A Mercy's Review Of DPS Main Playing Mercy

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Just because I thought that this could be beneficial for some to see, but it’s also buried deep in another topic. Your favorite(besides Paws, Velune, Aurora, etc) local Mercy main has done a review of Doom main Samito’s Unranked to Mercy gameplay. I’ve been a GM/T500 Mercy for 6-7 years.

His footage: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54hH--Va8vs”

Tuning into the match that starts around 6:55:00 in, so only 1 hour left, meaning this should be around his “peak” Mercy gameplay.

Match starts. He’s not damage boosting anyone on his team, even with his Rein being in position to fire strike the enemy team right out of the spawn. His positioning is horrible from the start and his target priority is non-existent, since he’s not boosting or healing anyone.

6:56:13 healing the full hp rein instead of damage boosting fire strike. Followed by healing full hp 76, then back to healing full hp Rein. Then healing full hp Mei.

6:56:20 both Mei and Rein are critical hp. Samito breaks LOS and stops healing both. His positioning here isn’t good, and he should probably drop down to the right, being between the 2 buildings but hugging the left side, since the enemy Widow is on the top of the building left of spawn.

Noticing that Samito doesn’t utilize Mercy’s kit to look around more and see what his entire team is doing, so he would know where best he could help. 6:56:26 he finally looks behind him to notice his Kriko and 76 in critical hp. He has no idea what happened.

6:56:29 he bravely follows his full hp Rein, healing him all the way as he throws his fire strike. No attempt made to damage boost fire strike, helix rocket, etc. he goes full 0 IQ healbot. A little slow to res.

6:56:51 he finally notices the 2 enemy flankers. Mercy should have been looking around for them, since her team has to look at the targets they’re fighting.

At this point he has 87% healing beam usage, and considering the context, that’s horrible. He’s blaming his team.

His Valk was super risky and he is lucky that he didn’t die right away. His pistol usage was very bad. He followed his Rein properly. Still afraid to try to damage boost fire strike for some reason. He followed his Junkrat well.

6:58:48 he does do a tight 45 degree turn to spot his team, however he should have helped his Rein faster, especially after seeing that his team was fine and throwing his full hp 76 a little bit of extra healing.

I swear if he ends this game without attempting to damage boost a single fire strike I’m going to lose my mind.

6:58:53 either his positioning or target priority or both here are suboptimal. He should be damage boosting either 76(especially helix) or Junk, depending on what the enemy’s front line was looking like at that moment, but Samito has no idea what the front line looks like now due to this position. Imo he should have been with 76 near the cars, watching for flankers from the right side to call out. His healing priority during the Sig ult was fine. It was a unwinnable situation. He should have been damage boosting his Kiriko or shooting the tracer himself. Could have likely jumped into the high ground window safely, giving Kiriko an ez escape too. They survived, but not due to his great Mercy play. This valk went the way the first one should have.

6:59:21 the amount of rage he displayed is not proportional to the value he has added to his team. He should have sat there like “yea, I’m playing like poop and deserved that.”

6:59:44, 3:41 into the match. He has 80% healing beam usage. Terrible.

He does some pretty solid Mercy stuff after. Decent jumps, pistol usage, target priority, etc.

7:00:56 hes getting shot in the back by a flanking Tracer, but not communicating this to his team in any way, even though they’re in a position to fall back and help.

7:01:26 his 3rd and only good Valk so far. He could have looked around more to have a better assessment of the battlefield and possibly save Kiriko.

7:01:32 he calls for his 76 to ult. Imo he should have already had his beam on 76 at that moment. That second that he missed could have been the difference between his 76 getting 0 value and getting a multi kill. Every second matters. The res was bad.

Raging at his team again.

7:02:15 where is Samito going? Just going to wander alone, away from his team like a good Mercy? His horrible positioning got himself killed, even with Kiri saving him.

7:02:40 Samito slapping himself in the head, which is about how I feel watching his gameplay. Blaming his team for his bad positioning again. Samito is a cool guy. Tells his chat how to climb by pressing Q, but chat needs to remind him that positioning is important.

He air quotes “GM players” about his teammates, which is hilarious since if he really did reach GM as Mercy, he absolutely does not have the skill of a GM Mercy. Not from what I’ve seen.

7:03:25 very risky res. I mean activating it at 60hp is just rolling the dice. It worked out though. He was able to pump lots of heals into his full health teammates. 0 damage boost during valk. He wasted the last bit of valk by not killing Kiri.

He finished the round decently. He may not know how to superjump, but I’m not going to rewatch just for that.

Samito is a basura person and even worse Mercy. This is plat Mercy gameplay at best.

He didn’t try to damage boost a single fire strike IIRC.

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Yet he still did good enough to make it to T500.

Edit: GM. I’d read from a few he’d made it to t500, but it seems not- either way, still impressive and nothing to scoff at.

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Are you telling me that a player playing like a plat still get carried into top 500 by choosing Mercy?

Impossible!

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  1. GM5 is not top500, lol.

