As time has gone on, I've come to hate Mercy more and more

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That’s what I mean. She’s not strong.
All she does well is heal.
When she gets cornered, she doesn’t try and hurt them.
She looks for a friendly to get her unstuck, (and protect her)

Zen can fight back
Brig can fight back
Lucio can run or fight back
Bap/Kiri can run or fight back

Mercy works like she does because she can run and heal. Seems right in my mind. I delete people so much better on any other support.

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Oh they try, but they forget the rpm of tracer pistols.

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Funny how people hate Mercy for what is ultimately consequences of their previous complaints.

You didn’t want Mercy to resurrect everyone? Then Mercy will abuse busted or semi-busted DPS to produce necessary value. With her design being focused on one task at a time, pocketing seems like obvious solution - you need to produce with 1 ability, what other supports produce with multiple, as you are unable to stack them in place and time, and with your ability not even being strong enough to be effective on anyone, besides certain heroes.

Here is fun idea then - Mercy gets symbiote costume, and any teammate she pockets becomes half-covered in that black stuff.

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Mercy is lame, known it for years. She was lame in ow1, and she’s even worse in ow2. A rework is the only way, but it won’t happen because mercy mains would cry.

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I hate ana, let’s nerf it to ground

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This.

They really need to remove DMG boost and give her an ability to shift the things in a meaningful way without depending on targeted allies actions.

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I want a Mercy who can express skills… They should rework her to a battle mage.

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It was one of the downside of 5v5. One less tank making pocketing more impactful. Mercy does fill a support role where other supports can’t and damage boost is so impactful. It’s similar with Zen and their playstyles being impossible to counter. However, both are needed to keep certain tanks/dps in check. Without them, playing certain dps/tanks will be impossible. So not sure where a middle ground needs to be met or a rework is needed.

I will say this: OW2 Mercy is a lot easier to play than OW1 Mercy. 6v6 made Mercy’s movement more impactful and techs useful - especially for tech rezs. Now you can just press right click and hide for the most part.

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YES YES YES YES, YOU ARE CORRECT

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You express skill by avoiding to express skill.

As someone, who prefers to play stealth whenever available, evading enemies is already skill expression. Especially as very not stealthy hero.

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eh i feel like your overreacting about that. the only true fan base that is common for that is BTS stan’s

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it’s moreso the fact that lifeweever is still pretty bad and alec doesn’t know how to change him. all that’s required is;

  • his reload swap time to reduce from 2.5s to 1.5
  • his platform to lower if no one is on it
  • remove the speed penalty on his primary entirely
  • give his dash 2 charges
  • and reduce his general hitbox by 10%.

it’s genuinely the small things that count, and to make him feel SO much smoother. that’s why mercy is so popular, she feels so smooth and amazing, well she USED to. they simplified the hell out of her GA and made GA low key so boring to use and clunky because it’s so overpowered.

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that is completely wrong btw!!! i proved you wrong before lol

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i have been banned on the forums before for displaying the dislike for mercy

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the only time that would happen is if you have an insult in your post. i have seen WAAYYY too many posts either being like

“mercy is such a stupid design character, her and her mains are boosted and their all mental” which is against the ToS. i also see posts like

“mercy is designed really badly, and i believe she’s unhealthy for the game. she is just so frustrating to face and the fact that her boosted one tricks are crazy” which is again, against the ToS. if you insult the players, or have a curse word in your post, then it’s against the ToS and at risk of being flagged and removed. i literally have a thread up right now in DEPTH of my opinion on the heroes state, and it wasn’t flagged once.

Mercy needs some serious changing

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IF!!

they ever rework mercy to be more offensive oriented i wish they just made her into furia from paladins heh

still shes been the same way for years so just dont change it. i dont know the stats but they probably would have to nerf her mobility somehow again if her deaths are too low. probably are not tho… only blizz knows.

also in the top 500 ladders all supports seem to good representation except for ana who is everywhere hehe

( i actually should install paladins again just to play furia again…so hot )

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that would actually be a pretty cool skin idea

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They can, but they are scared of losing her one tricks.

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when did genji get into this, the difference is one is the hardest dps to play in the game and deserves recognition of good plays, while the other is basically playing as a spectator

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You express skill by avoiding to express skill.

Express skill by not playing the game and just watching it unfold around you?

This is your brain on mercy kids, stay safe out there

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