She’s so basic, I love it. I nearly one-tricked Mercy when I got OW. Feels very similar. I like not having to think much while learning the rope
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Nah. L take.
Supports in Rivals are trash compared to OW anyways and none compare to any of the heroes. It’s like they listened to every bad take from the GMs in OW and threw it together in their piece of crap mobile game.
People still complain about missing DPS Doomfist to this day. No one cared too much about Orisa getting reworked because the rework made her much more fun, not many people got attached to Orisa as she was added later in OW1, tanks always had a smaller playerbase, and double shield meta was hated in OW1. And Symmetra’s reworks couldn’t be helped as she had many growing pains being turned into a DPS from the Support role she was originally in, due to lacking any kind of real healing making leaving her a support unviable.
Mercy on the other hand has always been fun and a fan favorite.
I’m actually a little shocked they didnt just make her E go on coodown and let it stack. Imagine if you could eventually have a player’s health bar eventually be 100% blue. Basically out of combat healing before out of combat healing.
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I love Mantis because while you can approach her that way, you can also play a frantic playstyle where you dump as much of her seed as possible on teammates, while rolling a damage boost on yourself, while trying to farm dinks. Wheee!
It actually reminds me of my resto druid days in WoW, too, where I’d roll Rejuvenation on as many people as possible.
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All of the Rivals supports are encouraged to throw spam into fights. They seem to have different kits on the surface, but they all end up feeling very similar to play. The only one I haven’t learned yet is Warlock, but the others all took like one match to feel like I understood backward and forward.
I like that our supports are totally dissimilar from each other.
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You get this when you are using your beam with Mercy lol. If you like Mantis more, then play her. Don’t try to rework a fan favorite hero into Mantis so you can be happier. Nothing is wrong with playing two different games.
Advocate for a Mantis-like brand new hero in OW instead of changing the ones we love.
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I dunno what you’re talking about lol.
The closest is probably Adam Warlock, but it’s not exactly Mercy because no support there has anything like her movement. There really isn’t a 1:1.
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Oh, my bad I thought you were OP. Your picture is the same essentially. That’s on me.
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her firerate, damage output, and healing output is all almost identical to zen. her ult is practically transcendance as well. her 12% damage boost mechanic that can be individually applied to 4+ teammates at a time with an 8s duration is more a solution to zen’s discord.
discord has never worked well because it lacks counterplay and hitting E on somebody for it to potentially stay on that target forever until LoS break just isnt fair. there is no fair skill trade-off with discord. its too easy to apply for the insane value it brings.
whereas mantis boost lasts only 8s and it takes away a charge that could otherwise be used for healing. she is mechanically more intensive, harder to play, and more fair than zenyatta
there is no mercy equivalent in marvel rivals.
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I think Adam Warlock is the closest Zenyatta equivalent in my opinion. He has a charge up shot, and he’s very immobile. But really every character is just different enough that they don’t feel the same in each game.
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I mean no kit is 1-1, and I never said they were.
Like how, for example, Adam Warlock has the combat of zen and the mass rez of mercy.
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Awesome. So you must not be allowed there considering youre trying to inentionally belittle mercy, her players and their contributions to team fights.
Maybe dont start with a rude post and youll avoid rude responses
how though? adam has no damage boost, no regen healing, no transcendance…
the ultimate she had 8yrs ago? 
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All I said is that she isn’t an active participant in combat. Taking that personally is a little absurd. Unless you are pistol mercy, she is a secondary stat buffer, kind of objectively.
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Which is wrong because keeping people alive, damage boosting and rezzing are all contributors to teamfights all while she is being constantly hunted reducing the enemy resources.
Whats absurd is taking nyxas use of a laughing emoji personally and him pointing out your obvious mistake.
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Transcendence can maybe be compared to the soul link ability Adam has since it negates so much damage… I guess. Also, this soul link ability does give regen healing by the way. He doesn’t really need a damage boost I think because he already has a hitscan shot and a charge up volley shot, so he can chunk healthpools on his own anyway. The mass rez is a relic of Mercy’s past.
But yeah, like I said, they definitely don’t feel the same in each game. I’m sure the game designers intentionally made sure not to hard copy OW supports.
I never said she wasn’t contributing towards other’s combat. But she is objectively not engaging in combat directly. Which is fine if that’s your style, This post likely doesnt apply to you.
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I don’t mean to keep ragging on you because you’ve certainly had a lot here, but this post applies to anyone that plays and enjoys Mercy, actually. When you made the post undermining Mercy’s design and propping up the design of a hero in another game, it’s not something Mercy fans and OW players are just going to openly accept.
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