A lot of Mercy mains are pointing out how Ana has a higher winrate (and increased pick rate) over Mercy in Diamond and above as if it’s a problem. This is what it should’ve been like from the beginning. A high skill hero should be stronger than a low skill hero if played to their potential in higher ranks.
I almost quit this game because of how OP Mercy was. Being told to switch to Mercy and being flamed for playing Ana over her for so many seasons. Ana deserves to be the queen of support and her reclamation to the throne is only natural because she’s the most skilled support hero to play.
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I don’t think that’s its really us pointing out the ana has a higher winrate than Mercy, I’m pretty sure it’s got nothing to do with ana and more just mercy alone. Nerfcyt is supposed to be an easy reliable healer, but right now she has a below 50 winrate
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She doesn’t deserve to be above. She deserves to be effective and different enough to be more effective in some situations and less effective in others. AKA, balanced.
Which, so far, I feel she is. Yay.
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That might just be because she’s good in dive and not many other comps.
It could also be because goats doesn’t have anything to do with mercy, and goats is generally very hard to counter, so she could be on the receiving end of that.
Relative Hero Strength should be about team composition and strategy, not some bullcrap about “Skillz.”.
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Honestly, I think Ana should be more impactful since she is a harder hero to master, but both should be on a somewhat even level…
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A lot of people flexed to Mercy so the less skilled ones will obviously lower her win rate now that she isn’t OP. Just let it stabilise.
Mercy still has resurrect. Mercy still is the only main healer who can heal through barriers. Mercy still has the best mobility amongst all supports on a 2CD. Mercy still has the best pocketing potential out of all supports.
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No. That shouldn’t be the case. Mercy should work better with some, and Ana with others.
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Why even have Mercy if she’s going to be worthless in higher ranks? In fact, why have any low skill hero if they’re going to be useless at high ranks? Why not just have a few high skill heroes?
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Mercy has her difficult parts of her kit and they’re different from Ana’s. While I can accept Ana, (I also enjoy playing her) it should be recognized that Mercy can only heal/boost OR DPS. Her healing nerf impacts the whole of the character because it’s pretty much the only thing she does. It might be time to change that.
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Her boost is her regular form of DPS - while it’s not dealt difrectly, it’s still damage she contributes, in a fashion similar to other main healers.
She has her uses? In a high mobility team Mercy is the best choice over Moira and Ana. The meta is shifting. Ana used to be a niche pick for over a year, now it’s Mercy’s turn even though she’s still very versatile.
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That’s the type of thinking that’ll get us in a triple tank/quad tank meta that nobody likes 
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Then they might need to buff that, as again, her heals are quickly going seen to be really…realy bad. It’s less of a “ana’s fixed now!” to “mercy is bad now”.
That’s not necessarily true, though. Now that we have 3 main healers and 3 off healers, Mercy’s still the only one who doesn’t contribute much of anything outside of her heals/damage boost and rez. and the boost- while it can be nice- can also be a little lackluster. it is a thought, because at this point im going to go off the cuff and declare myself an ex-mercy main.
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Look, Im tired, I have a sinus infection rn. But something must be said: Different healers should be able to be strong in different scenarios(flexing! such insane concept) It is the case of Ana and Moira, not as much for Mercy, as it seems.
Also these kinds of threads are the reason people think Ana mains are entitled a-holes(most of those I know are far from this).
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I disagree. Just because a hero takes “more skill” than another shouldn’t mean that they win over “lower skill” heroes every time. Ana and Mercy have different strengths and the hero that wins should be the one who’s playing to their strengths correctly with their team and against the enemy. They’re really not directly comparable because their jobs are completely different. They only share that they can heal people. That’s the whole point of this game. Execution is only a small part of success.
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Well, first, that’s already a lot, and more than Moira contributes.
She also has the best mobility, ability to heal through shields (which is heavily underrated), and arguably the best survivability (tied with Moira).
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Why pointlessly bloat the roster with low skill, pleb heroes? Here’s what the roster SHOULD be like.
https://i.imgur.com/KrS4IBW.png
11 HIGH SKILL heroes instead of low-skill heroes that don’t deserve to be played in high ranks. Your ideal world, right? Those should be the only heroes that you’re allowed to pick in high ranks.
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Symmetra would like to have a talk with you
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