You’re dwelling on semantics.
Sorry; “I don’t really know if Blizz wants to risk re-activating the entire playerbase’s collective PTSD of Mercy being the most OP hero in the game of all time by giving her a rework just for the sake of fun even though it’s a fairly valid concern”
Yah, it’s rather difficult to try and change Mercy’s existing kit into something that is both fun and balanced. Basically Mercy need to give something up in order to gain something else. To me the obvious solution would be to scrap rez and replace it with something else, but I’m not convinced Blizzard want to ever scrap rez.
My personal preference, while taking Mercy’s current kit into account, would be to:
Uhm, basically some tweaks and removing those clunky mechanisms that ruins the flow of Mercy’s current kit. Also removing the “press spacebar and hold a mouse-button” mechanism during Valkyrie. Just to make Mercy more engaging to play.
I know; it was more of a rhetorical question. ![:stuck_out_tongue:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue.png?v=5" ":stuck_out_tongue:")
There’s a lot of inconsistencies and contradictions floating around.
I’m ight–I didn’t get a notification for this, sorry. Yourself?
Just nerf her again honestly, still op.
no worries man
I’m alright, could be better, could be worse ya know
Personally I think it may actually be a good idea, only to have Mercy fall even lower to give Blizzard some room to work on her kit without having a million people protest against Mercy getting the developers attention.
What? Fabricating evidence? All i did was use the exact same site and set it to this week instead of the whole month. You know, where there would be more data from our current patch compared to others. Didnt imply you were making the numbers up, just they are not the more up to date ones.
I agree there. Mercy’s kit is highly restricted due to rez (sort of like D.Va’s with DM but to a greater degree). There’s not a lot of breathing room; I think they should just scrap resurrect entirely but you’re also right in that they probably never will.
I’m sorry, but I may have misunderstood this. Are you trying to imply that that when you reference balance with Mercy, it should be taken as fact, but when I reference balance with Mercy, it’s just me dwelling on semantics? Maybe I read that incorrectly, so please feel free to clarify. 
I don’t believe it is my perception on the wording being put into play when I talk about Mercy’s sub-par performance. Statistics show that she is literally doing poorly across all ranks as a support, and I think we can at least agree that we can put our personal issues, the torches and pitchforks about her / the playerbase aside and see that something does in fact need to be done to help her. 
I’m sorry, I may have been mistaken… Do you have the authority to speak for Blizzard and what they do and don’t “want?” Or are you projecting your opinions about how you perceive them? Do you represent their staff? If you do, do you have any documented proof that confirms that and that you aren’t just giving your opinion here? If you actually do work for the company, I believe a lot of us have lots of questions to ask you. If this is just your opinion, then that’s fine. We’ll just have to agree to disagree on that.
~Sincerely Yours xoxo,
a Lover of True, Fair, and Fun Balance.
xavvypls 
We’ll have to see how this holds. Maybe having her synergy partners buffed was enough to bring her up to a decent level.
Synergy partners are a really big deal. They’re a lot of why Rein and Zarya are so popular, for instance.
Trickle down meta seems to be true to a certain extent, trickle down economics on the other hand…
Just because Pharah got buffed to be anti-GOATS, doesn’t mean the sidekick hero Mercy is good on her own lol.
It just stops her from getting proper buffs to adjust her when the dps keep powercreeping. Tracer doesn’t need a Zenyatta to work on GM ranks and neither should Mercy need a pharah on her team to be a viable hero.
Synenergy is good an all, but when synenergy with one hero is the only thing keeping a hero from being complete trash, balance is not correct and needs fixing.
People might even stop using pharmercy if it’s not working right when people switch away from goats to more hitscan, 2 days worth of data is not going to tell for sure what kind of meta is going to trend or where mercy’s winrates are going to land, it just shows people are trying out new pharah in competitive.
Regardless, it doesn’t make her more than a month long flop after the 50hps nerf any less valid data. She is bad. Pharah propping her up doesn’t make her less bad.
Nice long post about a stat on Overbuff. Last time I checked my 76 play is one the top 25 in the world and I’m in mid diamond…
Someone finally said it. 
~Sincerely Yours xoxo,
a Lover of True, Fair, and Fun Balance.
xavvypls 
Here’s the clarification. When I used the word “balance,” i referred to the concept of a hero’s state in the game as a whole, without implications towards whether it is good or not. You assumed that meant that I stated that Mercy is balanced. I did not.
Notice how I prefaced my statement with “I don’t really think,” making it an opinion. I do not tolerate rudeness. I will not engage with someone who is rude to me past this point.
And yet still looking at Gm, this week, where she is at 56.5% winrate, she has 3x the pick rate of Pharah, who has a slightly higher win rate. So at most 1/3 of the mercy games she is played with pharah. Don’t see how that adds up to her only being good because of new pharha.
Synergies do have to be counted toward the hero’s overall power, though.
Also, it introduces a wrinkle where any buff might make the synergy pair too good and overpowered.
If someone has their profile on private. Does overbuff still see them pick and winning? Because you can’t see update stats on players.
Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification!
Um… Your statement was prefaced with “I don’t really know if Blizzard wants …” not “I don’t think…”
Which infers that you are speaking on what they don’t want. Pointing that out and asking for proof about whether you speak for the company isn’t rudeness, and I apologize if you took it that way. The point to be made is that unless any of us actually work there, it isn’t our position to speak on what they do and don’t want in the game. We can make assumptions, but saying “I don’t think Blizzard wants …”, isn’t really being truthful. But if you actually meant to write “In my opinion, I don’t think Blizzard wants…”, then I take back my assumption on your wording and apologize for the confusion.
~Sincerely Yours xoxo,
a Lover of True, Fair, and Fun Balance.
xavvypls
Her winrate has already dropped to 52.79% in GM =p
The playerbase in GM is small enough that the data fluctuates DAILY due to the super small sample size. One day bastion has 60% winrate, another day bastion has 30% winrate lol. There’s only a handful of mercy players in Gm and above. Weird that people don’t know this by now.