Everytime someone talks about Mercy pocketing, I turn into a crotchety old Overwatch boomer and yell, “Back in my day, Mercy didn’t NEED to pocket the dps to win!”
not at all
there are many players who defend Mercy against the unwarranted baseless attacks here on the forums who are not Mercy mains
there are two problems with this statement
first, I know of no valid data that supports the claim of a consensus. If you know of some, please point us to it. Until then, this is simply another unsupported claim
second, this is an opinion stated as if it were fact, when it isnt a fact. fun is subjective. what player a and player b find to be fun can be two entirely different things. I accept that some players dont find Mercy to be fun, same as I dont find Genji to be fun. But that does not make it a fact that any character, Mercy included, is “unfun”
First this isnt needed. None of the characters need a rework…not a single one…Mercy included.
Second, the history of reworks in this game is horrific, with almost every reworked character being worse off than they were before, with few if any changes anyone wanted or deemed fit for the character. as such, I find it sad that anyone would actually promote a rework for a beloved character
this isnt needed, and in fact, is a bad idea
If one wishes to play a character one deems to be “more skillful”, there are plenty to be had. Pick one of those characters instead
The lower skilled characters help make the game more inclusive to those with physical limitations and/or disabilities, and as such, these characters draw in players who otherwise could not compete. This is a good thing…a very good thing…and as such, should not be changed
the current design is imo quite good, and her playstyle has drawn in many players to the player population who would otherwise not be playing OW. If those players were not here, queue times would be longer and match quality even worse than it already is.
So it is imo a very good thing that Mercy operates as she does
You just an extremely annoying personality type with an answer for everything , a typical know it all. You are the type of person that i can guarantee 100% was defending Mercy when she was so broken she dominated OWL with double Valk Res, i can bet my bottom dollar if i went back you was defending her and guess what you would have been WRONG AGAIN because she got nerfed because she was BROKEN.
And its not just me saying she is unfun to play along with many many other on these forums , as you can see by all the forum posts, the most complained about support is MERCY and for GOOD reason. Almost all the support i know don’t like playing Mercy because she is lower skill cap obviously not requiring aim is a lower skillcap but to you that is probably just an “opinion”.
You are not worth arguing with if you played the game more instead of posting smart little comments to all the people complaining about Mercy you might leave gold league and understand a bit more about game balance.
I ask that the personal attacks cease
I disagree. If they had an answer for everything they wouldn´t post their catchprase that often to get out of discussions they lost. 
Wonder what happens first, the game slowly dying out or Mercy getting reworked. Think if they decided to rework Mercy in a meaningful way, it would go a long way of showing they are prepared to make real changes for the overall health of the game instead of avoiding backlash and dancing around real issues the game is having.
I ask that personal attacks cease
But having someone falsely accusing someone more than justifiably calling out attacks on them as a person is fine for some reason. Some weird morality on some people.
Not surprised they play Mercy at this point…
I really love Mercy. Great support hero. Did I tell you about EOMM and DDA?
Both are patented technologies which serve to manipulate the players into spending money and time on the service. Now that the game is free-to-play, they are using every trick in the book to manipulate players into engaging with the microtransaction engine.
Yes, this explains the poor matchmaking
yes, this explains the flaky hit registration (but only when you’re rolling)
I ask that you stop posting.
each forum member has the right to reply to any post, as they deem fit
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You being called out by multiple forums users for being a troll spamming and derailing threads. When multiple people are calling you out maybe its time to accept your the problem?
If any teammates would EVER shoot at her…
Not picking a side here, I just came to this thread to say that I love the ignore feature on these forums.
yk, i have 800+ hours on mercy and im super used to being that mercy that’s super hard to pin down. in the moment it’s kinda stressful because one wrong use of your cooldown can really screw up your entire flow and break the illusion that you’re some untouchable god keeping up a selected target. but if you can pull it off it’s soo satisfying.
but i also have 100+ hours on tracer, nearly 100 hours on reaper, 160+ on symm, and 200+ on sombra and i personally know just how demoralizing and frustrating it can be to recognize that mercy is the problem and be almost unable to stop her. being on both sides of the equation kind of makes that feeling worse because i know exactly what it is she wants to do and sometimes im simply just not in a position or not playing well enough to actually stop her and it sucks.
best advice i can give is keep pressuring her. even if you can’t kill her, if you make her feel as though she can’t relax you can really disrupt her plans. that, and always bait the res. if you know she’s going to res someone (always assume she will if she hasn’t ressed someone in a while), pretend to leave and let her think it’s safe to res, then take her out. i know a common saying is that “mercy is protected by her team!” but in all my 880+ hours on mercy i can guarantee you the times your team is actually paying attention enough to protect you during a res is few and far in between.
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this is an absolutely abysmal idea i’m sorry i don’t mean to be rude but i want you to consider what exactly you are suggesting here
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this is kinda……
I haven’t tried it, so I dont know how well it works. Here’s an idea, you can be my guinea pig. Bye!
If your Tracer and she has a good pocket and peel without team coordinated dive a good Mercy can force you to switch off Tracer. She can get too high too far away to fast she can literally heal from the hi ground and you just cant touch her.
Its worse to go up against a good Mercy as Tracer than her so called counter Brig, you will waste your dps chasing her around and not killer her while she is healing and her pocket is destroying your team.
Its possible to force mercy players to switch with a good dive like Genji Dva Tracer or Ball but it requires good team coordination which usually you dont get in random competitive games.
Tracer has a better chance now but there is no healer harder to kill than Mercy and in Valk obviously she’s basically invincible vs Tracer. Even if you are point blank when she res with Valk unless another teammate is focusing her she wont die. Good Mercy always res the tank in Valk and it usually gets through she is horrible to play against and completely turns the tide of the game.
Rezzing the tank is the most OP thing she has right now. I mean a tank res on 30 second cooldown that on earth are they thinking. OFC a tank should take longer to res so at least there is a decent chance to stop it.
The problem with that is this forum works on ‘trust level’ - people with post counts like that are invincible. They even farm trust level on alts.
With a high enough forum trust level, you are entrusted to flag posts as spam and they get insta-muted. Just in case you ever wonder why your post or thread got shut down, it was one of these sickos.
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