Can someone tell me if it’s just me, or:
Basically, when playing Mercy, do you feel as if you’re as big as Reinhardt, when it comes to being shot at?
Just you
I noticed this as well… need to confirm though.
Nope it shouldn’t count.
This should be happening.
If there is, they there could be a lag between her model and her hit box.
The road to 17k posts continues.
The Mercies in the OWL that die less are the ones that rez less.
How is encouraging someone to not use an ability in order to live good design?
She is in a good place in terms of balance, but not in terms of gameplay experience. She doesn’t need buffs they won’t improve the experience.
She lacks the ability to turn a fight in the way most heroes do have. In a game that features Heroic Moments as an attraction Mercy lacks having a moment.
Her kit is missing a part of the Hero experience that was once there, but could have seen changes to make feel less oppressive to opponents and more risk & reward involved for Mercy to execute.
As mentioned by others…
Mercy will have a higher pickrate than many other heroes because she is still viable in the healer role which at current has only 6 healers in a role that is required in most viable team comps.
Of the 6 healers, 3 are off-healers who have either lower healing output or conditional healing, therefore and not best paired together in many situations. They are: Lucio, Zen, and Brigitte (who is not in OWL or Comp, and thou strong has conditional healing).
The other 3 healers are consider “Main Healers” because they have higher healing output and/or more reliable then other 3 healers. They are Ana, Mercy, and Moira:
The problem with the idea of rezzing teammates at any less than full health is that Mercy gains ult charge from healing.
A smart Mercy would be able to min/max that version of rez, using it in a way so she can get the next one much faster and snowball throughout the match
I like I say. The best times to Rez are when they matter least because the risky Rezzes don’t offer a good payoff for the risk taken.
Its better to just have a teammate walk back from spawn.
Valkyrie is a McDonald’s Dollar Menu of an Ultimate: it has many options and all of them are cheap and not particularly healthy either.
Mercy is all about thoughtful play around your team to keep them in the fight (while avoiding death yourself). Valkyrie doesn’t reinforce thoughtful play for the most part it detracts from it. However, that doesn’t mean rework is ungood, but I would say a different behaving Ultimate is a more workable solution because there is nothing in Valkyrie that can be buffed to really change the below issues.
Valkyrie removes reward in her play by doing several things that you could already do well outside of Valkyrie with better management of your abilities.
They say “Valkyrie enhances Mercy’s abilities”, but it really should be termed “Valkyrie extends Mercy’s abilities”. The difference is very important to note in terms of “thoughtful play”. Lets go through Mercy’s core abilities to see what this “extension” of abilities does in terms of limits & reward:
Section 1: Healing Beam
Healing Beam – as I say: “Dance the Beam, Around the Team, so they Teem (with life)”
Chain Healing – as I say “Click n’ Fly”
Section 2: Damage Boost
Damage Boost Beam – my default beam choice, but it can be situational. It requires you to consider weather it is better to choose Healing or Boost and who should be prioritized:
Chain Boost – it’s there, it’s everywhere… use it more because the chain healing cannot save anyone, but dead enemies cannot do damage (except for Junkrat, and a few others).
Section 3: Angelic Descent
Angelic Descent – the falling hover
Flight – the non-falling hover with WASD
Section 4: Guardian Angel
Guardian Angel – I’ll be by your side (if it’s worth my time)
Valkyrie Guardian Angel – extended and a bit faster (it’s a buff)
Section 5: Regeneration
Regeneration – it’s the reward for being evasive
Uninterrupted Regeneration – it’s just there
Section 6: Resurrect
Resurrect is what you worked to survive for, so that you could turn a fight after your healing was outpaced by enemy damage.
For a character such as Mercy who usually will not be taking out the enemy team members, the Resurrection Ultimate was the one moment when this otherwise in the background character made an impact on a fight that could not go unnoticed.
For the Mercy it was what you did everything in preparation for to make a clear and concise punch in a fight.
Most important is that it was spontaneous and was Mercy’s one independent action that could count if the timing was right.
Now however, Mercy doesn’t have that one, spontaneous, independent ability, that could turn a fight. Mercy just has independent flight over 15 seconds, and everything else: Damage Boost, Healing, and GA are dependent on the team to make good choices with, but the Mercy cannot make the fight intervention any longer.
Resurrect is an after and before fight ability used exclusively behind cover of some kind or its just a gamble on the RNG of a single teammate.
Conclusion
I really want to help people understand. I see many who say they don’t see how it could feel “less fun” or even “unfun”. I would like to reach common ground of understanding.
Valkyrie gives Mercy all the tools to buff a team fight, and spectate the event unfold below. However, there’s no hero moment.
OWL Stage 3 Pick Rates:
https://www.winstonslab.com/customquery/pickrates/?onlyLANs=on&dateGreater=2018-04-02&dateSmaller=&event%5B%5D=86&specificMatchupTeam1=0&specificMatchupTeam2=0&team%5B%5D=&map%5B%5D=&roundtype%5B%5D=
The only two heroes with a higher pick rate than Mercy are D.Va and Zenyatta - both of whom were nerfed. Does Mercy need another nerf to be balanced?
No, she is fine, though to the many who are vocal, a bit bland
Damage boost and healing stream should be nerfed
What?
(20 characters)
God no, No one needs a nerf just because they have a high pickrate. DVA doesn’t need one, Zen doesn’t need one, Genji doesn’t need one, tracer doesn’t need one, winston doesn’t need one, and God knows Mercy doesn’t need one.
This is gonna be good… 
The stage 3 maps are pretty Mercy-favored overall, but even with a different map pool she’d probably still have a strong pickrate as long as antidive, Zen/Mercy, and Widowmaker remain strong.
She’s fine and a very powerful hero.
Remove the I-Frames. She doesnt deserve them.
she is even better in matchmaking but people dont really understand why. they keep playing zen, lucio or even ana.
Absolutely not.
(char limit)
No? She’s one of the game’s most balanced heroes. Why would you want to nerf her?
The range is too far, and damage boost should boost slightly less, that way she takes more skill to play