I really want to get into playing Mercy as I am mostly a DPS main.
If any diamond and higher Mercy players would pass a few important tips on how to play her would be a great help and very much appreciated! 
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You’re worth more to your team alive than most other dead teammates.
Don’t risk your life to Rez someone unless you’re enabling an Ult Combo.
There's a second opinion for you.
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Probably sounds silly but you can hold both mouse buttons and just release to use your other beam (quicker response time)
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Check out vids by Animetic. They do a great job at tips.
My tips would be:
- Learn DMG boost prioritization based on teammate cooldowns
- Know off angles to pull off rezzes and keep yourself safe.
- Practice her mobility. Mercy is constant healing so if you are constantly alive zipping around, you’re golden. Bunny hop, Superjump and backwards GA are your friends.
- Use pistol sparingly. You get more value out of DMG boosting or healing someone usually but if you see someone low running away, don’t be afraid to whip our your gun.
- When activating ult, don’t always fly immediately up in the air. Easy to get shot down
Good luck
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Learning to superjump is essential for playing mercy. But you need to know when and when not ro use it
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- Focus on boosting and heal after.
- Don’t die for a rez
- Learn superjunp rezzing since it can give u better rez angles
- Use Valk to start a push or to delay the enemies’ push
- Don’t be afraid of using Valk for your own survival sometimes
- Valk can make certain unsafe rezzes very safe because of more speed and free flight
- Cancel your GA after every superjump to make the cooldown start immediately
- Keep your eyes peeled for low health or immobile targets in Valk (Zen, McFlank, etc.)
- Keep an eye on your second healer they could always use your help
- Give call outs if you join VC since you can scout around more than anyone else
- Always keep a safe distance from your teammates to avoid getting caught off guard
- Use the small time window before beam breakage to heal/boost behind walls
- Be patient (in general be very patient)
That’s all I can think of rn, hope it helps a bit.
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Practice GA, especially sling shots and Superjump. Know to be rather safe than sorry regarding rezzes. Don’t try to rez someone if your team are taking heavy damage. Learn to recognize who contributes most on your team and give them special attention with your Damage boost. Oh, Valk is pretty bad with dealing with dps ults so it’s often better to save it and use for the next push unless you need to stall.
Learn about how many seconds of no LOS healing you have < this will definitely save your life. You can heal people and go behind a wall, and the beam will still be attached for a few more seconds. Use that often!
If you don’t need to heal or dmg boost, don’t. Mercy’s beam is so…obvious that it can give information to the enemy team on where you’re hiding, and it’ll be a lot easier for them to dive you.
Spin around every few seconds to make sure the teammates behind you are fully healed (like snipers or second healer).
- A dead Mercy can’t heal. Stay alive.
- Never sit still for too long. Always have your next GA target in mind/in sight.
- Don’t stand around out in the open. Get behind barriers, be they walls, corners, shields, payloads, or fat teammates. Let them take damage for you.
- Learn to listen. Listen for the pattern of your DPS reloading and firing. Boost. Listen for flankers coming to take your lunch. GA to a new spot.
- Keep track of enemy ults (see #4). Junk tires are coming for you. Genji is coming for you. Doom is coming for you. Reaper is coming for you. Everyone is coming for you.
- Tight rooms and corridors are death. Enter them with caution, and get out as soon as you can.
- You can assess your entire team’s health, just by looking at them through a wall.
- Your beam goes through walls, payloads, columns, etc, for a short bit. Use that to your advantage.
- Learn to Super-jump.
- Short-range GA-Super-Jump will get you a bounce backwards or upwards. Longer-range GA-Super-jump will get you height, or range.
- Valk is an escape, fast travel, group heal, group boost, get to normally unreachable rez (Hi Widow), stable hover, fast GA, unlimited bullet widow/phara killer, etc. Figure out everything you can do with it. It’s not one sided like most ults.
- You can’t heal stupid.
- Don’t dive in to rez everyone and everything (see #1).
