People seem to think that Mercy 1.0 was ”overpowered” and ”broken” and justify their point with her pickrate being high before her rework.
There are 3 main reasons for Mercy having a high pickrate.
With all these points in mind, you can’t say Mercy was picked a lot because she was ”overpowered”.
I think most people said Mercy 1.0 was “overpowered” was because her ult didn’t have counter play to it.
Anyone who says that pre-rework Mercy was overpowered knows nothing about balancing.
Do we have more main healers now?
But it did? This guy explains it well:
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/how-to-improve-mercy-and-blatantly-disregarding-feedback-and-silencing-others/176328/40Moira is the most recently added main healer.
I think it is funny when people keep bring up the Hide-N-Rez method.
I think literally all players play with cautious when they got his or her ultimate. Of course the word cautious varies between each heroes, however, the content still stands as a Mercy who has Mass Resurrection will play less aggressive, and more passive.
All I have so say to all “old mercy” threads:
remove rez.
I don’t think it was overpowered because Mercy’s overall kit wasn’t that overpowered.
It was when they introduced invulnerability to resurrect and the 1 second delay before she self-heals that she started to feel frustrating to play against because mass resurrect lost counterplay.
To stop most ultimates in the game:
With Mercy, you couldn’t do #2. And with a mechanic that brings the enemy team back to life instantly without being able to stop it, it had less counterplay than any other ultimate in the game.
You must have missed the Megathread.
It’s not even pinned anymore lul.
Moria and ana?
Every single mercy thread where i have stated that they could work as main healer i get attacked by people with mercy profile picks who state that they don’t work at all.
Also remember Ana was horribly underpowered when Mercy took over.
Lol, ”Mercy profiles”.
You mean they really let you all loose? Can’t be for long.
Has been too long… And to be frank, I enjoy the freedom.
It’s not nice to lie, Mercy mains. In my down-time from OW, I watch clips that go all the way back to the very beginning of OW. Mercy, without fail, is always the #1 pick for any competitive team, and remained that way through every change. Now, though, she’s not a required pick and suddenly you’re acting as if you’ve been cheated. You haven’t been cheated; you’ve been readjusted in the meta, and now the other supports can team up without necessarily being yelled at to switch to Mercy.
(NOTE: Mercy is still the best consistent healer/damage buffer, by far, with a great ultimate and an amazing E ability that regularly shifts the tide in games, as opposed to Nano or Sound Barrier which can flop easily.)
This isn’t asking for a character that’s been neglected like Bastion or Mei to receive some big QOL changes to fix their position, this is entitlement. You feel entitled to be a required pick, and now that Mercy requires a modicum of team-playing or skill, you throw a fit. Kindly, please, adjust your expectations of how the rest of us feel to your incessant whining.
How about a compromise? We delete rez but also delete valk and give her a burst ultimate again like Zen or Lucio have. Furthermore we look into potential e-abilitys like Brawl suggested in this thread.
I’ll give it a read! Thank you ![:slight_smile:](https://d74zh8edaijub.cloudfront.net/en/overwatch/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=5" ":slight_smile:")
??? Ok after all of those comments I think im done with the forums today. Jesus.
It’s been like this for a while. Even before they unpinned it. Pretty sure they gave up on trying to fix