Didnt Mercy’s girlfriend (Pharah) recently got a buff or something.
And since the two have a lot of synergy, one cannot exist without the other.
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Her winrate is still higher than Ana’s in bronze through plat though.
It’s not rank shaming, silver/gold players don’t know how to play the game yet and are asking for balance changes while she is being played successfully at diamond+. If she has a 56% wr in gm; the top 1%, that tells you that she is far from being the useless hero gold players claim she is.
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Overbuff data is only of people who check their profile on Overbuff. Also, pickrate went down, so odds are that only really good Mercy players are the ones picking her. Mercy’s pickrate went way down across all ranks, Ana and Lucio’s pick rate increased greatly, they are the must pick healers now.
Finally, someone who understands. Mercy is still fun to play (in my opinion, of course). In fact, I think she is even more intense than before. It’s so much fun pulling off a tricky rez now. The only thing I miss about mass rez is tactfully planning the invulnerability to block ults, but I absolutely LOVE rezzing and then turning to gun down an out of place squishy while in Valkyrie. Mechanically, Mercy is not difficult, but good game sense will take you far. Spectator Mode? More like fly all over the map and heal everyone while dodging Widow mode (and then murdering her). Yes, it’s true that sometimes Mercy is not the ideal pick now. Sometimes Moira is better because you just need the raw healing, and the utility of the other supports is great, but Mercy still has her place.
I really don’t know why people think hiding to mass rez was more engaging and intense than what she has now.
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Nice try. Her winrate is still near 48% on the consoles. And around 48% for the month on PC. Something’s gotta be skewing the weekly data on PC
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Isn’t it funny that when Overbuff supports the idea that Mercy is useless people use it an an argument but when it supports that she isn’t they ignore it?
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These are from statistical anomalies that occured over a single day and are stabilizing out to normal. It’s not useful as an argument because it’s been a grand total of two days and her stats are going back to normal if you look at the trends.
And still, Ana has a higher winrate in almost every tier of play still.
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I wonder how large the sample size is 
The sample size is reliable. Most US elections take a few hundred/thousand people for opinion polls and have a very low margin of error, Overbuff probably has access to vastly more number than an opinion poll.
what even is this mess.
- no one says she’s useless lolol (or atleast point us to some)
- look at her pickrate in GM dont shove that "she’s got a high winrate in gm!!11!!1 and not even MENTION ana’s 41% pickrate (higher than mercy’s ever was) and ana has a higher winrate in gm
the point being, only mercy mains are playing her in GM and as such her winrate rises but when her winrate is still lower than Ana.
you dont point to GM stats and say “HER WINRATE IS HIGH LOL SHUT UP” and then “”"“forget”""" to mention that ana’s is STILL HIGHER and then go on to talk about how ana’s winrate is lower in all ranks.
this has to be one of the most biased things on this forum.
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Nah it’s obviously more than that. There is reason behind her spike in both pick and win rate. Probably because pairing her with new Pharah gets work done on the maps that have always been Pharah dominant.
Thing is, she ain’t no where near as bad as Moira in GM. So even then, Mercy doing alright. Ease up on the hyperbole.
Her win rate is higher than Ana’s in GM rn. Just saying, to make sure we all working with the same data.
check again, it’s not.
her pickrate is not “spiking” its still 1/10 of Ana’s.
it went up for a day, went down, and only now is going up, it’s still 3+%
the difference in winrate is greater between Ana and Mercy, than it is between Moira and Mercy (basically, ana is better than mercy, than moira is worse, so again. no.)
The only reason she has any winrate at all in high ranks is because Goats is popular and Pharmercy is a counter to that comp.
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that still means mercy is useless if you dont have a pharah aswell.
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PC, GM, this week. Mercy: 56.61% win rate. Ana: 53.88% win rate.
I make sure to check Overbuff everytime I cite something. I choose this week due to recent Pharah changes etc. Pharah win rate 56.43% rn.
Making sense, ya?
Still higher than Moira. Right? You see where this is going? Or no?
Sure man, and I can shave with that fine lined edge you’re describing here. I don’t consider this point you brought up as significant. I think I made a solid case.
Tell me how Moira is better than Mercy in GM plz. I’d love to hear it.
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Just a disclaimer - I think Mercy needs a rework before you all attack me
However, it really does make me laugh seeing all the Mercy supporters say ‘Overbuff isn’t reliable’. Like seriously come on. You’ve been complaining for ages now using Overbuff to prove your point, but when someone uses it to disprove your point it immediatly becomes unreliable?
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Bless you and your posts, Heavy
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Overbuff is still reliable. The principle of statistics still works.
It just gets less reliable when you deliberately zero in on the smallest sample size (weekly, GM), especially when the hero is relatively niche.
The flaw more lies with using WR as a yardstick of a heroes power when it’s anything but.
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Using any singular part of statistical data is a flawed approach. You have to consider all elements, pick rate, win rate, meta, etc.
People tunnel vision too hard on some particular part of the data and that renders any conclusion drawn from it bias and inaccurate.
I explained why I chose this week and GM for the statistical citations I made. Do you feel that I was wrong doing so? If so what set should I have used?