Mercy has a higher win and pick rate than both genji and doomfist. In GM

[VenusArmani-1354]

I haven’t seen hardly anyone call for either Genji or Doomfist nerfs.

[Minty-11551]

@NuttyS4Ck-1298

Doomfist and genji… two hero’s people seem to think need nerfs…

who said that?

@NuttyS4Ck-1298

[they] Have a lower pick rate than mercy

there are twice as many dps heroes!
if we were to live in a perfect world where all heroes are picked equally
a support hero would be picked (1/7) = 14.28% of the time
a dps hero would be picked (1/16) = 6.25% of the time
(to all you nerds out there yes i know how probability works but overbuff compares them to each other and doesn’t take into account that you have 2 of em in each game relax)
mercy w/ a 7.2% pick rate has a pick rate less than half of what it shud be (compared to other support heroes)
genji w/ a 6.16% pick rate has been picked almost as much as he should have been
genji w/ a 7.39% pick rate has been picked a little more than he should have been
(compared to other dps heroes yes i did the math and took into account defense heroes and symmetra)

@NuttyS4Ck-1298

She has a %55 win rate in GM.

don’t look at weekly win rates and pick rates they’re too volatile
and based on that mercy is in between them and very much near the bottom

@NuttyS4Ck-1298

Here’s the thing tho. OW is a game of switching. If someone makes a switch to counter the mercy pick you might need to briefly counterpick to get the enemy to F off then go back to mercy…

So maybe playing 1 hero isn’t ideal in ow right now bc counterplay is happening.

i have no clue why you mentioned this since it ruins your argument
so mercy’s pick rate is too high because mercy mains don’t swap then i should just disregard what you said about her pick rate right?
and her win rate is lower than it should be basically bc of the same reason which doesn’t say much since she’s near the bottom and mercy doesn’t have direct counters there are hero combos that counter her but no single hero counters mercy very well

@NuttyS4Ck-1298

Maybe this is why ppl arnt happy with mercym they want mercy to be the only viable pick so they don’t have to swap off

i’m not happy w/ mercy bc she has issues w/ herself bc valkyrie in its current form simplifies the character too much bc an enemy can counter a rez by camping the corpse but you can’t outplay them
also

@Minty-11551

here’s the thing let’s say you pick up genji and play him for 20 games in a row then you’re like ok i think i wanna play something else so you just pick up hanzo some of the skills that you acquired while playing genji can be transferred to hanzo like aiming, properly wall climbing and double jumping
but now let’s say i pick up mercy and play her for 20 games straight then i’m done w/ mercy… but i can’t play anything else because none of the skills that i acquired can be transferred to another hero and that’s why most mercy mains remain mercy mains
this mentality of “just pick someone else” doesn’t work with mercy

[r34lian-1448]

Oh yes indeed :^
A Mercy nerf thread!!

[Azrael-13313]

Mercy is a support.

There are fewer support heroes than DPS.

This means that support should have higher pickrates.

If you want to compare heroes, it’s best to stay in the same role.

This is especially true when a hero also has a very specialized role. For example, main tanks are almost always going to have inflated pickrates.

[IntrntH8Mchn-1662]

Mercy is also competing with 6 (5) other heroes for her spot. Doom and Genji are competing with twice as many.