Mercy Guide for Beginners (75hr+ Mercy Tips)

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Mercy

Health: 200hp
Role: Support (Primary)
Pros: High mobility, second fastest healer, rez, consistent healing
Cons: Rez cast time, highly dependent on team, low self defense
HPS (healing per second): 60hp/s

Caduceus Staff

  • Primary Weapon (HPS 60/sec, 15m range, +30% damage increase, last until disconnected or 2 seconds after being blocked by environment

  • Don’t forget to use damage boost to increase an ally’s damage by 30% (right click, r1, rb)

  • Damage boost gives you and your target ult faster

  • Whenever possible, damage boost a baby D.Va to help her remech for the next teamfight

  • Keep hidden when using Valkyrie to avoid taking damage while still helping your team

  • Valkyrie will heal anyone within 10m of the primary beam target

  • Beam is canceled with Melee

  • Damage boost only gives ult charge when the target lands a shot

  • Cannot boost or heal objects such as turrets, teleporters, shield generators, RIP-tires, Superchargers, vice versa, and doesn’t effect D.Va’s ultimate

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Caduceus Blaster

  • Damage per shot: 20, 5 shot per second, 20 rounds per clip, 1 second reload

  • Best to use when you don’t need to heal your team, or if you are in a 1v1

  • Primary targets: D.Va (mech), Widowmaker, McCree, Roadhog, Mei. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT engage in a battle with a mobile character. You’re screwed. Best to take out threats in teamfights to make sure they don’t get picks

  • Pistol reloads when not in use (using Caduceus Staff instead) after 1.4s

  • Infinite ammo in Valkyrie

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Resurrect

  • Single-target

  • 5m range

  • 1.375m/s movement speed

  • 30s cooldown

  • 1.75s cast time

  • Top targets for Rez, in order: Supports (Lucio, Moira), tanks (Rein, D.Va GETS MECH BACK, Orisa, Zarya), defense (Mei on 2cp, Junkrat, Bastion), offense (Tracer, Genji, Pharah priority)

  • Move around corners to avoid being shut down. NEVER go for a Rez with the enemy team camping the body. I will find you.

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Guardian Angel

  • Vertical GA movement can literally save your life

  • Valkyrie increases GA speed by 75%

  • 30m range

  • Movement ability

  • 1.5 second cooldown

  • Great for flying to friendly Pharah with damage boost

Thanks for reading (?) this.
PSN: Poworcat
SR: Somewhere in the 2000s
Mains: Mercy, Ana, Moira, Brigitte

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Shouldn’t another con be highly team dependent and low self defense? And another pro be consistent healing?

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Will add! Smart idea, I was wondering what to put there.

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Actually, D.va’s ultimate CAN be damage boosted, either with Caduceus Staff, Orisa’s ultimate, or nanoboost, but you need to boost the Baby D.va to work.

Also, in case of an emergency, reviving a tank is the priority, then DPS, then supports (but ofc, this can vary depending of the actual team comp). I wouldn’t revive a D.va on an emergency either since, yes, she gets her mech, but she still needs to summon it, and that makes her really vulnerable.

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It doesn’t. It literally just puts you on the killfeed. Trust me, I’ve gone into custom games and tried.

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It does. Maybe it’s not as useful as boosting a Tactical Visor or something, but it can ensure some kills into the AoE/LoS that some heroes could probably survive.

Here’s a video footage: youtu.be/JBKxnS8diYQ

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Hm, interesting! Should have looked into that. Thanks for the info!

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If you hold spacebar after using GA you can slingshot or get an extra burst of momentum to send you even further than your targets location.

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Forgot to add that - that is a tip I know.

However (from experience), it can sometimes shoot you too far! XD

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These are some nice tips, good job😁

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I see someone has taken after me

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Could be organized a bit better, but pretty good guide

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Just hold left click/right trigger and press shift/left bumper.

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Thanks for the feedback!

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Like remove those dots between the sections, not really needed, and maybe remove the hospital from the introduction as you say it again later, also add some secondary roles she plays within her primary role

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There’s more to Mercy than that. Positioning is one extremely important thing, as well as movement. Just a heads-up! ^-^

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No offense OP, but this thread isn’t going to help anyone with more than 20 minutes on Mercy. Just google “Mercy Overwatch” and the wiki you’ll find has about 50x the amount of information here… and even that isn’t a guide.

Your GA section doesn’t even explain how to jump at the end of GA to slingshot, and 3 of your 6 bullets are “movement ability, it can save ur life, fly to pharah”

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Also, while rez cast time is a a downside, it’s not really a con, because no one can really do it better, generally try to avoid listing abilities as pros or cons

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Dude no. :joy: I’ve played her long enough to know that.

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I’ve noticed that Valkyrie isn’t on here, but that’s okay since there is no strategy to using it.

Man I miss being able to make plays with Mercy.