I remember when people at low ELO would moan that there was an Ana on the team, misding every shot or just being a rubbish Widow.
I now get the same sinking feeling when I see a Mercy on our team. She just sort of flies around and does anaemic healing.
With Zen you do 20 less healing, but also effectively damage boost 6 people at the same time. And maybe even hit stuff as well (not so much in my case).
And what a sorry and utterly poor excuse for an Ult she has. It’s like a super crap Zen Ult with barely any impact.
But rez is so op, she needs to be garbage in every other way…
Maybe ditch rez then if it’s such an issue. She’s incredibly boring to play and seems super weak right now.
IMO, of course.
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Yeah i agree, they nerfed her too much, all other support have something intetesting and can survive on their own. Zen=powerfull ult saving even from dragon+grav and other strong ults. He can do a lot of dmg while healing and boosting dmg by discord. Ana= she need good aim skill but she has powerto stop ults and negates healing on enemy team+ nano, lucio= healing or speedboosting for whole team, insane mobility and again very strong ult. Moira= strong healing, teleport ability so she can escape, self healing when fighting while healing or doing dmg with orb. Briggita= she is not that strong on healing part but i dont think i hate to tell you more about here. Thete is a reason they are nefrfibg her again and again almost every update.
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Adapt, improvise, overcome.
I picked her up again last 2 day.
Having a ball cause ppl forgot what shes like.
Adapted my playstyle to a off healer.
Doesn’t always work but when it does, whoa
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Mercy is still really good. Especially in lower ranks where Anna’s can’t hit the broadside of an Orisa.
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Guess she can work at high elo as well…
That’s because she is a troll pick
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unless Kabaji is playing her. But, to be fair, he’s so good he could frag out with Baby Dva.
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Mercys value has been reduced to her Rez. I say this as someone who started out as a Mercy main.
We had a DPS Mercy on our team the other day. I was totally prepared to report him for throwing, when he said he is DPS Mercy, but damn if he wasn’t on fire half the game. Hell of A DPS Mercy.
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Things will always come and go out of meta as new patches arrive. Mercy cannot save someone who is about to die and make them extremely powerful (nano) or anti heal a team in a grav, but her Rez and ult are pretty substantial. Just because she’s not the best doesn’t mean she’s like a pre patch attack torb.
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An off healer? She doesn’t really have enough utility for that tbh
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Console balance is different as time to kill is generally longer as aiming harder, so her rez is less risky. Same reason deadeye relatively better as it kills in same time, but enemies have relatively less time to respond to it.
Idk what it is, but ps4 seems to be always a little behind the curve. On pc, mercy is one of the least picked with one of the least win rate, on Xb1 she is the same, but on ps4 it shows her a bit higher, and then has a whopping 31% pick rate in gm for some reason. even on ps4 she has one of the lowest win rates though.
@OP, mercy is basically just chosen when you need to pocket now. You know, damage boosts SOUNDS nice… in theory. you see the numbers going up, and you get those assists, but when you think about it, how many of those kills did you really help with? Like honestly, how many of those kills would not have actually happened without damage boost? The answer probably isn’t many.
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Because it makes total sense that the most offensively limited and pure healer should be incapable of filling the role of main healer.
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mercy is a throw pick why would you pick mercy before ana used to be a throw pick cause she wasnt viable things change fam thank god she got nerfed all the mercy mains fell back in to plat where they belong thank you papa jeff for making those right decisions.
Yeah I was looking at that and was very confused lol.