- Your team, is YOUR team. Your task is to enable them as best you can. Boost when they need it, heal when you’re able, rez when it’s safe, and shoot when none of your other options is available.
There’s much more. But if you like Mercy’s play style, you’ll figure it out. You just have to be down with playing one of the lightest, least offensive based characters in OW. Her game is staying alive in the face of imminent death, and empowering your team/teammate(s) in the process.
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Don’t underestimate your 100 dps pew pew. If Rein turns his back on you, shoot him. You do more damage this way than damage boosting anyone. Shooting through your own Rein can be an amusing way to get unexpected kills, if you have nothing better to do.
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Keep track of all of your teammates at all times. Their health, position, ultimate charge etc. If you get attacked, know who to fly to. Know when to damage boost. Know who to prioritize.
When you use Guardian Angel, hold space to fly above them. It prevents the “halt” you experience when flying to someone and makes you more mobile. It also makes you land behind your teammate, covering you. Turn off the “Guardian Angel prefers beam target” or whatever, so that you can fly between teammates while still healing/boosting the same target.
Change the beam/Guardian Angel sensitivity to at least 75 to prevent you from locking onto the wrong target.
Oh I agree in most cases but it’s very case dependent
Turn on Toggle Beam, and turn off GA prefers Beam target. You can now Heal your Priority target, while using other teammates as your “Get out of Jail Free” card when the Genji, Tracer, Doomfist, Monkey… etc are trying to kill you. Other than that, just learn proper Rez usage.
Mobility is the most important part of her kit! Stay aliveđź‘Ś
Not diamond, but I feel like the biggest sin I see other healers doing is not having a mental priority of who you should heal first.
And the highest priority should 99% of the time be your fellow healer if it’s a choice between them and someone else. Let your fellow healer go and healing becomes so much worse.
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Super jumping and other mercy tech is great to have in your arsenal.
to super jump tap crouch GA quickly in that order then when you get close enough tap space to shoot yourself in the air.
also remember to hit space towards the end of the GA, as if your team mate is moving you will stop at the location they were standing prior to them moving.
Aslo if your having trouble keeping up with a target pres GA then press it again to cancel it.
this assures that you don’t get to close to the fight and allows you to still be in range of your target.
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Honestly you can watch animetics videos on YouTube or anywhere else. She writes in detail her thought process for every move she makes and it helps you imitate her
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dont ever feel pressured to keep damage boosting a dps if they are not performing as they should and dont leave the rest of your teammates to die because of that. also stay behind cover and constantly fly from person to person in a teamfight to use her mobility to its full potential.
Get a ashe main and you will be in gm by no time stand still and dmg boost her entire game and there boom
Im joking but one thing DONT SUCIDE REZ
Peaked at 3.7k on Mercy and Zen.
- The most important job you have is to stay alive. Knowing when to go for a risky play with one of your dps players and when it’s a suicide mission is important. Don’t follow teammates on suicide missions, just cut your losses and hope you can win the fight without them.
- Don’t just stand there with your healing beam on people all the time. If you play Mercy like she’s a mobile healthpack, you’re not getting anywhere near as much value as you could be. Blue beam is your best friend.
- Mercy has a few small techs that aren’t too hard to master, but you do need to learn them. Spend some time in practice range practicing super jumping and slingshotting past teammates.
- Get used to measuring whether or not a resurrection is worth it. If the fight is already over and you resurrect your Roadhog, you’re giving them enemy team at least 600 hp worth of ult charge, you’re staggering your team, and you’re being an active detriment to your teammates.
- Keeping your support partner alive is incredibly important so you need to constantly keep an eye out for them.
- When deciding which dps on your team you should be pocketing, I tend to stick to the rule of playing with the more vulnerable of the two. Pharah is at the top of the list with heroes like Widowmaker and McCree while heroes like Tracer and Mei are at the bottom of the list.
I’d highly recommend checking out YouTuber Niandra. She has a lot of helpful tips and guides on Mercy that are applicable for any rank.