Mercy’s kit aside from the recent GA changes has been the exact same for years. Last season mercy was considered trash tier by many, but now the meta favors her because a pocketed sojourn is closer to pre nerf sojourn.
When sojourn falls out of meta or is nerfed, mercy will yet again be considered trash tier. Her perceived power level in the meta depends a lot on whoever the meta dps is, and it makes sense because of her current play style. People will always complain when mercy is meta in her current state, because many support players find her boring to play and relatively easy to get value from.
Mercy’s damage boost or something similar if it ever gets removed is needed because that is mercy’s sole offensive contribution. Any other support hero will average higher damage output per 10 minutes than mercy’s damage boosted.
If the developer team decides to rework mercy at some point, I hope they will do so in a way that will still give her some offensive contribution, and in a way that fits into mercy’s play style since many of us love playing her. If mercy was reworked in a way that drastically changed her play style I would likely stop playing this game since she’s all I really find fun at the moment.
Hey guys! Here to drop some facts!
Mercy is an amazing player! If anything her rez needs a shorter cool down!
So much of the player base wants to play dps but then those same players are always salty that they suck!
The trade off for mercy is one less attacker, but one team mate can either do more damage or stay in the fight longer.
A MERCY CAN NOT HEAL FASTER THAN ANYONE CAN DAMAGE!
If she’s an issue then you need to understand it’s a team game and YOU are just upset that two players working together get more done than you working alone. Mercy is only good in skilled players hands and an easy kill for anyone that can aim. Mercy is one of the LOWEST healing rate supports and has more mobility because she can’t do much in fight. Not heal not damage.
Cry about her skill set shows that you really aren’t a team player what do ever!
Okay let’s talk about this!
Match is 5v5
You/your team kills some one.
Their mercy is trying to rez them from an area you can’t see or get to.
That means best case for them, there are 3 members up. Against what??? Where are your team mates? Where are you?
Again, it’s a team based game and you sound upset that you can’t solo 5 players?!
Well, as soon as someone gets an elim, your tank should push forward while the rest of team helps enable the tank and or DPS follow up with another pick to the objective.
That’s what the bad players don’t seem to understand. It’s a team game with defined objectives and requires teamwork to accomplish eliminations captures and map control. Not “ I want to be DPS I’m gonna go off on my own. All I wanna do is get the kills. I don’t need a team. I don’t need to play the point. I don’t need to capture Mabs. I don’t need to do anything with anyone because I am the best.”
You blatantly left out the fact that she needs LoS to start the rez in the first place and is restricted to 5m of range. Have you tried body camping? Applying pressure to the Mercy to back away from the soul? Communicating to your teammates to not allow the Mercy to get the rez off? Having the ability to aim to kill the Mercy thats STATIONARY for 2 seconds? Get better.
rez is terrible as a cooldown ability. It had to get crippled with a ridiculous amount of unfun nerfs to make it even somewhat balanced and it’s still the strongest ability in the game. She deserves something better. Something more dynamic and fun to use, and less passive. And to everyone who likes it, you can just emote! It’s also two seconds of standing still with some pretty special effects! seems like a win-win to me.
oh yes , lets body camp , its not like i have a payload to push , a rein smacking my a$$ with a hammer , or a hanzo that i need to dodge their arrows , and yes its ok to use my cooldows and loose half my health and get a kill just for a mercy to push a button , resurrect an enemy with full health , DAMAGE BOOST THEM, and all i did was for nothing , oh she’s stationary ? , three other teammates are with her doing damage , cc , debuffs , but yeah i have to get better while all mercy have to do is chill and press some buttons from time to time .
im support / dps player btw
ok so have you tried communicating with your team like the Mercy is or…?? also, you only have to body camp for 10 seconds
if the Mercy’s team is helping her out and your team is no where to be found to back you up, thats a team diff.
psst! Mercy averages 4.72 rezzes per game/10 minutes! it’s not as over exaggerated as you make it out to be due to her getting punished most of the time for trying to go for risky rezzes! so yeah, maybe get better?
when i say she has three teammates on me , i didnt mean they communicate with each other , theyre just playing the game , not a team diff , and if you think 10 seconds its not a lot in a fast paced fps , it really shows your ignorance to the root of the problem .
psst , overbuff stats are not accurate , maybe get better , instead of playing heroes that require no skill and telling people to get gud ?
Where have you been the past three years? This is nothing new. Trash designs get trash talked Mercy has been no exception.
Tracking ultimates and tracking “ults” on cooldowns are completely different things though. For one thing, real heroes actually do things to earn their ultimate while new-supports are given a second ult attached to their base kits on cooldown so babies can play them. Hell, Mercy gets refunded Rez by literally dying. What’s so skillful about that? If you are suggesting that tracking highly impactful cooldown abilities is to be expected by players then wouldn’t it make sense that abilities like Rez or Immortality Field consume a portion of their heroes’ ult meter as well since they are functionally second ultimates anyway?
Other way around. Mercy players who insist she is fine are too afraid to adapt to the game without having access to broken abilities and four kinds of mobility. There is a reason they are the most made fun of demographic of OW players for six years now.
talk about a disaster. do you ever have any good opinions/takes?
