.
Check overbuff.
Current Mercy’s pickrate: 4,81%. Less than a half of Ana’s pickrate. Also, if we check only supports, she still has less than a half of Ana’s pickrate and close to a half of Moira’s pickrate. That shows that she is simply out of meta. Why? Because you won’t pick such a weak support like Mercy (who is not a main support anymore), you will choose between Moira (mostly low ranks) and Ana (high and not that high ranks), the two real main supports. Also, Mercy is the support with the largest playerbase, so if she has bad pickrates that’s saying a lot about how her players are finding her.
Please, inform yourself a bit, I’ve given you plenty of sources. He talked just a few days ago. Yes, I know what speech are you talking about, that “play her selfish” one. She shouldn’t be played like that tbh, that doesn’t fit with her character, but that’s how she has been designed. If you don’t hide, you die.
Well, in other words: No, she isn’t balanced and she isn’t in a right or healthy spot at all. She is underwhelming, bad design and she needs huge changes to fix that unfixable toxic design. Being forced to hide and rez is unhealthy. Having ult fest as an uncounterable way to win all the games is unhealthy. Having her focused on things that she shouldn’t be focused on is unhealthy. Encouraging her to let people to die in order to rez them (but single, so you can rez one each 30 sec) as long as they died next to a corner is unhealthy. I’m sorry, but saying that she is in a fine spot is just laughable.