They just edited the Sombra changes, they’re absolutely a buff now.
No one is forced to pick her , you’re just speaking nonsense. I’ve had a lot games that were won without a Mercy on the team , or lost to the enemy team that didn’t have Mercy. She isn’t a must pick. Just because she’s popular , doesn’t mean you are forced to pick her. I’d see we need more main healers that can outshine Mercy. + I’ve said it more than a 10000000000000000000 times on this forums - While other heroes are strong , she’ll be strong too.
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time to rework her again and actually get it right this time 
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That is true, but I feel like in general mercy mains are people hiding profiles more than other people who play other heroes more, so i would assume the mercy numbers will be understated now. Either way, stats will still be less accurate now, which sucks.
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If that was the case you wouldnt see the constant nerf mercy threads. Sure other heroes need work too, but its much better to have weak heroes, than OP heroes. Right now the main 2-3 OP heroes are mercy, hanzo, and brig to an extent. Id argue putting them in line matters more than buffing heroes who currently are rarely picked.
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She is a must-pick. her single-team winrate is 56%. That is disgusting.
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And Ana is still garbage.
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She had a 40% pickrate before the Mercy rework, and she has been buffed twice since.
And yes, that is after the 60 damage nerf. The nerf was on March 21st, and she had a 40% pickrate on May 24th.
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And again , the only comment you’ve made for the past 2 days is pickrates/winrates …
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People would rather indulge into further power creep rather than accepting Mercy needs further nerfs.
‘‘Just buff Moira, Lucio and Ana’’
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They are very indicative of how good a hero is when looking at them together. Supports like ana and lucio were either doing great, or pretty good before mercy rework. They both went to being terrible in comparison from 1 day to the next. What more is there to say, sure minor buffs could help them out, but they will never compare to current mercy unless they are buffed to the point of also being OP.
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Yes, the Illuminati is why Mercy is picked now and not before. Not because she is OP and wasn’t before.
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Id agree with buffing those 3, but not to the point where they could actually be a better choice than mercy. Small buffs to those 3, nerfs to mercy.
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My thoughts on why is because as we know there are -strong- healers but discussed before mercy is consistent.
But one reason why I switch off to mercy most often is due to my team being everywhere.
Moira can heal for a fair amount but she works better in close knit comps
And Ana once again… We all know why
Mercy is just consistent healing, not to mention her valk dmg boost in team fights is a pretty decent advantage imo
But yeah she’s the only healer that can quickly be by her teams side in odd positioning
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They don’t need buffs. They’re already strong heroes (as was shown before Mercy 2.0) and they’ve already gotten buffs since.
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Can I at least say why nerfing Mercy will be bad?
1.Mercy players had to adapt to so many changes in the past and If they nerf her now significantly you won’t want to have a Mercy player that doesn’t know how to play their hero
2.Already half of the community , even Mercy players , say she is boring , do you think nerfing her will change anything ?
Maybe Instead of nerfing her maybe rework her to a state where she’s strong but not OP , and fun , not just a healbot ?
Just think for a second.Do you think nerfing Mercy will change the other healers problems ? Cause I don’t think so.
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Maybe on Opposite Day would going from 52%-51% be climbing… but that’s decreasing my friend……
Then why did mercy’s pickrate stabilize at around 8% just before season 10 began?
I’ll tell you why:
It’s because other healers were also played then and Mercy was not forced to substitute for lack of other healers. Mercy was not changed, so the change to her pickrate came from elsewhere.
Namely season 10 and sniper meta, which forces everyone to play mercy because you cannot heal ohko moves, using any other healer would be redundant and make you be in a big disadvantage if you can’t ress people at all, which ends pushes before they can even begin and if you can’t teamwipe like the enemy team can. It’s that simple. There is nothing OP or changed about mercy from season 9 to season 10 and you can’t suddenly claim she was OP all along when she never was.
Other healer pickrates plummet and stop winning fights, lucio and ana both have bottom of the barrel pickrates and winrates both, mercy picks up the slack because she works best with and against snipers, this is a fact. And no teams run without a main healer.
People actually want to win games and not play garbage healers who do not synenergise with the sniper meta team unlike mercy.
Mercy pickrates still got zero things to do with mercy herself when she was unchanged. Sniper meta just makes other healers useless since you can’t heal dead people.
It used to be that doublesniper was garbage due to the lack of consistent damage. Well new Hanzo fixed that completely and now it has both the massive damage total and the best final blow combination in the game, period. So you used to have to deal with maybe 1 sniper killing people. Now it’s 90% 2 snipers from 2 different angles with double the ohko potential and people are going to get killed left and right, tanks, squishies, far and close, it doesn’t matter how or where and ress utility is stronger than ever before.
Ress might be strong utility… but it’s only this strong against OHKO moves. You’ll still much rather save someone and heal to get ulti charge than risk a resurrection after all and you will naturally be doing a lot less resurrections when your team is not dying a whole lot to insane bursts. Thus resurrection value diminishes and healing value increases.
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I meant 52.25% pre-patch. 51.65% is post-patch and climbing.
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How about a revert to mercy before Valkyrie, but she keeps the GA momentum boost and cast time and vulnerability during Rez but Rez also needs Line of Sight to each target
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