mercy are the hardest support hero in the game on SOLO Q
im a dps player that trying playing mercy on my alt account
my main account support are around 2500-2900
but i strugle trying to win with mercy on gold
i have no problem playing any other healer on SOLOQ, even my zen have more succes compared to mercy
what i seem to find out after 10 game with her:
- she good at pocketing dps for sure, but on gold your dps are inconsistent, sometimes u damageboost someone for like 1 min and not getting any kill
- u cant help out of position team
with ana brig bap having range u can just heal from afar without risking your self, if i fly to help this out of position player as mercy, by the time i got my GA cooldown ready, i will allready be dead
- her self sustain are very low, 20 hps if not getting damaged for 1 sec is very bad
GA depends on your team too much
- her heal are actually not that bad, i get gold healing most of time even vs a moira
what i think what she needs
either 1 sec GA from (1.5) so i can be more agresive
higher range on GA, like 40 meter (from 30 meter)
thoughts?
She isn’t bad in ranked because she has bad stats. She’s bad because she lacks autonomy. Her only utility abilities are rez and damage boost, which completely depends on teammates. Due to her passive nature, she has literally no tools to carry compared to any other supports
Can’t say that I feel the same.
Mercy in her current state is a safe pick for me.
Not always the best, but always a safe one.
I don’t hink she needs any change rn.
- Can’t help it. You can only try to peel the most out of your DPS’s potential,
but you can’t make them a better player.
I switch my focus to other players quickly, if it gets apparent that I’m pocketing a potato DPS.
- Just don’t help OOP players if your gut says “no!”. They will learn…or they won’t.
A dead healer is worse than a dead DPS (or 2 dead players).
Btw, even with Ana, you might not want to focus an OOP player. Even if you don’t risk your own life, you might risk someone elses who has a better position or more impact in a team fight.
- If you need more sustain, you probably overstay your welcome too often, or tunnel-vision too much with her. (the latter is good as DPS, but deadly as support)
She’s super (super!) mobile, but needs a lot of awareness (enemy and her own team) to keep herself safe.
- That Moira must suck then.
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Mercy is definitely the hardest Support in solo queue.
But I’d argue Symmetra is the hardest overall solo queue hero. So much coordination is required to get effective use out of teleporter. This is why she’s picked solely for the TP in OWL.
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Why would a mercy of all heroes need to be more aggressive?
what i mean aggresive is, diving with your genji or dive tank in the front
or helping isolated target far away from your team
If you’re in gold then Mercy is not the kinda carry pick you really need as she lacks the capacity to really swing a fight on her own the way Ana, Bap, or Zen can and shines much more in higher ranks with more dependable teammates. You’d be better off whipping your pistol out. Especially in Valk. Or just DPS Moira.
but thats the point i play her, i wanna learn her
i can play zen and any other support to diamond, but i strugle with mercy
People sleep on the fact that Mercy hitting headshots is 200DPS. 
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tbh i have better winrate on zen compared to mercy lol
on season 7 i was maining zen and got diamond with it, i have 70% winrate on him back then
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It’s pretty easy to climb with mercy solo- at least in my experience.
Just find out what your team needs. Do they need more use of healing or damage boost? Think of who you should prioritise. The carry first, Tank, DPS, Or second support? Etc.
Mercy is like a situational support. That goes for any hero gameplay. Which means you cant be afraid to switch to another support. Never know if your swap will help the team to victory.
Summary (I guess): Once you know your team better, the easier it will be. Kind of like a duo, you know who you’re playing with.
^^^
Great advice here.
I don’t know if Mercy is bad or just hard to play.
I don’t feel very impactful on her, but I sometimes encounter strong Mercy players on the other team who are the bane of my existence and hard carry. So it must be possible.
At low elo ,playing Mercy is like this scene in Lethal weapon : Mel Gibson handcuffs himself to a man who is on top of a building and wants to commit suicide .
That’s just the nature of Mercy. You kind of have to embrace it (I love it), call for changes, or play another toon if your finding your teams don’t benefit in any way by what Mercy has to offer.
For all intents and purposes, she’s reliant on her team to move the fight forward.
She can take a semi-capable team and make them more effective, and she can take a capable team and power them up like no other IMHO. But she can do very little on her own, without her team to sway the fight in any meaningful way.
That said, you can kind of gauge how your doing by looking at your basic stats (no need to share here. Just observe them in your games and reflect on your actions.)
Get your healing to 1k+ per minute (Some comp Mercy’s push 11k average per 10min. Amazing.) Keep your deaths for the entire game as low as you can (I aim for 3 or less). Boost as much as you can as often as you can.
If your not hitting those marks, or coming close, no matter how good your team is, you’re limiting them. If your hitting those marks, then your doing everything you can, as Mercy.
IMHO, she doesn’t need a shorter GA refresh, nor an increase to its range. I find her to be one of the most mobile supports in the entire game as she is.
Learn all the GA tricks. Superjump on level ground. Superjump from above your target. Slingshot past your GA target. Curve your GA around corners. Cancel GA after Superjump to refresh GA faster. Backwards GA. Valk Superjump. etc. etc.
Even if you lose, you’ll be having fun.
Oh, and always protect Ana. She has candy.
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I am currently doing a bronze to GM on my alt (console).
Most of thr time Mercy just doesn’t cut it until you get to around Diamond to Masters.
I played Moira till Diamond and then started switching between her and Mercy depending on if my second healer picks Mercy first or plays off healer.
I always let my other support pick first, so I can adjust, if they refuse to pick first I pick Mercy and it work out most of the time.
Mercy can only have big impact with already god teammates imo.
A good Mercy makes a good team great and enables steam rolling.
But a good Mercy can’t really carry a stupido team which needs 130hps Moira healing all the time so they don’t end up feeding forever.
The only way Mercy could hard carry more often is with either 50% damage boost instead of 30% or another rez charge (meh idea).
Mitrovarr,
You might be suffering from the desire to be in the center of the fight, all the time. That was my hangup for hundreds of hours of play.
I looooooved trying to save everyone from everything. I’d try and rez anyone, absolutely anyone, just for the challenge of seeing if I could pull it off. I’d resurrect a wooden crate if the game would allow it. It was good fun, for me, but terrible for the team. So many deaths. So many.
The thing that turned it around for me was realizing that a dead Mercy can’t heal.
Get your death-rate as low as you can. Aim for 0-3 the entire game. You will instantly see an increase in your output. Treat yourself like your the most important player on the field. If someone dives in deeper than you can escape from, don’t follow. Be involved in the fight, but at the edges of it. If you have to be in the thick of it, use every bit of cover you can find, and get out of the blender as fast as you can.
I did that and went from 9 average deaths per game, to under 3. My healing went from 6k per 10min, to pushing 10k and headed toward 11k in the chaos of QP/QPC.
She might not be the best healer in the game, but man, once you get her movement down, and start to survive all the wolves coming for you, it’s great fun.
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thx for all feedback
i almost give up lol
seems everytime i strugle i tend to switch to moira and games alot more easier lol
why gold game are more harder lol
also when playing my main account i have encounter this good mercy, on high plat, she carries
even she beat me on moira healing / ana healing and get alot of ress
(i was only 15k heals and she got like 22k lol)
how can people so good at mercy lol