(It’s also not very impressive in OW2, it’s like mid-low masters in OW1)

  1. Unfortunately pretty much anyone can get to GM on any hero just by spamming enough games in OW2. The rank system is so bad and rank inflation is a real issue. Luckily the Devs are adding a whole new rank above GM to help remedy this issue

That being said, if a Top500 player couldn’t get to GM5 with the OW2 ranked system on a hero after 25 hours in comp that season and 130 games, I would be concerned

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Last I’d read from someone on the forums he made it there- but I may have misread or they may have been mistaken and I admit o didn’t verify it. If not I stand corrected. Either way GM is still impressive, and better than the overwhelming majority of players using the hero. Many players never make it there and there’s much more than “just keep playing the hero” to do so.

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People misundersrabd that being a big strimmer whose shotcalls people listen to in solo queue is an unfair advantage

There is 0 chance you will get listened to as a casual especially if you are a female mercy main

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Can he do the same without using the name Samito and shotcalling over VC (because we dont get recognized a s streamers and listened to for free)

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So Samito plays a bad Mercy and still got to GM?

This looks worse for the hero.

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This is new. So real Mercy players are still better, because they have less credential and street creeds?

From my POV, unrank to top 500 with Mercy series really destroyed the myths of Mercy has ‘superior game sense’ to compensate for no aim. It s a Mercy’s player 's worst nightmare.

Now some has to find a way to rebuild the myth. I saw people invented a lot of reasons: dont watch that streamer, he s a bad person. Mercy is meta, of course they will reach top 500. Rank is a mess, it s easy to climb, and now there s this ‘people of course will listen to streamer"s shot call’ :joy:

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yep i said it in another thread

its all mercy’s trying to cling on to their ego.

we have been told for year’s that mercy wasnt as easy as everyone said but a bunch of random streamers go on and pick up mercy and hit gm with her and all of a sudden its “oh well they arnt playing the hero well” or “the meta is boosting them” or “its because they shotcalled”

the fact is mercy is the easiest hero in the game, it takes no time at all to learn the hero. all you need to climb is the minimum game sense required for that rank and your good. and the min game sense is the same for all heroes in all roles so its not hard for someone to do it, its just slow.

thats why most content creators dont do it, its not fun to play mercy.

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Cant say i blame them at all. Forum is the last bastion.

In-game everyone knows a Mercy player of the same rank usually don’t have the same skills as everyone else at said rank, and Mercy cant hide behind “arguements” to prove otherwise.

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they should just accept reality and move on.

when you zoom out, weather or not a hero is difficult is so unimportant.

ive been a hitscan main (widow/cass 2 trick for a bit), peaking at 3800 in ow1 and m2~ in ow2 and i constantly see people bad mouthing hitscans

and my response isnt “NO THEY ARE DIFFICULT!”, its usually me agreeing and moving on because its true.

hitscans are the easiest dps to climb with so why would i deny that?

mercy mains shouldnt deny shes easy but for ego-reasons they cant help it and that results in them being made fun of constantly.

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And a plat mercy made it top top 500.

So in the end it just means it doesnt matter how good you are with this hero.

Just play her, have common knowledge about the game and voila

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Haha true, most would have no problem acknowledging other heroes are just harder to play than their favorite heroes.

The devs dont just have a magic formula to ensure every hero is equally hard to master.

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on top of this, its very easy to generalize groups of players.

hitscan mains generally are very aim focused so they hyper focus on weather or not a hero requires good aim and because of this they hate anything that can easily counter their mechanic’s.

mercy mains generally are the first to insult someone in a match, they are the only main’s ive ever met that actually care what playstyle you use for the hero, they are the only ones that really dont seem to grasp how the game is played, they live in their own little bubble. they also hate being generalized, which is funny because it proves how easily they can be generalized.

you can do this with almost any hero main or group if you really wanted.

projectile dps hate hitscan players and usually loathe widow mains.

genji players look down on anyone playing a beam hero, and get way to upset if they arnt given nano.

junkrat players rarely are willing to admit that the most difficult part about junkrat is getting from point a to point b, the act of actually killing someone isnt that difficult because the hitbox on his weapon is massive. the higher elo junkrats also tend to love to meme in game, they’ll do some of the weirdest stuff you have ever seen.

high elo pharah players think too highly of themselves because they exist in a world of hitscan mains. when really its not that hard for a pharah to battle even 4 hitscans at once because of the drop off nerfs and the fact supports will usually swap to mercy to pocket a pharah otp.

and so on.

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You forgot Tank mains. Tank mains hate everyone, especially grandma.

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i didnt forget, the post would of just been 5 pages long if i listed off all the generalizations lol

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Instead we get people like you that make claims and never back them up. You’re all talk no substance. 100% troll.

This is accurate for you based on your posts.

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Yup Samito is trash. Not the guy who over analyzed his game every 3s. Like seriously how much do you need to hate someone to make a thread like this.

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Yes, he is trash. He makes mistakes and rages at his teammates frequently because of his own mistakes. Sorry for pointing that out, I guess that makes me bad now. Never highlight something bad someone else did, right?

Over analyzed? I watched 10 mins of a 8 hour vid, but go ahead and make more dumb posts. I did this because people said Skiesti’s review was too early in Samithrows 8 hour grind, so I reviewed his peak gameplay towards the end.

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