[Feedback Thread Continued Part III] Mercy Updates - Jan 30, 2018

[Droodjerky-1699]

I don’t want to take anything here out of context. Everything is a direct quote from the original post.

@Céleste-22503

Before I make my argument, I’m a Gradmaster Mercy Main and have been throughout all her reworks (getting top 500 with her in Season 6). I also have around 600 hours with her and have mained her since Season 3 and have continued to do so.

This post comes from a HIGHLY ranked , self admitted, one trick Mercy.

Mercy is in the best spot she’s ever been in and should not be touched. She provides good solid healing, solid mobility, one of the best abilities on a cooldown and provides solid assistance to heroes such as Pharah, Mccree and Widowmaker that would quickly fall out the meta without her.

This right here is my gripe with Mercy. She goes against the developers stated goal. Every hero should have a niche, with weaknesses and strengths. This grandmaster is saying that Mercy has a lot of really great stuff and doesn’t mention a downside, at all.

Mercy is still one of the strongest heroes in the games and in my opinion one of the most balanced heroes in the game. She should not be reverted back to 1.0 or get buffs. Buffs would cause her to be miles ahead over every other support and the Mercy main hate would fuel once again and 1.0 was horrible to play with and against. There’s a ton less pressure for me to ult. I died with ressurection and my team flamed me highly, whereas nowadays I feel SO MUCH MORE FREE to ult as Mercy. Just pop it every team fight.

Indeed, Mercy ult is up VERY often. And she is VERY strong. Which makes it VERY odd to call her balanced.

Maybe her ult isn’t exactly the most exciting thing in the world and I empathise with a lot of you who feel that way, but it’s still so strong. It allows you to heal people who extend far and tbh there’s a guaranteed ressurection in Valk due to people’s inability to focus a Valking Mercy due to her fast regeneration.
Yes, even in gm, I easily get Valk resses off because people disregard a Valking Mercy due to her impossibility to be killed.

Again, where is the downside to playing Mercy? She is extremely strong and getting off one of the strongest abilities in the game is still quite easy even at GM.

People underestimate which I believe is one of Mercy’s strongest utilities which is her damage boost. Do you know how strong Zarya, Hanzo and Mercy are together? That’s a guaranteed team wipe. Similar with Tracer, as soon as you hear Tracer’s ult voice line click switch to damage boost.

Mercy and Hanzo are very strong together. Damage boosting Hanzo’s ult with Mercy removes one of a very few spots Ana might have had in this meta. Why use an ult when you can right click?

I borderline one trick Mercy in competitive and even in grandmaster people borderline never tell me to switch as they know she’s a great pick. Don’t touch Mercy.

Mercy is still very strong people, carry on maining her.

Again, Mercy is VERY strong. Which makes it odd to say she’s balanced.