Neptuno is one the best Mercy player in the OWL, and they’re a Battle Mercy.
Listen to the pros, using the pistol is a perfectly viable strategy.
As long as your Mercy is healing / damage boosting from time to time, you got nothing to be complaining about if she is also securing kills. That’s utilizing her whole kit.
Even the Devs encourage battle mercy at this point.
Mercy charges ult fastest when she uses her gun.
It’s time to accept the fact that Battle Mercy is a viable strategy. If you don’t want those Mercy players using their pistol, too bad. Maybe they wouldn’t have to if their team mates knew how to aim and / or peel. If you’re a Mercy main, rise up. Feel free to pull out the gun from time to time. Don’t let the haters tell you how to play your hero.
Hey, I’m all for Battle Mercy, as long as I don’t catch flack for being a DPS Moira (i mean, not entirely, I do still heal. I’m not an idiot). Both are fine, in my opinion, as long as you play them competently.
To be honest, Battle Mercy is really the only way I can see myself playing her. Any other way and I feel like a glorified babysitter and it’s just sooo boring. I want to play OW and have fun. Not babysit 5 other people that don’t understand the concept of:
"Hey, I’m healing you to keep you alive, so, make sure I don’t die."
It’s a fairly basic concept that seems to elude people. More often than not, I’m “hung out to dry” by “teammates” that try to go off on some killing spree, nearly get themselves killed, and me, in the process, because I have to rescue their butt.
Nothing frustrates me more than these idiots that rush into battle, half cocked, get their butt kicked and then have the audacity to go “I need healing!” Are you [EFF!]-ing kidding me? I’m not following you around and enabling you dumb decision making. Jeez, I swear, sometimes it’s worse than dealing with actual children. That’s why I call it “babysitting”, because it feels like a pretty apt way to describe those situations.
Right, but as a Support, Heaven forbid you actually do damage during battle. Because, then you get “called out” for “not healing them” for 3 seconds, so you don’t die. And, far be it from me to step on the toes of our 4 DPS players by doing some damage as a Support
Well I’ll never call out a support for doing damage… unless they very obviously should be healing. Ive had healers shooting while their entire team struggles to do anything, and they’re all critical. It’s all about that balance.
I play a lot of support, so I totally don’t mind healers doing some… preventative medicine. As long as you’re doing it at the right time, and not just being spiteful (which I’ve noticed a lot from my fellow mercy mains unfortunately).
I am personally a Mercy main and i hate when people hog up the spot just to play battle mercy. If you’re not going to heal play DPS. And these are the same people that get mad when Moira goes DPS instead of healing.
I report every Mercy that hasn’t healed anything or pockets someone. No it is not acceptable because she is a healer. She has a pistol to protect herself, not to deal out raw damage.
I think you have the completely wrong attitude to playing support. I find it enjoyable knowing that I enabled a huge 5man. People praise me for it. Im still playing overwatch.
Yeah, man, that’s fair. There is a time and a place for everything. Just, sometimes you get these toxic idiots and all they do is rage over your actions, yet, you’re watching them play and you’re thinking: “What exactly are you doing to help the situation? You look like you’re sitting on your butt to me.” Or, like I said, they play too aggressively and just assume I’ll be there to heal them when they do something stupid like trying to turn the game into a 1v6 battle. Ugh.
I think more teams suffer from mercy players not knowing when to use their pistol than they do from mercys that use it too much. What I mean is, there are a lot of opportunities where it only takes 1-2 shots from her blaster to finish someone off. Opting to heal in that window usually is a huge waste. A lot of mercy players I see are very hesitant to put away the staff.
Even stuff like using a few seconds out of valk to go kill a pharah or an enemy widow is so huge. I mean, yeah the risk is always there that you’ll get oneshot, but unless you’re in high masters or above that risk is so low.
It’s almost expected of an ana player to balance healing and choosing when to dps, but with a mercy people seem to get angry at it. Especially when they die to it. “This mercy’s just battle mercying, dudeeeeeeeeeee. What are you guys DOING?”
Yeah the God complex some players get can be a bit vexing. I don’t think they understand that my beam won’t heal through all damage possible. Or that I can’t possibly rez in the middle of the team that just killed them. Generally when I’m playing, I try to avoid taking damage in the first place, instead of just assuming my healers can heal through it all.
Literally no one is complaining about or against a Mercy player who uses her pistol alongside the rest of her kit.
The the community is taking issue with and calling throwers are not simply using her pistol situationally, they’re using only the pistol while purposefully ignoring the rest of her kit. If that isn’t throwing, I really don’t know what is.
Right? When I play Ana, I’m on point with that. I’m the one at a distance keeping our team healthy and the enemy crippled.
The only thing I’m not great with is her ult. Well, it’s more a communication issue. I get her ult up, say something, wait a bit and then give to who I think will do best with it in the moment. Of course, you get those people that are like “why didn’t you give it to me? My ult was almost ready.” Well, you didn’t say anything so how would I know that? Communicate! Is that so hard? But, it course that’s my fault somehow.
Shooting here and there has always been fine though…? Not healing at all is not okay though and you will be reported for throwing - just as much as I would report a Soldier who’d only use his healing aura. Duh…
