The worst, least mobile, squishiest, least healing output support in the game gets a massive nerf to his damage boost with a lockout. His one strength now removed. Less of an headache for tanks which is nice but bad overall.
Meanwhile the most mobile and fastest, quite tanky, good healing output support that can also damage boost and insta swap between both, by being behind a corner holding a button is left untouched.
Fantastic balancing.
They wanted to nerf discord on tanks (even though that’s like his main strength), and instead they made him so much easier pickings for flankers. Discord drops so quickly, and then you’re locked out of using it again on that genji or tracer for 7 seconds, which will determine the fight.
It is also a brutal nerf for zen in team deathmatch / FFA modes.
What I simply don’t understand is how much they have changed how discord works more in the last 2 seasons than they have the whole of OW1.
But Mercy who can just insta swap between modes with no charge, no cooldown, no build up, nothing stays the same, while being more evasive and tankier.