I’m not playing her nowadays, so she isn’t a trol pick in my hands. Nice try. I’m only saying what statistics say.
Receantly Mercy’s pickrates have increased a bit just because of Pharah’s ridiculous buffs. Yeah, she is her best friend, so pocketing Pharah is a good way to use her. Also, she is a zero star hero since her skill floor and skill ceiling are lower than ever before. Balance Pharah and you will see how even at Gold, Mercy stops being picked, as it happened a couple of weeks before.
If Moira needs some help then she should be looked at, but that doesn’t make up the fact that current Mercy’s design is the most flawed she has ever been and almost no one like it, with even the pros saying that she is a troll pick and needs huge changes because her current design makes her impossible to be balanced.
Blizz should balance all the heroes in the game properly. Sadly, they have receantly stopped doing that and they have wrecked some of them with unnecessary reworks or even reverts back to toxic designs like valk and stationary rez. So we have now two problems: some heroes need help, and others who didn’t need help before need it a lot now.
Yeah, and even in those comps she is not picked because she only serves as a Pharah pocketing.
Oh, yes, she boosts… wow! Wait a minute… You can’t do any other thing while boosting, so you are not healing while boosting, so your utility is heavily reduced then, making even Zen better at boosting thanks to discord orb.
By hiding and rez in 99% of the cases. Yeah, it’s so fun being glued to the game and having to hide like a coward instead of engaging with the team… /s. Anyway, this is the main reason of why Mercy is not a complete trol pick by now, her utterly busted E ult.
Nice but not so great if you are overall mediocre at your job.
Mediocre healing that is not good enough for keeping anyone alive and can be outdamaged by absolutely everything.
Yeah, thanks God there is only one Ana in the game. No other support needs to aim with his healings.
Yeah, that’s good unless your healing is so weak that your teammate will die regardless of your skills.
Yeah, she exceels at pocketing Pharah/Widow and that’s it.
It’s all in the forum. There are a lot of polls made by a lot of people. If you don’t want to take anyone who shows you that the majority of people disagrees with you, then I’m sorry but that’s on you, and I can’t do anything to solve it. I suggest you some posts like Titanium’s or this one (more recent) I’m going to link:
Well, she is not played now for healing her team but for going dps and boosting, letting teammates to die in order to rez them from behind a corner. That’s a huge playstyle’s change. Oh, yeah, she is still the same thing while playing Phamercy, that’s all.
Well, let me show you some words from Blizz:
“We will NEVER add Deathmatch to Overwatch” Jeff before adding Deathmatch to Overwatch
“We have no plans to revert her” Jeff before reverting Mercy back to alpha
And now some interesting decisions by Blizz:
Dva’s role moved from fat dps to tank because they didn’t like her being that way. Reverted with a new rework, but her role is once again fat dps.
Widow’s hook being buffed for her being more mobile because Blizz didn’t like her being so easily chased. Some time after, reverted because they didn’t like that she was now hard to chase.
Valkirie being removed for good because of it being a massive bad design and replaced by mass rez. Reverted.
Stationary rez being reworked for good because Blizz didn’t like how everyone was complaining about her dying all the time and having to hide to survive her rez. Mechanic reverted.
I’m sorry, but contradictory things like this make me doubt about Blizz’s words. I prefer watching what the entire community, with youtubers, streammers and pros included are saying and build my own opinion from that.
Oh, and here you are a proof of valk’s removal for everyone’s good:
So you think you know more than them? Okay now you are 100% delusional.
Nope, mass rez was not tried out of three design, versus the 13 designs of valk + E rez we have had in just the half of the time. A lot of people want mass rez back with changes. Almost no one want valk because it’s not an ult, it’s nothing.
You are twisting their words now. They said rez will always be part of her kit, that’s true, and I agree on that with them. It won’t be removed, that’s out of the table. However, they never said which type of rez. It could be her ult or any other thing. It’s clear that E rez is holding Mercy unbalanceable because of how incredibly busted that ability is, and everyone but 2-3 are complaining about it, so I wouldn’t be so surprise if it returns to its legitime place. Why? Because I want mass rez back? Yeah, I liked it and I don’t want rez removed, but at this point, it’s just because that’s the only way to balance it.
Wrong. Excepting for the way the beam heals, Mercy’s healing has been changed several times. Firstly she had valk, so aoe healing. Removed for good, so she started being single target. Then, it got buffed from 50 hp/s to 60 because she couldn’t heal anyone and even Ana was outperforming her both as a burst (fair enough) and consistent (unfair since that made her a trol pick because of Ana being better at everything but mobility) support. After that, the revert came, so once more valk, and now we have her back with 50 hp/s healing.
Well, you should watch the forums. I’ve been here for an entire year and some months. Do you think I’m going to remember the exact post and tell you the username of the person? No way. Inform yourself. If you don’t want, that on you.
That’s a gameplay very commonly used in all scenes, even by pros and the OWL. In fact, there is one video where they explain you the best valk’s use: fly out of range/LoS above a point contesting it for 15 seconds without any possible counter. Yes, an exploit, that’s the best use of valk. Not helping your team. Just exploiting a game’s mechanic.
If I wanted to surrender, do you think I would want to feel stressed with a feeling of not being able to do my job and being glued to the floor and having to hide? No, thanks, if I wanted to throw a game, I would pick a relaxing hero. Anyway, I don’t throw my games unless the entire team has decided and wrote that we give up. Then, okay. Oh, and being busier doesn’t mean that I can do my job better. Let’s give a simple example: now Soldier’s bullets deal 1 hp damage each one. Now you need 200 successful shots for killing an average character. You will be busier than now, won’t you? And look, I haven’t changed how the character works. Does he works? You can bet what you want that he won’t.
Well, now let’s use Mercy as an example. Now she heals only 1 hp/s. Yeah, now you will be incredibly busy trying to heal everyone and nothing has changed. Will she work? No way. Now guess why Mercy was a trol pick with 50 hp/s healing and why she is once more a trol pick out of Phara/Widow.
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Not exactly right. Yes, it’s suicide in the open. Why? Go to beta Mercy and you’ll notice it. Stationary rez. That’s why it’s suicidal. If you try a rez in the open you die. However, E rez is utterly busted, ridiculously overpowered as an ability, even if its use is reduced to hide and rez.
No, they didn’t. Yes, other heroes are seeing more game now, but the price has been killing a character and keeping the worst design ever against the feedback of a lot of people while having an overall decrease of players (7% down). That’s not good, and as some streamers have said, that can mean internal changes.
Mandatory =/= fun. Seriously, did you watch the forums before? Everyone was complaining about how they HAD to pick her despite they DIDN’T LIKE her, even at pro level (even at the OWL), and that includes the Mercy players, who refused to pick her because of how much of a chore she was.
So now the ancient joker argument of “try any of the other 27 heroes, you filthy Mercy one trick?”. Let me introduce myself. Flex Mercy/Junkrat/Reinhardt/Widow/Soldier player here. I’ve played too Reaper, Torb, Sym, Bastion, Lucio, Road and Winston among others. Yes, I’m an one trick and I’m complaining because the only character I know to play is not overpowered now. (sarcasm over 9000)