time to nerf mercy once more.
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To you and all the Mercy mains highfiving your post.
Mercy is a pocket. She was a pocket before, she is a pocket now. The fact that she was an overtuned pocket got you all spoiled. It’s about time you got put in check.
You all say “We love Mercy”, “We will defend Mercy”, “Mercy Mercy Mercy”, and even after all that playtime, you still don’t know what Mercy is or what her role is.
Her whole kit is the kit of a pocket. Tailored to do just that. If you do love Mercy, you should be okay with her core concept. You are clearly not. You have failed at even just understanding a kit as simple as that. Funny.
Mercy is a better version of the Medic of TF2 and is based on the same concept.
What was the Medic there? A pocket. What did he do all match? Pocket.
You don’t love Mercy, you love the idea you have of Mercy which is different from the one in reality.
So yeah, you actually seem to love Mercy. And it seems like she broke up with you guys and you miss her so much that in your mind she’s became something completely different and that will never be the same.
It’s exactly what delusional people go throu after a breakup.
Amazing.
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Only took them overbuffing pharah.
Overbuff has been bugged in the last week, it hasn’t updated my data and shows that my profile is private which is definitely not true.
Yeah, they gave Mercy the best mobility ability in the game on an extremely low cooldiwn so she can pocket the same DPS all game. Makes sense…
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But Mercy outpaces Pharahs pickrate by a very good margin.
If I were to speculate I’d say that the Pharah changes encouraged Mercy picks, that encouragement lead to people picking Mercy in more specific situations, and people are started to see where and when she is valuable.
It’s a map and comp based reaction that many people argue should be strived for. I feel compelled to side with them.
No. So she can survive and pocket who needs it the most. And, funny enough, so she could follow high mobility characters.
You’re really delusional if that’s your best argument.
I don’t understand.
How is this pocket behavior you are expressing disagreement with any different from what she did before?
What has changed? She has always been like this…
You’re right her stats are good in other ranks too.
What I find funny is Mercy mains on forums spammed overbuff stats when they were bad using that as an excuse to buff/rework her.
Yet now when the stats say otherwise overbuff is unreliable and can’t be trusted.
The majority of posts I’ve seen are not concerned with her win rate as much as her being fun to play, which she is not currently!
Could the performance of her teammates not also at least partially account for the win rate?
Her stats (for this week, which is what we’re using due to recent balance changes) have been quite reasonable and good.
It’s amazing to me that now so many people are concerned about Overbuff stats, throughout all tiers, and their inaccuracies, and etc etc etc. Just so much leaning on Overbuff stats when only a couple weeks ago I was twisting arms and begging people to consider the objective value of the ONLY stat source we have.
Amazing.
Please stop acting like you care about stats when you only use them to support your narrative.
Too much cherry picking, not enough cherry trees.
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Well we’re trying to establish things that go beyond just subjective fun of playing! Otherwise I’d say make her pistol hitscan and make GA basically behave like Tracers blink! That’d be super fun for me!
Doesn’t matter though does it?
Because me imposing MY PERSONAL SUBJECTIVE idea of fun on the hero achieves nothing. It’s about satisfying the design principles behind the hero, and trying ot make it appeal to as broad a demographic as possible.
The beauty of all these different heroes is every one represents a different way of playing, and appeals to a different demographic.
Etc etc game design etc.
Yes. All rank should have fun, not just GM. Just because GM players can utilize pharah so she synergize well with mercy doesn’t mean on the rank below mercy is fine.
…Okay here i go again. MERCY IS A SIDEKICK/POCKET. HER PICKRATE IS DICTATED BY PHAARA/WIDOW MOSTLY AND HER WINRATE IS DICTATED BY THE SKILL OF THESE PHAARAS AND WIDOWS PURELY. So while sides like overbuff are generelly inacurate, it’s even worser with Mercy, who like I just said completely relies on other Heros.
Also new Phaara update turns out to be a “buff”. Even Valkia, who was against it is saying he is getting used to it and it feels like a buff now. So a stronger Phaara and Widow? Of course Mercy will have a higher winrate in high Ranks.
every 4h a new thread with different statistics appears.
mercy is the worst healer.
50hps channeling and a cast time rez is crap compared to the other supports.
My point was that she was not designed to spend all game pocketing one of the DPS teammates, she has the mobility to go to whoever needs healing or boosting at a time and spending all game pocketing a specific teammate and ignoring everyone else is not the intended playstyle.
If pocketing Pharah or Widow all game is the only effective way to play Mercy, you got to be quite the masochist to play her. The fun in playing her is flying from teammate to teammate and deciding who needs help the most in a specific moment. Pocketing a single DPS all game is the most boring playstyle possible.
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I mean, they could easily have meant winning literally. If her winrate is higher than 50%, then more often that not she will be winning games.
Correction: Consistent, easy-to-aim 50 hps channeling, a cast-time res (Which is simultaneously the worst and best ability in the game apparently) and incredibly high mobility.
Don’t cherry pick data to fit your agenda.
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I don’t think anyone was really implying Mercy should just stay completely connected to one singular person the entire game. I think it was more she is very much a pocket healer, and she is given the mobility to pocket one person after another after another via that mobility etc. It’s about who you pocket when etc.
I see no reason why these two statements can’t coexist. She pockets everyone. Flying from team mate to team mate, going from pocketing one to another… That’s the fun as you say… Right?
Her flying around etc etc is not exclusive to pocketing. You just go from pocketing one person to another…
Why would you just ignore the entire situation, the entire match, the entire game, and only apply your beam to one DPS member on your team?
Is your boyfriend boosting you? (SORRY, JOKE, JUST A MEME, PLZ DON’T SILENCE ME)
You get what I’m saying though right?
She’s always been a pocket healer. The good Mercies pocket everyone. The bad pocket 1 person.
I don’t know. I actually really enjoy playing the pocket healer. Maybe it’s because she’s sort of fallen in line with how I played medic in TF2. Get in someone’s pocket, never let them die, and wreck your enemies.
She has the mobility to move in to help her team when need be, and has the support ultimate equivalent of a child leash for when your teammates are tripping over their own feet. I still think rez is a bit dull, but beggars can’t be choosers.
Just my opinion though.
yeah cuz healing with zen, moira, lucio, brigitte and ana (yes after her last ammoclip and ignoring healthy teammates buff, its much more easier to heal with her) is sooo hard.
the high mobility comes with close range healing = moira, lucio and mercy.
non mobility and long range = ana, zen and brigitte.
but thats not the point.