"Mercy had a 100% Pickrate" Oh... Really?

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So I’m curious. I see a lot of this talk about Mercy having a “100% Pickrate”. But for the life of me I could never find any sources that prove this as fact. I’ve asked around and was pointed to overbuff. But there isn’t any data there that I could find that shows Mercy as having a “perfect 100% pick-rate.” So I could be looking in the wrong place or missing something.

I was wondering, could anyone link me to a source of data that proves that Mercy had a 100% pickrate throughout the entirety of any season? I see this “fact” be thrown around a lot when people explain how she was a must pick. I would love to kind of see if this was real, or just “fake news”. :slight_smile:

Thanks!

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… did you play Overwatch during the very first incarnation of Valk?
If so that should have been your evidence just playing in that time.

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16%=100%

because it means there is 1 mercy for 6 players.

12.5% was around her height or where she is now, it means that if there are 12 players, 1 will be a mercy and another may be.

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I certainly have, but I haven’t seen her in every game as was so popularly claimed. So I’m pretty interested to see some data that backs this up. Particularly from overbuff since I was referenced there, but if another documented source has this info that would be cool too.

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By 100% pick-rate, that just meant she was picked, at least once for any duration of the match, by either team.

I am not sure what her pick-rate was in OWL; however, it was extremely close to 100% and to that end, I believe I speak for everyone when I assert that there is very little difference between a 95% pick-rate and a 100% pick-rate. It is a problem regardless.

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No I mean before even her first nerf when she had the 4 man combo, her pickrate was at about 90 percent with a winrate above 53% which suggested she was winning almost every match where she wasn’t on the enemy team.

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I see, is there any link that shows this? Like overbuff or something? What I saw was Mercy being around a 10% 6 months ago which is… 60% right? I would assume that she would need 16% to be reaching these “100% Mercy in every game” number, but I haven’t been able to pull up date where her pickrate is that high. It would be cool to see which season had Mercy at these huge 16%/17% pickrates and have some visual to compare with, especially since I would like to see her stats across all the different ranks.

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Even bigger when you look at her winrate being above 50% suggesting she was winning almost every match where the enemy wasn’t

And her pickrate now is still in the high area’s and people are calling her OP. So
Blizzard, swallow your pride and rework it damnit!

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Her pickrate is 60% right now if I recall. Is that what we consider to be “high”? Because Rein has a higher pickrate and winrate than Mercy as of this post.

http://prntscr.com/jyijh3

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Rein also only has one person to compete with for his very important almost mandatory role ( I say mandatory because I’m pretty sure dive dosen’t use his and that’s still at least sort of useable strat) and that other comeptitor has more limitations that make her a bit more niche (debate Orisa buff if you want I don’t care)

Mercy has 3 competitors for her role that is just as mandatory so her pickrate if these 3 were at all balanced should be closer to 33%

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Yes, Zen is that good in OWL.

If you search “by week” you can see Mercy and Rein alternating the #1 spot. Difference being that Mercy kept her spot since her rework and her pickrate goes up to near 100% as you get to GM.

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Hmm…very interesting

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In lower ranks she is actually not picked more than the other healers.

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Rein is a main tank right? So the other main tanks would be… Roadhog and Orisa I think. Unless I’m missing something. I kind of get a little confused there. Because Technically Rein is doing better than Mercy right now, but we don’t see any “100% rein pickrate” comments. Me personally I don’t think rein is OP either. I find that pretty interesting.

The first image has her at 10.88%. That’s the average. It looks like she’s hovering at a 14% in GM and it decreases down the ranks as you’ve said.

but 14%… That’s 84%. High yes, but certainly not “100%”. I would assume that she’s even higher during her “moth meta” right? I’d love to see what the highest percentage was where she clocked in. Otherwise I think the more appropriate term would be “Mercy has close to a 100% pickrate. She was in most of the matches” i suppose.

Whats the link to your second image? I’d love to check out that page since it seems to be more informative.

The fact that rein is passing her on average in winrate right now blows my mind.

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I don’t know how to talk to you if you think Roadhog is a main tank

A main tank, aslo known as an anchor tank is a character who can control a choke and is best at instigating combat where their team wants where an off tank are big bodies with defence abilities meant to do a combination of displacing enemies and minimzing damage to your team w9thout blocking too much (See D’va, Zarya and Roadhog)

So the anchor tanks are in the strictest sense Rein and Orisa who both ahve shields that fill choke points oconsistently, and I guess in dive comps Winston is as close to an anchor tank as him but that’s for very speciic strts.

Mercy dosen’t have a 100% pickrate now far from it it’s like 60^ which is still double where it should be when she has 3 heroes comeptiting for her role

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14.3% in gm now, we are on our way back there :frowning:

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Please, that’s just being obtuse for the sake of an argument. Three days ago she reached 15.35% and regularly fluctuates between 13% and 16%. While “she’s close to 100%” should be what people say, I don’t think a minor exaggeration hurts their argument.

WinstonLabs is what I linked, which shows the pickrates of heroes by players in OWL.

The fact that a hero has a pickrate above 85% should be alarming even if it isn’t 100%, and that’s exactly the pickrate Mercy has had since her rework, even approaching 95% in many cases.

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Mercy is the most picked support in all tiers of play.

Sigh

This isn’t how it’s supposed to be, this isn’t how it always have been either. The support balance is just so out of whack right now.

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We agree. Thanks for the tank explanation by the way. I kind of forgot about what dictates a “main tank” from an “off tank” :slight_smile:

Well with the many fluctuations I’m looking for an entire season, not just a few days. I would assume you would agree that a few days isn’t nearly enough to gauge the entire performance of a hero in a meta. :slight_smile:

And I don’t know, I disagree with you there. I think using general statements like that matters quite a bit on a rather controversial hero, especially on her win and pickrates. I think keeping the data “unbiased” is most important, and not obtuse at all. Afterall, her first rework was created off of a “little exaggeration” on an otherwise pretty balanced Mercy kit, did it not? :man_shrugging:

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It is a fact, just because you refuse to believe it as such is not an arguement.