What we doing? Like…I will be satisfied with her beam not disconnecting when activating ultimate.
Just anything for her.
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I think if mercy doesn’t get her buffs she might as well jump off the map
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Nothing changes. I lost expectations of Mercy getting anything remotely good long ago.
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I mean, if she doesn’t get buffed, whatever
Mercy is more a victim of the meta than anything, her healing can’t keep up with deathball damage and her res is hard to pull off against them as well unless a target got shot down in the back.
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She’s been the victim of the meta forever. Let’s say she needs Winston and Dva to be viable for her to be meta…she’s never gonna be meta then, and Mercy is never run with dive anyways because other supports do what she does better
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She’s been a victim of every meta since patch 1.27.
Might as well say that about Bastion too.
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Then why wasn’t she picked in dive, her meta in OWL? Or what about the lack of Mercy play in Echo Showdown grand finals?
Currently, Echo’s pickrate is 40% higher than Mercy’s in GM. This means GM players aren’t getting enough value out of Mercy with a hero that you would’ve thought synergises well with her.
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Nah, Mercy has been perfectly usable in every meta outside of deathball or other similar ones like goats
People just like to complain
Not used in GOATS, barely used in 3 DPS to counter GOATS, not used in 2-2-2 before Sigma, not used in double shield before shiled revamp patch, not used in double shield after revamp patch, not used in Rein/Dva, not used in any Dive in OWL, no used in any recent double shield in OWL either.
I guess she’s “usable” just not used, so go figure, I guess people hate swiss doctors.
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She was picked in dive, that’s when moth meta was
As for Echo, Echo doesn’t need or benefit from having a Mercy as much as Pharah does. Echo moves around faster, so she can get to cover, health packs, or her grounded healers more easily.
Furthermore, her damage is made up of combos and finishes. She doesn’t need the boost to get the job done.
And now she doesn’t even have that anymore.
No meta fits Mercy. She is outvalued in all of them.
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Why so concerned with high level and professional play? Mercy is clearly a character that caters more to average level play through ease of use above all else.
Unless she’s the best, other characters are gonna get used at high level. Mercy is a general purpose character, like Rein and Soldier. Reinhardt is the strongest in his class right now, so he’s getting used.
I think they will probably give her 55hps, it won’t make much of a difference but it will appease the Mercy crusade for a while.
Doja means more recently. Hero bans have caused Dive to come back a few times, but Mercy wasn’t involved in it. Brigitte, not Mercy, has been the new Dive main healer
For professional play, yeh
For the average user? They can’t coordinate a dive to begin with, you think they’re gonna get use out of Zen Brig?
Top-down balancing. It’s why we got to nerf GOATS and double shield even though no one below master never saw those comps.
Also I like to watch OWL. It is a hobby.
Soldier saw a lot of play when bans favored him, unlike Mercy, who couldn’t even crack that.
She needs her niche back.
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In that case, would lead anklets be considered a buff?
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Last week Rein and Moira were banned.
OWL played dive with every single healer but Mercy. It’s almost as if Moira, Bap and Ana outvalue her even in dive comps a mobile healer should excel at.
Funny thing.
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Mercy never had a niche, that’s the point of her
As for double shield? Everyone used it, everyone complained about it.
Goats is certainly something the average player didn’t see though, but the move to 222 wasn’t just for that alone. That sort of problem comp was bound to crop up eventually, just like double shield. Taking measures to prevent similar problem comps in the future was the way to go for the game as a whole.
Rein was still the most picked tank in gold and plat even in the apex of Orisa/Sigma meta.
She used to, between her own nerfs, 2-2-2, damage boost change and healing creep that niche went the way of the dodo.
I agree. I like 2-2-2 and wouln’t play the game today without it.
But Mercy needs to balance in it because that’s the game we have now. She wasn’t balanced even with 3-4 DPS as possibility now it’s a embarassing to claim she’s balanced when no comp, no meta ever needs a Mercy.
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